Michael Pedersen: All Back To Mine

Recorded live at the Glad Cafe - with live music from Siobhan Wilson & Raveloe

Here’s another live recording of A Kick Up The Arts: All Back To Mine – promoted by the excellent Sufrecs, and recorded at the Glad Cafe in Glasgow… 

If you were here for this – thanks so much for being such a fab audience… and you’ll already know that Siobhan Wilson and Raveloe played some stunning renditions of songs from my guest, Michael Pedersen’s chosen Scottish album…

Spoiler alert, it was a classic from Garbage – so you’ll hear snippets of those through our chat, but follow Siobhan online to hear the full versions…

Michael’s a brilliant writer, and person, who’s a poet, an author, and a cultural rabble-rouser…

He’s also the Edinburgh Makar, and the writer in residence at Edinburgh University, and he took to the stage beside me rocking the greatest top I have ever witnessed. 

Picture this – a painted shirt with pink and green love-hearts, orange and yellow smiling cats – and of course there was glitter. It was neon, in fact. I have never seen anything like it…

Michael’s published three poetry collections, including Oyster and The Cat Prince, his prose debut, Boy Friends, was published to huge acclaim in 2022, and his forthcoming debut novel, Muckle Flugga, is a revelation. 

It’s stunning and tender, it’s a beacon of hope, it’s brimming with love, and it’s powered by starlight. I asked myself, and the audience, what more I could ask for… 

And then I answered my own question… 

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