The Waterboys – review

Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool"Someone had to do it!" yells Mike Scott, explaining the Waterboys' An Appointment With Mr Yeats, an epic show setting the poetry of the great Irish writer to music. The singer explains how Yeats's core subjects – love, politics and the mystic – left "a great unused set of fucking rock'n'roll lyrics". Moments later, he is hollering The Song of Wandering Aengus over a big piano riff somewhere between the Waterboys circa their 1985 smash The Whole of the Moon and M...

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