This year is flying by;-)

Thanks to Only the Good, Sylosis, Luke Wylde and the Japes, Venom & Apathy, High on Fire, The Formula, The Whiskey Syndicate, Your Demise, Greenwood Park, Lightfire, The Kingcrawlers, Crooked Dawn, Voodoo Six, The Joy Formidable, Skunk Anansie, The Detached Collective and I am Giant for headlining for me so far this year.

Some storming gigs, I hope you will agree. Some mighty support bands too, of course.

Plenty more to come for the second part of 2013. Thanks for being part of them.

Support: Kill It Kid

Meteorologically speaking, March 1^st is the commencement of spring. The Friday evening chill contradicts this theory.

Fortunately, the latest offering from Emma Scott Presents is enough to warm the body and the soul.

Kill It Kid are a peculiar, idiosyncratic bunch who combine elements of roots, rock and blues to create intriguing soundscapes that recall a cross between Nirvana’s more reflective moments and The White Stripes.

Siblings Chris Turpin and Stephanie Ward share vocal duties, producing some eccentric interplay to provide a compelling backdrop to the bluesy anthems.

There’s enough character and distinct musical flavour to interest the Joy Formidable fanbase to see them again.

A week earlier, The Joy Formidable were playing a support slot to Bloc Party to respectful applause, but tonight their display elicits far more reverence and energy from a crowd clearly in thrall to the enigmatic bundle of playful rock ‘n’ roll abandon that is frontwoman Ritzy Bryan.

For a three piece, they can make one hell of a cacophonous noise. Their futuristic indie-rock pounds the gloomy confines of the Wulfrun Hall, creating a communal bouncing at the front that feels friendlier than the brutal moshpits that you can encounter.

A turbo-charged barrage of ‘Cholla’, fan favourite, ‘Austere’ and ‘This Ladder is Ours’ set the tempo for the majority of the evening, with the occasional interlude for something lighter and plaintive. I’d like to see this side employed more in future, as despite the visceral thrills of the harder stuff, you get a better idea of Bryan’s vocal capability on the tender tracks.

As the opening to their encore, they dedicate ‘Bats’ to a long-serving fan who is celebrating his 71^st birthday. It is touching to know that a septuagenarian is still rocking out, particularly when you hear twentysomethings expressing their gig fatigue.

The Joy Formidable play with boundless energy, Welsh spunk and a ferocious drive that makes you think they’re playing the gig as if it is their last.

By the end, the insane closing track ‘Whirring’ left everyone safe in the knowledge that most of us have got a few decades left in us to rock hard.

Thanks to Jamie Brannon

Unbelievable.

It’s been a busy year for us at Emma Scott Presents, and we’re looking forward to the next few gigs, including:

Skunk Anansie at The Wolves Civic Halls on March 21st

Crooked Dawn at The Flapper on March 24th

Voodoo Six at the O2 Academy 3, Birmingham on Sunday March 31st

The Detached Collective at The Flapper, Birmingham on Sunday April 7th

I am Giant at The Flapper, Birmingham on Sunday April 21st

Glassbullet at The O2 Academy 3, Birmingham on Saturday May 4th.

We have some great support bands lined up too, so please check them all out and come to the gigs you fancy!

There’s:

Blacklist Saints, Lynus, Tim OT, Resin, Piston, That Cavalier Attitude, The Roz Bruce Infusion, Buretta, Lightfire, Hope and Chance, Nya, Redshift, False Pretence and Morningstar.

Tickets as always, in the store!

We are taking bookings for May and June, so get in touch if you want to play!

See you soon!

Wow! We’re back from the Pure Rawk Awards 2013 and were thrilled to win Promoter of the Year for a third year in a row. The event gets better every  year and was once again a great night out. Loads of great bands played and some very deserving people won awards, whilst drinking and dancing into the night and raising money for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

We are over the moon at our third win and thank everyone that voted – and of course all the ace bands we work with at Emma Scott Presents!

Thank you

We won this very award in 2011 and 2012, so winning it in 2013 would be an amazing achievement!

If you haven’t voted already, please do! It will take about 2 minutes to do and you don’t have to register or become a member.  Just vote for whichever bands you like (or like the sound of!) and please give me a tick for PROMOTER OF THE YEAR……… and……..

In addition to this, we were over the moon to receive a nomination for “Underground Record Label of the Year” for In At The Eye Records – this is the label I run with my husband, Jase Burns.

We have some excellent bands on the label and care for them like family, so nabbing this award would really mean a lot.

Click this link to vote!

Voting closes on Friday March 1st 2013, so don’t delay!!

Thanks in advance!