Wikipedia says Banchory was his place of birth, but on checking with the near-infallible AFC Heritage profile of Our Man, it suggests that he is the Torphins Tassotti rather than the Glassel Gentile or Banchory Benetti.
http://www.afcheritage.org/Team/Curr...Season=2007-08
I played in the band at the Commercial Hotel Tarland’s Xmas party about five years ago. Riotous drunken behaviour, and the audience was the same. I am well-acquainted with the environs as Bouties, Tillypronie, Logie Coldstone and Migvie were on my (non-maternity) delivery round.