Richard Naiff
Richard Naiff | |
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Naiff playing keyboards in 2003 | |
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Birth name | Richard Naiff |
Born | London, England |
Genres | Rock, folk, folk rock, blues |
Occupation | Musician |
Instrument(s) | Piano, keyboards, flute |
Richard Naiff is a British pianist and flautist from London who has performed with the bands Soulsec, The Catacoustics, The Waterboys and The Icicle Works. Naiff is a classically trained musician, having joined the Guildhall School of Music at age ten. The Irish music website Cluas.com describes Naiff as "phenomenally talented".[1]
Naiff was invited to participate on The Waterboys' album A Rock in the Weary Land after the group's leader Mike Scott heard his piano work in a studio next to one where the recording sessions for A Rock in the Weary Land were taking place. Naiff joined the band officially in June 2000.[2] Along with Mike Scott and Steve Wickham, Naiff makes up the core of the post-2000 Waterboys band.
Former Waterboy Ian McNabb described Naiff as Scott's "find of the century".[3] Not coincidentally, while keeping his membership in the Waterboys, Naiff also joined McNabb's touring band in 2004, and became a member of a revived version of McNabb's old band The Icicle Works in 2006.
Naiff's rock and roll influences include The Damned.[2]
Notes
- ^ "Universal Hall, Findhorn, Scotland, January 2002". Gig Reviews on Cluas.com. Retrieved 30 October 2005.
- ^ a b "Weary Land Who's Who". mikescottwaterboys.com. Retrieved 30 October 2005.
- ^ "Karma to Burn reports". mikescottwaterboys. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 3 November 2005.
External links
- Soulsec biography
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- Mike Scott
- Steve Wickham
- Trevor Hutchinson
- Roddy Lorimer
- Richard Naiff
- Anthony Thistlethwaite
- Karl Wallinger
- Kevin Wilkinson
- The Waterboys (1983)
- A Pagan Place (1984)
- This Is the Sea (1985)
- Fisherman's Blues (1988)
- Room to Roam (1990)
- Dream Harder (1993)
- A Rock in the Weary Land (2000)
- Universal Hall (2003)
- Book of Lightning (2007)
- An Appointment with Mr Yeats (2011)
- Modern Blues (2015)
- Out of All This Blue (2017)
- Where the Action Is (2019)
- Good Luck, Seeker (2020)
- All Souls Hill (2022)
- Bring 'Em All In (1995)
- Still Burning (1997)
- The Live Adventures of the Waterboys (1998)
- Karma to Burn (2005)
- The Best of the Waterboys 81–90 (1991)
- The Secret Life of the Waterboys 81–85 (1994)
- The Whole of the Moon: The Music of Mike Scott and the Waterboys (1998)
- Too Close to Heaven (2001)
- In a Special Place – The Piano Demos for This Is the Sea (2011)
- Fisherman's Box (2013)
- The Magnificent Seven (2021)
- "A Girl Called Johnny"
- "December"
- "The Big Music"
- "The Whole of the Moon"
- "Don't Bang the Drum"
- "Fisherman's Blues"
- "And a Bang on the Ear"
- "How Long Will I Love You?"
- "The Return of Pan"
- "Glastonbury Song"
- "Everybody Takes a Tumble"
- "World Party"
- "A Life of Sundays"
- "Bring 'Em All In"
- "Building the City of Light"
- "Love Anyway"
- "Rare, Precious and Gone"
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