Send us a text Before we jump on board with this episode, I’m delighted to tell you that the writer and legend Val McDermid will be joining me for A Kick Up The Arts live from Edinburgh’s Portobello Bookshop to celebrate her latest book, Queen Macbeth, on July the 9th. She’ll also chat about a favourite Scottish album, film and book - and we’d love…

Send us a text Before we get wired into this episode, I’m delighted to tell you that the podcast is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe this Summer! I’ll be at The Stand, which is a five minute walk from Waverley Station, with very special guests every lunchtime, from August the 18th to the 24th… So far, I can tell you that I’ll be joined by Barbara Dic…

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 load…

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, artis…

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…

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 Satur…

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 j…

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…

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 W…

Send us a text Firstly! 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 Glasg…

Send us a text Before 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, …

Send us a text Before 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…

Send us a text Before 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, wh…

Send us a text This 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 …

Send us a text Come 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, an…

Send us a text This 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 t…

Send us a text This 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 recorde…

Send us a text It'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. T…

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 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 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…

Episode 7 of the groundbreaking game design podcast where "designer" Chris Bissette plays synths and talks about games. This week I try to design a solo funnel game and forget everything I know about how to make things that are good. Pay $2 or more for this episode on itch.io to download the music on its own.…

Episode six of the groundbreaking game design podcast where "designer" Chris Bissette play synths and talk about games. This week I ramble incoherently about kit bashing and how I ineptly hack together bits of other peoples' games and call them my own. Pay $2 or more on itch to receive the music without me talking over it. Follow me on Twitter.…

​Episode two of the groundbreaking game design podcast where I play synths and talk about games. This week I talk about my favourite games of 2020. Catch me on Twitter @pangalactic Pay $2 or more for this episode on itch.io to download the music without any talking over it.By Chris Bissette

​Episode four of the groundbreaking game design podcast where "game designer" Chris Bissette play synths and talk about games. This week I start thinking about writing a soundtrack for a hex crawl. Pay $2 or more on itch.io to download just the music from this podcast.By Chris Bissette

Episode three of the groundbreaking game design podcast where I play synths and talk about games. This week I talk about ideas for for Record Collection Jam​ and start designing a game for it. If you pay $2 for this podcast on itch.io you'll get the music without me talking over it. Find it here. Catch me on Twitter @pangalactic Buy The Hunted in p…

The groundbreaking inaugural episode of A Nominal Game Design Podcast. Find Chris on Twitter @pangalactic or find their games and music at loottheroom.ioBy Chris Bissette