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Fighting a poet’s corner

We’ve learned to expect the unexpected from Mike Scott.

In 1985, just when the Waterboys were searching for the Whole of the Moon and threatening to take their Big Music to the big league, Scott decamped to Ireland, lured by the fiddle and the promise of fresh adventures.

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