Published: Tuesday, 5th January, 2010 1:55pm

Selkirk band in the spotlight

FRIGHTENED Rabbit started their new year with a bang as one of the headline acts at Edinburgh's world famous Hogmanay party.

The band from Selkirk took to the stage in Princes Street Gardens in front of an estimated 80,000 people in what was undoubtedly their biggest live show to date.

Sharing the stage with the likes of ska legends Madness and the multi-award winning indie act The Enemy, the high-profile gig was a fitting end for what has been an incredibly successful year for the band.

Having garnered international acclaim for their second album 'Midnight Organ Fight,' released in 2008, the band have spent the last year touring and putting the finishing touches to their third album, 'The Winter of Mixed Drinks,' which will be released in March.

The album was written by lead singer Scott Hutchison, who isolated himself for six weeks in the tiny fishing village of Crail in Fife to get the record finished.

A UK tour to accompany the album also kicks off in March, before they start another summer of festival dates and a much coveted slot at the South by South West in Texas.