The Waterboys

The Waterboys is a British group of music created in 1983 by Mike Scott. The members of the groups, passed and present, are primarily composed of Scottish and Irish. The group travelled and elected residence in various cities which are London, Dublin, An Spidéal, New York and Findhorn. The group crossed various musical styles during its existence, but the major part of their music can be described by a Celtic mixture of Musique folk and Rock “roll, or Folk rock'n'roll. After ten years made of recordings and rounds, the musical formation separates in 1993 and Scott continues a career solo. The group reforms in 2000, and takes again creation of albums and concerts. The leader of the group underlined itself a continuity between the group The Waterboys and its personal work, affirming that “for me, there is no difference between Mike Scott and The Waterboys; they mean both the same thing. They are at the same time myself and those which accompany me during my musical rounds”.

From a point of view of their musical style, the music of the group accepted at its beginnings the qualifier of The Big Music , title of one of the pieces of their second album, has Pagan Place . This musical style was described by Scott like “a metaphor to see the signature of God in the world”. The group influenced or was quoted like reference by many groups, whose Simple Minds, The Alarm, In Killed NUA, Big Country, the Hothouse Flowers and World Party, group rested by founding members of Waterboys. Towards the end of the Years 1980, the group is subject to influences more folk. The group will turn over towards a sound more rock' roll, and will carry out after their formation of the albums to the influences at the same time folk and rock'n'roll. Their songs, for a broad part of them written by Scott, contain in a recurring way of the literary references and are frequently impressed of spirituality. The group and his members in their career solo accepted warm welcome on behalf of criticisms folk and rock'n'roll, although the group never reached the success which met some of its members in their career solo. Apart from the musicians of World Party, the group also influenced many musicians such as Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, Grant Nicholas of the group Feeder and Miles Hunt of The Wonder Stuff; Bono and The Edge of U2 in addition stated to be fan of the group.

Members of the group

More than thirty musicians played for the group of Waterboys. Some remained within the group little time, intervening only on one round or an album, while others were member of the group on more a long run, with significant contributions. Scott constituted the singer, energy, the creator and the principal type-setter during all the history of the group, but certain a number of other musicians are closely related to the history of the group.

Anthony Thistlethwaite was a member of the group of origin, with its formation, and will remain within the formation until the year of separation of the group in 1991, even if it intervenes in a specific way later, for the recording of the album has Rock'n'roll in the Weary Land . With Scott and Wickham, another important member of the group, it is one of the type-setters having written the most songs for the group. Its Saxophone, which one regularly hears in solos, constitutes one of the two important parts of the section coppers group. One can however also see it with the guitar, the keyboard, and many other instruments. It pressed the group to take a way plus rock'n'roll after Room to Roam , and will not appear on the following album, because of this position. He is today member of the group The Saw Doctors, and composed three albums.

Kevin Wilkinson, another founding member of the group, was the beater of the formation of 1983 with 1984, and played then for the group for some sessions studio. Its last appearance goes back to the album has Rock'n'roll in the Weary Land . It directed the rhythm section of the group for the period Big Music , sometimes without the assistance of unspecified low. Scott describes its way of playing “brilliant and rigid, an unusual sound”.

Discography

The Waterboys have with their credit several albums and individual. The achievements of the group received warm welcome of criticisms, although their first opus had a business success less large than their contemporaries. In term of classification in the charts, the greatest success of the group was the republication into 1991 of their individual “ The Whole off the Moon ”, which reaches the third place with the the United Kingdom and received the Ivor Novello Award. Fisherman' S Blues was their larger sale as an album studio, being classified thirteenth English charts at its exit in 1988. The most classification for an album, compilation and album confused studios, is that of compilation The Best off the Waterboys 81-90 , which reaches the place of number two in the British charts.

Albums studio

1983 : The Waterboys
1984 : has Pagan Place
1985: This Is the Sea
1988 : Fisherman' S Blues
1990: Room to Roam
1993 : Dream Harder
2000 : has Rock'n'roll in the Weary Land
2001: Too Closed to Heaven (issued ace Fisherman' S Blues, Share 2 in the United States)
2003: Universal Hall
2007: Book off Lightning

Albums live and compilations

1991 : The Best off the Waterboys 81-90
1994: Secret The Life off the Waterboys 81-85
1998: The Live Adventures off the Waterboys
1998: The Whole off the Moon: the Music off Mike Scott and the Waterboys
2005: Karma to Burn

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