Characters

• Actor

  Sandy Welch

Biography

An extremely entertaining and witty man, Gordon enjoys a laugh. This is a man who knows how to make fun for free and ageing hasn’t withered him any. Gordon is sharp as a tack and, when it comes to matters of business, a vicious opponent. Gordon’s not beyond smiling at your face while he drives his scissors right into your back.

Gordon’s at a time in his life where his career has reached a sort of plateau, he’s starting to face up to the fact that he’s not going to be Nicky Clarke and it’s beginning to affect him. Gordon doesn’t really know how to stop and besides, no-one knows why but Gordon has started to worry about his legacy.

Gordon is a successful man. The owner of a busy and well-respected chain of Glasgow salons, Gordon has “arrived” and it’s a position well-deserved. Born to a barber father and dinner lady mum in Shettleston, seeing his father run the family business into the ground through gambling had a profound effect on the young Gordon. Gordon vowed better for himself and has worked, sweated and (once or twice) cheated to make sure that better happened. After his father’s early death Gordon became the man of the house at eighteen, a role he took very seriously indeed. He made sure his mother, Elsie, enjoyed a vastly improved lifestyle in her final years and has installed his older spinster sister, Maggie, in a wee flat at Glasgow Harbour. Maggie doesn’t really appreciate the rarefied air of a waterfront development but it’s Gordon’s idea of the best and only the best will do.

Gordon’s single-minded determination when it comes to his career has meant that romance took a bit of a back-seat for him. A very private man, Gordon keeps his dalliances to himself.