The Horn Milk Bar in Perthshire has played host to yet another film crew as the A90 pit-stop diner continues its rise as an unlikely production location.
Scottish band Logan’s Close was spotted at the restaurant filming a music video for their latest album Heart Shaped Jacuzzi this week.
Despite the cost of living crisis impacting businesses widely across the UK, The Horn has found a little bit of Hollywood in their quirky diner – or ‘Hornwood’ as owner Kenny Farquharson describes it – that has given them another business venture to thrive in.
‘Hornwood’ café drawing in the stars
Last year, the popular Errol diner was used as the set for five movies and TV shows, including a Disney+ series.
Kenny said: “This is the second music video set we’ve hosted this year as we had a London-based band last month and we’ve got more things in the pipeline for the next few months.
“Things seem to be gravitating towards us and it’s good support for our business too.
“We just get these random phone calls and we try to accommodate the best we can.
“Usually we just shut up the gate and open the doors to these guys and let them do their thing.”
‘Unique and quirky’
Kenny’s teenage daughter, Gabi, has also gotten a taste of stardom through the diner’s success, after featuring as a waitress several times in various productions.
Kenny said: “In the last couple of years we’ve really blown up and we’re getting more and more people interested.
“We were used for the set of five film locations last year alone and we’ve also had cook offs filmed here in the past.
“The restaurant even featured in Vogue a few years back and now we’re doing music videos.
“I think people are drawn to us because we’re unique and quirky.
“The Scottish film industry is so small, I think word just gets around about us.”
Kenny said he never expected the restaurant to become as popular in the production world.
“We never saw it coming – we just sell bacon rolls,” Kenny said.
“My mum and dad started off with a wee tartan shed in the 60s and now we’ve been on television.
“In this day and age when hospitality is getting a kick in it’s good to have something a little different.
“It is hard times just now with energy costs and products costs – everyone is feeling it but it takes your mind off and it’s diversification, if we can maximise it.”
Why The Horn?
Kenny said he believes The Horn can bring something a bit different to the usual industrial production side of things.
He said: “A lot of people say that one of the reasons they come to our establishment to film is because we’re not corporate and we do things a little bit differently.
“We’ve been there so long so we can accommodate people in different ways, we can find props for sets or even help crews find accommodation.”
Band manager of Logan’s Close, Brian Ewing said they went with The Horn because of it’s “iconic” and “vintage” feel.
Brian said: “We spotted the restaurant literally just through driving past Perth and seeing the cow – it’s so iconic and it’s really hard to miss
“We wanted to go with this vintage feel especially as the band go for a nostalgic feel in their music – and obviously because of their world famous bacon rolls.
“We knew we wouldn’t find anything like that unless we travelled to America.
“They treated us so well, it was great to work with them and we used Kenny’s daughter in the video – she was ace and really professional.
“I would really recommend The Horn over a studio, he was very accommodating with helping us find cars to use for the set – you’re not going to get that from just any other studio.”
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