SCOUT NIBLETT

Scout Niblett

Scout Niblett reduces audiences around the world to jibbering wrecks with the sheer force of her performances. A pretty girl in a wig, singing so loudly and gleefully it sounds like her lungs might burst: Sweet, destructive and ripping vocals are met head on with crashing and blasting drumming by Nathaniel Price.

It’s not so surprising that she took on Scout as her alter ego, after watching the film of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. Growing up in Staffordshire, England in the ‘70s, Niblett saw in Scout a smart, brave kid taking risks and having adventures. When Scout was nineteen she took herself to an arts college in Nottingham, like the kids from Fame but without the legwarmers. In 2001 she released her rare-as-hen’s-teeth debut album Sweet Heart Fever on Secretly Canadian. She records with Steve Albini, has toured with Cat Power, A split-release EP with Songs:Ohia followed, along with tours with Swearing At Motorists and The Microphones. Too Pure released Niblett’s latest album Kidnapped by Neptune in 2005.

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“Scout makes music that actually feels like feelings do, knotted and nonsensical and dramatic and true.” -Zac Pennington