Steve Albini’s favourite songstress Scout Niblett has announced a date at London’s Cafe Oto. Playing on Tuesday 30th November, tickets are £10 in advance, £12 on the door. Having been on a roll with her last couple of albums, now’s a good chance to catch her peculiar and wonderful live performance in an intimate setting. [...]
Scout Niblett
The Primavera Sound Diaries 2010
This time last week I was a sweaty mess of half wrecked excitement somewhere in the centre of Barcelona. Now I’m sitting with the sniffles alone in my bedroom trying to figure out how to consolidate one of the best festivals of my life into a word count below that of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Scout Niblett – The Calcination of Scout Niblett
Whilst Niblett’s fifth album is unlikely to result in any kind of mainstream crossover, “Calcination…” is incredibly visceral and gripping.
Scout Niblett – This Fool Can Die Now
Approaching yet another release in my usual state of blissful ignorance, my initial puritanical distaste at the ‘Hollywood’ name was counterbalanced by the discovery that she had once covered Althea and Donna’s Uptown Top Ranking. She finally got me onside with a quote that her time at an arts college in Nottingham was “like the [...]
