Career
Usher lives and operates a guitar-manufacturing business in Innerleithen, Scotland. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s he has worked with a variety of artists including Mike Heron, John Martyn, Tam White and the locally noted Border Boogie Band. While playing in a band called Blewitt in 1980, he first met Fish who became their vocalist for a short time.
When Fish left Marillion to start a solo career in 1988, he contacted Usher to become his guitarist.
Since then he has played on five out of eight Fish albums and the accompanying tours. Usher suffered a heart attack in December 2007, causing three gigs to be cancelled.