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A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan

Nicola Meighan

A Scottish Arts & Culture Podcast with Nicola Meighan

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50:47

Ricky Ross & Lorraine McIntosh: Deacon Blue's The...

A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan ·

2025/03/21

Send us a text Just before we get wired into this episode, a quick reminder I’ll be in conversation with the brilliant writer David Keenan - whose hallucinogenic books include Xstabeth and This Is Memorial Device - about his new collection of music writing, Volcanic Tongue, live from Edinburgh's Portobello Bookshop, on March 27th - there’ll be loads of tunes too - and we’d love you to join us… But onto this episode, and it's with a band I've loved madly since I was at primary school... ...

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43:48

On Derek Jarman: with Gavin Mitchell & Matthew Arthur...

A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan ·

2025/03/13

Send us a text Just before we get wired into this episode, a quick reminder that I’ll be in conversation with the brilliant writer David Keenan - whose hallucinogenic books include Xstabeth and This Is Memorial Device - about his new collection of music writing, Volcanic Tongue, in Edinburgh later this month… It raves about, and roves across, artists like The Pastels, Nick Cave and John Martyn, and we’ll chat about all that for A Kick Up The Arts, live from the Portobello Bookshop, on March 2...

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58:33

Live from Granite Noir: A Kick Up The Arts with Dawn...

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2025/02/28

Send us a text Before we dive into this week’s episode - recorded live at Aberdeen’s Granite Noir festival - a reminder that if you’re in or around Glasgow on the afternoon of March 1st, we’d love to see you at the Glad Cafe for A Kick Up The Arts live with award-winning poet and writer Michael Pedersen - Alan Cumming loves him, Shirley Manson from Garbage loves him, Nicola Sturgeon loves him - everyone loves him, and little wonder… Michael will be chatting about a favourite Scottish album, f...

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32:04

Glasgow Film Festival special with Allison Gardner...

A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan ·

2025/02/25

Send us a text Thanks so much if you joined us at Granite Noir in Aberdeen on Sunday, for a lovely live recording with actor Dawn Steele - that podcast is coming soon! And don’t forget, if you’re in Glasgow, I’m joined by writer Michael Pedersen and musicians Siobhan Wilson and Raveloe for A Kick Up The Arts live from the Glad Cafe, that’s on Saturday afternoon, March 1st - and then, the mighty David Keenan will be in conversation about his new collection of music writing, Volcanic Tongue, at...

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59:53

Liz Lochhead & Steve Kettley

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2025/02/15

Send us a text I promise I’ll stop going on about this soon, but I’m still very excited about the first three LIVE episodes of A Kick Up The Arts - at Aberdeen’s Granite Noir on February 23rd with actor Dawn Steele, at Glasgow’s Glad Cafe on March 1st with writer Michael Pedersen AND musicians Siobhan Wilson and Raveloe… PLUS - on March 27th, I’m joined by David Keenan to celebrate his new book of music writing, Volcanic Tongue, at Edinburgh’s Portobello Bookshop… you can get tickets online f...

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46:37

Alan Bissett & Sorcha Dallas on Alasdair Gray

A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan ·

2025/02/11

Send us a text Just a reminder that I’d love you to join us for A Kick Up The Arts live in Aberdeen at Granite Noir festival with the fab actor Dawn Steele, that’s on February 23rd - then award-winning poet and writer Michael Pedersen will join me at Glasgow’s Glad Cafe on March 1st, with live music from the sublime Siobhan Wilson and Raveloe - and THEN literary livewire David Keenan launches his new new collection of music writing, Volcanic Tongue, at The Portobello Bookshop in Edinburgh on ...

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36:32

Maud Sulter: You Are My Kindred Spirit

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2025/02/03

Send us a text Just a reminder that there are a few live events coming up, and I’d love to see you there - actor Dawn Steele - who’s starred in Monarch of the Glen and Shetland among others - joins me at Granite Noir in Aberdeen on Febrary 23rd, award-winning poet and writer Michael Pedersen’s with me at Glasgow’s Glad Cafe on March 1st - Siobhan Wilson and Raveloe will play some live music at that one too… And then, on March 27th, David Keenan will introduce us to his superb new collection o...

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35:51

Bethlehem Calling

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2025/01/24

Send us a textFirstly! A reminder that A Kick Up The Arts is live in Aberdeen, at Granite Noir book festival, where my guest will be the fab Dawn Steele, star of Granite Harbour, Monarch of the Glen, Shetland and more - that’s on the 23rd of February, it’s in the afternoon, and we’re love you to join us. We’re doing another live recording at Glasgow’s Glad Cafe on the 1st of March with award-winning writer Michael Pedersen, and there’ll be live music from Siobhan Wilson and Raveloe - and...

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57:46

Karine Polwart and Su-a Lee

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2025/01/17

Send us a textBefore I go any further, I want to tell you that A Kick Up The Arts is coming to a venue near you, very soon! If you’re in Aberdeen, I’ll be at Granite Noir on February 23rd, which is a Sunday afternoon, with a very familiar face from your telly - she’s a legend, and she’ll join me for an afternoon chatting about her life, and work, and her choice of a favourite Scottish album, film and book. If you’re in Glasgow, we’re having a similar shindig with the brilliant poet ...

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47:01

All Back To Mine with Jonathan Watson

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2024/12/30

Send us a textBefore I go any further, I want to remind you that A Kick Up The Arts is coming to a venue near you, very soon! I've got some really lovely events to announce in Glasgow, and Edinburgh - and elsewhere all over the country - but, for now, I'm delighted to be coming to Aberdeen's fab book festival, Granite Noir, on the 23rd of February, which is a Sunday afternoon, with special guests, and all sorts of chat, and it'll be great fun. I'll tell you all about it in good time...

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37:29

All Back To Mine with Dave Anderson

A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan ·

2024/12/21

Send us a textBefore I go any further, I want to tell you that A Kick Up The Arts is coming to a venue near you, very soon! I've got some really lovely events to announce in Glasgow, and Edinburgh - and elsewhere across the country - but, for now, I'm delighted to be coming to Aberdeen's fab book festival, Granite Noir, on the 23rd of February, which is a Sunday afternoon, with special guests, and all sorts of chat, and it'll be great fun. I'll tell you all about it in good time but...

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44:48

Malachy Tallack: That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz

A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan ·

2024/12/12

Send us a textThis week, I’m revisiting the very first place I ever worked, with one of my very favourite writers…Malachy Tallack was raised in Shetland, so you might think that we’d meet up there - and I’ll hopefully get there soon enough - but we actually caught up in Cupar Library, what with Malachy living in Fife these days.I had a Saturday job there when I was at primary school, so it was a lovely, if slightly unsettling, experience going back after more than 35 years, but it hasn’t chan...

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59:30

All Back To Mine with Clare Grogan

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2024/11/29

Send us a textCome in, take your coat off, ruffle your hair, and thanks for bringing that bottle of wine. The fire's on, get your feet up...It's time for an A Kick Up The Arts: 'All Back To Mine' special with one of our best-loved actors, and pop stars, thanks to her starring role in Gregory’s Girl, and her brilliant songs with Altered Images, and really that is not the half of it. Clare Grogan is in the house.Or rather, we're virtually round at hers, as she gives us an imaginary evening...

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46:38

Barbara Dickson and Fionna Carlisle

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2024/11/14

Send us a textThis week, I'm at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery with artist Fionna Carlisle and the legend of stage, screen - and music - that is Barbara Dickson…Fionna’s glorious painting, Eleven Red Roses, was shown in the gallery in the 1980s, and - as such - she features in Holly Davey’s exhibition, The Unforgetting, which is a role-call of the 354 women whose art has been shown there since the mid-1970s, from Tracey Emin to Yoko Ono.Holly dug deep on the Fruitmarket’s archives, giving a ...

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50:08

Blythe Duff and Colin McCredie

A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan ·

2024/11/07

Send us a textThis week, I'm at Glasgow’s Oran Mor, with gilded stars of stage, and screen - and Taggart - Blythe Duff and Colin McCredie... We chatted about Blythe’s musical adventures with Lacunas, and Colin’s forthcoming telly and theatre work, and then we bumped into former podcast guest Bobby Bluebell, of The Bluebells - who wrote and recorded the podcast's theme song, which you can of course hear on this very episode.Blythe told us about Lacunas Music Society - her collaboration wi...

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46:33

All Back To Mine with King Creosote

A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan ·

2024/11/04

Send us a textIt's the second of our monthly 'A Kick Up The Arts: All Back To Mine' specials, with fab guests giving us a virtual night in round at theirs: choosing a Scottish album to play us, a Scottish film to show us, and a Scottish book for some bed time reading, and they'll chat about all of that - and their own work - with Nicola Meighan. They might even chuck in a snack or two.This time, it's courtesy of a swashbuckling, accordion wielding, heartbreaking pop voyager all the way from F...

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41:15

Be Charlotte and Gayle Anderson

A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan ·

2024/11/01

Send us a textThis week, we're at Dundee’s Cooper Gallery, celebrating the city’s She-Town history with two local legends…Gayle Anderson’s a writer, broadcaster and the producer of the stunning Looking For Esther podcast, which is absolutely vital listening, and back in the day she worked at Dundee’s DC Thomson as the pop editor, and agony aunt, of Jackie Magazine… Be Charlotte is a songwriter, performer and pop star on the rise, who makes music and runs her own record label from the cit...

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36:33

Gavin Mitchell, David Stout & Bridget the Chihuahua

A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan ·

2024/10/23

This week, Nicola Meighan is joined by stage and TV legend Gavin Mitchell, aka Still Game's Boabby the Barman for a date at Glasgow's Theatre Royal, thanks to Scottish Opera's revival of Donizetti's comic masterpiece, Don Pasquale... Gavin's starred in John Byrne landmarks Tutti Frutti and The Slab Boys, worked with Robin Williams and David Tennant, and he also featured in David Shirley Opera, Pass The Spoon. His fab show, Look Who It Isnae - A Boabby Unwrapped is touring; keep an eye ou...

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59:07

Bobby Bluebell and Grahame 'Skin' Skinner

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2024/10/18

This week, Nicola Meighan is joined by Scottish punk / pop legends Grahame Skinner (Hipsway, Jazzateers, The Cowboy Mouth) and Bobby Bluebell - of the Bluebells, among other wonders, for a chat about their collaborative project, The Golden Tree, and much besides, recorded at Glasgow's Street Level Photoworks. Bobby's the man behind hits like Young At Heart and Cath, and Texas co-writes like Summer Son and Black Eyed Boy - and he’s also responsible for the podcast's first ever theme song....

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42:35

James Robertson and Andrew Wasylyk

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2024/10/11

The third in our weekly round-table discussions with fab guests in arts spaces around the country is here, right now! And it's thanks to two of our best-loved writers and musicians...James Robertson is the Booker Prize nominated author of Scottish landmarks like The Testament of Gideon Mack - which is being adapted for theatre as we speak - and blindsiding state-of-a-nation epic, And The Land Lay Still…His daily, year-long writing challenge - or madness, call it what you will - 365, saw him c...

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