Scott Michael Cavagan

North-East rocker, Scott Michael Cavagan, still aiming ‘To Be Someone’ “Music is my passion, but’s it’s also how I socialise as well.” There’s certainly no more 21st Century Love for Tyneside musician, Scott Michael Cavagan, who, this month, releases that of his third project in just three years. In 2019, Cavagan, along with a number of guest musicians, released the stunning album, ‘21st Century Love,’ whilst last year, and just after the world went a little crazy, followed up with the brilliant EP, ‘Live at Trillians’ – he, like the rest of us, was in no way expecting what the ensuing eighteen months would bring. He’s under no illusions however, he never has been since he made a triumphant return to the musical fold after a few years away; the married, father-of-one, does however, have a list he’d love to continue ticking off, including that of a Manics dream. But first, it’s all about Cavagan’s impending offering. Yes, for the third time in a little over three years, Cavagan has a new release lined up, this being entitled ‘To Be Someone’ (released 6 August, Sapien Records); mind you, it has been in the pipeline for some time, and finished, mixed and mastered, for nearly just as long. “My last release, ‘Live at Trillians,’ was well received, but, I guess that, with everyone doing the same things (Facebook Lives, etc), it did hamper it a little bit, “began Scott. “I’d already started the next one though before the last one was released, even before all of this began taking hold. “The guitars themselves were laid down in the February of last year, then we ended up doing individ-

ual parts, one-by-one, and trackby-track. “I don’t rush things though, I can sit on my songs for a while; overall though, it was all mixed and mastered and ready to go before Christmas.” Now, and comfortably so, he’s working with an impressive, live band, a one which consists of Andy Metcalf, Phil Bell, and Brian Nicholson, with that new EP also featuring the guest vocals of the experienced, female vocalist, Jenn Cheren, Cavagan penning the following four tracks – To Be Someone, Escape The Void, Close That Door, and, I Feel Alone When I Sleep “With the last EP, I’d settled on what was a live band and that showed me that the direction I wanted to take, was the right one,” continued Scott. “It was important to a live band because, with the album (21st Century Love), it was all done with guest vocalists. “I was therefore adamant that I wanted the lads on this, which definitely adds more to it. “It’s mad though, that I’m still doing the things that I love, with friends that I’ve had for like, twenty years. “With the EP itself, in reality, I’m more of a closed person and a family man, something which’ll always come first, but the music, although it’s not for or against anything specific, I do have that mistrust. “The title track itself say, To Be Someone, was written in the aftermath of the General Election, Brexit, Trump, all of that, and, when listening to it back, is actually in an order of the way things were happening at the time, during that period. “I’ll admit there was an ongoing, angry feel to it, but it was all relevant then, in fact it’ll never be out of date.” Now, with those three releases, in three years, once To Be Someone comes out, shows that, with ongoing return to the music industry being unpressurised, Cavagan’s focus is different no to what it was in his early twenties. Different, but in the way, the same. “I did miss the writing of songs,” admits Scott. “The reason I came back into music was to tick boxes. “In my mind though, I’m still 17-years-old, and I still want to support my favourite band – the Manic Street Preachers.” Scott Michael Cavagan’s EP, To Be Someone, will be released on 6 August, and is accompanied by a launch night at Little Buildings (supported by Tankengine, and Dunes) – you can purchase the release on either CD, as well as on a stunning, red cassette. You can keep up-to-date with all things Scott Michael Cavagan via his Facebook https://www.facebook.com/scottmichaelcavagan/ and Twitter https://twitter.com/ cav81; promo images courtesy of Brian Nicholson.