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 ...

Over four decades ago, when Mike Scott started The Waterboys, the very first song they released saluted the art of somebody else. “A Girl Named Johnny”, issued in 1983, swooned over the ...

Mike Scott has never been predictable, not least when he's themed The Waterboys' impressive new album around the late ...

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 ...

The Waterboys line-up has never been fixed in stone, and Scott likes to claim there have been more members than any other band, upwards of 80 over their 42-year career.

In front of 1,400 people in the relatively modest environs of the Anvil in Basingstoke, The Waterboys reminded us once again ...