Celtic Connections: Out Lines and Hamish Hawk

Commissioned by Easterhouse’s Platform arts centre, Out Lines is a unique collaborative project that saw The Twilight Sad’s James Graham, together with SAY Award-winner Kathryn Joseph, turning local residents’ first-hand stories into songs, abetted by producer Marcus Mackay. Following their première Platform performance, the album Conflats – by turns harrowing and uplifting, tragic and hopeful – was released in October, an arrestingly powerful testament to art’s transformative potential.