Mike Scott is the bassist of Phinius Gage and vocalist from Lay It On The Line.

[1] Scott played his first solo show in 2007, after five years as bassist for Phinius Gage.

Since January 2012, Scott has also performed vocals in hardcore punk band Lay it on the Line and this has become his main project.

The band are notable for their choice of subjects - releases are concepts based on murders and deaths of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries - including the murder of Scott's friend Ben Gardner in 2009, which is the subject of the band's song "Therapia Lane".

[4] In addition to his musical endeavours, Scott is also a published historian; with his piece "The Spartan Legacy in the contemporary Popular Culture; A case study of the 300"[5] being published in the Journal of Ancient Spartan and Greek History.