Perth band The Owls look forward to comeback gig

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They will soon be turning heads again at venues across the region.Popular Perth band The Owls have re-formed and are quickly counting down the days until their big comeback gig in a couple of months’ time.John Ramsay (vocals), Mike Lee (guitar/vocals), Dave Bone (drums) and Rory Connaghan (bass/vocals) are hard in rehearsals for a Skalloween Show at the Ex Servicemen’s Club on October 29.Tickets vanished like hotcakes and the event is already sold-out.“There will be lots of rehearsals and we’ve booked ourselves into the studio every week,” said John, who has teamed up with Kasbah vs Beat Surrender for the big night as well as acquired the services of Perthshire Sound and Light.The Owls - known previously as The Irritable Owls - were initially formed back in 2015 on the back of a chat in local watering hole The Foundry between John and mate Colin Scott.“At that time he had never been involved in a live gig before,” John recalled.“We used to go to the Kasbah and saw these Ska tunes and Mod tunes smashing the dancefloor to a certain age group.“We thought having a band doing something like that would absolutely work.“We were keen to give it a go, managed to get a bit of a set together and then played at The Twa Tams to dip our toes in and see what the reaction was.“I remember we had five tunes and people seemed to absolutely love it.

From there, it went from strength to strength.“Within a year we played the Merchant City Festival in Glasgow in front of six or seven hundred people.“And then we started getting council functions, the fireworks, Hallowe’en stuff at the Concert Hall.

It went from nothing to something pretty big pretty quick.”As often happens in life and music, commitments crop up, people become busy and trying to