Siobhan Wilson

Sufrecs is proud to present: A Kick Up The Arts, a live recorded podcast in the Glad Cafe on March 1st, featuring Nicola Meighan, Michael Pederson, Raveloe, and Siobhan Wilson. Join writer and broadcaster Nicola Meighan for a special live edition of her Scottish Arts and Culture podcast, A Kick Up The Arts, in conversation with award-winning poet and writer Michael Pedersen. They'll record an episode of the podcast's monthly instalment, A Kick Up The Arts: All Back To Mine - where a guest gives us a virtual night in round at theirs, discussing their choice of a Scottish album, film, and book, along with their wider life and work. Siobhan Wilson and Raveloe will perform stripped-back versions of some tracks from Michael's chosen Scottish album. Doors: 2:30pm; event starts: 2:50pm; from 4pm onwards, join us for "Wine and Sign!" Get a signed book / record, and mingle with artists over drinks. Nicola will play some records, to soundtrack your Saturday afternoon. Nicola Meighan: Arts writer and broadcaster Nicola Meighan has interviewed names like Dolly Parton, Joan Collins, Martha Reeves, Judas Priest and Russell Crowe on her BBC Radio Scotland show (Friday Afternoons, 2-4pm). A Kick Up The Arts is her Scottish Arts and Culture podcast, recorded in arts spaces around the country, with previous guests including Chris Brookmyre, Barbara Dickson, Clare Grogan, Chitra Ramaswamy, The Bluebells, Hannah Lavery, Andrew Wasylyk, Gavin Mitchell, Blythe Duff, Horse and King Creosote. Listen on all podcast platforms, or via akickupthearts.org Michael Pedersen: is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author, the Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University, and Edinburgh's Makar (Poet Laureate). His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 to rave reviews – it was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at Scotland's National Book Awards. The Cat Prince & Other Poems, his third collection, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry 2023. Pedersen has also been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry and won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. His work has been praised by the likes of: Stephen Fry, Irvine Welsh, Kae Tempest, Alan Cumming, Bernardine Evaristo & many other fine minds. His 'hotly contested' debut novel Muckle Flugga will be published by Faber in May 2025. Siobhan Wilson + Raveloe: The Scottish composer-songwriter has toured the USA and Canada supporting the likes of Suzanne Vega and The Proclaimers and as well as her own headline shows. She has collaborated with numerous artists, such as Kathryn Williams, Clementine March, Le Noiseur/Simon Campocasso, Takeshi Furukawa, and Rachel Sermanni, and in the UK has toured live on stage with bands such as Van Morrison, Roddy Frame, Arab Strap's Aidan Moffat, Idlewild, and more. Siobhan has 15 years of international studio production experience including as far as Paris where she resided for 5 years, New York, Budapest and Scotland. Her albums have been played extensively across national and international radio, shortlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year and drew attention from the likes of Rolling Stone and BBC6 Radio Lauren Laverne who listed her music as 'album of the day'. Wilson is a regular live performer at BBC Scotland and BBC6 radio stations and was also shortlisted for "Best Musician" in The Sunday Herald Culture Awards.​Wilson runs her own indie record label “Sufrecs” which saw her highly-acclaimed album 'The Departure', from which the lead single 'Marry You' featured in September 2019 on Saturday night's BBC Frankie Boyle's 'New World Order’. Siobhan Wilson's song 'Terrible Woman' featured on the UK BBC Drama "Back To Life" from the producers of Fleabag, and is being aired currently on the Showtime, and Netflix. The song "Say It's True" featured on a French TV advert. Raveloe is the project of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Kim Grant. The alias is taken from the name of a fictional village within the pages of a Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot) novel called Silas Marner about a reclusive weaver. Growing up in the small industrial town of Motherwell she found magic and escaped in the small beauties through moments of isolation and difficulty. A thread evident in songs that oscillate from heartbreak to hopefulness, exploring dualities and inspired by a fusion of folk-rock-indie. 2021 saw the arrival of her debut self produced EP ‘Notes and Dreams’ and follow up singles ‘New House’ and ‘Catkins’ released on Olive Grove Records which led to features in BBC 6 Music, BBC Introducing, The Roddy Hart Show as well as The Clash, Euphoria, For The Rabbits and one of Vic Galloways one to watch in 2022 to name a few. The album Exit Light (FFO Big Thief, Frightened Rabbit, Waxahatchee) was released on Olive Grove Records in 2023, featured on BBC 6 Music, BBC Scotland Afternoon Show, BBC Scotland’s Vic Galloway and Roddy Hart shows respectively, it also made several album of the year lists including those by GodisintheTV and Vic Galloway and The Weekender. Inspired by the likes of Big Thief, PJ Harvey, The Microphones and This is The Kit you can expect moments of delicate folk inspired reflection to swelling ripples of distortion and energy.