I started this 'band' project ‘Out of View’ with a song idea and melody that had been rattling around in my head since the mid to late 1980’s when I was a Drummer in various local bands in and around Edinburgh. In early 2016 I revisited my idea, wrote a new melody and started putting the song together and contacted an old friend and bandmate Guitarist Ian Whitehall. He was keen to get involved but as I lived in France and he in Edinburgh this was a slow process that was done initially remotely via emails sharing recordings and ideas and gradually the song took shape and had a basic structure. It was then onto auditioning and finding a bass player and vocalist again via the internet. This took a long time but eventually I made contact with Tara-Lynn Sharrock who recorded her own vocals and sent the files via email ready to drop into the project. The song ‘The Last Race’ (our debut single) was almost there. After returning to Edinburgh I met Niyi Oludipe, again initially via the internet before completing the lineup with a Highland Bagpiper called Ross Weir who I found via Facebook. I had always envisaged Highland Pipes for a section of the song and this was the final piece of the jigsaw. As this was, in the beginning, a remote, invisible, internet band I decided to call it 'Out of View’...it seemed apt. Our debut single was released on 25th Jan 2019 and was well received with The Edinburgh Evening News and also The Badenoch and Strathspey Herald writing great articles about our fascinating story. Several Scottish local radio stations played our song as well as an island station KISL off the coast of California. Dougie was interviewed live on Speysound Radio for their show ‘Out and About’ where he got to talk about music and choose and share some of his musical influences on air. Several months later Dougie received a 5 star Commended Award for the song The Last Race from the UK Songwriting Awards. Dougie immediately started work on the follow up ‘See me Now’ and again called on his new ‘band mates’ to collaborate. He had in mind a part for Cello in the new song so the search was on and through some musician contacts was introduced to and met Jules Horne, a ‘Folk’ Cello player from the Scottish Borders. All instruments for ‘See Me Now’ were recorded by each band member independently and sent to Dougie for composing and producing the song. - Dougie Bonner Sept ‘20
Lifeforce and soul food. Hope!
To play and create full time.