The following is included as a short biography of sorts for those of you who, for whatever peculiar (and perhaps slightly disturbing) reasons want to know more about Grant.

The place to begin is in a small coffee shop on North Bank Street in Edinburgh's Old Town where they served over one hundred different kinds of tea and coffee and where on a Tuesday night a financially insecure student would fight for his songs to be heard over the din of the regulars. It was just a way of making some money (£30 pounds of tips on a good night) but it led to an audition with Runrig - the band who had once dominated Scotland's rock scene, and who were now looking for a new singer. It didn't work out, of course. But being selected as one of ten out of nearly a thousand meant a lot. It meant I could sing. And when Runrig asked me to support them on their tour the following year, playing venues like Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall and London's Albert Hall, I discovered from the audience something else: people liked my songs. They cried, laughed, sang, clapped and, after all that, exhausted my postman with requests for an album.

Singing solo in front of four thousand people is one thing (it is a good deal easier than singing to a noisy and inattentive crowd in a coffee house) and I love and thrive on that situation. Recording an album is another thing altogether. And so it took another 15 months before eventually Touching Rock was released. A fortuitous collision (metaphorical) with producer Phil Lidstone made this possible. That and the presence of some amazingly gifted musicians such as bassist Ross Hamilton. The resultant product, and the follow up, This Fragile Strength, have been amazingly well-received.

In 2002, I decided to take a break from music in order to pursue Ph.D studies in St Andrews, which is why if you type my name into Google you are as likely to come across contributions to research on the Dead Sea Scrolls as those to the world of music. In February of this year the third album, “The Arc,” was released, signalling a return to music. The album represents a new stage in my recording career, working for the first time with producer Pete Nixon, whose experimental approach has brought a new dimension to the recording of these songs.

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