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The Waterboys review – Steve Earle joins a gloriously unruly return to Fisherman’s Blues
OVO Hydro, Glasgow The Nashville singer-songwriter is among the guests joining Mike Scott for a sprawling, exuberant revue that finds new life in the Waterboys’ rootsy past This is strange. A Waterboys gig, but something else, too: the first night of the Fisherman’s Blues Revue. Which is what, exactly? Inspired by the Rolling Thunder Revue, the wild tour in which Bob Dylan performed alongside a troupe of guest stars, Mike Scott’s version is a way of digging into the rootsy music he and his band were making in the mid-1980s, some of which emerged on the classic Fisherman’s Blues. The aim of this show is not a faithful play-through of that album, which Scott has said he would find dull, but a “reigniting” of its spirit. The fire is lit with an opening half-hour of favourites: A Girl Called Johnny is notable for the legs-akimbo keytar heroics of Brother Paul Brown. Scott gives him a shout-o
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OVO Hydro, Glasgow The Nashville singer-songwriter is among the guests joining Mike Scott for a sprawling, exuberant revue that finds new life in the Waterboys’ rootsy past This is strange. A Waterboys gig, but something else, too: the first night of the Fisherman’s Blues Revue. Which is what, exactly? Inspired by the Rolling Thunder Revue, the wild tour in which Bob Dylan performed alongside a troupe of guest stars, Mike Scott’s version is a way of digging into the rootsy music he and his band were making in the mid-1980s, some of which emerged on the classic Fisherman’s Blues. The aim of this show is not a faithful play-through of that album, which Scott has said he would find dull, but a “reigniting” of its spirit. The fire is lit with an opening half-hour of favourites: A Girl Called Johnny is notable for the legs-akimbo keytar heroics of Brother Paul Brown. Scott gives him a shout-o
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According to The Guardian’s source item, The Waterboys review – Steve Earle joins a gloriously unruly return to Fisherman’s Blues, OVO Hydro, Glasgow The Nashville singer-songwriter is among the guests joining Mike Scott for a sprawling, exuberant revue that finds new life in the Waterboys’ rootsy past This is strange. A Waterboys gig, but something else, too: the first night of the Fisherman’s Blues Revue. Which is what, exactly? Inspired by the Rolling Thunder Revue, the wild tour in which Bob Dylan performed alongside a troupe of guest stars, Mike Scott’s version is a way of digging into the rootsy music he and his band were making in the mid-1980s, some of which emerged on the classic Fisherman’s Blues. The aim of this show is not a faithful play-through of that album, which Scott has said he would find dull, but a “reigniting” of its spirit. The fire is lit with an opening half-hour of favourites: A Girl Called Johnny is notable for the legs-akimbo keytar heroics of Brother Paul Brown. Scott gives him a shout-o
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