Tim Scott - Press Reviews

In A Spin In Ibiza
Tim's A (Laser) Shooting Star
Guitar Man Tim Wows Ibiza Crowds
Judgement Sunday Closing Party
Dancing Fretwork
Mix has Scott to be a hit
Tim's On The Write Track

In A Spin In Ibiza
MUSIC maestro Tim Scott went down a storm in Ibiza as he played alongside Radio One DJ Judge Jules.

This is the third time Tim, of Greater Manchester South has accompanied the renowned DJ at the Radio One weekend on the white isle. Although the guitar is not the first sound you associate with the clubbers' paradise island, the dynamic duo caused a stir at Eden night club in San Antonio Bay when Tim played his flamenco guitar alongside Jules's techno beats.

Tim said: “We've been playing the track on the club nights and the crowd go crazy. They were jumping in the air and dancing. This gig is always an incredible experience, as Jules is never afraid to go out on a limb and let me try some thing new which is often very experimental at times. It's an exciting way of taking music to where people are. I really enjoy doing it.”

The pair were introduced by a journalist. While interviewing Jules, the journalist said he had just interviewed the best session guitarist in the UK. Just weeks later, Tim's talent was recorded on a track called `Puesta Del Sol' on Jules' new album `Proven Worldwide'. Tim, a graduate of London's prestigious Guitar Institute, has always had problems with musical notation, just as he has always struggled with the written word due to his dyslexia. Despite this set back, Tim has written, played, recorded, produced, packaged and even distributed his debut album, `Bald On The Inside' from a home studio in the converted dining room of his home.

This album marked the start of his career as a virtuoso guitarist. Tim is now busy working on his second solo album. He added: “Everything I have done has been off my own back. I have put in a lot of hard work and a lot of my time is spent marketing and getting myself noticed.”

Tim will be playing at the Thatched House, near Stockport Market, on November 19th. More information will be displayed nearer the time on www.timscott.co.uk on the Tour Dates page.

Stockport Times East
Thursday October 26, 2006.
By Lisa Kenyon

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Tim's A (Laser) Shooting Star
Manchester Metro News - Friday, September 8th, 2006,by Paul R Taylor

LIGHT FANTASTIC: Manchester session guitarist Tim Scott on Ibiza with Radio 1's Judge Jules.

With a customised pink guitar that shoots lasers over the heads of grinning and gurning clubbers, musician Tim Scott is uniting the worlds of dance and live guitar music. The Mancunian session guitarist was flown out to Ibiza at the end of August to perform alongside BBC Radio 1's superstar DJ Judge Jules. As Jules was spinning his set of dark electro-house beats, Tim improvised seamless funky lead and rhythmic lines over the top of the records. The duo raised the roof until 7am at Eden nightclub in San Antonio on the party island, at Jules' Judgement Sunday club night for Radio 1. Tim said: "This gig is always an incredible experience, as Jules is never afraid to go out on a limb and let me try something new "I've had a sparkly pink and chrome Fender Telecaster guitar customised especially for the club sets. A pulsing row of pink LEDs in the fingerboard react to my playing, firing sequentially in rhythm. When all are lit, three red lasers shoot from the headstock, extending over the heads of grinning clubbers. "The radical custom job was the work of world-famous luthier Martin Sims, who has previously been commissioned by Prince, Steve Vai and Muse's Matt Bellamy. Tim was introduced to Jules after his own stunning debut album, Bald on the Inside.

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Guitar Man Tim Wows Ibiza Crowds
The Manchester Evening News - Diary By Dianne Bourne 4th September 2006

JETTED out to Ibiza at the behest of Superstar DJ Judge Jules, Manchester-based virtuoso guitarist Tim Scott has been enthralling clubbers at the world-famous nightclub Eden. Joining forces with the DJ for the second year, the two rocked the dance floor for almost three hours as part of Judgement Sunday, Jules' resident club night. Emerging at 4.30 am, Tim strummed away over Jules' dark, electro house beats while firing laser beams from his customised guitar over the ecstatic crowd.

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The Diary, 1st September 2005, 
by Carmel Thomason and Dianne Bourne, Manchester Evening Newstar

The twang of the guitar is not the sound most normally associated with clubbers' paradise island Ibiza - but I hear Stockport music maestro Tim Scott has been going down a storm on the white isle. Guitarist Tim was invited out to Ibiza by Radio 1 DJ Judge Jules, who he has worked with before on dance tracks. Tim, to get in the spirit of things, took his flashing pink guitar along and went down so well with the crowds that Jules invited him back to play a closing party on the Spanish island later this month. Tim tells me: "Playing out in Ibiza during the Radio One weekend with Judge Jules was a dream come true. Jules described it as wicked. He loved it so much that we put back the start of the next DJ and did an extra hour together. "As a consequence of that, he has invited me back to Ibiza to play at the Judgement Sunday closing party on September 18 and we are now discussing dates for Ibiza next year"

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DANCING FRETWORK 
Guitarist Of The Year plays live with dance DJs.

Guitarists 2003 G.O.T.Y. winner Tim Scott has turned his attention to dance music scene, with some success. His aim to 'drag the guitar kicking and screaming into 2005' has seen him accompany house DJs live, and a recent collaboration with Judge Jules on Puesta Del Sol (on the superstar DJ's forthcoming album) has put the pink-suited fret-melter at the forefront of 'dance guitar'. Tim describes the track as a, 'proper banging fusion of techno and flamenco guitar which blurs the boundaries between sampled and live.'

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Mix has Scott to be a hit 
FLAMENCO guitar and banging techno beats are not the most obvious of musical partners,

but I hear it could make a winning combination for a summer hit. Stockport-based guitarist Tim Scott has collaborated with club and Radio One DJ Judge Jules in creating the techno-flamenco track 'Puesta del sol'. The track is already going down a treat in dance clubs and is expected to get major airplay on Judge Jules' radio one show in the coming months. It will be included on the DJ's album scheduled for release in the summer. Tim got involved with the track after a hectic past 18 months in which he released his own debut album Bald On The Inside and undertook a nationwide promotional tour of music and book shops. Tim recorded a range of flamenco-style riffs at Judge Jules's London studio, which the DJ then sampled and added the techno beats. "It has been quite an interesting process, trying to shoehorn one musical style into another", he muses. "The way it is being pitched is as two worlds collide, and it is certainly dragging the guitar kicking and screaming into 2005."
Dianne Bourne

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Guitarist Tim's on the write track - but without any words 
Manchester Evening News, June 2nd 2004

"I get confused by words. I never listen to the lyrics of songs and have no idea what they are going on about." Stockport's Tim Scott is one of the most talented electric guitarists of his generation. His debut album, Bald On The Inside, drew rave reviews and prompted comparisons with such American plank-spanking giants as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. So why is he busking in a bookstore near you? PAUL TAYLOR explains:

When Tim Scott tells you he "sees" his music as colours, he is not just using a figure of speech. "There are chords which I say 'That's a certain colour'," he explains. "Music does conjure something visual for me." Words, on the other hand, tend to slip away from him. For Tim, aged 32, has mastered his music only while battling with severe dyslexia. Despite being a graduate of London's prestigious Guitar Institute, he still has problems with musical notation, just as he has always struggled with the written word. "I found reading music very hard," he says. "I understand music, but it is as though I can't see it. I can't feed it through the brain to the fingers fast enough." Now he has another battle on his hands - to gain acceptance from a music industry more interested in quick hits and pretty young things than musical excellence. He has written, played, recorded, produced, packaged and even distributed his debut album, Bald On The Inside, from a home studio in the converted dining room of his Hazel Grove home. He has also marketed the disc through Borders bookshops, where he gives promotional performances - a kind of indoors busking to generate CD sales. His music - rock instrumentals tinged with jazz, blues, Latin and classical influences - has seen him hailed in guitar magazines as a world-class talent, and one of his pieces is set to be included on the CD accompanying the July edition of Guitarist magazine. But, as yet, he is without a proper record deal. "It has got to be an instant hit which they can fly around the world with a video... or nothing at all," Tim glumly remarks of the music business. Inspired by the likes of Toto, Yes and Van Halen, Tim cut his teeth on guitar as a teenager. But at the same time, his dyslexia meant he struggled his way through Hazel Grove High School. "Stockport education authority did not recognise it at the time as a disability, so I did not really get any help through school, apart from some of my English teachers giving me extra classes after school out of the kindness of their hearts," says Tim. "That helped me get four or five GCSE passes." He went on to Salford College of Music but "dropped out before I got kicked out. I could not cope with the written work. I find it difficult even to hold down an ordinary job. I lost jobs in shops because I could not do my ABCs." Tim worked in bars, played in covers bands then, in 1992, went to the Guitar Institute. He won a diploma after 12 months, but the dyslexia hampered his chances of returning for further studies. "I had a breakdown and was ill for two or three years," says Tim. "Out of that, I kept playing guitar and ended up setting up a teaching business. I got that to a good level and then invested the money in making the record." Amid all the dextrous guitar work, other sounds used on the album include that of a domestic egg slicer, a human heartbeat, whirring fridge and revving motorcycles. But these are songs without words. "The reason I do instrumental music is that words do not mean a lot to me," says Tim. "I get confused by words. I never listen to the lyrics of songs and have no idea what they are going on about, and when I try to write songs with people, it is as if someone turns off the creative tap."

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Bald On The Inside
Tim Scott's stunning debut album is available through this website and Borders stores
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