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Arts Broadcaster & Writer. The Afternoon Show: Fridays, 2-4pm, BBC Radio Scotland. Interviews: Dolly Parton, Patti Smith, Martha Reeves, Joan Collins. (She/her)

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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
5 years
I have read this, and read this, and read this. I’m not sure that I ever need to read anything else.
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Glasgow sky, you’ve pulled a blinder... 🔥🧡
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Of all the albums in all the world - and there have been a few - this is the one I’ll never get over. It turns 35 tomorrow. Never gets old though. 💙💙💙😭😭😭
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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My total legend of a grandma, Sarah Meighan, rocked out of this world & into the next one early this morning. Nurse, chancer, inveterate gambler, octogenarian scuba diver, and surely the only woman to have been arrested in Falkirk, driving a transit van, dressed as a bunny girl.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Utterly, utterly heartbreaking. As a child, as an adult, as a truly extraordinary artist, Sinead O’Connor deserved to be so much more listened to: so much more loved: so much better looked after.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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We’re celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Gregory's Girl on Friday’s @BBCRadioScot Afternoon Show (2-4pm), & I'm thrilled I'll be joined by @claregrogan2 , Alex Norton & Bill Forsyth. We’d love to share your favourite GG memories, moments & quotes: get in touch below. Thank you!📻
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Just found this in Oxfam Books. I fear my week has peaked too soon.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
5 years
We’ve come to the East Neuk of Fife for the weekend. This is the gate at the bottom of our garden... 🧡
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
6 years
I'll be joining @VicGalloway on @BBCRadioScot tonight, to celebrate the life, and music, and humour, and kindness of the brilliant - and so very, very sorely-missed - Scott Hutchison.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
5 years
Dropped supplies off to my mum earlier, including a bottle of wine, so she’s having a wee solo party tonight and just sent me this pic. She’s 71 and high-risk so she’s been indoors for two weeks now, but that’s not stopped her getting dolled up every day, hair fascinators & all.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
5 years
A month ago, my dad preempted the lockdown, and he hasn’t left his wee flat since. I was worried he’d miss his daily run up Balgay Hill, and his walks in the Dundee sun - especially as he doesn’t have a garden - but then he showed me his indoor sun lounger, high above Lochee...🧡
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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(1/2) So I’ve started a Scottish Arts & Culture podcast, it’s called A Kick Up The Arts, & it comes in 2 parts. The first is a weekly round-table chat in local arts spaces with fab guests: episode 1 starring @Chitgrrl & @HanLavery @ByLeavesWeLive is here!
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
3 years
THE LOVE CONTINUES. Huge congratulations @mogwaiband @plasmatron @rockactionrecs on this year’s Scottish Album of the Year Album Award @SAYaward win. Here we are hanging around the hand sanitiser by way of celebration. A joy to host this year’s ceremony with @VicGalloway as ever.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
4 years
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
2 years
The BBC in Scotland turns 100 on Monday (which is also my mum’s birthday). We had a party on @bbcradioscot to celebrate with fab guests & live music; there’s a TV highlights show on @BBCScotland , March 6, 8pm. I didn’t get a pic with everyone, but I did get one with my mum 🧡📺📻
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
1 year
On @BBCRadioScot ’s #AfternoonShow this Friday, 2-4pm, we’re celebrating 40 years of Local Hero as it returns to cinemas. I’ll be joined by cast members for a fond look back - and if you’re a fan, I’d love to know where you saw it; what you remember; what it means to you… 🧡📻
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
4 years
The KLF are back, alright.
@caarlaajenkins
Carla Jenkins
4 years
Glasgow in winter #2 (and yes, that is an ice cream van)
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
7 months
Got chatting to someone about Hercules the Bear last night. It’s hard to explain how normal it was to go on a family drive to the Sheriffmuir Inn, in order to feed an ACTUAL BEAR a bag of crisps (and maybe a pint), if you grew up in Stirling in the 70s / 80s.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
4 years
My favourite, forever. The Clown and the Wolfman... 🤡🦊🧡
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PictureThis Scotland
4 years
Movies of Scotland: Restless Natives (1985). Two friends in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
2 years
It’s a tartan special here on @BBCRadioScot ’s Afternoon Show, 2-4pm today - we’re live from @VADundee to celebrate their fifth birthday AND their fab new tartan exhibition - with live music, special guests, party tunes and more... join us! 🌞💃🏻💥
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
4 years
My pure legend of a mother is somehow 72 today. Here she is during summer’s brief lockdown reprieve; today we’ll gladly settle for fizz in the garden. And here, as is traditional, is a reminder of some of the things my mum taught me... 🧡
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
5 years
Home schooling, day one. The oven exploded. The only thing that we have learned is that we no longer have an oven.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
6 years
On tour with Nick Cave back when I worked at Mute, hanging out in a hotel, not sure where, or when. (Dublin? Copenhagen? Morning? Night?) While the rest of the company appears to be on water, I am drinking Guinness. And smoking a cigar. #tbt #throwbackthursday #alwaysclassy
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
5 years
Delighted to have a new summer music show starting on @BBCRadioScot this Thurs, 9-11pm. Local & global pop favourites & rarities; all eras, all genres. I’m joined this week by @garbage ’s Shirley Manson, playing the records that are closest to her heart 🔥📻
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
2 years
I had an absolutely terrible time chatting to Deacon Blue’s @rickyaross about his memoir #WalkingBackHome at Edinburgh International Book Festival, as you can see. It was filmed and so, if you so wish, you can watch it any time, any place, anywhere, here:
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
4 years
Ach, Sydney Devine. I introduced him onstage at the Commonwealth Games on Glasgow Green in 2014 (to the strains of Also sprach Zarathustra, of course). It was midday, and torrential rain, but the crowd went absolutely wild. I’ve never, ever seen a more adoring mob of baying fans.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
3 years
Last live show before Christmas = studio party (for one). Join me on @BBCRadioScot , 2-4pm, with guests @michaelsheen @CraigRevHorwood @riettaaustin @MarshSongs & @Janeannie on books of the year. PLUS tunes from Erasure, Maria McKee, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Little Mix, more! 🎄
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
1 year
Happy to announce that Elizabeth Day and I are now married. It was such a pleasure to talk all things #Friendaholic with @elizabday , who is a goddess, at @PortyBooks ’ event last night. We caught up again @BBCRadioScot this morning; coming to a wireless near you soon...🧡💃🏻📻
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
7 years
Delighted to have a summer Friday night show on @BBCRadioScot : soul, pop, disco, indie, rockabilly, post-punk, more📻
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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We formed a new band, it’s gonna be great. #TheBluebells #LoveAndMoney #FriendsAgain @jamthrawn @R0Poem @urbancrofter62 🧡💃🏻🔥💥
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
6 years
Loved @deaconbluemusic at the Hydro on Saturday. I wrote about it for @thelistmagazine - at length (couldn’t help myself) - so keep scrolling... 😬💃🏻💙
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
5 years
Brought home a new secretary this week. His patter’s mince, but he’s great at keeping on top of the paperwork. (And eating it.)
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
9 months
Alasdair Gray should have lived to be 150 at least. I’m so here for the year of Poor Things. He illustrated our 2007 Triptych Festival brochure - this is his portrait of Cat Power; I’ll try to find others. (Including Ute Lemper, Terry Riley & Gruff Rhys, if my memory serves…) 🧡
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@AGrayArchive
The Alasdair Gray Archive
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Happy Birthday Alasdair ❤️ Today #AlasdairGray would have been 90 yrs old. In 2014, to mark his 80th yr, our Custodian @GraySorcha devised ’The Alasdair Gray Season’ across venues in Glasgow & beyond. The main retrospective exhibition ‘From The Personal to the Universal’
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
2 years
This is heartbreaking news. What a wonderful man he was.
@BarbaraDickson
Barbara Dickson
2 years
My dear and old friend Rab Noakes has died suddenly in hospital today. I am shocked. We had so much in common - The Everly Brothers, the Flying Burrito Brothers and an enduring love of songs, particularly traditional music. Sleep well, Rab. May you rest in peace. Bx #rabnoakes
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6 years
I went to Dundee to see @thetwilightsad , and all I got was a broken heart, a brilliant laugh, a cameo from The Twilight Dad, a reminder of how much I absolutely love the band, AND this (admittedly dubious quality) pic of the band’s James Graham. (And a Papa Roach hoodie.)🧡💖💛❤️
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
1 year
En route to @CHVRCHES @TheBarrowlands with my not-so-wee yins. They’re rarely impressed by anything, but interviewing @laurenevemay @doksan @Iain_A_Cook for @heraldscotland in 2016 has given me a scrape of credibility. Contains: Rebecca Solnit, Iron Maiden
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
7 years
I'm being let loose on Friday nights @BBCRadioScot for a couple of weeks (March 23 & 30), and along with loads of post-punk, disco, indie, soul & electro tunes I'll be celebrating as many ace Scottish albums (old & new) as I can fit in - if you've any requests please let me know!
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
4 years
Glasgow-bound to sit in for thee legend @VicGalloway @BBCRadioScot , 8-10pm: PJ Harvey @bigjoanie Belly @wishimage Bob Marley @AnnaHMeredith Delgados @Auntie_Flo The Shamen @MarthaFfion , more. AND I’m after yr favourite alternative cover versions; we’ll play one later; lemme know!
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
1 year
I never paid much attention at school, but every Thursday night, after my chip shop shift, I hung on this guy’s every word. Loved chatting with @billysloanshow about his new memoir, One Love, One Life - via Grace Jones, Bowie & Bono - for #TheCultureScene
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
8 months
There’s a wealth of John Byrne-coloured wonder now available on the @BBCiPlayer , thanks to @BBCScotland ’s special tribute programming last night. Tutti Frutti, Your Cheatin’ Heart, interviews and all manner of treasures. What a man he was… 🧡🧡🧡
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3 years
Something carries on 🧡💔🧡
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
5 years
Legend. Once served him and his wee dog Rusty when I worked in Corrieri’s. Utterly starstruck. Sadly Paladin the talking lamp was not with them.
@74frankfurt
PictureThis Scotland
5 years
Glen Michael - born Cecil Buckland in 1926 - former children's TV presenter and an entertainer. (Scotland Now)
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Two weeks tonight, I’ll be in conversation with Sir Ian Rankin at the Edinburgh launch of his new Rebus novel, #MidnightAndBlue , at @ARedinburgh , via @PortyBooks : join us! Meanwhile, here’s @Beathhigh on his love of Kate Bush, The Magic Roundabout, more!
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One day, I’ll tell you the story of how a teacher from Denny High (who was also my dad) came to star on David Kid Jensen’s Radio 1 show alongside Frankie Goes To Hollywood. For now, please enjoy this pic of him turning 70 today, in Camden, rocking a bread basket #HappyBirthdayDad
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
3 years
It’s Friday! Today‘s @BBCRadioScot show, 2.30-4pm, comes live from @PITLOCHRYft ’s Riverside Bandstand. I’m on my way! Can’t wait to celebrate a summer of outdoor theatre with @NewmanEJ @colinmccredie @McCarryJane @benocchipinti @CurlyKStu @iamNickKarimi & our @BBCPolliemac 💃🏻🌞📻
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
1 year
Spent the morning listening to music in Edinburgh with the great Ken Loach. He discussed the songs that have soundtracked his life, including the one that he can’t help singing along with, and the one he wishes he’d written. #ForTheRecord special on @BBCRadioScot coming soon 🧡🎥
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
8 years
I've never seen #GBBO but I'm pretty sure @govindajeggy and @Beathhigh just won the final...
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5 years
Bloody hell. @thetwilightsad were utterly brilliant and devastating at Bellahouston Park. They even chased the rain away. I could not love them more. I hope the sun shines on them forever.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
4 years
Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining @PeterAlanRoss for a daunder round one of our favourite haunts. We were chatting about his heartening and sublime new book, A Tomb With A View, and you can hear all about it on this week’s Friday Afternoon Show, 2-4pm, @BBCRadioScot ☠️📻📚
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
4 years
The mighty, mighty @ArabStrapBand are heading for the UK Top 10 with their excellent new album, #AsDaysGetDark . This is the very Monday we should all be at the Hug & Pint. 🧡🔥🍹
@officialcharts
Official Charts
4 years
Congrats to @ArabStrapBand ! Their first album in 15 years As Days Get Dark is on course to become their first ever Official Chart Top 10 entry
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
4 years
The dog got a haircut and a fierce new t-shirt and is starting a Dexy‘s Midnight Runners tribute band. If you’ve got a fiddle and / or opposable thumbs, he’d like you to join him. 💃🏻
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
6 years
Heartbreaking news about Scott. Can't take it in. The loveliest, loveliest man.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
5 years
I was going to write a tweet with some thoughts about how much I love the new @deaconbluemusic album, City of Love (out today), but the word count got quite out of hand, so I turned it over to @thelistmagazine . Many thanks to them for publishing this...
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
3 months
Delighted that Sir Ian Rankin @Beathhigh will join me for a @BBCRadioScot #ForTheRecord special @ourdynamicearth , discussing / playing songs in the key of his life. (Photo thanks to fab former FtR guest @alisonjfwatt 🧡) Aug 9th! Tix are free! Join us! 📻
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4 years
Saturday night and there’s only one option. Sky Arts, right now. 💥💥💥 #TeenageSuperstars @GrantMcPheeFilm 💛🧡❤️
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
5 months
Ach, this picture is everything. Love this picture, the man, the pub, his writing, and everything else.
@74frankfurt
PictureThis Scotland
5 months
Pubs of Scotland: William McIlvanney in Clark's Bar, Dundas Street, Edinburgh. (1989) Pic: Robin Gillanders.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
4 years
So this is the first big weekend of the summer.
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
9 years
19 David Bowie albums in this week's UK chart (Top 100) ❤️‍❤️‍❤️‍
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
1 year
I thought I couldn’t love The Bluebells more than I do. I was wrong. This is the greatest letter ever written. 💙 @R0Poem @dvdmcc @urbancrofter62
@dvdmcc
@dvdmcc
1 year
Where were you in 1977 ?
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
4 years
Cannot get enough of this headline, this news, this band, this album... Still time to buy a record, keep #AsTheLoveContinues in its rightful place! 🧡🔥💥 @mogwaiband @rockactionrecs
@officialcharts
Official Charts
4 years
With the most CD and vinyl sales this week, @mogwaiband are on track for their first Number 1 album of their 25-year career. See how they're progressing on today's sales flash:
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Delighted that my On The Record series - talking to some of Scotland's best-loved artists about their well-loved songs - is being repeated on @BBCRadioScot 's @BBCJFShow . Kicks off today with the brilliant @GaryClarkMusic of Danny Wilson on Mary's Prayer...
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On this Friday’s @BBCRadioScot Afternoon Show, I’m in conversation with the fab @mrneilforsyth , 3-4pm, as part of our #ForTheRecord series. We talk #Guilt , #TheGold , @bobservant & he chooses some songs in the key of his life. I made this Dundee United-inspired pic to celebrate 📻
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Gorgeous morning up Dumyat 🌞🌞🌞
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On today’s @BBCRadioScot Afternoon Show, 2-4pm, I’m in conversation with the iconic @DollyParton . We discuss her new book #BehindTheSeams , her forthcoming LP #RockStar , and she reflects on a life in fashion; taking musical risks; and how lipliner can be mightier than the sword 🩷
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Getting weirdly emotional about this as the day goes on. Been listening to @mogwaiband LPs in turn: a quarter of a century’s worth of awesome music; an adult lifetime’s worth of memories. I didn’t think I was bothered about the charts these days, but there you go. #Mogwai4Number1
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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This is such brilliant and righteous news for @mogwaiband and @rockactionrecs . #AsTheLoveContinues is stunning and will save us all. Not all superheroes wear capes etc. (That said, I’d wholeheartedly welcome the band’s Rick Wakeman phase) 🧡💃🏻💥
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4 years
Easy t-shirt choice today, as we’re celebrating DOLLY PARTON on the show ( @BBCRadioScot 2-4pm). I’ll also be joined by my beloved @BarbaraDickson 💋; we’ll hear from Richard Jobson on writing @the_skids ’ Into The Valley; plus @VADundee Design Busters. Want a shout out? Lemme know!
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Karine Polwart’s @IAMKP celebration of Scottish pop in its myriad joyous, enlightening and heartbreaking forms was wonderful @ccfest . Best of all was her communal spirit, turning the Fruitmarket into a Caledonian gospel dancefloor. The closest thing to heaven is to rock and roll.
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Despite appearances to the contrary, @VicGalloway & I did not get married in a 50s tiki bar on Thursday. We did, however, have a ball hosting this year's Scottish Album of the Year Award @SAYaward at Paisley Town Hall. Who needs Waikiki Beach. Here's to brilliant Scottish music💘
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4 years
The dog’s just seen chickens for the first time, and had no idea what to make of them. He stood like this for at least ten minutes. 🐔🐔🐔
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Loved working with the fab @vicmcarthur on this fleeting musical tour of Fife via brilliant folk like @PictishTrail The Beta Band @KTTunstall King Creosote @jamesyorkston @SteveMasonKBT @VicGalloway & @Jon_Hopkins_ . Their charms, songs & magic run v deep🌞
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On @BBCRadioScot 4pm this Monday, I’m celebrating women in Scottish music & speaking to Lulu, @BarbaraDickson @claregrogan2 @emmaspollock @KTTunstall @AnnaHMeredith & @CarlaJEaston about the women who inspired them: from @AnnieLennox to Liz Fraser & SOPHIE
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
6 years
I love Ariana Grande, but @thetwilightsad (via Glasgow’s @rockactionrecs ) outselling her in the UK this week is mind-blowing and beautiful. They are the best 🧡🧡🧡
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4 years
Sunday 🌞
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Thrilled that those absolute legends The Bluebells are coming to Stirling @Tolbooth 17/8. The law dictates that you must too. They’re playing live & we’ll be chatting about the brilliant photography of Harry Papadopoulos. Tix here! @R0Poem @urbancrofter62
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The Bluebells, live in concert & in conversation on 17th August at Tolbooth. Hosted by @Nicola_Meighan As part of the ‘What Presence: the Music Photography of Harry Papadopoulos’ Exhibition with @StreetLevel_ , part of @StirlingPF . On sale now
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Nothing says COME ON SCOTLAND like a home-made Corries t-shirt, right? While we await tonight’s big game, I’m on @BBCRadioScot 2-4pm, with guests Joan Armatrading, Natalie Imbruglia, @malpope , @iamdrpgurley , @akwindram & lots of Friday party tunes💃🏻 @ArmatradingJoan @natimbruglia
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I’d like to spend every Saturday morning blethering with Simple Minds from hereon in. Coming to STV’s #WhatsOnScotland soon. @WeAreSTV @simplemindscom
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The new #Bluebells album is glorious. Every home should have one. (And a spare, just in case it gets warped in the sun.) 🌞🌞🌞🧡🧡🧡 @R0Poem @urbancrofter62
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@LNFGlasgow
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Last few hours of chart reporting for this beautiful baby. Grab one in store and lets squeeze as high a position as possible. @R0Poem @urbancrofter62 @dvdmcc
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Obligatory selfie in the nation’s greatest public toilets, while viewing the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s #NewArrivals exhibition. We’re discussing it on today’s @BBCRadioScot show, plus: @jonronson on culture wars; Dundee nostalgia; Friday tunes! 💃🏻 @NatGalleriesSco
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Tangerine dream 🧡🍊
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Delighted to be back on @BBCRadioScot Friday nights this summer, kicking off 27/7 with Martin Metcalfe On The Record talking #GoodbyeMrMackenzie 's The Rattler; a Shop Assistants LP love-in; plus rockabilly, disco, soul, punk, Scottish thrills, and more!
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A joy as ever to host the Scottish Album of the Year Award @sayaward with this absolute punk dreamboat, @VicGalloway . Huge congratulations to winner @Auntie_Flo , and to all the nominated artists. Here’s to everyone who makes our musical landscape so varied, and so thrilling...🧡
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I regret to report that Sir Ian Rankin & I have yet to be cast as a couple of hard-boiled 70s telly cops cleaning up the mean streets of Stirling, BUT you can hear him in a 1 hour @BBCRadioScot #ForTheRecord music & conversation special on today’s #AfternoonShow , 3-4pm @Beathhigh
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“What will people make of us?” Ahead of tonight’s @BBCScotland screening of the exquisite From Scotland With Love, here’s an archive @thequietus interview with @kingcreosote on life, death, history, hope, and soundtracking @virginiaheath ’s film...
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🎶 This ain’t the way I spend my mornings, baby... 🎶 Hello, I am Italian now. This is my roof terrace. I live here in Napoli. I communicate solely through the words of Paul Young and Zucchero’s ‘Senza Una Donna’. #SchoolHolidays
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Easy t-shirt choice today! Thrilled that @TeenageFanclub ’s @MrNormanBlake1 joins me on today’s @BBCRadioScot show 2-4pm. And! @DowntownKeiraB @imogen_stirling on @BookPaisley ; @BFI Future Film Festival; LP art with @petemckee ; tunes from Cyndi Lauper, Buzzcocks, Rose Royce, more!
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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So sad to hear about Vince Friell. Restless Natives has been my favourite film since I was a kid, and he was such a lovely man.
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@BBCPolliemac
Pauline McLean
6 months
Sad to hear that Vincent Friell has died. He appeared in Trainspotting, River City, Taggart, The Angels’ Share, Still Game and Rab C Nesbitt but he’ll be best remembered for the comedy Restless Natives. Condolences to his family and friends.
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Standard Saturday morning having breakfast in Glasgow with @rickastley . Coming to @BBCRadioScot ’s Afternoon Show soon. (And then he’s playing just across the river there at the Hydro in February…) 💃🏻🧡
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If you've ever had the misfortune to spend so much as five minutes in my company, you’ll know how thrilled I was to write liner notes for @deaconbluemusic ’s new Greatest Hits comp & LP Box Set. Info here . Spoiler alert: I’ve always loved them; always will.
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Got an early train through to Auld Reekie to spend more time with @alisonjfwatt ’s still, shimmering exhibition, A Portrait Without Likeness, which runs until tomorrow and is full of life, and light, and love. 🤍 @NatGalleriesSco
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There must be some mistake, as this cannot have been fast approaching 40 years ago… 💃🏻🔥🧡
@The80sDiary
The 80's Diary
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🎶 Hipsway 'The Honeythief' on Top Of The Pops 38 years ago, March 13th 1986 #80s #TOTP
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It’s Friday! It’s Hogmanay! Party time! On @BBCRadioScot , 2-4pm, I’m joined by DAME JOAN COLLINS *and* BARBARA DICKSON! Name a more iconic duo. Plus: tunes from Chic, Bowie, Nina Simone, more! Here’s a photo of me & my mum (aka “Stirling’s Joan Collins”) to celebrate. Join us! 💋
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@officialcharts
Official Charts
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“It’s been an incredible journey...” Mogwai ( @mogwaiband ) score their first Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with As The Love Continues ❤️
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Dundee, baby! Today’s @BBCRadioScot Afternoon Show is coming to you live from @DundeeRep with fab local guests including writer James Robertson, musician @alicemarramusic , @SDTDance , @DundeeCulture , tunes from the Associates, @iambecharlotte , Michael Marra, @KTTunstall , more! 💃🏻
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@thecommonbreath My uncle took this photo of Joni Mitchell, I’ve always really loved it 🧡
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We are here! @StirAlbertHalls is looking magic, and the Scottish Album of the Year Award party kicks off in five minutes! Wooooohoo! All the luck and all the love to all of the brilliant artists involved. Pictured with thee debonair punk gentleman @VicGalloway @SAYaward 🧡💃🏻🍹
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If you’ve a free hour that you’d like to fill with the wonder of @claregrogan2 discussing her life & work - & choosing the songs that mean the most to her (no spoilers, but let’s just say DORIS DAY) - it’s right here @BBCSounds : @BBCRadioScot #ForTheRecord
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Nicola Meighan 📻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Home studio nearly set for today’s @BBCRadioScot show, 2-4pm: @markcousinsfilm on isolation cinema; @KTTunstall on online raves; @nevisensemble ’s virtual orchestra; indoor @RockChoir ; tunes from Rose Royce & Dolly Parton & if you’d like to say hi or thanks to anyone, let me know!
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