He is best known as the fiddle player in The Waterboys, but Steve Wickham has also been a prominent collaborator over the course of his long career. Ger Wolfe's turn on the gently galloping folk of ...

The Waterboys will perform a very special series of dates in Dublin, London and Glasgow in August and September 2026 under the banner THE FISHERMAN'S BLUES REVUE. The shows will celebrate and explore ...

It's possible that the show would have been better with fiddler Steve Wickham, who fell ill before the launch of the current U.S. tour, but Sunday's performance of the London-based Waterboys at the ...

When it came to writing and recording an album based on the works of legendary Irish poet W. B. Yeats, Mike Scott didn’t mind allowing that idea to slowly come to fruition. Nearly two decades after ...

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Imagine a successful British guitar band, one with some Celtic DNA. Not some directional indie darlings such as Franz Ferdinand but more of a Snow Patrol scenario; a Snow Patrol who were actually good ...