Live In The Flicker cover – credit Louise McLachlan It’s interesting to write this after putting together two radio shows made solely...

New music review, ahoy! At the time when voting for this year’s SAY Award opened (and you can nominate your favourites here) it’s...

Without wanting to go in too heavy in these days of storm and stress, music becomes increasingly important to help make sense of, comes...

2019/20 Programme A quick look at Scottish Opera’s 2019/20 programme (right) makes it clear that the company are reaching for a balance...

For the latest podcast Ali headed to the home of Scottish Opera in central Glasgow to talk to Jonathon Swinard, the new Artistic Director...

..although it’s more like the best new music from the last six weeks as this review is long overdue. But, working to the saying “better...

Sometimes you leave a theatre knowing that what you have just witnessed was something special. That was undoubtedly the case with...

L-space For the latest podcast Ali spoke to Lily, Gordon and Dickson from L-space who are, as regular readers of SWH! will know, one of...

Sunday afternoons – for some of us they’ve never been the same since Archie McPherson, Glen Michael and Palladin hung up their boots....

In most cities January is a month where people take things easy, but not in Glasgow where Celtic Connections looms large and there are...

SPRING 2019 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Touring to 18 venues across Scotland Over the last few years Scottish Opera has been taking to the highways...

One of the highlights of last year was the Scottish Alternative Music Awards night at St Luke’s in Glasgow which showcased not only the...

Tonight at Celtic Connections there is a timely celebration of Marina Records, a label responsible for some of my favourite albums over...

“January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month…”, to quote the French writer Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (currently...

It was an interesting development in Scottish writing that two of the most talked about books from the end of 2018 were published by...

While putting together the SWH! Tracks Of The Year Spotify playlist for 2018 it became clear that it had been a hell of a year for music...

Picture Credit: Robert Perry For the first podcast of 2019, Ali caught up with Peter Kelly, better known as singer/songwriter Beerjacket,...

Once again Montgomery Scott raises a glass to see out the old year and ring in the new and that means it’s time for Scots Whay Hae!’s...

For our final Best Of 2018 podcast Ali, Chris Ward, Wesley Shearer, accompanied by our very own Young Father, Ian, discuss their...

The Gracious Losers, Starry Skies, Modern Studies, The Scottish Enlightenment, Carla J. Easton, L-Space, Kirsty Law, C.S. Buchan &...