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Robert Scott — has written thousands of songs and his discography stretches over at least a dozen albums

A world-wise man, who, in a prolific 20 year music career has travelled the globe and recorded with several seminal New Zealand bands - as the bass player for Flying Nun's original breakthrough band, The Clean and singer/guitarist in long-serving guitar-poppers, The Bats, The Weeds and Electric Blood - latterly as the driving force behind The Magick Heads. Early in the 1980's, Robert Scott was playing with The Clean and sharing a flat in Christchurch with Kaye Woodward. He taught Kaye some of his songs and also played once or twice with Paul Kean (ex Toy Love bassist) in Thanks To Llamas. The three played together a couple of times at parties as The Percy Taiwan Band until they got together with Malcolm Grant ex (The Bilders) on drums. With this line-up they decided on the name The Bats and played their first gig at the Empire in Dunedin on New Years' Eve 1982.

The Bats have long been Flying Nun's quiet achievers, and with that line-up toured America five times, guested with Radiohead and The Buzzcocks, had one of their songs on the soundtrack of a Kiera Knightly movie, charted in France, been on the Cover of Billboard Magazine and landed an NME Single of the Week (for Made Up In Blue).

The same line-up remains after them having been together for more than twenty years. Robert Scott is also a solo performer.

Robert has an extremely extensive disography on Flying Nun Records, Arch Hill Recordings, Mammoth, Rough Trade and Merge Records - within various groups and also as a solo performer.