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Line-Up Ex-Members Albums Singles Links Various Refers
THE WATERBOYS
London, GB
*  1982

Line-Up (2006):

Mike Scott - voc,g,p
Leo Abrahams - g
Chris Bruce - g
Mark Smith - bg
Jeremy Stacey - ds
Brady Blade - ds
Richard Naiff - p
Steve Wickham - viol
Roddy Lorimer - tr

Former Members:

Vinnie Kilduff (g); Chris Bruce (g, cca 1993)

Karl Wallinger (bg,kb, 1982-85); Terry Mann (bg, 10/84-?); Martyn Swain (bg,kb); Trevor Hutchinson (bg, 1990-91); Scott Thunes (bg, 3/92-cca 1993); Livingstone Brown (bg, cca 6/00); David Caitlin-Birch (bg, cca 9/00); Jo Wadeson (bg, cca 9/01)

Guy Chambers (kb); Richard Dunn (kb, cca 6/00); Seamus Beaghen (kb,g, cca 9/00)

Kevin Wilkinson (ds, 1983-86); Charlie Whitten (ds, 10/84-?); J.D. Doherty (ds, ?-1988, cca 9/01); Noel Bridgeman (ds, 1988-90); Fran Breen (ds); Kenneth Blevins (ds, 1990-91); Carla Azar (ds, 1992-cca 1993); Bashiri Johnson (perc, cca 1993)

Anthony Thistlethwaite (sax, 1982-2/92); Roddy Lorimer (tr, 1984); Colin Blakey (fl, cca 1988)

Tim Blanthorn (viol, 1984); Steve Wickham (viol, 10/84-90)

Sharon Shannon (acc, 1988-90)

Albums Discography:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.The Waterboys22.07.1983Ensign
2.A Pagan Place5/1984 Ensign100
3.This Is The Sea9/1985 Ensign37
4.Fisherman's Blues17.10.1988Ensign13 76
5.Room To Roam17.09.1990Ensign5 180
6.The Best Of The Waterboys '81-'904/1991 Ensign2
7.Dream Harder24.05.1993Geffen5 171
8.The Secret Life Of The Waterboys24.10.1994Chrysalis
9.The Live Adventures Of The Waterboys7/1998 New Millennium Comm
10.A Rock In The Weary Land18.09.2000RCA47
11.Too Close To Heaven10.09.2001RCA
12.Fisherman’s Blues Part II04.06.2002Razor & Tie 76
13.Universal Hall6/2003 Puck74
14.Best of the Waterboys: 1981-199011.10.2005EMI
15.Karma to Burn18.10.2005Pucka
16.Platinum Collection21.11.2006EMI
17.Book Of Lightning10.04.2007UMVD51
18.Kiss The Wind4/2008
19.In a Special Place17.05.2011Capitol
20.An Appointment With Mr Yeats19.09.2011Proper30
21.Fisherman's Box: The Complete Fisherman's Blues Sessions 1986-88
(7CD box set)		22.10.2013Parlophone84
22.Modern Blues19.01.2015Harlequin And Clown14
23.Out Of All This Blue9/2017 BMG8
24.Where The Action Is5/2019 Cooking Vinyl21
25.Good Luck, Seeker21.08.2020Cooking Vinyl14
26.All Souls Hill5/2022 Cooking Vinyl94

Anthony Thistlethwaite:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Aesop Wrote A Fable4/1993
2.Crawfish & Caviar03.11.1997Demon

Mike Scott:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Bring 'Em All In18.09.1995Chrysalis23
2.Still Burnin'29.09.1997EMI35
3.Flav Giorgini And Mike Scott
& Flav Giorgini		17.02.2009

Sharon Shannon:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Out The Gap1995 Grapevine
2.Each Little Thing1997
3.Spellbound: Greatest Hits12.10.1998
4.The Diamond Mountain Session
& Friends		23.10.2000Koch
5.Libertango14.09.2004Compass
6.Spellbound: Best of Sharon Shannon22.02.2005Compass
7.Tunes
& Frankie Gavin & Michael McGoldrick & Jim Murray		05.07.2005Irl
8.Sharon Shannon Collection 1990-200531.01.2006Compass
9.Renegade
& Mike McGoldrick		18.03.2008
10.The Galway Girl - The Best Of Sharon Shannon22.07.2008Daisy Label
11.Saints & Scoundrels12.01.2010Compass
12.Flying Circus24.04.2012Compass
13.21 Definitive10/2013 Universal
14.In Galway
& Alan Connor		07.08.2015IRL
15.Sacred Earth3/2017 Celtic Collections
16.The Reckoning12/2020 Kata Songs

Leo Abrahams:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Scene Memory10.07.2006Bip-Hop
2.The Unrest Cure11.02.2008Mercury
3.The Grape & The Grain09.04.2009
4.Small Craft on a Milk Sea
& Brian Eno & Jon Hopkins		11.11.2010Warp82 84
5.Daylight20.11.2015Lo

Singles Discography:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.A Girl Called Johnny / The Late Train To Heaven
12" + Ready For The Monkey House / Somebody Might Wave Back / Out Of Control)		4/1983 Chicken Jazz80
2.December / Where Are You Now When I Need You
12" + Red Army Blues / The Three Day Man (Radio 1 Session)		9/1983 Ensign
3.The Big Music / The Earth Only Endures
12" + Bury My Heart		02.04.1984Ensign
4.The Whole Of The Moon / Medicine Bow
12" + Spirit (extended) / The Girl In The Swing (live)		10/1985 Ensign23
5.Fisherman's Blues / The Lost Highway12/1988 Ensign32
6.And The Bang On The Ear / The Raggle Taggle Gypsy6/1989 Ensign51
7.The Whole Of The Moon / A Golden Age
12",CD + Higher In Time / High Far Too Soon / Soon As I Get Home		3/1991 Ensign1
8.Fisherman's Blues / Lost Highway
12",CD + Medicine Bow (live)		5/1991 Ensign75
9.The Return Of Pan / Karma
12",CD + Mister Powers		04.05.1993Geffen24
10.Glastonbury Song / Chalice Hill
12",CD + Burlington Bertie And Accrington Stanley / Corn Circle Symphony		05.07.1993Geffen29
11.Is She Conscious?04.09.2000RCA
12.My Love Is My Rock In The Weary Land16.10.2000RCA
13.Is She Conscious EP12.02.2001
14.This Is The Sea12/2005 EMI
15.The Passing Of The Shree / Vigilante3/2009

Mike Scott:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.Bring 'Em All In / City Full Of Ghosts (Dublin)
CD + Mother Cluny / Beatles Reunion Blues		28.08.1995Chrysalis56
2.Building The City Of Light / Where Do Want The Boombox, Buddy
CD1 + Goin' Back To Glasters (live) / The Whole Of The Moon (live)
CD2 + Two Great Waves / My Beautiful Guide / Building The City Of Light (Universal Hall demo)		23.10.1995Chrysalis60
3.Love Anyway15.09.199750
4.Rare, Precious And Gone10.01.1998Chrysalis74

Sharon Shannon:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.The Bungee Jumpers8/1994
2.What You Make It9/2003
3.Galway Girl
& Mundy		5/2007
4.The Galway Girl
& Steve Earle		5/2008 The Daisy Label67
5.Hold On To Your Hat
& Derek Ryan		5/2014 Sharpe Music

WWW Links:

http://www.mikescottwaterboys.com

Various:

Compilation Appearances:

"Why Look At Moon" on compilation "Sweet Relief" (26.7.93, Columbia)

Mike Scott:

produced by SP:

The Saw Doctors: N17 (1989)

appeared on the LP:
Jackie Levin: Clay Jug (7/94, Cooking Vinyl)

Sharon Shannon:

Compilation Appearances:

"Cavan Potholes" on compilation "Common Ground" (6/96)

appeared on the LP:
Sinead O'Connor: Sean-Nos Nua (8.10.02, Vanguard)

Kevin Wilkinson:

appeared on the LP:

Fish: Songs From The Mirror (1/93, Polydor)

Kev Blevins:

appeared on the LP:

John Hiatt: Slow Turning (8/88, A&M)

Carla Azar:

appeared on the LP:

Sam Phillips: Fan Dance (2001, Nonesuch)

Anthony Thistlethwaite:

appeared on the LP:

Robyn Hitchcock: Groovy Decay (3/82, Albion)
Knox: Plutonium Express (16.9.83, Razor)

Steve Wickham:

appeared on the LP:

Sinead O'Connor: Sean-Nos Nua (8.10.02, Vanguard)

Jeremy Stacey:

appeared on the LP:

Jana Kirschner: Shine (16.4.07, Universal)

produced by LP:
Ethan Johns: If Not Now Then When? (12.2.13, Three Crowns)

Leo Abrahams:

appeared on the LP:

Keaton Henson: Monument (23.10.20, Play It Again Sam)

Press References:

Big Beng!
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
20001912.10.20006Infokus
20002026.10.200042Forum kritikumalbum review
Melody Maker
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19831509.04.198322Singlessingle review
19832014.05.19839interview
19833206.08.198324Albumsalbum review
19834322.10.198322Singlessingle review
19841728.04.198418It's Alivegig review
19842202.06.198423Albumsalbum review
1990030.06.19905News
1992822.02.19924News
19921007.03.19923News
19921114.03.19924News
1992530.01.19933News
19931617.04.19932News
19931908.05.19933News
19931908.05.199329Singlessingle review
19932122.05.19933News
19932229.05.199333Albumsalbum review
19932305.06.199328
19932626.06.19934News
19932703.07.199339Info Freako
19943908.10.19945News
19944412.11.199436Albumsalbum review
New Musical Express
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
1990025.08.19904News
Rock & Pop
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19901128.09.199014profile
19901212.10.19904Pelmel
19931623.08.199329Recenzealbum review
20006 14Pelmel
20008 15Pelmel
200011 72profile, discography
200012 106Recenze - Novinkyalbum review
20011 95Livegig review
20014 14Pelmel - Na mušce
20017 12Pelmel