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World Party acoustic tour in September, playing City Winery; new album in 2013

by Bill Pearis

Karl Wallinger

Karl Wallinger is bringing his band World Party to America next month for a short East Coast acoustic tour, including a stop in NYC at City Winery on September 17. Tickets are on sale.

Wallinger, the former Waterboys keyboardist who made five more-or-less terrific Beatles-y/Stones-y/Dylan-y World Party albums from 1987 – 2000, suffered a brain aneurysm in 2001. “It’s a bit crap when your head explodes,” Karl told MOJO in the September ’12 issue. “It took four years to be back properly…I had to re-learn things because my eyesight is fucked. For a while I couldn’t see the end of the guitar so I was playing quite a few jazz chords. And now I can’t see my right hand on the piano unless I look very strangely to the right.”

Eyesight problems aside, Wallinger has made an otherwise complete recovery. In April he released Arkeology, a 5-disc World Party rarities set, that also includes a couple new tunes. (Stream it via Spotify.) He also promises a new album in 2013.

All World Party U.S. tour dates are listed below, along with a few classic World Party music videos.

World Party – “Ship of Fools”

World Party – “Way Down Now”

World Party – “Put the Message in the Box”

World Party – “Is it Like Today?”

World Party – 2012 Tour Dates
8/30 – The Cubby Bear – Chicago, IL
9/2 – Third and Lindsley – Nashville, TN
9/6 – Altar Bar – Pittsburgh, PA
9/15 – LarkFest – Albany, NY
9/16 – Tin Angel – Philadelphia, PA
9/17 – City Winery – New York, NY