| Simon Scott | |
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| Birth name | Simon Scott |
| Born | 3 March 1971 Cambridge, England |
| Genres | Shoegazing/Alternative rock |
| Instruments | Drums, guitar, synthesizer and vocals. |
| Labels | KESHHHHHH Recordings |
| Associated acts | Slowdive Lowgold Inner Sleeve/Televise The Charlottes Seavault |
| Website | www.simonscott.org |
Simon Scott (born 3 March 1971 in Cambridge[1]) is an English musician, best known as the former drummer in Slowdive and Lowgold[2] and is now an electronic solo artist.
Scott also collaborated live with Rafael Anton Irisarri in 2011 and in 2010 played guitar and co-composed with Seattle band The Sight Below.
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Scott first started drumming with female fronted Huntington band The Charlottes in 1988 at the age of 16 and left in 1990 to replace original drummer Adrian Sell in Slowdive in 1990. He played on albums Just For A day and Souvlaki, which was voted in The Guardian as 'One of the top 50 albums to hear before you die' in 2007 before leaving the band in 1994, prior to the band working on 3rd album Pygmalion.
In 1997 Scott formed and fronted Inner Sleeve along with former Chapterhouse bassist Russell Barrett, Paul Fyfe (guitar) and Berlin Otto (drums), the band releasing two singles in 1998 and an album in 1999, all on the Fierce Panda label.[3]
In 1999, Scott split Inner Sleeve up to join Lowgold following the departure of original drummer Paul Mayes, appeared on one track on the band's debut album Just Backward of Square and toured and promoted it extensively.[3][4] He left the band in 2002 after the band ran into financial problems following the collapse of Nude Records.[5][6] Demo's recorded prior to the collapse of Nude and his departure were later released on the compilation Keep Music Miserable including the track Time Reclaims All Frontiers, which was premiered at Reading Festival. The band have since gone on to release a further 2 studio albums without Scott.
Following his exit from Lowgold, he then reformed Inner Sleeve as Televise.[5] He also played in the bands Seavault and Chapterhouse.[5]
In 2006, Scott started an electronic experimental record label Keshhhhhh Recordings, and works as a musician and sound artist from his Cambridge recording studio.[5] 2009 saw the release of Scott's solo debut album,[7] Navigare, for Miasmah records which is an electronic/neo classical record label, run by Erik Knive Skodvin from Deaf Center. Scott was given "Single of 2010"[8] for the limited 7" "Depart, Repeat" and has released a second album called Bunny on Miasmah on 7 October 2011. Scott has also remixed Machinefabriek, Jasper TX, Isan, Peter Wright, papercutz and Autistici.
Scott is also the producer for the second hannu album Hintergarten where he also provides additional instrumentation and vocals. Scott occasionally performs live[9] with The Sight Below (on Ghostly International) and co-wrote/co-produced three tracks on the second album called It All Falls Apart, released in April 2010 on Ghostly International.