The first of two sold-out concerts at the Iveagh Gardens is a home-town triumph
The Waterboys: Mike Scott on stage at the Iveagh Gardens in Dublin on Thursday. Photograph: Tom HonanThe Waterboys’ sell-out concert at Iveagh Gardens coincides with the 34th anniversary of the wistful And a Bang on the Ear topping the Irish charts. Mike Scott, the band’s singer, imparts this fact towards the end of a show that captures the mossy multitudes of the group’s sound, which sprints from Celtic prog to mystical postpunk via a sort of folk-horror garage rock.
Wickham has been in and out of The Waterboys across the decades. So it isn’t as if Scott doesn’t know what it’s like to play without him. His absence is truly noticeable just once. That’s on the briny anthem Fisherman’s Blues, where his keening violin line is replaced by James Hallawell’s honky-tonk piano. It’s a perfectly acceptable stand-in, the tune gaining a magisterial funkiness. What’s lacking is the mournfulness that coursed from Wickham’s violin.
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