About this podcast
Music writer, author and journalist Allan Glen interviews the bands, musicians, songwriters, filmmakers, record label bosses and writers who create the best Scottish pop. Allan is the author of Stuart Adamson - In a Big Country, the critically acclaimed biography on the Skids and Big Country legend, and a former NME writer and BBC broadcaster.
18 episodes · music
Scotpop
About this podcast
Music writer, author and journalist Allan Glen interviews the bands, musicians, songwriters, filmmakers, record label bosses and writers who create the best Scottish pop. Allan is the author of Stuart Adamson - In a Big Country, the critically acclaimed biography on the Skids and Big Country legend, and a former NME writer and BBC broadcaster.
Recent episodes
- Chris Thomson (Friends Again/The Bathers) interview - Bathers, break-ups and bailiffs19 Aug · 47 min
- Davy Henderson (ex-Fire Engines/Win Pt 2) - 'People in the music business in the 80s were like politicians today - clueless'5 Aug · 51 min
- Davy Henderson (ex-Fire Engines/Win/Sexual Objects/Nectarine No. 9) – 'I just wish we'd told some people to f*** off'22 Jul · 31 min
- Steven Lindsay (ex-The Big Dish) – The Nearly Man of Scottish Pop8 Jul · 35 min
- Erin Reidy (Brontës) interview – 'We write our best songs when we're at our most vulnerable'17 Jun · 27 min
- Bruce Watson (Big Country) interview, pt2 – 'Stuart [Adamson] was like Jekyll and Hyde; on Monday, a brilliant guy, on Tuesday, your worst nightmare'3 Jun · 47 min
- Bruce Watson (Big Country) interview: 'Touring the world in the 80s was amazing – but you had to be on all the time'27 May · 25 min
- Is there a crisis in Scottish music? - Scotpop investigates20 May · 12 min
- Mike Scott (The Waterboys) interview – 'Simple Minds and U2 copped stuff from The Waterboys - especially U2'13 May · 57 min
- John Niven interview – 'I turned down Coldplay and Muse – and signed The Mike Flowers Pops'7 May · 37 min
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