The Waterboys, "Book of Lightning" (W14 Music/Decca) 3.5 stars. The Magic Numbers, "Those The Brokes" (Astralwerks) 4 stars. Dean Martin, "Forever Cool" (Capitol/EMI) 2.5 stars. Various Artists, ...

IT began in early 1986, January 23 to be precise, and it would go on to elicit enough songs to fill six albums from sessions in Dublin, California and Spiddal spread over more than two years. Those ...

The title track from the band's 1988 album, in particular, has become a timeless anthem, reinterpreted by dozens of artists ...

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While Mike Scott treated us to solo shows late last year and a few Waterboys shows on the East Coast in the Spring ( TTown Hall in NYCh), The Waterboyshave just announced the band’s biggest-ever North ...

The Waterboys were one of the biggest bands of the 80s but almost four decades on from their commercial heyday, leader Mike Scott remains a thrilling creative livewire. Over the past few years, the ...

As a teenager Mike Scott fronted his first garage bands, playing original songs and punk covers, and wrote his own rock fanzine before moving to the lights of Edinburgh and London in quest of glory.

HAVING just performed at Belfast's Ulster Hall last month, The Waterboys have now announced what is being billed as their 'biggest ever Belfast headline show' for next year. The Mike Scott-led group, ...

The Waterboys will tour Australia in May 2026 for their first visit in over a decade, performing songs from Life, Death And Dennis Hopper and their classic catalogue.

The Waterboys' first release in eight years crawls greasily out of the gates like a shiny-wet pale demon emerging from the sewer. On "Let it Happen," the album's opening track, Mike Scott's skeletal ...

"I'm gonna play this show even if nobody comes," Mike Scott sang Tuesday at the sold-out Fillmore. The honorary Irishman, Scottish by birth, knows a thing or two about peaks and valleys. With a solo ...

When Mike Scott and Steve Wickham performed acoustically as the Waterboys during SXSW, it was taut yet incredibly moving. Last night at the Parish, they proved that just a tease to what they can do ...