Hogmanay Live

Hogmanay Live
Hogmanay Live
Genre	New Year's television special
Created by	BBC Scotland
Presented by	See below
Country of origin	Scotland
Original language	English
Production
Production locations	The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow
Running time	60 minutes; (often with a preview programme earlier in the evening)
Release
Original network	BBC One Scotland (1991–present); BBC Two Scotland (1999); BBC Scotland (2019–present); BBC Red Button
Original release	31 December 1991 –; present
Chronology
Preceded by	The White Heather Club
Related shows	BBC's New Year's Eve
External links
	Website

Hogmanay Live is BBC Scotland's annual live event programme broadcast on Hogmanay, Scotland's New Year's Eve celebration. Regardless of location, the programme rings in the New Year with the firing of Edinburgh Castle's One O'Clock Gun and the subsequent fireworks and celebrations in Edinburgh.

The programme features a mixture of Scottish contemporary and folk music, with some past programming also featuring live coverage of parts of the Princes Street concert in Edinburgh, Its current presenters are Susan Calman, Des Clarke and Amy Irons. Jackie Bird and Phil Cunningham often hosted together each year but from 2008 until 2019 she solely presented the programme. Cunningham does still appear on the programme, though not as a host.^[1]

Carol Kirkwood reported on the 2016 edition of the show live from Edinburgh Castle. The show currently is hosted live from The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow. Until 2013, Bird was live from Edinburgh Castle or Princes Street, but the show's producers decided that it should take place in Glasgow permanently.

History[]

Hogmanay Live 2006 titlecard

Leon Jackson performs on Hogmanay Live 2008

The programme has its roots in The White Heather Club which preceded it. Whilst Hogmanay Live is vastly different nowadays from the programme that came before it, The White Heather Club brought the Scottish tradition of Hogmanay to television for the first time.

Various incarnations and evolutions of the show have appeared over the years, such as The Hogmanay Show, which blend the old with the new and mark the beginning of a New Year from a distinctly Scottish perspective. Hogmanay Live, briefly renamed New Year Live when it was networked in 1998, has continued this tradition, giving viewers a chance to both reflect on the year gone by and look forward to the year ahead in a uniquely Scottish fashion. Jackie Bird's parts in Glasgow are filmed in advance of Hogmany and are not live.

In 2019, Hogmanay Live was renamed to Hogmanay 2019, was presented by Calman, Clarke and Irons, and was not filmed live.^[2]

The 2020 programme was again hosted by Calman and was pre-recorded without a studio audience. It was announced that Stirling Council would team up with BBC Scotland to organise a firework display over the Wallace Monument and Stirling Castle which would be broadcast on the programme from midnight.^[3]

Broadcasts[]

The programme is broadcast throughout the United Kingdom on BBC One Scotland. BBC One's London celebration, BBC's New Year's Eve is also available in Scotland via digital television as well as BBC Two's Jools' Annual Hootenanny with Jools Holland.

Jackie Bird hosted the show every year from 1999 until 2018–19. Before then, it had various hosts.

No.	Year	Presenter(s)	Guest(s)	Location
1	1991–92	Various	Unknown	Various
2	1992–93
3	1993–94
4	1994–95
5	1995–96
6	1996–97
7	1997–98
8	1998–99
9	1999–00	Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham
10	2000–01
11	2001–02
12	2002–03
13	2003–04
14	2004–05
15	2005–06		Phil & Aly KT Tunstall Nicola Benedetti Texas	Princes Street, Edinburgh Great Hall, Edinburgh
16	2006–07		Phil & Aly Karine Polwart Paolo Nutini	Great Hall, Edinburgh
17	2007–08	Jackie Bird	Phil & Aly Amy Macdonald Marti Pellow	Pacific Quay, Glasgow
18	2008–09	Jackie Bird Hardeep Singh Kohli	Phil & Aly Leon Jackson Sharleen Spiteri	Princes Street, Edinburgh
19	2009–10	Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham Aly Bain	Phil & Aly Seth Lakeman Pearl and the Puppets Emily Smith	Pacific Quay, Glasgow
20	2010–11	Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham	Phil & Aly
21	2011–12	Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham	Phil & Aly Admiral Fallow Breabach The House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band
22	2012–13	Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham Catriona Shearer Craig Hill	Phil & Aly The Proclaimers Frightened Rabbit Rachel Sermanni	Princes Street, Edinburgh Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow Stirling Inverness
23	2013–14	Jackie Bird	Phil and Aly Deacon Blue John McCusker Heidi Talbot Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band	Princes Street, Edinburgh
24	2014–15		Phil & Aly Kenny Anderson Blazin' Fiddles Twin Atlantic	Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow
25	2015–16		Phil & Aly Bay City Rollers Biffy Clyro	Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow
26	2016–17	Jackie Bird Carol Kirkwood	Phil & Aly Amy Macdonald RURA	Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow Princes Street, Edinburgh
27	2017–18	Jackie Bird Roddy Hart	Phil & Aly KT Tunstall Rag'n'Bone Man The Scott Wood Band	Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow
28	2018–19	Jackie Bird Roddy Hart Bryan Burnett	Phil & Aly KT Tunstall Alesha Dixon Karine Polwart Des Clarke Gregor Fisher	Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow
29	2019–20	Susan Calman Des Clarke Amy Irons	Travis	Pacific Quay, Glasgow
30	2020–21	Susan Calman	Amy Macdonald Deacon Blue Blazin' Fiddles	Pacific Quay, Glasgow

In popular culture[]

The show was regularly lampooned in BBC Scotland's 1979–92 Hogmanay comedy sketch show Scotch and Wry (which was screened immediately before in the schedule), which usually involved Rikki Fulton in a post-closing credits skit aimed directly at Hogmanay Live. Since 1993 Only an Excuse? has occupied the same schedule position and continued the parodies.^{[citation needed]}

During Hogmanay Live 2001, one of presenter Jackie Bird's many costume changes included a small gold glittery top. Amid derision from the media,^[4]^[5]^[6] the top became one of the infamous moments of that year's programme and was auctioned off for BBC Children in Need later in the year.

References[]

^ [1]
^ "BBC – Join Susan Calman, Des Clarke and Amy Irons for Hogmanay 2019 – Media Centre". BBC. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
^ "Stirling to first-foot the nation as BBC screens Hogmanay fireworks live". stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
^ "Jackie Bird:I promise my Hogmanay dress won't be a fright night, son". Daily Record. London. 29 December 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
^ "Should all those howlers be forgot". The Scotsman. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
^ "Who told Jackie Bird to take the plunge?". The Herald. Glasgow. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

External links[]

Hogmanay Live at BBC Online
Hogmanay Live at IMDb

[1] [1]

[2] "BBC – Join Susan Calman, Des Clarke and Amy Irons for Hogmanay 2019 – Media Centre". BBC. Retrieved 6 November 2019.

[3] "Stirling to first-foot the nation as BBC screens Hogmanay fireworks live". stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2020.

[4] "Jackie Bird:I promise my Hogmanay dress won't be a fright night, son". Daily Record. London. 29 December 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

[5] "Should all those howlers be forgot". The Scotsman. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

[6] "Who told Jackie Bird to take the plunge?". The Herald. Glasgow. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

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