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Platform’s Annual Christmas Carousal presents an evening of incredible Scottish musicians whose songs confront feelings of comfort and joy in a year that seemed bleak and hopeless. Each songwriter explored the expectation of being happy in the harshness of winter, and questioned the conflict of feelings that seem to appear during the festive period. Jo Mango kicks off the festivities; inspired by…

wisps of something: a very special olive grove records collaboration;

Music, for Olive Grove Records’ Lloyd Meredith, is many things. It’s comfort, it’s joy and it’s the thing on which he has built one of Glasgow’s closest-knit musical communities. You can hear it in the word he chooses to describe the indie label he co-founded six years ago: family. So it made sense that, during one of the toughest years of his life, it was that second family he would turn to for…

Jo Mango and Friends – Wrack Lines [Olive Grove]

Curiously the story behind the Wrack Lines project is as interesting as the record itself, challenging a series of musicians to think about the environmental impact of their work, both touring and recording. The EP forms part of a research project called Fields of Green: Addressing Climate Change through Music Festival Communities, which seeks to encourage audiences, organisers and musicians to…