{"id":806158,"date":"2020-04-07T13:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=979631"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:59:59","slug":"social-distancing-with-mike-scott-of-the-waterboys-nail-polish-kids-movies-and-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/social-distancing-with-mike-scott-of-the-waterboys-nail-polish-kids-movies-and-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distancing With Mike Scott of the Waterboys: Nail Polish, Kid\u2019s Movies and New Music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions<\/a> about these unprecedented times. Here\u2019s what Mike Scott of the Waterboys<\/a> had to say.<\/p>\n

What are you doing with your unexpected time at home?<\/strong>
I\u2019ve been at home with my 6-year-old daughter. Our lockdown world has been bounded by our home and my studio, two streets away. It\u2019s my new studio and I only just got it before the lockdown began, so I\u2019ve been unpacking, setting up instruments and speakers, hanging pictures, sticking stuff on the walls \u2014 lots of black and white photos for some reason: Brian Jones, Dennis Hopper, Andy Warhol & The Factory. These are the cats who\u2019re inspiring me right now.<\/p>\n

And working on my own music, making future Waterboys albums. That\u2019s afternoons and late-night when my daughter\u2019s in bed. In the mornings, I do schoolwork with her \u2014 bit of math, reading, working with words \u2014 and we go to the back garden for her PE time.<\/p>\n

I also have to be her model for nail varnish and make-up experiments and general jobbing actor in all her imaginative games. We\u2019ve also been rearranging her bedroom, and like all kids do, she\u2019s earnestly teaching me to do all the things I learned when I was her age. We have a lot of fun. I love getting to be with her all day every day, which hasn\u2019t happened since she was very small \u2014 because of course she\u2019s been at school or kindergarten now for four years. So for me, the silver lining to the lockdown is pretty good.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also cooking and cleaning the house, maintaining the system of our lives, doing FaceTimes with her mum, who lives close by (and who has her this week, which means I\u2019m now on my own for seven days, filling the extra empty spaces with musical work and reading); my mother, who\u2019s in Scotland; pals including my band members; and my wife and little boy who are in Tokyo until May. That\u2019s if they can get back. Who knows what the travel situation will be at that time?<\/p>\n

What music do you turn to in times of crisis for solace and comfort, and why?<\/strong>
I\u2019ve been playing a lot of Leon Russell; rediscovered that ol\u2019 hog in a big way. I like music with a lot of soul and community in it, especially at a time like this. I play \u201950s jazz. And I like Hiss Golden Messenger \u2014 their Hallelujah Anyhow<\/em> is the current record on the turntable \u2014 and my daughter digs it.<\/p>\n

I also notice the stuff she listens to. She\u2019s crazy for the Haschak Sisters and the Gem Sisters. I like them, too. She watches their videos on YouTube and she\u2019s just got her first MP3 player (ordered online, delivered by post), and so we\u2019ve been getting their songs on that.<\/p>\n