Elephant Sessions mandolin player and founding member Alasdair Taylor talks with host Shaun Milne about how they went from ceilidh band to award-winning global trailblazers, the stories and people that have helped them along the way, plans for a new tour in the UK and US, and their first venture into staging a home grown festival with Black Isle Calling. Good Stuff In Between podcast Episode 10, now playing.

Innes Strachan has conquered the musical world as electro-trad pioneers Niteworks. Four years after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis he has used the diagnosis to push on with a long planned new project, electro-pop act LUSA, collaborating with co-songwriter Donald Macdonald, vocalist Beth Malcolm, fellow Niteworks founder Ruairidh Graham, Laura Wilkie on strings, Keir Long on piano and actor Lorne Macfadyen delivering a poem by Colin Bramwell. In Episode 9, Innes talks to host Shaun Milne about the inspiration and process behind the new work.

Seán McLaughlin has a pedigree of critically acclaimed music that takes in working alongside the likes of Idlewild's Rod Jones on The Birthday Suit, with his own band Dante and now a brand new project, Seán R. McLaughlin and The Wind-Up Crows. Ahead of the launch of their first album Goodnight, Lad he sits down with podcast host Shaun Milne to discuss the inspiration behind the new music, collaborations with the likes of Jeremy Backofen of The Felice Brother, Andy Monaghan of Frightened Rabbit and Indian violinist Ragini Shankar, the process of getting songs out there, and a trip down memory lane.

Episode 8, out now.

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