The waterboys

Mike Scott - To this very day one of the best live shows I ever saw. Not solo but with The Waterboys

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Mike Scott & The Waterboys

During the existence of The Waterboys, which would last from the early 80s to the present, the group has gone through several musical facets, with first albums with dramatic, majestic sounds and in a way quite prolific in a definition of a new concept, British rock of the eighties. It would be after the album "This is the sea" (1985), when its leader Mike Scott moved to Ireland and for three years was influenced by traditional Irish music and folk in general. In 1988 Scott took the band to…

In 1986, after his band The Waterboys met success with a number of hits with a big sound of 80s production, most famously The Whole of the Moon, bandleader Mike Scott wanted out: “I had got bored with rock and I particularly hated the process of making rock music in the 80s. The clicky drums, the snare drum drenched in […]

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The Waterboys leader was showing off and came up with a classic on the spot…