About


David Scott is a singer, song­writer, and nov­el­ist liv­ing in Canada. Self taught on the gui­tar, David also exper­i­ments with key­boards, bass, drums, and any other instru­ments he can get his hands on. In true indie spirit, David also does his own record­ing, pro­mo­tion, and web­site (and, if you haven’t guessed, pens his own “about” sec­tions after spend­ing count­less hours learn­ing to write about him­self in third per­son narrative).

He was the lead singer for metal bands Over­drive (1997–1998) and Res­o­nance (2000–2006). At its height, Res­o­nance was known for its high energy shows, moments of excess, and shock and awe stage antics, which even­tu­ally con­tributed to its demise. On its way down, the band made sure to enjoy every minute.

Not wast­ing any time, David teamed up with local musi­cians Matt Gar­diner, Jason Lee, and for­mer Res­o­nance bassist Rev J to form the acoustically-based Johnny Feel­good (2007–2009).

In 2009, he fin­ished work on his first novel, Leav­ing Won­der­land. Now all he has to do is fig­ure out how to pub­lish it.

David con­tin­ues to exper­i­ment with a wide range of musi­cal and writ­ing styles. This web­site con­tains music that David has pro­duced in his var­i­ous bands and side projects, as well as his shorter works of fic­tion and non-fiction. Enjoy!

For more infor­ma­tion and/or book­ing, email: info@david-scott.com

About the Site

Creative Commons License

All music and writ­ing on this site is by David Scott and is licensed under a Cre­ative Com­mons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Canada License. What does that mean? Basi­cally, feel free to pass it around to your friends, use in your YouTube videos, or do any­thing with it and to it that you see fit, as long as you’re not com­mer­cial and as long as you give David appro­pri­ate credit (link­ing back to the site if at all pos­si­ble). Let’s also make what David con­sid­ers “com­mer­cial” clear. If you’re mak­ing an indie film on a shoe­string bud­get, plan to sell it to a few peo­ple, and are secretly hop­ing it becomes the next big thing, he doesn’t con­sider you “com­mer­cial” and would love to find out that you wanted to include one of his songs in your own orig­i­nal work. For free. That’s how art thrives. That’s how the Inter­net got so big. If you need any more assur­ance than that (under­stand­able, given all the sue happy record labels out there), or if you think he would con­sider you “com­mer­cial” but might want to allow you free use of his stuff any­way, please drop him a line. It’s not too likely he’ll say no. He’d also appre­ci­ate it if you told him more about your project, though that is cer­tainly not required. How­ever, if you’re a car com­pany or part of the old media estab­lish­ment that believes in suing peo­ple who give you free pro­mo­tion, then sorry, but you’re def­i­nitely com­mer­cial, and David will con­sider tak­ing your money as sim­ply doing his civic duty.

[ A note on the awe­some back­ground tex­ture you see on this site: Since David’s imag­i­na­tion is pretty much restricted to music and the writ­ten word, he’s smart enough to look else­where first for any­thing visual. There’s a great set of tex­tures on DeviantArt, where they were gra­ciously offered for free use by their cre­ator, Michelle B. That’s where the back­ground awe­some­ness came from. You can find more of Michelle’s amaz­ing work at her site: Over­dose. Just make sure to give her credit if you use them. ]