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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, 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 chez CG - choosing a Scottish album to play us, and film to show us, and a book for the candle-lit end of the night.

Clare's also starred in Skins, Red Dwarf and Father Ted, and written a series of young adult novels, and her magic with Altered Images continues apace - they’ve just finished a 40th Anniversary tour of Bite, and still riding high on the love shown to their latest album - even if they kept us waiting almost 40 years for it - Mascara Streakz…

We met at the music industry conference Resonate, held at Platform in Glasgow, which is where the legendary club, theatre space and arts haven the Arches used to be - so before Clare told us what LP she’s playing us, what movie she’s showing us - and what book she’s offering for bedtime reading - we got a bit nostalgic about that lively old place…

You’ll hear the trains, you’ll hear fridges buzzing, and you’ll hear the tale of Clare and Bobby Bluebell playing out in the street as primary school kids - forever young at heart…