Hannah Scott

“You put your whole being into your music, don’t you?
I felt your passion, I understood you!”

These simple words were spoken to me after performing at an Open Mic Night in a pub on the outskirts of Ipswich in the autumn of 2005. I had just graduated from Durham University and had returned to my home town. My plan, some may say idealistic, was to work for a year, earn some money and head to London (where everybody knows the streets are paved with gold) because all I wanted to do with my life was to move people I had never met. Just like the lady at the bar.

Music has always been a part of my life but my songwriting really began to take shape when I spent a year abroad as part of my degree. I still can’t quite believe that at the age of 19 I jumped on a plane to Pisa to spend the next six months of my life in a Tuscan village in the middle of nowhere. I ended up staying for nine. I encountered so many new and changing emotions there, from loneliness to a feeling of belonging, from incomprehension to understanding, from falling in love to the pain of having to leave it behind, and for the first time I felt an innate need to translate them into music. Ever since, everything that has moved me has found its way into song.

Back in late 2005, I began to play more seriously at local acoustic nights, in particular at ‘Suffolk Songwriters’ where I met BBC Radio Suffolk’s Stephen Foster. He invited me into the studio to play on his Drivetime show and shortly after, introduced me to Pat Grueber at Gemini Studios in Ipswich. In March 2006, we began working on my debut album, “Till Angels Fall”. I feel privileged to have worked with Stephen, Pat and some great musicians including Mark Flanagan, guitarist with Jools Holland’s Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, on the production of the album. They have taught me such a lot.

I have spent some time in London since graduating but contrary to my ‘plan’, I have not moved there indefinitely. For now my home is where my music is and those gold-paved streets will just have to wait for me… 

Contact: info@hannahscott.co.uk