The Waterboys - Fisherman’s Blues Revue featuring Steve Earle

On 10 September 2026, The Waterboys bring the Fisherman’s Blues Revue to AFAS Live in Amsterdam. Led by singer‑songwriter Mike Scott, the band revisits the period when their sound shifted from sweeping rock to a folk‑rock with Irish inflections. Fisherman’s Blues (1988) and its follow‑up Room to Roam (1990) form the core: acoustic guitars, Steve Wickham’s fiddle and a touch of blues and traditional material, with lyrics that reveal Scott’s more poetic side. Expect songs from those years alongside carefully chosen pieces from the rest of the songbook, arranged to foreground the group’s interplay and dynamics.

Steve Earle appears as a special guest. His voice and guitar add a layer of roots and Americana that fits seamlessly with the Fisherman’s Blues material. In duets and ensemble passages he weaves into the band’s folk and blues lines without compromising the character of the original songs. Amsterdam can therefore look forward to an evening in which The Waterboys revisit their Celtic folk‑rock, with space for fiddle, mandolin and harmonica, and with Mike Scott as the steady centre of a line‑up that keeps the repertoire alive on stage.