In the intervening time, I’d written a few new songs with long-term collaborator Cy Jack and was enjoying gigging them, but early in 2011 I got the idea of writing something about my only remotely interesting ancestor, Andrew Scott - artist, father of thirteen, dreamer and my great-grandfather. Andrew was apprentice for 13 years to Sir James Guthrie, one of the famous ‘Glasgow Boys’ and painted to sky and foreground in some of Guthrie’s works, including his famous depiction of the Battle of Waterloo, which hangs in the IMperial War Museum in London. Grandpa Scott, as I was always encouraged to think of him (although he died two years before I was born) was a gardener in Helensburgh, on the Firth of Clyde, who spent his wages on artist materials while my great-gran Annie, his wife, tried to keep a huge family fed and clothed, often making soup from potato peelings. I imagined a confrontation between them, with Annie demanding to know where he’d been and where the housekeeping money was, and Andrew pitying her for her philistinism in putting practical issues before art - she sees things in black and white, and must be colourblind, he sneers. I knew the song was quite a good one, when several people didn’t buy CDs at my gigs because it wasn’t on them. So - ‘Colourblind’ was the spur to starting the new album, and deserves its place as the title track.


Whether with bands or for the first two albums under my own name, up until now there’s always been a record label picking up the cost - which is great, but you do have limits to studio time and musicians’ fees. This time out, I decided to fund the recording costs through Ranza Music, the production company that Cy and I set up to deal with our film and TV music writing. My good pal Adam Armit, who owns the highly-regarded Edinburgh- based Circular Records offered to pick up all costs after the mastering stage - artwork, pressing,


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