Lloyds livens up the clubbing scene (From Echo)

Lloyds livens up the clubbing scene

12:58pm Friday 12th October 2007 in

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IF you've spent anytime in club land lately, you might have come across Lloyd Scott.

You can't really miss him - the 38-year-old music tutor would have been standing on the stage or wandering around the club with an electric guitar, strumming to the beat of the tune.

It's a return to the music scene that Lloyd never thought would come.

"I always wanted to be a song writer," he says.

"So although I grew up in Leigh, I went up to London and worked the circuit in Camden and the rest of London, trying to get a break."

It came through music label giant Polydor, who signed Lloyd up and soon after he found himself in a meeting with a very important man.

"I was sitting there with Martin Dodd and he was saying he liked one of my tracks and wanted it for his client," Lloyd says.

"That was Britney Spears."

Britney was in the throes of breaking up with Justin, but her manager was sealing a deal with Lloyd for the rights to his track Better Man.

"She recorded it, but it never made it onto her album unfortunately," says Lloyd.

"The interest meant I had people begging to work with me, but because he single didn't do well, everything fizzled out."

Disillusioned with the industry and following the breakdown of his marriage, Lloyd gave up on London and moved back to his home town, Leigh.

"I went back to teaching music and never thought I'd get back into it to be honest," he says.

"But then the DJ Jamie Sinclair talked me into going to Ibiza earlier this year where I played at Bora Bora with my electric guitar as Jamie DJ'd. Everyone went absolutely crazy and so when I came back I saw a market for it locally.

"The clubbing scene is so sterile now. You've just got a DJ on the stage and there's nothing visual to look it, so although there are lots of percussionists and saxophonists performing in clubs these days, I've never seen an electric guitar."

From his studio, Lloyd is also now dipping his toe back into the production side of the music industry.

"I've started to make some guitar-based dance and retro music," he says.

"I'm looking for guest singers to help me out with some tracks."

Lloyd has returned to the music industry, however, with a very different perspective.

"When I'm doing it for me, it works," he says.

"But not when I'm being pressured by labels etc. So I'm not worried if it takes off or not. I'm enjoying myself and that's all that matters."

You can see Lloyd performing at Zinc nightclub, Lucy Road, Southend tomorrow night (sat).