So yesterdoodle, as part of my ongoing efforts to get the Ocelopotamus back to full health and vitality, I finally got around to overhauling the blogroll (that’s that tall snaky thing over to the right that looks like a list of nonsensical words and phrases!) with some links that I’ve been accumulonimbusing for a stoat’s […]
Entries Tagged as 'Mike Scott & The Waterboys'
With Six You Get Blogroll
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:46 pm
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Andy White at the Celtic Knot, 3/30/08: Follow-Up
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 6th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Well, the Andy White show I posted about last Sunday was lovely. It was a shockingly intimate setting, a cozy and beautifully decorated back room at the Celtic Knot where Andy played for a group of about 20 of us, and he was just as charming and entertaining as any Andy fan would expect.
He […]
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The Space, The Face, and Buddy Cole
Posted by Ocelopotamus on January 27th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I’m on deadline tonight with a major deliverable (ahhrrrrr! I just used the word deliverable!) so here I am careening into another week with major blogging operations on hold.
Well, maybe after tomorrow I can rev the OcPot up again. In the meantime, I will say this: Now that I’ve been on Facebook a little […]
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Waterboys + Decemberists = Fun
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 24th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Speaking of Waterboys videos, here’s one I dearly love. It’s a fan-made clip of Mike Scott performing “Fisherman’s Blues” live with The Decemberists! The sound isn’t great but the joy comes through just fine. Here’s what the official Waterboys mailing list said about it:
Mike Scott made a guest appearance with top up and coming US […]
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The Waterboys: Mike Scott in The Guardian, and new album Book of Lightning
Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 26th, 2007 at 7:12 am
Mike Scott, singer, songwriter, and bandleader of The Waterboys, has a thoughtful and entertaining piece in The Guardian recounting his experiences trying to correct errors in the band’s entry on Wikipedia.
Meanwhile, the Waterboys have a new album coming out in April! It’s called Book of Lightning and you can hear samples of a couple […]
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