Born in Edinburgh, Liam trained at The University of Glasgow. In 2009 he co-directed the Orkney-based Mixter Maxter for National Theatre of Scotland ("surely one of the best community arts projects Scotland has ever produced" The Scotsman). 

In 2016 he collaborated on Karine Polwart's CATS-award winning Wind Resistance (Royal Lyceum/ EIF) and in 2019 won a Fringe First as co-writer of Dispatches on the Red Dress. Upcoming projects include Strength in a Whisper with Magnetic North and a collaboration with Theatre du Pif, Hong Kong.

Jo Mango, co-deviser, musical director and performer, is a Glasgow-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who writes and collaborates across multiple creative disciplines. She has worked with many of Scotland’s most acclaimed popular musicians including David Byrne, Vashti Bunyan, and Teenage Fanclub, taking her unique collection of instruments to performances at venues around the world including the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Barbican in London, and tours across Europe, America and Asia. Her theatre and multi-format work continues this year with the forthcoming National Theatre of Scotland installation 100 Voices. She is also a Reader of Music (with a research focus on songwriting for social change), a Doctor of Musicology, and was co-founder of the unique MA Songwriting degree at the University of the West of Scotland where she has helped students and community groups learn about songwriting for over a decade. Jo’s much anticipated 3rd solo album is due for release in June this year.

Louis Linklater Abbott is a multi-instrumentalist and singer based in Glasgow. He is the songwriter for chamber-pop band, Admiral Fallow, who have released five albums to critical acclaim and have toured extensively throughout the UK, Europe, North America and Australia since their formation in 2007. The band’s latest album, ‘First of the Birds’, was released on Glasgow’s Chemikal Underground label in October. 

Louis also works as a session musician, drummer, engineer and producer, and has collaborated with an extensive list of contemporary musicians including: Camera Obscura, Eddi Reader, King Creosote, Rachel Sermanni, Karine Polwart, Kris Drever, Jo Mango, Aoife O’Donovan, Siobhan Miller and Paul Buchanan.

Recent theatre work: ‘Small Acts of Love’ [Citizens Theatre - 2025]

Performing Musical director on ‘Keli’ [NTS - 2025]

Co-Musical Director on ‘A Giant on the Bridge’ [Edinburgh Fringe - 2024]

Musician on ‘Trouble in Spiritland’ [Traverse - 2024].

Dr Dave Hook is a rapper, poet, songwriter and hip-hop academic. Winner of Best Hip-Hop at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards, he has toured extensively throughout the UK and around the globe with alternative hip-hop group Stanley Odd, and as solo artist, Solareye. His debut solo album – All These People Are Me – was described by author Ian Rankin as “a stunning album, the great contemporary Scottish novel in rap form”. Stanley Odd’s most recent album, ‘STAY ODD’ was shortlisted for Scottish Album of the Year. In 2025 he co-wrote and performed in hip-hop musical, Wallace, described by Broadway World as ‘Electrifying... a whirlwind piece of storytelling’. An Associate Professor in Music at Edinburgh Napier University, his research focuses on hip-hop, rap lyricism, identity, culture and performance, through creative practice.

https://www.solareye.co.uk

Kim Grant is a songwriter and musician who creates under the moniker Raveloe which is a project inspired by magical realism, folk and indie rock exploring themes of temporality, duality, nature, loss and love. She has toured with Bernard Butler, Arab Strap and Broken Chanter and supported various artists such as Butler, Blake and Grant, Junior Brother, Siobhan Wilson, Field Music and Malcom Middleton.

Outwith that project Grant is a regular collaborator in various projects in the Scottish music scene such as dovetailed, fidra, flinch. and Jason Riddell and is involved in various community focused music projects.

Jill O'Sullivan is a Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist/singer/ songwriter who writes and performs across the worlds of popular music, theatre and dance. Since releasing three critically-acclaimed albums with her band Sparrow and the Workshop (formed in 2008), O'Sullivan has gone on to collaborate with a multitude of renowned musicians and perform at prestigious music festivals throughout the United Kingdom and Europe. She occasionally guest DJ’s on BBC Radio Scotland's Roddy Hart Show and recently released two full-length albums under the name Jill Lorean. She also works alongside community-led organisations throughout Scotland to teach and mentor young and aspiring musicians.