Time Out - August 1998

THE LIVE ADVENTURES OF THE WATERBOYS
NMC

For a while The Waterboys were the best live band on the planet, so this is a welcome, if somewhat belated, addition to their ragged and glorious canon. A two-CD set recorded at various locations throughout 1986 (including selections from their mighty and memorable Glastonbury performance), it succeeds in documenting Mike Scott’s inspirational band of contrary Caledonians at their most savagely true and spiritually wild.


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Liverpool Bigmouth - August 1998

THE LIVE ADVENTURES OF THE WATERBOYS
NMC

Oh God, The Big Music. Do you remember it? Do you remember how great it was? The Waterboys’ 1986 Glastonbury performance (included here almost in full) is still the greatest bootleg I’ve ever heard; majestic, passionate, endlessly stretching - the best band on the planet in those between Bunnymen years. Everything you could want is here; vital revisions of album favourites, effortless improvisation, covers of country classics, covers of Dylan songs we didn’t know existed, Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’, Patti Smith, Van Morrison, everything. Quite simply the greatest live album in the history of music.