Fiery, literate, always soulful, forever associated with Mike Scott's wide-eyed “big music”, The Waterboys emerged as fellow travellers of U2. Songs like “The Whole of the Moon” were made to raise stadium roofs, but after the departure of Karl Wallinger, Scott reconnected with Celtic folk and roots music, creating the raggle-taggle opus Fisherman's Blues (and much more besides, with raids on those sessions culminating in 2013's vast Fisherman's Box). Scott stopped using The Waterboys' name in the early ‘90s, but returned reinvigorated with a series of dense, poetic albums in the '00s.