What has been a very busy first part of 2024 has seen me touring with Now I'm here across the UK from January to April. I have a few festival dep gigs with them across the summer.
Dep with Pure Queen and The Fleetwood Mac Experience in theatres and festivals
Erics 25th anniversary shows for 1 week and Strictly Eric for 2 weeks at The New Vic Theatre.
In November, Scott was invited to be the drummer for Erics Pride and Prejudice at The New Vic Theatre, Newcastle Under Lyme having done Erics Italian Job in the summer
Another great comedy written by David Graham, with music from the 60s, 70s and 90s
As well as drumming, I also dressed up as a Gorilla!
It was a sell out everynight and next year David celebrates 25 years at The New Vic Theatre.
He will be doing 3 shows next year.
May 14th-18th- 1 week of concerts playing songs from all his shows over 2hrs
July-August- Erics Strictly Ballroom
Nov-Dec- Erics Full Monty
Scott will be drumming and performing in Erics Italian job at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle Under Lyme.
Eric, having finally got a booking for his disco in Leighton Buzzard, witnesses the Great Train Robbery when his van breaks down as he’s starting for home.
Scotland Yard get a tip-off that the two train robbers who escaped capture are planning a bank job in Turin and take Eric with them to identify the two men.
With an inept police officer and Eric in pursuit of the criminals just about everything that’s possible to go wrong does so.
Real-life Minis racing up and down steps, a bus hanging off the edge of a mountain, incredible Alpine scenery – none of this is in the production but the show is packed full of great 60s hits and a lot of laughs which, let’s face it, is a fair swap!
https://www.newvictheatre.org.uk/productions/erics-italian-job/
Scott has been filling in with several different bands over the last 2 months on dep gigs with Midnight Rebel Band. Fossey Tango, Beaky Band and Now I'm Here.
Scott is available from late May/early June and can be contacted on 07944577004 or scottottaway@hotmail.com
On February 11th 2023, The Pocket Gods went to the Brits.
The band were guests of NUB at the awards ceremony which started at 4.30pm!
This included a pre-show meal with entertainment, before taking our seats at The O2 for the ceremony, which was shown live on ITV. Then the aftershow party, which did get messy.
So much has happened since my last post. Obviously I seem to update Facebook and other social media more than my poor website.
The Pocket Gods have been very busy finishing off with a Christmas show at The Horn in St Albans. But we now have 12 Guiness book records and our last album, 1000x30 has had more than 1m hits.
The 30 second campaign for fairer royalties for musicians really is grabbing headlines.
I have also done and continue to do dep gigs with The Midnight Rebel Band , Beaky Band and From the Ashes as well as teaching term times in schools, at my studio and for The Bucks Rock Project.
I am also in rehearsals with the very talented Frances Rodinio (Cayio) with a new acoustic folk sound with great friend Allan Burls on bass, so look out for new music coming soon.
September and October saw me filling in for 5 gigs with the Beaky Band. Tony Carpenter, who Beaky in Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky Mick & Tick, fronts the normally 3 piece band.
This included a trip to play in Eastbourne at the Marina Club house. This was a charity gig for Wet Wheels charity.
At the end of the month, I will be playing with David Graham, (whose band includes good friend Alan Howell) in Bristol
This is a 70s shows and all to click and tracks.
Buckets For Bongos has gone from strength ti strength. 4 Showcases and 5 care home shows took place early October with another 5 late October and 3 in November.
This really works for Dementia patients, taking them back to happier times through music and with them playing and singing along.
Samsway presents, From The Ashes at the Launton Arms, Launton nr Bicester, on Saturday 20th August 2022.
This is part of the Launton Arms family Funday.
There will be activities, food and drinks all day long, with From The Ashes playing from 7pm.
I will be on drum duty with the band, so come and say hello and enjoy a night of rock music. Not to be missed!
I was fortunate to be asked to play for Drumathon 2022. I played for 3 hours and on the video page, is a very edited video of those 3hrs. It was rather rushed from my point of view. I was on holiday when I was asked to take part and on my return, had 2 days to sort everything out. I had already sorted out my set for 3hrs of playing, but had never really played for 3hrs solid for a long time. Searchers shows were 2hrs. I managed to download software to remove drums and the set list was complete. Sadly, I forgot to add click tracks to the songs. School boy error. It also appears for the first 2hrs, my right hand cymbal, the lead had come out. Also, my home made ekit snare was playing up. This has now been replaced by a pro made Jobeky snare drum. I'd like to thank Drumathon for asking me, I will be more prepared for 2023. Thank you to Jobeky (who sent me loads of equipment), Liberty drums, Code drum heads and Pellwood drum sticks. 1st set was Searchers songs, 2nd set my fav songs of Queen and from We Will Rock You, 3rd set more Queen, songs I've played on (Powder Monkeys, The Pocket Gods) then more fav songs I enjoy playing.
Really sorry, no updates since January! Thats poor.
Since then, The Pocket Gods have released another album and received another Guinees World record certificate for most downloadable albums, 75!
We also have a new album coming out soon and are currently doing a NUBTV and Amazon Prime show.
I was the drummer in Rugby Theatres production of A Slice Of Saturday Night. Set in the 60s the funny story tells of a bunch of young adults who frequent a night club with live entertainment, like the Cavern. I was on stage for the whole show, with the talented band starting 10 minutes before the official start and 15 mins during the interval. It was a very talented cast and I was so proud to be involved.
For the musical, I used my Liberty kit but with Jobeky triggers and mesh heads, which then went into the Roland module. I had a few issues with my home made snare and after speaking to Jobeky to sort out the issue, they very kindly sent me a Jobeky snare drum. Thank you!!!
There have been loads of dep gigs with Miracle cure, From The Ashes, Uproar, Funk City Band and Now I'm Here (Queen Tribute) as well as trips tp the O2 to see the pet Shop Boys and Queen + Adam lambert.
