Still Game's Ford Kiernan releases dance track to raise money for mental health charity

Ford Kiernan is swapping high rises for house music as he prepares to release a new dance tune to raise money for a mental health charity.The Scots star - who played Jack Jarvis in cult Scottish comedy Still Game - has ventured into new territory by collaborating with Aberdeen DJ and producer RYZY.The idea for the song Coffee Man came about after Kiernan looked at some teabags in his sink and thought about how much of a mess they made.He said: "I had been at the kitchen sink one day and had this idea for a thing called Coffee Man."I jumped on TikTok with it while I still had it in my head."I don't know where it came from, to be honest."I was standing in the kitchen thinking how much of a mess tea bags make in the sink.

I started thinking, 'Tea bags in the sink, tea bags in the sink'."That's how these things happen if you're a creative type."Sometimes these things just bubble up in your head until you've no option but to try to record it."His video had 60,000 views within hours and before long, 500,000 people had seen it.The Chewin' The Fat star travelled to La Sierra Casa, near Alicante in Spain, to work with The View frontman Kyle Falconer after a conversation.Kiernan said: "I'd been to a few of Kyle's gigs and he asked me last year if I wanted to come to La Sierra Casa."I started to lean towards dance music after a few days.

I liked the progressions and the way things build."It was Falconer who set the wheels in motion for the partnership between Kiernan and RYZY.RYZY said he ignored the call at first but phoned back when he received a text from the comedy legend.

He said: "Ford came up within a few days of that call and we got going."He's a great writer and a great comic, but I was so impressed by the musicality."He