Members of a Perth band have described the “difficult” process of producing a single to aid search efforts for their frontman – who has gone missing in Germany.
The Best Kept Secret EP, which features Liam Colgan’s voice, was released on Good Friday by his group Waterday.
The 29-year-old is the singer and rhythm guitarist for the band, which was formed in Tayside almost a decade ago while all four members were studying music at Perth College UHI.
Every penny raised from the single will aid the search for Dundee United fan Mr Colgan, who disappeared while on his brother Eamonn’s stag weekend in the early hours of February 10.
Friends and relatives last saw the 29-year-old in the Veermaster Bar after which he was identified on CCTV footage from the Baumwall area.
The Inverness man’s family believe he is alive and may have suffered a concussion and memory loss following a fall on the night he went missing.
Waterday bassist and vocalist Danny Kelly said putting the EP together with fellow band members Jordan McKay and Jonny Tait was an emotional process; as both the songs Best Kept Secret and Malcom’s(sic) Hero feature Mr Colgan’s voice.
The idea to produce a single came after Waterday played during the One for Liam event which took place across Mr Colgan’s home city of Inverness in early March.
Pub-goers were asked to donate the cost of an extra drink towards the search to find the musician.
Mr Kelly said: “It was at the One for Liam event up in Inverness, his brother Eamonn asked us to play a few songs. It went quite well. We thought we’d put something together to raise a bit of awareness, just to see if we could get people to raise a bit of cash for the search.
“The money will go towards whatever that (search effort) may be – advertising, hotels, whatever they need. We all still believe he is out there. We are doing whatever we can.”
The EP features three songs in total, a mixture of unreleased songs and new recordings.
Mr Kelly, 29, admitted that the process of putting the tracks together without Mr Colgan had been “tough”, adding: “We were lucky we didn’t have a lot to do, we already had tracks ready. We were going back through them and having to edit them.
“Even listening to these tracks is difficult. It just threw us all.
“It is the first two tracks that has his singing on them. It is a hard process even listening to his voice.
“Liam has always been the frontman, no doubt about it.
“He has all of it – so much confidence on stage, always wanting to put on a show, always energetic about it no matter what size of crowd. Always up for it.”
Though Waterday’s members live in all corners of Scotland, the band have gigged across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness and Perth.
In the days that followed, a man matching his description was reportedly spotted at a train station in the town of Poppenbuppel with a sign which read “help get me home”.
Waterday’s single can be purchased from iTunes here.
