Blythe Duff and Colin McCredie

A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan

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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 recorded the podcast's theme song, which you can of course hear on this very episode.
Blythe told us about Lacunas Music Society - her collaboration with singer-songwriter Yvonne Lyon, and composer Malcolm Lindsay, who’s worked with members of Deacon Blue and The Blue Nile - while Colin looked forward to having an out-of-body experience watching Harry Mould’s awesome play The Brenda Line - it’s at the Traverse in the coming weeks…
But needless to say, we got a bit sidetracked, so there’s also chat about 20 years of A Play, A Pie and A Pint - and Glen Michael’s Cavalcade, and Shallow Grave - and highly competitive ten pin bowling…