Career
His musical career started when he played guitar in the Scottish band Josef K. They released a string of singles and an album, The Only Fun in Town, on Postcard Records in the early 1980s. After the demise of Josef K, Ross joined Edwyn Collins in the group Orange Juice, playing and writing songs for both the Rip it Up and Texas Fever albums. After Orange Juice, Ross joined Roddy Frame in Aztec Camera as second guitarist, and recorded and toured the Mark Knopfler produced Knife album.
In the mid-1980s and throughout the 1990s, Ross worked with many artists such as former Josef K bandmate Paul Haig, Momus, Edwyn Collins, Moodist Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes, Blancmange and Barry Adamson (ex-Magazine and The Bad Seeds).
He was also hired as musical consultant on The Beatles biographical film Backbeat (1993), and contributed to the original musical score of the film Chocolat (2000), playing guitar and flute alongside Bobo Balde. Ross appeared on ex-Fire Engine Davy Henderson"s band The Nectarine Number.
9"s last album, I Love Total Destruction (2004) and is currently working with another ex-Fire Engine, Russell Burn, in their new band, Stac Lee. Ross continues to play with wife Syuzen in the excellent group Buckley"s Chance, mostly around Edinburgh, Scotland.
He has also worked in various one off projects including The Lonely Crowd with Bassist Billy Buckley (his brother-in-law), Drummer Chris McArthur and New York songwriter Spike Priggen.
Ross" solo career includes two solo albums on the German label Marina Records, some danny lamb and the associations (1995) and Euan Morton (1998). The future will see Ross collaborating with Hulk Hogan and Lenny Henry, as well as producing the debut album from Erskine"son He supports Hibernian Football Club.