This Friday at noon, tune in to Clydebuilt Radio! From riot grrrl punk to queer club anthems, forgotten blues icons to global pop trailblazers - our music archive tells stories of resistance, community & joy. www.clydebuiltradio.com

Standard Monday. Entered a portal. 🌞🍄

I always love chatting with thee legend @damedenisemina.bsky.social, and I'm delighted she'll join me at The Stand in Glasgow, Oct 9, 2.30pm - discussing her brilliant thriller, The Good Liar, and also some of her favourite Scottish LPs, films & books. Join us! www.akickupthearts.org/live-events/...

I always love chatting with thee legend @damedenisemina.bsky.social, and I'm delighted she'll join me at The Stand in Glasgow, Oct 9, 2.30pm - discussing her brilliant thriller, The Good Liar, and also some of her favourite Scottish LPs, films & books. Join us! www.akickupthearts.org/live-events/...

A glittering, sparkling, alive and, indeed, kicking ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of Our Secrets Are The Same in the new issue @mojomagazine.bsky.social. This ‘brilliantly entertaining tale … candid and funny’ is published two weeks today.

Monday wandering / my favourite doorway / (treacherous) stairway to heaven… 🌞🌧️🍁

Now updated and made more coherent, with coverage links, photos and a cracking hot off the press podcast courtesy of @nicolameighan.bsky.social!

Neil is on BBC Radio Scotland with @nicolameighan.bsky.social right now! Listen at: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... The show will be available on BBC Sounds after broadcast. #NeilHannon #TheDivineComedy

This Thursday! Two of my favourite writers & people - always a joy to chat with @brookmyre.bsky.social & Marisa Haetzman aka #AmbroseParry. We’ll be talking about their fab books, & some Scottish LPs, films & novels they love. Join us at The Stand, Glasgow, 2.30pm! www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

Marisa and I will be talking about our favourite Scottish book, film and album at The Stand's new Glasgow venue on September 11 with the always effervescent @nicolameighan.bsky.social. www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

Next week! I’m in conversation with wildlife superstar Gordon Buchanan at The Stand in Edinburgh, Aug 19, 2-3pm. It’d be lovely to see you there. Tickets: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

If you're free next week, I'm in conversation with wonderful @barbaradickson.bsky.social at @standcomedyclub.bsky.social in Edinburgh, she’ll play some songs too, and it'd be lovely to see you there. Barbara will also play some songs! 🧡 August 20, 2-3pm. Tickets: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

All Back to Mine with Val McDermid – A Kick Up The Arts podcast Recorded live at @portybooks.bsky.social, @nicolameighan.bsky.social talks to folk singer, football fan, & Fun Loving Crime Writer @valmcdermid.bsky.social about life, love, reading, & writing 💙📚 www.akickupthearts.org/blog-3-1/all...

"If you’ve ever seen a woman crying over the Meal Deals, bewailing time’s relentless march – well, spoiler alert: it was probably me" BBC broadcaster and A Kick Up The Arts host @nicolameighan.bsky.social takes us around Edinburgh via its music festmag.com/2025/07/26/n... #EdFringe

We’ve been incredibly lucky to get the guests we’ve had so far! Carrie’s interview is fascinating, funny and moving and you’ll be able to hear it in episode 2. Thank you, Carrie. We really appreciate your time, we loved talking to you.

🎶 Women musicians! Join us Thurs 21 Aug, 5.30–7.30pm at GWL for a FREE wellbeing workshop with flautist + performance coach Lee Holland. @wearethemu.bsky.social Mindfulness, breathwork + practical tools to support your creative life 💜 #OpenTheDoor2025 #WomenInMusic #FreeWorkshop

Good morning 🌞

The latest episode of the A Kick Up The Arts podcast features the amazing Laura Jane Wilkie in conversation with the equally amazing @nicolameighan.bsky.social. And me!

A Kick Up the Arts podcast @nicolameighan.bsky.social discusses SMALL TOWN JOY with musician & writer @carriem.co.uk, & is joined by musician Laura Jane Wilkie, whose album VENT is centred around waulking songs. Recorded at Glasgow’s @womenslibrary.bsky.social www.akickupthearts.org/blog-3-1/car...

💃🏻 New Edinburgh Fringe announcement! Delighted that music icon @horsemcd.bsky.social joins me for A Kick Up The Arts live @standcomedyclub.bsky.social, Sunday August 24th, 2-3pm, celebrating 35 years of #TheSameSky Tix here for tunes & chat. We’d love to see you! www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

Justin Currie’s memoir, The Tremolo Diaries, is published on Aug 28. He’ll join me at Edinburgh Fringe for #AKickUpTheArts, live from The Stand (5 mins from Waverley) on Sat Aug 23, 2-3pm, to chat about that, Del Amitri, music, films, books, more. Join us! Tix here www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

posted this earlier. this is a new tune, early recording for the comp @nedraggett.bsky.social is putting together for keith mcivor/jd twitch. maybe you’d also like to contribute?

I'm heading through the heat now to chat movies once again with @nicolameighan.bsky.social on her BBC Radio Scotland Afternoon show, from 3.30pm. Superman and his dog will of course be up for discussion, along with the entertainingly bizarre new documentary on Pavement.

There’s a lot going on at the moment but here’s a future thing me and @halinarifai.com are super proud of at @thequeenshall.bsky.social www.thequeenshall.net/whats-on/amp...

An evening of the most incredible joy! 🌟 We loved hearing this conversation between the inimitable @valmcdermid.bsky.social & ever wonderful @nicolameighan.bsky.social for a special live recording of A Kick Up The Arts podcast! ❤️‍🔥 Thanks to everyone for coming along & tuning into the livestream! 🥰

💃🏻🔥 Live next week! 💃🏻🔥 Looking forward to chatting with the fab @valmcdermid.bsky.social at Edinburgh’s @portybooks.bsky.social: July 9th, 7pm. Tickets start from a mere FIVER, and that includes a book voucher. There’s literally no excuse not to join us www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/val-m...

If you haven't booked your ticket to see Jordan Young's incredible performance in this hilariously heart-warming tale of love, loneliness, and fluffy companionship, then what are you waiting for?  BOOK TICKETS (runs until 12 Jul) ➡️www.tron.co.uk/shows/mans-best-friend/

Delighted to be a judge for this year's McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year. What an incredible longlist. Too bloody good, in fact. We've got our work cut out. 🪓🪓🪓 @bloodyscotland.bsky.social

hi there. it’s just been payday for a lot of yous and, while it’s a bit away, we’ve flown past 50% of the tickets being sold for our special live album shows in november. unwaged tickets are available. the matinee show is ALL AGES. so, still no ticket? get involved 👇 linktr.ee/brokenchanter

💃🏻🔥 Live next week! 💃🏻🔥 Looking forward to chatting with the fab @valmcdermid.bsky.social at Edinburgh’s @portybooks.bsky.social: July 9th, 7pm. Tickets start from a mere FIVER, and that includes a book voucher. There’s literally no excuse not to join us www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/val-m...

a bunch more tickets have sold for this. sorry to go on, but it’ll be fun and you shouldn’t miss out on fun, should you? linktr.ee/brokenchanter

💃🏻 New Edinburgh Fringe announcement! Delighted that music icon @horsemcd.bsky.social joins me for A Kick Up The Arts live @standcomedyclub.bsky.social, Sunday August 24th, 2-3pm, celebrating 35 years of #TheSameSky Tix here for tunes & chat. We’d love to see you! www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

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9 July @portybooks.bsky.social Edinburgh – online & in-person, £0–£8.99 Join @valmcdermid.bsky.social & @nicolameighan.bsky.social for a live recording of A Kick Up the Arts, to celebrate the paperback publication of Val’s latest book, QUEEN MACBETH www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/val-m...

A Kick Up The Arts Bloody Scotland Recorded at the launch of Bloody Scotland 2025, @nicolameighan.bsky.social is joined by @ianrankin1.bsky.social, @bloodyscotland.bsky.social founder & author @gordonjbrown.bsky.social, & writer @nataliejayneclark.bsky.social www.akickupthearts.org/blog-3-1/blo...

"It's about connections and music in the community, and it's about friendships" #KELI’s Martin Green, Liberty Black and Olivia Hemmati sat down for a chat with @nicolameighan.bsky.social for a new episode of #AKickUpTheArts ahead of their first show at Dundee Rep tonight LISTEN NOW 👇

Justin Currie’s memoir, The Tremolo Diaries, is published on Aug 28. He’ll join me at Edinburgh Fringe for #AKickUpTheArts, live from The Stand (5 mins from Waverley) on Sat Aug 23, 2-3pm, to chat about that, Del Amitri, music, films, books, more. Join us! Tix here www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

Good morning 🌞❄️ (Not sure how clearly my phone’s caught the freezing mist hovering over that field, but I can certainly feel it…) #TapsOn

To mark six months (roughly) since I had the possibly questionable, & undoubtedly impulsive, idea to start a DIY podcast, I’ve finally managed to build a vaguely functioning website for #AKickUpTheArts & I’d love you to listen / sign up for the newsletter… 🧡 akickupthearts.org

Quick trip to the always-ace Fruitmarket Gallery before today’s BBC Radio Scotland #Afternoons, live 2-4pm, with music, movies, telly, books - and I’d love a song suggestion from you to close the show, linking to Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting. Thank you! 💃🏻

Our young makars' mentoring programme for poets living in Scotland aged 16 to 25 years is open for applications. There is a £500 bursary for 3 sessions. We welcome applications from poets working in Scottish Gaelic, Scots & the Spoken Word form. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/scotlands-ne...

Happy #RecordStoreDay to all who celebrate. Feeling like a bit of a slacker as I’m only just heading out the door; my kid’s already back from @assaiglasgow.bsky.social where she & her pals had been queuing all night. She got what she was after though! (This, & Chvrches’ #EveryOpenEye 🌞🧡💃🏻🔥)

This is possibly even bigger than the time we got Jarvis Cocker to cut the ribbon!!

A Kick Up the Arts: Michael Pedersen A special edition of the Scottish arts & culture podcast, recorded live in March at the Glad Cafe in Glasgow. Host @nicolameighan.bsky.social is in conversation with award-winning poet & author @michaelpedersen.bsky.social akickupthearts.org/2025/04/07/e...

It’s time for A Kick Up The Arts with brilliant writer @michaelpedersen.bsky.social - on #MuckleFlugga, Trainspotting, Garbage, Edwin Morgan & more - recorded @thegladcafe.bsky.social with glorious music from Siobhan Wilson & Raveloe! Listen wherever you get your podcasts / here: akickupthearts.org

Happy Friday! I’m live on BBC Radio Scotland #Afternoons, 2-4pm, with acting royalty Samantha Bond, Black Mirror star Lewis Gribben, Film on Friday, loads of music, and I’d love a #SomethingForTheWeekend track linking to The Waterboys’ Whole of the Moon for the end of the show - thank you! 🌞💃🏻

My mum’s hosting this year’s Mother’s Day celebrations in the time-honoured manner: by having a Rodeo in her garden… (That’s the first bourbon; it won’t be the last… 🌞💃🏻🥃)

A lovely woman at my husband’s work gave him a mystery package to pass on to me. Because they’re archaeologists, they’re pretty good at finding treasure, but even so, I wasn’t counting on this - a BBC matchbook! (Actually, two of them!) Love that every stick has branding too…

I'm currently donning my chef whites in preparation for heading off to BBC Radio Scotland to chat movies with @nicolameighan.bsky.social on her Afternoon Show, just after 3.30pm. Amongst the tasty treats on offer will be kitchen-mayhem-movie La Cocina and post-apocalypse musical The End.

The brilliant David Keenan on art without compromise, decisive moments and his superb new anthology Volcanic Tongue last night, ably steered by @nicolameighan.bsky.social The message - always say yes! @reversediorama.bsky.social @portybooks.bsky.social @whiterabbitbooks.bsky.social