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Donald Burnett


   Donald Burnett, Born, Perth Scotland, 3/9/56. Went to school in Perth until I was nearly 15 years of age, then started college with a view to working in the catering industry. After one year studying full time, I got a job as a waiter in the Station Hotel, Perth. This was part of BTH (British Transport Hotels) and after a while I moved to work at the world famous Gleneagles Hotel as a chef. After working there for a summer season, I returned to Perth, again to the Station Hotel, after that I moved to Edinburgh to work as a chef at the Royal Scot Hotel, then again moved to Perth before working at Fernie Castle Hotel in Fife as a chef. Stayed there for about a year before moving to Sweden to work as a chef at Hotell Lerdalshojden in Rattvik. Moved north to Orsa, worked at Fryksas Hotell and also at the ski/holiday resort of Gronklitt. In 1982 I moved to the outskirts of Stockholm and worked as a chef at Aerochef catering at Arlanda airport. While in Sweden I sang in various rock bands, did lot's of song writing/recording, some of which has ended up on various singles and cd's, I also recently sang backing vocals on a cd by Swedish hard rocker Baltimoore who has been a friend of mine since  the early days singing with The Black Hearts and The Flashers in Rattvik. I sang with a Heavy Metal band from Mora, called Trykvag (Pressure Wave) played lot's of gigs with these bands which was great fun.


When I moved down near Stockholm I sang with a few bands before, finally singing with a great bunch of musicians in a band called Escape, we then changed that to Vision and recorded a single called Changes. In 1986 I got married to a Scottish girl in Sigtuna and not long after we came back to Scotland and eventually settled in
St Andrews where I got a job as Head chef at University Hall. I am now divorced like all the guy's in The Scottish Canaries (we love football too much) I have 2 children, Calum 21 and John 18. When in Sweden I followed a team called IK Brage who come from Borlange, went to lot's of games, both home and away, even went to see them the day after I got married to see them play Djurgarden in Stockholm, Brage won 1-0. Went to work offshore on vaious oil platforms in 1991 and did that for 5 years in the North Sea (British Sector) and when I was made redundant, I worked at a few hotels before coming back to work at St Andrews University, where I still work. I am employed as Head Chef at McIntosh Hall, catering for 230 hungry students. From the age of 5, I have supported Heart of Midlothian FC, simply because my father bought me one of their football jerseys. First saw them play St Johnstone in Perth in February, 1964, they won 4-1 and I still have the match programme! I am a keen collector of football memorabilia, I have around 6,000 lapel badges, 3,000 programmes, 300 books, thousands of tickets, about 100 scarves, ties , coffee mugs, model football figures etc etc. I also listen to a lot of music, my favourite bands are Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, Genesis, Yes, Rush, Arena, IQ, Pendragon, Pallas, Jethro Tull, Kaipa, Pink Floyd, Barclay James Harvest, Marillion and most progressive rock bands. Became interested in STVV though Roy who had been to see them, and I love coming to Belgium to go to the games and meet all our many good friends at Cafe Stadion.