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Pop Legend Peter's Scottish Pub Gig

HERE he comes, walking down the street but Peter Tork is sure to get the funniest looks from everyone he meets...in a Scottish pub.

For the Monkees' legend is relaunching his pop career playing their hits in a Fife hotel. The 66-year-old guitarist will sing the group's classics - including I'm A Believer and Last Train To Clarksville - to just 250 fans.

The veteran US star reckons he will be lucky to break even on hisUK pub tour. But Peter has never been in it for the money.

At the peak of Monkee-mania in the 1960s he gave away Û500,000 to friends because he could not handle the huge royalty cheques.

And he says it is unlikely he will get back together with his fellow Monkees - Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz and Mike Nesmith - for a big bucks reunion tour. The Monkees last appeared in Scotland in 1997 playing a sell-out show at the SECC in Glasgow.

But the group later fell out and failed to mark their 40th anniversary in 2006.

Peter said: "In the 60s, I didn't know what to do with money - I'm not sure I thought I was worth it all."

On June 5 and 6, he will appear with his new band, Shoe Suede Blues, at The Inn at Lathones in St Andrews.

Peter cannot wait to set foot on Scots soil again. He said: "I toured the Highlands and Skye once and was staggered by just how beautiful the countryside was.

It feels like going back to my roots. I started playing in little bars and coffee shops so it will be a bit of a nostalgia trip for me."

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