ABBA, Bryan Adams, AC/DC, Ryan Adams, Aerosmith, Alice In Chains, The Almighty, Tori Amos, Artic Monkeys, Louis Armstrong, Tim Armstrong, Ash, Backyard Babies, Bad Company, Badly Drawn Boy, Syd Barrett, The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Beastie Boys, Beck, The Bees, Harry Belafonte, Ben Folds Five, Big Bill Broonzy, Black Crowes, Black Sabbath, The Black Keys, The Blues Brothers, Blur, Tracy Bonham, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Bon Jovi, David Bowie, The Boy Most Likely To, The Breeders, Bright Eyes, James Brown, Joe Brown, Peter Bruntnell, Buck Cherry, William S. Burroughs, Bucks Fizz, Kate Bush, Bush, Cake, The Cardiacs, The Cardigans, Capatin Beefheart, Jasper Carrott, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Ray Charles, Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine, Eric Clapton, The Clash, Coal Chamber, Alice Cooper, Elvis Costello, The Coral, Corrosion of Conformity, Billy Connolly, Counting Crows, Sheryl Crow, Cream, The Cranberries, The Cure, The Crocketts, Crowded House, Jamie Cullum, Cypress Hill, The Darkness, Evan Dando, The Dandy Warhols, The Dead 60s, The Datsuns, Dead Kennedys, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, Depeche Mode, Devotchka, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Richard Digance, Cara Dillon, Bruce Dickinson, Donovan, The Divine Comedy, The Doors, Lonnie Donegan, The resden Dolls, Nick Drake, Dr Hook & The Medicine Show, The Dubliners, Duke Special, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, The Eagles of Death Metal, Eels, Electric Six, Eminem, Everlast, Everclear, Extreme, Fairport Convention, Faith No More, Fatboy Slim, Feeder, The Flux Capacitors, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, George Formby, The Fratellis, Free, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Stephen Fretwell, Rory Gallagher, The Get-Up Kids, George Gershwin, Genesis, Ginger, The God-Damn Whores, Gogol Bordello, Gorillaz, Green Day, Stephane Grapelli, Guns N Roses, Mike Harding, Half Man Half Biscuit, Hanoi Rocks, Ed Harcourt, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, PJ Harvey, Richie Havens, Hayseed Dixie, The Hellacopters, Jimi Hendrix, Herman Dune, The Highwaymen, The Hives, The Hold Steady, Hole, The Harrisons, Honeycrack, Jools Holland, The Holloways, John Lee Hooker, The Hours, Miles Hunt, The Humblebums, The Housemartins, House of Pain, Iggy & The Stooges, Indigo Girls, Iron Maiden, The Jam, Jamiroquai, Billy Joel, Elton John, Jack Johnson, Janis Joplin, Judas Priest, Kiss, The Kinks, Kings of Leon, BB King, Carole King, Richard Kitson, Korn, Lenny Kravitz, Kaiser Chiefs, Kris Krisopherson, Kula Shaker, Ben Kweller, The Lancashire Hotpots, Laskiampari, Led Zepplin, Leadbelly, Ben Lee, The Lemonheads, John Lennon, Less Than Jake, The Levellers, McDermott's 2 Hours, Live, Limp Bizkit, Madness, Machine Head, Major Tom & The Lunar Moths, Malibu Stacey, The Magic Numbers, Bob Marley, The Manic Street Preachers, John Martyn, Marilyn Manson, Paul McCartney, McFly, Metaloaf, Megadeth, Metallica, Joni Mitchell, Mississippi Allstars, The Monkees, Morrissey, Motorhead, Jim Morrison, Van Morrison, Mr Big, Nine Inch Nails, Nine Black Alps, Nirvana, Jim Noir, Noisettes, Nouvelle Vague, Oasis, Ordinary Boys, Offspring, Ozzy Osbourne, Time Pare, Pantera, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Pitchshifter, The Pogues, Poison, The Presidents of the United States of America, Elvis Presley, The Prodigy, Pulp, Alan Price, The Proclaimers, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Rammstein, Rancid, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Reel Big Fish, Reef. R.E.M., Rico, Rilo Kiley, Josh Ritter, Roderigo y Gabriella, Kenny Rogers, The Rolling Stones, Henry Rollins, The Rutles, Joe Satriani, Seasick Steve, Sepultura, Sex Pistols, William Shatner, The Shins, Sham 69, Silver Sun, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jnr, Skid Row, Slash's Snakepit, Smashing Pumpkins, Aidan Smith, Soul Asylum, The Smiths, Sparks, Bruce Springsteen, Squeeze, Stephen Stills, Rod Steward, Staus Quo, Sufjan Stevens, System of a Down, Serj Tankian, Taste, Tenacious D, Terrorvision, Them, Therapy?, Thin Lizzy, Thunder, The Thrills, Tool, KT Tunstall, Twisted Sister, U2, Van Halen, The Vandals, The Undertones, Eddie Vedder, Velvet Revolver, Mr David Viner, Paul Weller, The White Stripes, The Who, The Wildhearts, Stevie Wonder, The Wonderstuff, The Yo-Yo's, Rob Zombie, The Zutons (plus loads of other stuff from my record collection that I missed out to save time)
...and not forgetting TOM WAITS (The Master Himself!)
Sounds Like
Mr Scott Heald - the product of listening to absolutely anything!
Mr Scott Heald is a singer/songwriter from Barnsley, with other crimes being taken into consideration. A self-confessed 'sad-muso', he creates most of his recorded input at home, utilising Myspace as a place to be heard by all the people who haven't got bored and gone to Facebook instead.
He also gigs as often as possible, with his live set comprising of whatever he thinks people will want to hear... As most Barnsley venues are quite tough, as a rule of thumb, this generally tends to be
(a) comedy folk-songs (not always the best idea in some parts of town!)
(b) his own compositions about everything in the A-Z! From the classic song themes of 'drinking' and 'screwing', to the less familiar song-themes of someone's head feeling 'like biscuit barrel full of broken biscuits', 'nuns at nidnight mass' or even 'monkey-spunk'.
(c) cover-versions of other (more famous) singer/songwriters that continue to not ever play any of his stuff!
Scott's live set is usually a lot more folky and stripped-back than his recordings as it is hard to recreate all of this without a 24-piece band (which wouldn't pay too well!)
According to one fellow musical friend he is 'a human jukebox' (He still can't fathom out why!)
According to Keith Richards "Mr Scott Heald's legend will live on long after a lot of living-legends have died!"
According to Tina Turner "He's simply the best!" (though this doesn't refer to Scott in any capacity!)
Scott loves the recording process as it allows him to showcase the bigger ideas he has floating and rattling around his head (he believes there is always space for that extra kazoo or beer-glass solo!).
He also loves gigging, but for completely opposite reasons - the chance to perform and entertain as a solo musician/clown.
As well as doing all of this, he is vocalist / geetarist / banjoist / mandolinist with 'The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican'. Past musical projects have included being the vocalist / guitarist in Laskiampari, vocalist / bassist with alternative rock 'n' roll band 'The Flux Capacitors', vocalist / guitarist in side-project 'The Last of the Independents' a tribute to the late, great, Rory Gallagher. When he isn't plotting world domination via myspace, he is also master-minding 'The Schwein Eimer Singles Project' where the public can create their own music (check the friend link).
His ambition is to one day own a planet, and never to meet a boxer from Stranraer.
CHECK OUT THE VIDEOS OF SCOTT IN ACTION:
MUSIC VIDEO FOR 'STANDING ON MY OWN FEET'
CAN'T TAKE MY SOUL AWAY FROM ME (Animated by Mr Scott Heald)
THREE VIDEOS FILMED LIVE DURING MY COMEDY-FOLK SET AT THE RED HOUSE, SHEFFIELD: 'Lady Of Bournemouth', 'Shirley', and 'The Lottery Song'
THE FIRST VERSION OF THE VIDEO FOR 'ODE TO HOYLAND'
