The Waterboys’ most famous song was the response to a challenge. In New York City in early 1985, Mike Scott was walking back towards the Gramercy Park Hotel with then-girlfriend Krista King, when she ...

The post Fiona Apple Guests on The Waterboys’ New Song “Letter from an Unknown Girlfriend”: Stream appeared first on Consequence. The Waterboys have enlisted Fiona Apple to contribute her distinctive, ...

Led as always by Mike Scott, The Waterboys will release new album Where the Action Is on May 24 via Cooking Vinyl and you can check out two song from it right now — the groovy “Right Side Of ...

THE WATERBOYS: (Singing) I saw the crescent. You saw the whole of the moon, the whole of the moon. SIMON: The Waterboys have been making music since the 1980s, and their latest album was sparked by a ...

Mike Scott lets out a little laugh when asked by American Songwriter if the subject of The Waterboys’ buoyant new single “The Soul Singer” is based on anyone in particular. “There could be somebody ...

“People should expect the unexpected from The Waterboys,” says Mike Scott, a grin in his voice. It’s a mission statement which has inspired three decades of compelling musical shape-shifting, and one ...

If a hip-hop-tinged ode to film star Dennis Hopper performed by a Scotsman sounds random to you — well, yes, it is. But it’s also one of the most entertaining, catchy tracks on the Waterboys‘ latest ...

The Waterboys are out with a high-energy, jazzy new song “The Soul Singer,” the opening track to their upcoming 14th studio album, Good Luck, Seeker (out August 21st via Cooking Vinyl). The song ...

The pandemic certainly hasn't slowed Waterboys leader Mike Scott's creative output: They just released All Souls Hill, the follow-up to 2020's Good Luck, Seeker and their 15th album. Scott says the ...