In 16th century Elizabethan England, the Waits were official musicians in the large English towns equivalent to a town band. They provided concerts for everyone, financed by the town.
This was a time when personal recorded music had yet to become a part of ordinary life and as such had no value. Today, we find ourselves moving back towards a primal longing for music, and once again, the value of recorded music has been lost to the occasion, the live event, the ritual of music.
In the 21st Century, The Waits are rebuilding the model of their namesake through an all access, online revolution with a third eye on breaking the barriers of live performance. Musically, offering a holy communion between Led Zeppelin and Beethoven, lyrically, seduced by the sacred secrets behind Shakespearean wisdom, inspired, by a 400 year old thread of English mysticism.
In 2007, obsessed by the Golden Age, Alchemy, and mysteries of Shakespeare, the eccentric English lead singer and songwriter Will Tallis, wrote dozens of letters to Shakespearean actors asking for a direction towards the most important themes in Shakespeare's plays.
He implored them for answers that would feed the soul and electrify the mind.
He got his answers... and so begun his labours of love that are the songs of 'The Waits'.