Singer in court for brandishing bar stool at fellow band member.

Singer was brandishing bar stool and threatening his former bandmate

A singer who brandished a bar stool and challenged his band’s ex-drummer to a fight was fined £750 yesterday.

Gavin Munro was on bail when he challenged a member of Alex Salmond’s house band to fight in the wake of a previous cocaine-fuelled bust-up at a birthday party.

The 51-year-old singer – frontman with The Red Pine Timber Company – sent abusive texts to Michael McLennan after spotting him in a Perth pub.

He shouted and swore and picked the bar stool up in a threatening manner before telling Mr McLennan he wanted to fight with him.

Munro was on bail at the time and was subsequently found guilty of wreaking havoc at an 18th birthday party by going on a drink and drug-fuelled rampage.

Perth Sheriff Court was told that Munro had been taking positive steps to improve his behaviour and had carried out 130 hours of the 200 hours unpaid work he had previously been ordered to do.

Sheriff Gillian Wade told Munro she would bring matters to a conclusion yesterday by fining him for the fracas involving Mr McLennan in the Green Room in Perth in June 2016.

The court heard that in the wake of the original bust-up at the 18th birthday party, Mr McLennan had left the band and had since formed The Carloways.

They appeared as Alex Salmond’s house band during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

At Perth Sheriff Court, after a five-day trial, Munro was found guilty of acting in a threatening or abusive manner at Muirmont Court in Bridge of Earn on November 16 2014.

He was found guilty of shouting and swearing and repeatedly pulling the arms and headrest of a wheelchair and kicking it while disabled Mairi McLennan was sitting in it, and of engaging in a stand-up fight with Michael McLennan.

Munro claimed he had been run over by Ms McLennan in an electric wheelchair.

He accepted he had trashed a guitar, punched holes in a door and kicked plant pots as a number of guests tried to throw him out.

Munro said: “I felt my behaviour was shocking. I felt I hadn’t dealt with it in the way the leader of a band should have.”

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Gavin Munro, arriving at court, was said to be taking positive steps to improve his behaviour.