Hi everyone,

Thanks for all your messages, it's lovely to hear from you all.

My dad had been SCO roadie for the past 18 years and retired in september last year. All that know my dad will know that he didn't look on having one arm as a disability, more of a problem to over come, and this he did sucessfully every day of his life. I heard at his retirement do a story about how he got the job at the SCO, and it's a typical Dave story. He'd applied for the job, and put on his cv that although he only had one arm, they would be making a mistake by not employing him. The two people who interviewed him had only got him in to brighten their day, a change from the new classical music graduates that they would have streaming through the doors for the job. In came my dad and they all had a good chat and then they got to the bones of it "Dave, we're not being funny about this, but how on earth are you going to lift a timpany with one arm?" my dad replied "What's a timpany? You show me one, and i'll show you how i'll lift it" so they took him out to a timp and he walked over to it, bent his knees and using his belly as a shelf picked it up and walked around the room with it as if it didn't even exist. My dad later told me that when he walked out of the interview all he could hear from the other side of the door was howels of laughter, and he was certain that he hadn't got the job. Obviously he did get the job, and revolutionised how the orchestra was stage mannaged and roadied, and ensured that in his entire 18 years, not a single performance was cancelled, not a single rehearsal missed. If dave was doing it, it would be done.

Anyway, I actually came on here to post the funeral details, so here they are:

The funeral will be on friday the 9th (this friday) at 2pm at the following address:

Warriston Crematorium
Warriston Road
EH7 4HW

The wake will be at approx 3pm, and will be held at:

St Columba's by the castle
14 Johnston Terrace
EH1 2EL

We're also asking that donations can be made to the RNLI or british lung foundation if you would like to make a donation.

For the wake if you would like to bring an instrument, then please do, also if you would like to speak about my dad or play something special then please let me know so we can get some sort of idea for what will be happening.

Thanks loads, hope to see you at the funeral on friday,

Davoc x