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      • Returning to Universal Hall for the first time since 2006, Mike Scott will present two 3 person Waterboys shows with piano player James Hallawell and organist Brother Paul on 16 and 17 September.
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  1. Scott became interested in the British punk music scene, and began writing for fanzines, eventually starting his own, Jungleland. Scott was especially interested in the music of The Clash and Patti Smith, a tribute to whom, "A Girl Called Johnny", would become the first Waterboys single.

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  3. With Mike Scott at their helm, they’ve cra... For almost four decades, The Waterboys have burned an emotional, folk-rock trail through the music of these isles.

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  4. The Waterboys are a rock band formed in 1983 [1] by Scottish musician and songwriter Mike Scott. The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England. Mike Scott has remained the only constant member throughout the band's career.

    • LUCY GOES THROUGH THE WARDROBE.
    • THE JUMPING JACK FLASH PROMO FILM. THE Rolling Stones “promo” for Jumping Jack Flash was shown on the 1968 Christmas edition of Top Of The Pops. You all know the film: claustrophobic, dark-lit, band in face paint, Jagger leering, Keef with bug-eye shades tattooing his image on our minds for all eternity, Brian weird, Bill dodgy and Charlie, rest his immortal soul, a deadpan zombie, the flicker of a smile telling us he took none of it seriously.
    • THE CLASH PLAY AT CLOUDS DISCO. I SAW The Stones in ‘73 at Glasgow Apollo and they were great, but punk took rock and roll to a different energy level.
    • MEETING PATTI SMITH. SHE was in London for shows in 1978 and I took a chance and phoned her hotel from my home in Scotland. They put me through! I told her I wrote a fanzine and, bemused, she said I should come to London, see her show and write about it.
  5. Sep 17, 2017 · Mike Scott will be touring The Waterboys’ new album later this year. IN THE mid-1980s, when The Waterboys supported U2 at Wembley Arena in London, Mike Scott’s band seemed all set for...

  6. Nov 8, 2017 · Recently married frontman MIKE SCOTT talks about his love of Ireland, discovering hip hop beats, meeting Lou Reed and David Bowie, and the joys of fatherhood.

  7. Nov 17, 2021 · 17 November 2021. Scottish songwriter Mike Scott has been banding together with like-minded musicians from around the Atlantic Archipelago under the Waterboys banner since 1983. His latest...