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:
- Mike Scott – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, keyboards, mellotron, bass, effects, field recording, photography
- Paul Brown – Hammond organ, synthesizer, horns, sounds
- Darrah Houston – piano
- Aongus Raiston – bass
- Ralph Salmins – drums, shaker, tambourine
- Steve Wickham – fiddle
- Jess Kavanagh – vocal
- Zeenie Summers – vocal
- Craig Gibsone – vocal
- Lord Buckley – voiceover
- Simon Hanhart – engineer
- James Darkin – engineer
- David Montuy – engineer
- Lester Salmins – engineer
- Haydn Bendall – engineer
- David Montuyrobles – additional engineering
- Brother Paul – engineer, mixing
- Puck Fingers – engineer, mixing
- John Davis – mastering
- Ian Ross – artwork, design
- Negative Space – photography
- Howard Rankin – photography
- Nikolaj Erema – photography
- Paul Mac Manus – photography
- Rokudenashiko – photography
- Steve Wickham – photography
Track listing:
All tracks by Mike Scott, except where noted.
- Where the Action Is – Robert Parker, Mike Scott, Paul Brown
- London Mick
- Out of All This Blue
- Right Side of Heartbreak (Wrong Side of Love)
- In My Time on Earth – Mike Scott, Michael Green
- Ladbroke Grove Symphony
- Take Me There I Will Follow You – Mike Scott, Paul Brown
- And There’s Love – Mike Scott, Simon Dine
- Then She Made the Lasses O – traditional, Robert Burns
- Piper at the Gates of Down – Mike Scott, Kenneth Grahame
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