Hogmanay Live
Hogmanay Live is BBC Scotland's annual live event programme broadcast from the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow 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 program, though not as a host.
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.
In 2019, Hogmanay Live was called Hogmanay 2019, was presented by Calman, Clarke and Irons, and was not filmed live.
History
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.Broadcasts
The programme is broadcast throughout the United Kingdom on BBC One Scotland. The BBC's London celebration, New Year's Eve Fireworks is also available in Scotland via digital television as well as BBC Two's Hootenanny with Jools Holland.Jackie Bird hosted the show every year from 1999 until 2019. Before then, it had various hosts.
| No. | Year | Presenter | Guest | Location |
| 1 | 1991–92 | Various | Unknown | Various |
| 2 | 1992–93 | Various | Unknown | Various |
| 3 | 1993–94 | Various | Unknown | Various |
| 4 | 1994–95 | Various | Unknown | Various |
| 5 | 1995–96 | Various | Unknown | Various |
| 6 | 1996–97 | Various | Unknown | Various |
| 7 | 1997–98 | Various | Unknown | Various |
| 8 | 1998–99 | Various | Unknown | Various |
| 9 | 1999–00 | Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham | Unknown | Various |
| 10 | 2000–01 | Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham | Unknown | Various |
| 11 | 2001–02 | Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham | Unknown | Various |
| 12 | 2002–03 | Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham | Unknown | Various |
| 13 | 2003–04 | Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham | Unknown | Various |
| 14 | 2004–05 | Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham | Unknown | Various |
| 15 | 2005–06 | Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham | Phil & Aly KT Tunstall Nicola Benedetti Texas | Princes Street, Edinburgh Great Hall, Edinburgh |
| 16 | 2006–07 | Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham | 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 | Pacific Quay, Glasgow |
| 21 | 2011–12 | Jackie Bird Phil Cunningham | Phil & Aly Admiral Fallow Breabach The House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band | Pacific Quay, Glasgow |
| 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 | Jackie Bird | Phil & Aly Kenny Anderson Blazin' Fiddles Twin Atlantic | Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow |
| 25 | 2015–16 | Jackie Bird | 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 |
In popular culture
The show was regularly lampooned in BBC Scotland's 1979–92 Hogmanay comedy sketch show Scotch and Wry, 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.During Hogmanay Live 2001, one of presenter Jackie Bird's many costume changes included a small gold glittery top. Amid derision from the media, 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.