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ROOM TO ROAM - REMASTER IS OUT 11TH AUGUST
The remastered 2CD version of Room To Roam will be released by EMI on 11th August. The beautiful package includes new sleevenotes by Mike Scott, extended track-by-track musician credits and previously unseen photographs as well as 17 bonus songs. CD1 is the original album featuring the Celtic line-up of the band: Mike Scott, Steve Wickham, Anto Thistlethwaite, Sharon Shannon, Trevor Hutchinson, Colin Blakey and Noel Bri... MORE
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NORWEGIAN FESTIVAL BONANZA!
The Waterboys have been confirmed for three more Norwegian festivals, and the date of their show at the Parkenfestivalen in Bodo has been changed. Here are the details:
Sat 5 July 5: Skiippagura Festival, TANA, Lapland, Norway. Tickets: http://www.skiippagurra.no
Sat 2 Aug: Lost Weekend Festival, BERGEN, Norway. Tickets: (tel) +47 815 33133 or: www.billettservice.no Further info from: www.lost-weekend.net
Fri 22 Aug: Dampski... MORE
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WATERBOYS PLAY SHOW WITH NEIL YOUNG IN HOLLAND
The Waterboys have been invited to join Neil Young’s bill at BosPop in the Netherlands on Friday 11th July. The band will play for an hour on the main stage at 20.45 - 21.45, immediately before Neil. The last time The Waterboys played with Neil was at the Fleadh in London, 2001. “It was an honour then and it’s an honour now,” commented Mike Scott, “Neil brings with him a sense of meaning, a cocktail of ethical authority a... MORE
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WATERBOYS ‘KISS THE WIND’ DOWNLOAD ALBUM & WEBSITE STORE - OPEN NOW
Our new website store is live NOW, set up and run in collaboration with top online retailer Townsend Records. The new download-only album, KISS THE WIND, exclusive to our store, is released today and can be purchased by visiting here:
http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/sites/waterboys/index.php?productId=1000045&pTypeId=6
Plus, all Waterboys CDs from the first album through to 2007’s... MORE
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so i was djing for my friends wedding a couple weeks ago, the unorganized mess that it was, and decided to play more tasteful than "dance" music in respect to the parents of the young couple. well, as the older guest slowly drove their tractors and john deere’s home (seriously, farm town), i decided to switch gears to more beat oriented songs to give the boozed up kids something to get retarded to. a girl with pink and black hair wonders over to my quarters and asks if i have... MORE
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Here's what was the B side of the first Waterboys single. I did like Pagan Place for a while but then I went to a place called Pagan and played it to some hippies who thought it was really profound. But Pagan wasn't pagan at all and that was when I realised that the Waterboys were a complete bunch of ponces. Nonetheless, I still like this...
This is Pagan. Cool or what?
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THE WATERBOYS – BOOK OF LIGHTNING (2007)
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Mike Scott is in rude health. He may have been off the radar for a while but he’s back with a new record, a chance to rediscover his distinctive voice, adept lyrics, and whimsical Celtic verve, and a reminder that in the decade of vast musical statements (the 80s) his collective were a justified competitor with the likes of U2 and Simple Minds. At the turn of the decade Scott’s releases became more ‘selective’, tak... MORE
