Frightened Rabbit 'highly emotional' ahead of first performance without Scott Hutchison
'I don’t think it’s something I can really prepare for,' his brother and bandmate said
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Your support makes all the difference.Frightened Rabbit will return to the stage on Saturday, honouring a charity gig the band signed up for prior to singer Scott Hutchison’s death.
“I don’t think it’s something I can really prepare for,” Hutchison’s brother and bandmate Grant told the BBC.
“It’s going to be highly emotional, but I think the setting for it, both physically and the fact that it’s a charity event for Social Bite, means it’s a positive way to do that for the first time.
“I think I’ll be more nervous than I’ve ever been for a Frightened Rabbit gig before. It’ll be strange,” he added.
Scott Hutchison’s body was found by the Firth of Forth river in May, the singer-songwriter having taken his own life after going missing.
The Glasgow show is part of an initiative hoping to end homelessness in the band’s native Scotland, with proceeds also going to a new charity Hutchison’s family are setting up.
Frightened Rabbit’s Grant, Billy and Andy will be joined on stage by Kathryn Joseph, The Twilight Sad’s James and Andy, and more, “to perform Frightened Rabbit songs and a couple of Scott’s favourite covers”.
“We decided that we should still perform at the event after Scott’s death because Scott helped so many people while he was alive,” the band wrote on Instagram. “And through the music he wrote we wish to do the same.”
The band are still grieving, but hope to go on without their frontman.
“All of us are dealing with Scott’s death on a personal level. It’s been seven months, that’s a very short time,” Grant continued.
“We do have something planned for next year which was meant to happen this year which we’ll hopefully announce at the start of the year.”
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