DAN Forouhar and Scott Anderson worked behind the scenes with The View for years before grabbing their own piece of the limelight with their band Scary People.

They both still work as technicians with their fellow Dundonians but are now part of a new wave of bands coming out of the Tayside city.

Their melodic heavy rock has won them a growing following after storming performances at T in the Park and the Wickerman festival. Now they’re heading to West Fife for the first time for Dunfermline Live.

Frontman Dan said, “We’re in the middle of recording new stuff for the end of the year so it’s all systems go as usual.The festivals were a total success. I think that’s exactly what we needed this year.

" I think we pulled it off and we’ve been building a good fan base ever since. It was all a great boost for us.” Dan explained how after several years out of bands he set up Scary People with drummer Scott, whose brother Stevie (AMWF) is also in the band and so will be playing twice at Dunfermline Live.

“It was May 2013 we started,” recalled Dan. “We did that first gig with The View when they were playing three headline shows at the Doghouse in Dundee. We working for them as well as playing that night.

“Scott and I had been working with them for four to five years. Prior to meeting through working with The View we’d never played together before but we were all playing in different bands in Dundee. The five of us were all in separate things.

“We all had a mutual friendship because we knew each other through playing the same places. It just so happened that everybody was disbanding at the time, we all got together and that was the start of it.

“Scotty came off a tour with The View and the gig was booked straight after. That was about April so technically we put the band together within a fortnight. We rehearsed a half hour set and that was us ever since.

"Scotty and I were writing and recording stuff when we were on the road with The View and we had an album’s worth of tunes good to go. So when it came down to making a band it was a case of adhering to the recordings and trying to re-enact them.

“In some respects it was a lot easier than most bands but it was still pretty hectic to form it in a fortnight.

“It was nerve-wracking for me because I hadn’t played guitar in a band for three or four years. I had just not been in bands because I was too busy working.

"It was a bit mental but at the same time it felt comfortable because we were in good surroundings with The View boys who we’ve known for years. We know the crowds they pull in Dundee and it was just a comfortable situation to have our first gig.

“It was a breath of fresh air for me to get back into it and it was a good way to start it with a sold-out gig in Dundee.

“When I met Scotty it was just a situation where musically we clicked. He has the brains to record and produce music. He’s just got that sort of talent. In soundchecks you would play a riff and he would build on it and then eventually it was a song.

“I had no intention of being in a band by that point but it just sort of escalated. We had seven or eight songs and we wanted to play them.

“I’m enjoying being back into it. It’s great. This is our first time in Dunfermline with the band, which is a sad thing to say. I’m shocked we’ve never hit it before now but all the boys are really looking forward to it especially going there with another Dundee contingent.

" It seems to be the thing to do these days, four or five bands going up. It should be a great day and I don’t doubt it will be a big success for everybody.” * Scary People play Dunfermline Live on 18th October.

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