On May 24, 2019, “Cooking Vinyl” label released “Where the Action Is”, the thirteenth Waterboys (The) album. It was recorded in 2018, at “Puck Towers”, “Real World Studios”, “Ocean Soul Studios”, “The Bunker”, “Herbert Lane”, and was produced by Puck Fingers and Brother Paul.

Personnel:

1. Mike Scott – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, keyboards, mellotron, bass, effects, field recording, photography
2. Paul Brown – Hammond organ, synthesizer, horns, sounds
3. Darrah Houston – piano
4. Aongus Raiston – bass
5. Ralph Salmins – drums, shaker, tambourine
6. Steve Wickham – fiddle
7. Jess Kavanagh – vocal
8. Zeenie Summers – vocal
9. Craig Gibsone – vocal
10. Lord Buckley – voiceover
11. Simon Hanhart – engineer
12. James Darkin – engineer
13. David Montuy – engineer
14. Lester Salmins – engineer
15. Haydn Bendall – engineer
16. David Montuyrobles – additional engineering
17. Brother Paul – engineer, mixing
18. Puck Fingers – engineer, mixing
19. John Davis – mastering
20. Ian Ross – artwork, design
21. Negative Space – photography
22. Howard Rankin – photography
23. Nikolaj Erema – photography
24. Paul Mac Manus – photography
25. Rokudenashiko – photography
26. Steve Wickham – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Mike Scott, except where noted.

1. Where the Action Is – Robert Parker, Mike Scott, Paul Brown
2. London Mick
3. Out of All This Blue
4. Right Side of Heartbreak (Wrong Side of Love)
5. In My Time on Earth – Mike Scott, Michael Green
6. Ladbroke Grove Symphony
7. Take Me There I Will Follow You – Mike Scott, Paul Brown
8. And There’s Love – Mike Scott, Simon Dine
9. Then She Made the Lasses O – traditional, Robert Burns
10. Piper at the Gates of Down – Mike Scott, Kenneth Grahame