Scout Niblett
What's on your rider?Water, fruit, bread, hummus, orange juice, beer, tea, coffee, wine, salad, soya milk, sandwiches. I guess I'm into beverages.
What would be on your fantasy rider?Home-cooked food made by a grandma.
What's your pre-gig ritual/ routine? Igenerally need bout 30 to 40 minutes before play just to sit down and look over the set list. Write out some lyrics if I need reminding of any. And I tend to drink a glass of wine and loads of water.
What's the best gig you've been to?I think when I saw Nirvana play at Reading '91. I was 17. The atmosphere there was really electric. It was just before Nevermind came out, and I'd gone to Reading to see them specifically, so I was really excited.
And the worst?I'm not into being negative about particular bands, and more realistically there are too many to choose from.
Who is the most famous person to have shown up at one of your gigs?Maybe Marc Jacobs, the fashion designer. He's pretty famous, I guess. When you're playing at festivals there are so many famous musicians hanging around waiting to play themselves, a lot of the time you find out later that someone saw so-and-so watching you play.
Most embarrassing on-stage moment? Probably where some drunk person has heckled me to a point that I don't understand how to react to it.
Chatting between songs – good or bad?I like both. I just like it when someone feels comfortable. Sometimes that's just playing their music. Sometimes they want to have a little chat.
Groupies. Would you?No. Super scary.
Have you a special stage wardrobe?I like to wear my safety orange reflective jacket.
Any useful stage tips?Have fun!
What's your best tour story?Oh, I think making up the words to Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death, which goes "we're all gonna die". It was made up as I realised that me and everyone I was in a car with, travelling on the rainiest and wettest road in history, could very easily all die in a car wreck at any moment.
Scout Niblett plays Whelan’s, Dublin, tomorrow
