Mike Scott: Adventures of a Waterboy

"I was six or seven when I noticed the music in my head. It was there in the classroom, on the football pitch, at the dinner table, when I went to sleep and when I woke up. And it's continued ever since."

As a teenager in Scotland, Mike Scott played in punk and garage bands, hitchhiked to see Bob Dylan play, and scammed his way into Patti Smith's inner circle during an eye-opening weekend in London. In 1983 he formed The Waterboys with an ever-rotating cast of collaborators and soon found international success with the 'big music' sound of songs like 'Don't Bang The Drum' and 'The Whole Of The Moon'. In 1986 Scott travelled to Ireland to spend a week and ended up staying for six years and during that time he developed a deep interest in roots and folk music, resulting in The Waterboys' best-selling album, Fisherman's Blues. Adventures Of A Waterboy is an evocative memoir by one of the great British songwriters of the past four decades. It is an honest and revealing work, by turns heartfelt and funny - a story that runs from teenage fandom to international stardom, from Scotland to New York City and beyond.