Rock and roll experimentalist operation The Waterboys—brainchild of Scottish multi-instrumentalist and sole consistent member Mike Scott—have outdone themselves with the beautifully bizarre Life, ...

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 ...

Those same adjectives might apply to Scott, who with Life, Death and Dennis Hopper has crafted a sprawling, unpredictable and wholly delightful record that is in the tradition of the greatest ...

The line fitted precisely with one of the instrumentals, and quickly turned into a song, signifying Hopper’s return from the abyss. The other tunes suggested “a sort of 1969 vibe”, prompting ...

Well, yes, indeed I could.” Life, Death and Dennis Hopper feels cobbled together. Sixteen of the numbers are under two-and-a-half minutes long, jams with psyched purple prose voice-overs representing ...

Some years ago Mike Scott chanced upon an exhibition of the ’60s photo art of Dennis Hopper, best known as the radical, freewheeling actor/director. Seeing the era through Hopper’s eyes moved Scott to ...