Good Stuff In Between

Katch Holmes has been a constant in the Scottish music sector for quarter of a century. A major driving force in the festival sector with Knockengorroch in south west Scotland, and artist agent, a coach, expert speaker on major global music panels, she has seen and done it all. Ahead of a series of workshops in Glasgow and Edinburgh on how artists can be better at self promotion and the scared art...

It's easy to get lost in the music of Elias Alexander. It's trad-meets-electronic. Fiddle, bagpipes, guitar, whistles and keys, one minute. Samples, loops, and dance floor beats the next.  You could just as easily be shaking your stuff to his music around a beach bonfire, drowning out the noise of the Atlantic, or contemplating his emotion layered lyrics on a drive home.  Thoughts of Scotl...

It's festival season, but how on Earth do bands and artists get to perform on the big stages, and what goes on behind the scenes to decide the all important line ups? As the Artist Programmer for HebCelt and a veteran of other huge live events including the MTV Europe Awards, Celtic Connections and more, Michelle Shields knows the importance and impact of such decision. She talks to Shaun Miln...

Ciarán O'Toole is the co-founder of secure music sharing and streaming platform Songbox - a platform with a difference. It is designed from the ground-up for artists and musicians to privately and securely share their music in the creation, collaboration, pitching, marketing and release process with whoever needs it. What's more it includes powerful data, user analysis, and a one-stop-shop...

As founder of Wee Studio and Wee Studio Records in the Outer Hebrides, every day Keith Morrison is help shape music careers across the islands, Scotland and the world. Touring with his band Face the West and this year at HebCelt with his best friend Alasdair White, he's also leading from the front on stage. Music is everything here. From producing records to touring with bands, or getting that elu...

It was an era of glow sticks, rave pants and dodgy haircuts. Sneaking into castle grounds with a carry out, scrawling notes on blank walls. Dodging the police to avoid a ride home. And for some, a chance to make music and follow the bright lights. Among them Willie Campbell, founding frontman with The Tumbling Souls, who are back with a new single due for release - 1995 - which is a nostalgia dipp...

Skerryvore and co-founder Daniel Gillespie have been making music happen for 20 years. Eight albums, thousands of miles clocked up, and adoring fans across the globe ensure their legend will live long and proud for generations as one of Scotland's greatest exports. This week they were announced as new inductees to the HebCelt Festival Hall of Fame ahead of their appearance on the main stage in Sto...

Navigating the music business can be as alien as it is confusing which is where Kitt Carr comes in. As event coordinator for Wide Events CIC, she organises industry essentials such as Wide Days and Off The Record Scotland , major events helping demystify everything from getting on the radio to releasing music, securing gigs, and more, by plugging into their network of industry experts to share lea...

Record deals, late night bust-ups, overseas tours, NME interviews, the Peel Sessions, Glastonbury and pissing on historic monuments were all part and parcel of Scots band Mogwai's early rise as the young team went onto conquer the 1990's, driven in part by their then manager Colin Hardie . As the band gets ready to embark on a 2025 world tour after the release of their latest album The Bad...

The Smile You Send Out Returns To You couldn't be more fitting for the name of Constant Follower 's latest album, released on February 28 via Last Night From Glasgow. Because in this episode of Good Stuff In Between it is the smile, the uplifting joy that oozes out from Stephen McAll as he talks about how it all came together, that dominates most. It is juxtaposed next to a raw, honest and...

Ainsley Hamill will be part of the Celtic Connections opening concert before also launching her brand new album, Fable, on January 17 including the new single Machir Bay out today, and December's release Ó Ho-ró ílle Dhuinn, before embarking on a mini-tour in England to kick-start her incredible year. In Episode 18 of The Good Stuff In Between, she shares the inspiration behind her new work includ...

Fred Well is a songwriter and singer from Bergen from the same Made Management stable as the likes of Aurora , Sigrid , Skaar , Moyka and other top artists. He is just back from touring with Norwegian DJ Kygo having performed on the superstar's eponymous album with ' Surrender' which was heading towards four million monthly streams, and co-wrote for Kygo's latest release Hold On Me with Sandro Cav...

Sara Fjeldvær is a songwriter, musician and singer from Norway who weaves stories in song that provoke, challenge and comfort in equal measure. Part jazz, part folk with a flash of pop and aged like a vintage wine, her voice conveys feeling as she explores her place in the world, and its place in her. Love, loneliness and identity traverse each of her two solo albums, a slew of EPs and singles , a...

The supremely talented contemporary harpist Pippa Reid-Foster discusses her stunning new album ‘Undercurrents’ which is out on September 6 with Shaun Milne in Episode 15 of the Good Stuff in Between podcast. She has a brilliant story of overcoming adversity after fearing her career would come to an end following a terrible accident which saw her ability to play left hanging in the balance but for...

Chris Giubarelli sold his family business to chase a dream of playing music for a living as he does around the bars of Inverness and performing in a choir. It's a path that brought him to Belladrum where, at the heart of the festival, he chatted to Shaun Milne about his transformation from selling fish suppers to entertaining people as the Highland Folk Hero.

Author Christopher Brookmyre chats with Shaun Milne on his love for music, going to gigs, how songs inspire his writing and what readers can expect from his latest novel The Cracked Mirror which he read from during a literary performance at this year's Verb Garden stage at Belladrum.

Seán McLaughlin, Vicky Gray and Sandy Batchelor talk to Shaun Milne about their performance at this year's Belladrum festival, response to their latest album Goodnight, Lad and offer a sneak peek into some exciting film news involving one of the band.

Indie rockers The Sun Day - frontman and rhythm guitar Connor Ritchie, Luke Doyle on lead guitar, Aidan Forret on bass, and Craig Spink on drums - played their second Belladrum this year and took time out after to chat with Shaun Milne about what it is like being part of an up and coming band at a major festival.

Born in Leith, raised in Edinburgh, and a musician mum based in Dundee, the phenomenal Roseanne Reid has been carving out a reputation for herself in roots and country and is now dabbling in more traditional Scottish folk as she sets her sights on her follow-up album. Her musical taste was influenced by her parents including one half of The Proclaimers, but her songwriting and playing is authentic...

Kenny Smith and Michael MacMillan from Highland folk rockers Torridon join host Shaun Milne at Belladrum music festival and reveal how they are going to mark 20 years of touring and recording as a band in this special bonus episode.

Laura Silverstone is a singer songwriter based in Edinburgh, a former finalist on TV show Spain's Got Talent, but more often than not seen out on the city streets enjoying her first love busking to live crowds most especially around festival season, but also across Europe, Asia and as far afield as Australia which has seen her sing with the likes of Glen Hansard and others along the way. She is al...

Kenna Ross is a piano player from Nairn in the Highlands who has been making a name for herself supporting other artists at some of the biggest festivals in music. She has appeared everywhere from Celtic Connections , Belladrum , and King Tut's , to Montreal Jazz and Lollapalooza in Paris. The likes of BBC Radio 2's Zoe Ball have featured her live in the alternative Piano Room sessions , after her...

Dougie Brown is a festival producer, promoter, artistmanager and very much more. He is the music dynamo behind The Gathering and Belladrum music festivals that have brought some of the biggest artists on the planet to the Highlands, supported talent including the irresistible songs of Katie Gregson-MacLeod and is a champion for the region on so many levels. In episode of 12 of the Good Stuff In Be...

Xan Tyer has enjoyed a sparkling career spanning the fun and theatrical Death Bang Party and The Tarantinos to globe trotting pop duo Technique and Alan McGee's label Creation Records. Now she is embarking on a new solo chapter with her debut album ' Holding Up Half the Sky ' which is already attracting critical acclaim after working with the likes of Boo Hewerdine , a host of multi talented music...

Elephant Sessions mandolin player and founding member Alasdair Taylor talks with host Shaun Milne about how they went from ceilidh band to award-winning global trailblazers, the stories and people that have helped them along the way, plans for a new tour in the UK and US, and their first venture into staging a home grown festival with Black Isle Calling. Good Stuff In Between podcast Episode 10, n...