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 leading advice. She talks to podcast host Shaun Milne about how she got involved, the work she and the team does, overcoming challenges, identifying opportunities and the next event coming up - all about growing live audiences.

Episode 21 'Kitt' is streaming now.

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 Fire, he takes us behind the scenes of what it was like going from playing small gigs in Glasgow and the Highlands to some of the biggest stages in the world, the qualities needed in a manager at the time, and whether or not he'd be willing to do it all over again.

Recorded in Glasgow with host Shaun Milne, its a nostalgia laden trip back to the 1990s when Kappa was still vogue, benefits supplemented life and no-one would be surprised if DF supremo Geoff Ellis phoned up your parents.

Episode 20, 'Colin', is streaming now.

The Smile You Send Out Returns To You couldn't be more fitting for the name ofConstant Follower's latest album, released on February 28 via Last Night From Glasgow. Because in this episode ofGood 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 deeply personal account of violence, substance abuse and societal cruelty that, in part, informs the beauty and creativity that has emerged through the ripples of time. It was a privilege, and inspiration, to record.

Show Notes

https://linktr.ee/ConstantFollower

https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/

https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/about-us/our-impact/constant-follower---its-a-feeling-of-support-unlike-anything-ive-had-from-any-other-organisation

https://shop.lastnightfromglasgow.com/

https://seabassvinyl.com/

https://goodstuffinbetween.com/

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 including the legends and landscapes of Scotland, the videos that accompany it, and the importance of friendship as her creative spark.

She also takes a look back on how her career began, offers advice to new performers based on her own experiences, considers how the folk community differs from others, and how performing at the likes of Eurovision, the Mod and other internationally renowned events have helped shaped her approach to music.

Episode 18, Ainsley, streaming now.

Fred Well is a songwriter and singer from Bergen from the sameMade Management stable as the likes ofAurora,Sigrid,Skaar,Moyka and other top artists.

He is just back from touring with Norwegian DJKygo 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 releaseHold On Me with Sandro Cavazza out today.

His own single,Little House, is also out now and he joined journalistShaun Milne on the Good Stuff In Between podcast to talk about the inspiration behind the song, life on the road, and how he is still chasing his own dreams for the future.

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 ofher two solo albums, a slew of EPs and singles, and her newestcollaboration which has her looking at music in other ways. Ahead of her debut live UK show inGlasgow on Monday, October 21, she talks to Shaun Milne about her inspirations, feelings and music and she prepares to share her work to an international audience that should get ready to pay attention to one of the most exciting emerging singers of the year so far.

Show Notes

• Live, Monday October 21, Glasgow's Old Toll Bar
• Sara Fjeldvær Official website
• Bandcamp
• Spotify
• VierLive replay

The supremely talented contemporary harpistPippa 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 the determination and expertise of a surgeon and NHS to save her talents.

Her recovery and focus has come with the reward of musical legends includingPhilip Glass,Max Richter andAlexandra Hamilton-Ayres endorsing the use of their music in her new works to stand proudly alongside her original compositions which, as the album title suggests, dives deep into topics around water including the sea, wild swimming, nature and climate crisis to name a few.

Hailing from Helensburgh and born with a love for sailing, she is also working on an exciting new project collaborating with an international group of artists of all disciplines following a recent sea faring adventure with theThe Excelsior Trust that will see them tour around Norway, the Faroe Islands and other music loving nations next year.

She has just released her first single from the forthcoming album with ‘Turning Tides’ where she shares the rhythms and waves of her secret sanctuary from life’s challenges in the hope it helps bring calm to others. She will also appear in new work from the astonishingly talented singer, songwriter and composerSiobhan Wilson.

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.