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The Waterboys

March 2024

  • Karl Wallinger performing on Later With Jools Holland in 1997.

    World Party’s Karl Wallinger was a pick’n’mix songwriter with a total, titanic love of music

    Graeme Thomson
    The World Party frontman, who has died aged 66, was not the 60s revivalist some critics dismissed him as – his work was extraordinary in its breadth and political bite

February 2024

  • Alanis Morissette in 1995

    ‘Kills me every single time’: readers on their favourite breakup songs

    For Valentine’s Day, Guardian writers picked their favourite breakup songs and here are some of your picks, all the way from sadness to fury

July 2023

  • Sinéad O’Connor in the Netherlands in 1990.

    ‘She trembled with the truths she had to tell’: Sinéad O’Connor by friends, fans and collaborators

    Neil Jordan, Róisín Murphy, MC Lyte, Anne Enright and more share their memories of a uniquely talented, uncompromising artist, mother and ‘Celtic warrior’

March 2023

  • Thomas Leeds being monitored in hospital.

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I lost my memories in a road accident. A song brought them flooding back

    A decade later, I’d lost hope of ever recollecting my childhood or recovering my creativity. A hit from the 80s changed everything

July 2022

  • Kate Bush.

    ‘An old strain of English magic had returned’: stars on why they fell in love with Kate Bush

    As a new generation continues to discover her via Running Up That Hill, musicians including Sharon Van Etten and Brian Molko reveal how the singer changed their lives

June 2022

  • Glastonbury 2022 … ‘Get over yourself, go with it. Once you can do that you can have the best time ever. It’s magical.’

    ‘It’s everyone coming back together’: why 200,000 of us couldn’t wait to get back to Glastonbury

    The festival’s return has filled a gaping hole in the British calendar. We soak up the atmosphere with the help of Jarvis Cocker, Self Esteem and Shaz from Shepton Mallet

July 2020

  • The Waterboys Perform At Milton Keynes Bowl In 1986<br>MILTON KEYNES, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 21: Mike Scott of The Waterboys performs on stage at Milton Keynes Bowl, on June 21st, 1986 in Milton Keynes, England. Bass player Anthony Hutchinson is behind him. (Photo by Pete Still/Redferns)

    How we made
    Mike Scott of the Waterboys: how we made The Whole of the Moon

    ‘My girlfriend asked “Is it easy to write songs?” There was a moon, so I pulled out a pen and wrote “I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon”’

September 2019

  • Mike Scott of The Waterboys.

    The Waterboys review – breathless, hair-prickling Big Music

    Pan-Celtic post-punk returns with a dash of tambourines and a swirl of mysticism as Mike Scott leads his genre-hopping crew

January 2015

  • The Waterboys

    The Waterboys: Modern blues review – Mike Scott tries on some swagger

    The folk rockers swirl soul and blues into their big music brew with some success, writes Paul Mardles

December 2013

  • Cosmic and rousing’: Mike Scott with the Waterboys at Hammersmith.

    The Waterboys – review

  • The Waterboys

    The Waterboys go back to Irish roots: 'We were high on music'

September 2012

  • Cher Lloyd

    Mercury prize 2012: the shortlist that might have been

    This week's Mercury prize nominations were widely judged to be straight and safe. Here our critics suggest 12 records that should have made the list

September 2011

  • The Waterboys' Mike Scott

    Music blog
    Discuss the new Waterboys album with Mike Scott

  • Mike Scott

    Why Mike Scott is Richard Curtis's idol

February 2011

  • The Waterboys – review

    Poetry-pop fusions are fast becoming fashionable, but the Waterboys' An Appointment With Mr Yeats feels like a true triumph, writes Dave Simpson

January 2011

  • Edinburgh
    Edinburgh today: Leith survey, The Waterboys and Cremola Foam

    A round up from the Scottish capital's local news sites and blogs

August 2008

  • Folk review: Waterboys, Room To Roam

    (EMI)

March 2008

  • Music blog
    Time to rediscover the Waterboys

    The Waterboys were the originators of 'the big music', a sound and vision shared by the likes of Arcade Fire

June 2007

  • Music blog
    Glastonbury festival: Party like it's 1986

    As I work on the setlist, I feel like I'm walking to my execution. But this was our best Glastonbury ever, writes frontman Mike Scott.

May 2007

  • The Waterboys

    Royal Albert Hall, London

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