Send us a text 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 h…

Send us a text This 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, …

Send us a text 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 an…

Send us a text 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…

Send us a text The second of our weekly round-table discussions with fab guests in arts spaces around the country is here right now! It's thanks to singer, songwriter and - let's face it, total legend - Horse McDonald, and the brilliant actor and musician Hannah Jarrett-Scott. Following trailblazing hits like Careful, and The Speed of the Beat of M…

Send us a text It's the first 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: they'll choose 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 with Nicola Meighan. They might even ch…

Send us a text It’s the first in a weekly series of round-table conversations with Nicola Meighan and guests, in some of our best-loved arts spaces, with some of our most exciting and enlightening voices. And who better to kick things off than the glorious double-header of writers Chitra Ramaswamy and Hannah Lavery – recorded at the Scottish Poetry…

Your Name & Business: Beatrice (Be) Hulbert – Baker Be Contact No: 07973 422978 Tell us a bit about you and your business:: Baker Be is all about getting kids cooking and learning about food. I offer kids cookery parties, cookery workshops and holiday clubs, educational cookery days for schools and entertainment for children at weddings (amongst ot…

In this episode of the Shine Your Light Podcast we talk all things holistic with Tara from Bespoke Yoga in Darlington [jump to podcast] Name & Business: Bespoke Yoga Contact No: 07974677793 Tell us a bit about you and your business: Literally as I’ve named my business Bespoke Yoga that’s what I aim to deliver a fusion of Hatha Yoga, somatic yoga th…

In this podcast, we discuss how to protect your energy, raise your vibrational energy and shine your light. [Jump to podcast] Top three tips for protecting your energy: Recognise and minimise energy sappers (people, places, situations) Find a tribe of like-minded people Mindset matters Have fun in all you do Be brave Self-care Recommended reading f…

Just before Christmas we interviewed the North East’s Princess of Pilates – the AMAZING Marie from ZenergiZe Name & Business: Marie, ZenergiZe Contact No: 07515769763 Tell us a bit about you and your business: I teach Pilates classes of all levels from Rehabilitation to Advanced, and different Types of Pilates classes. I also teach Bootybarre, 1 to…

A little bit rough and ready, as we sprung this interview on ‘holistic confidence coach’ Sarah Seed, skyping her on the off chance she would oblige. Thankfully she did and graciously shared with us her top tips and strategies for how she created a life she loves and how she shines her light helping others to find the confidence to create a life of …