Ross Butler started playing on a friend’s 2 string acoustic guitar in; he was then well and truly obsessed.
On leaving school, he got together with some other older musicians, playing and recording with a few different bands and musicians, one of them including ex-members of a band called Middle of the Road who had a number 1 hit in 1971 called Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.
Disillusionment set in and feeling that Glasgow had become devoid of any decent bands (at that time), he actually stopped playing for about 7 years.
He then found a band called Rally just outside Glasgow and started playing again. They recorded a couple of independent singles that got some great response and an invitation to play at the infamous T in the Park Festival in Scotland in 1998.
Ross then moved to London like all budding musicians often do which led to an audition for a band called Stacked who he would spend the next few years working with. Stacked were then to record an E.P with Tony Clark, Sound Engineer and Producer at Abbey Road Studios from the early 60’s to late 80’s working with The Beatles, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder etc, etc…a few of the tracks ended up being used by Acid Jazz Records although the band didn’t last much longer after the recordings.
The Screeches who had notched up two Top Ten U.S albums under their previous name The Leeches then led to Ross recording their new 15-track album with them, followed by a brief stint in a new band called Dirty Fuzz.
However, in March 2004, an interesting ad was to tickle Ross’s fancy, where a new band was looking for a bass player to complete the line up. After being suitably blown away by their demo he immediately phoned them to set up an audition. This is where he would finally find the wonderful “Morning Lane”.