Grant Hutchison

Grant Hutchison (13 June 1984) is a Scottish percussionist and drummer most well known for being Frightened Rabbit’s drummer.

He was raised alongside his late brother Scott in Selkirk, Scotland. In an interview by Drunken Werewolf, Grant said:

That’s [Frightened Rabbit] what our Mum used to describe Scott [Hutchison] as when he was younger. He was very socially awkward, which is strange considering he’s now the singer in a band and getting up on stage in front of hundreds of strangers!

Scott started playing solo shows supporting friends' bands in Glasgow with just an acoustic guitar. I was the only drummer he knew so I got the job of being the second member of Frightened Rabbit. Basically I joined to make the whole thing a little bit noisier! Billy is a friend from Selkirk who we knew would bring many things to the band (he draws a mean picture of a penis!) including guitar.

Grant joined Frightened Rabbit in 2004, rendering it as a duo. They both recorded the band’s debut album, Sing The Greys, together, alongside producer Marcus Mackay.

Being involved with the writing process of the band’s two subsequent albums, The Midnight Organ Fight and The Winter of Mixed Drinks , Grant described the writing process:

[…] Scott starts the whole process off by writing the songs himself on an acoustic guitar and then I chip in with some drum ideas, and then we sort of figure it out from there. Essentially Scott writes all the instrumentation on the records and I do my part with the drums. We’re hoping to make the process of the next record more of a group effort but we’ll see how that goes! Scott’s very controlling!! The band works because we all know the roles we play and these are all very different and not always involving music. Plus we don’t speak to each other on tour just to avoid arguments.

Grant also contributed to the band’s next two albums, Pedestrian Verse and Painting of a Panic Attack.