Scott Fagan

Scott Fagan performs songs from the 1968 album South Atlantic Blues and the new album Soon at St Matthias Church in Stoke Newington. The concert is a blues, country and folk evening.

Scott Fagan is a singer-songwriter whose debut album, South Atlantic Blues, appeared in 1968. This concert draws on that record and on Soon, a new album of songs first written for a 1971 stage work with the same title, created by Fagan with Joe Kookoolis. The material was originally meant as the follow-up to the debut before the project was derailed.

That stage work was a Broadway rock opera, a call against complacency and a reflection on art, radicalism and commerce, following an artist who must choose between principles and success. Fagan played the lead, alongside Richard Gere, Barry Bostwick, Joe Butler, Vicki Sue Robinson and Peter Allen. The production closed the day after it opened, and the songs went unreleased for decades.

Soon was recorded in July 2025 at Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis, with drummer Terence Clark, guitarist Steve Selvidge and keyboardist Rick Steff. The evening takes place at a church on Wordsworth Road that mainly stages pop, rock and indie concerts, so it suits listeners drawn to Fagan's blues, country and folk roots and to the newly released album.