The guitarist from Frightened Rabbit is set to honour his bandmate Scott Hutchison with a return to stage almost five years after his death.Billy Kennedy, 38, is confident his friend from their school days in Selkirk would have approved of his new project Haiver as they get ready to play their first gig next week.Scott took his own life in May 2018 after a long battle with depression.
He had led Frightened Rabbit from small venues in Glasgow to become one of the country's most respected and successful bands.While all of the other members have remained in the music industry, Billy has retrained as a wellbeing practitioner.
He has also suffered with his own mental health issues during the five-year hiatus from performing - but is now ready to take to the stage once again.Speaking to the BBC, Billy said: "I think Scott would be pleased for me - a lot of my new music is down to him.
It took me a long time to get over the death of Scott."There has been a lot to deal with over the five years - grief, my own depression, starting a family, and I was also trying to figure out what I wanted to do."Despite everything I continued writing songs, and now I feel I'm confident enough to start sharing them with everyone."I'm extremely nervous as the only people I've ever shared my songs with in the past was the Frightened Rabbit boys, and even then I was terrified they wouldn't like it."Over the past few months Billy has been joined by Brett McCann from Community Swimming Pool and Australian producer Jono Steer to polish and make ready a handful of his Haiver songs.Plans for the release of a full album later this year are also taking shape.
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