Every Saturday night, I run a wee music night
in Garfield's in Ardrossan and every week I have a special guest with
me. This week I had the very very talented Scott Nicol, a man who has that rare
talent of being both a performer and a musician, he can get any crowd (whether
it be 2 people or 200 people) singing along and moving their feet. Tonight was
no exception.
Garfield's isn't
the biggest venue in the world, in fact it's a Ta-pas Bar
so you can imagine it's fairly small. Small however doesn't mean bad, it's
intimate, and a great place to both play and watch performers. In the last
couple of years I've played alongside Scott and watched put on a great show, so
when I got the position of booking acts for Garfield's he was one of
my first choices, and I'm so glad that he agreed to come along.
He started the night off with a
great song, which had people starting to tap their feet, always a great way to
begin a show. From the off, he had the crowd fixed on his every move and lyric.
His second song was "Wildfire" is a song which I'm not too familiar
with, but I loved it, every chord hit and every vocal that left his mouth was
pitch perfect and filled with such passion. Clearly a guy who loves music,
loves to perform and loves to do what he does. After Wildfire came one of my
favourite Scott Nicol tracks "Swimming in the waters of civilisation"
I love it, every time I've saw it performed live I've absolutely
loved it, the Chorus is just those words from the title and it's so catchy and
easy to sing along, it's a song that fills the room with enthusiasm, not mainly
because Scott is a guy who oozes enthusiasm. He finished his first set (yes
he played more than one set, what a star) with other songs such as
"Like the best she's fearless" "Live like a lion"
"Christina's View" (a song about a painting in New York
inspired by a French artist) he even threw in a cheeky wee cover
of Jessie J's "Price Tag" which was absolutely astounding.
After I got up and played a few
tracks, Scott returned to the floor. This time to play requests from his many
fans in the room (myself included) songs included "Welcome to
Dreamland" and my favourite Scott Nicol song "Paradise" Scott
did ask me if I wanted to sing the second verse of "Paradise" but I politely
refused, mainly because I don't think I could do the song justice and secondly
because I love the song that much that I just wanted to sit back and relax and
enjoy it.
Scott Nicol in my eyes is one of the
best musicians around Ayrshire if not Scotland, and yet I sometimes feel that
he's so underrated. I think that's due to his modesty mainly, but someone needs
to stand up and say "THIS IS SCOTT NICOL, START LISTENING"
If there's one man in Ayrshire who
has the biggest passion for what he does, then it's Scott. You can tell that
just from watching him, being in his presence and listening to his tracks.
No comments:
Post a Comment