LAST night I attended the launch party for the Holyrood Rocks event that's taking place on October 31.

The all day music extravaganza aims to encourage young people's engagement in the political process, particularly among 16 and 17-year-olds, who have been given the right to vote in Scottish Parliamentary and local elections.

Organisers hope that by showcasing young musical talent, while relaying the importance of democratic rights, and the significance of the right to vote, it will encourage voter engagement in Scotland and beyond.

It was a great night although I was mightily disappointed not to see a political supergroup of current MSPs take to the stage to perform.

We could have had Ruth Davidson on drums, Willie Rennie on bass, Alex Salmond on electric guitar, with lead vocals courtesy of our own front woman First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - and someone could have given Kezia Dugdale a triangle to bang on.

That's what used to happen down at the BBC when I presented Let's Do The Show Right Here for Radio Scotland.

Rugby legend and presenter John Beattie formed a band of BBC employees with guest performers including myself, Tom Urie, Judith Ralston and even Jackie Bird.

I'm not sure how many of you know, but both Judith and Jackie are fantastic singers and can seriously belt out a tune as well as looking utterly incredible onstage. Not that I'm jealous of that last bit in the slightest of course.

In fact I saw Judith perform only last summer at the reopening of the Kelvingrove Bandstand in Glasgow's West End. I was also performing that day with the wonderful Honest Sam and The Dealers.

Country music is my guilty pleasure and I love singing it whenever I get the opportunity. Although now that I've become slightly addicted to Sky's Nashville drama I've found myself shopping online for cowboy boots and denim skirts which, let's be brutally honest, is not a look I could pull off successfully.

Plaid shirts and Stetsons aside I'm very excited about the event I'm performing at tomorrow in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow for CHAS. It's a ladies' lunch and our host for the day is my gorgeous pal Cat Harvey with her former breakfast radio partner in crime Ewen Cameron doing the auction.

Cat actually messaged me last week saying "it's EPIC when the charity says they're worried about the three of us being in one room together" and they should be.

I sometimes would stand in for Cat when she was off on holiday and co-host with Ewen. I remember one particular morning live on air just after Ewen had told the country how rough I looked at 6am.

He decided to turn all the lights off in the studio and read an excerpt from the then unknown 50 Shades of Grey book that had just hit the shelves using only a torch to set the mood.

It was the single most disturbing but hilarious moment I'd ever experienced live on radio.

Let's not forget I once had to sit next to Gillian McKeith during an interview where she spoke for five minutes about my bowel movements while promoting our You Are What You Eat show for Channel 4.

I'm still in therapy for that one!

Hopefully though we will raise lots of money for this fantastic charity tomorrow. The Children's Hospice Association is probably one of the most incredible charities that I'm proud to be associated with and the ladies at the Radisson tomorrow are in for a real treat.

If you would like to know more about CHAS and how you can donate log onto www.chas.org.uk.

I HAVE to say a huge thank you to everyone who made my friend Carrie's 40th birthday day out such a massive success on Saturday.

Thank you to Little's on Paisley Road West for the beautiful chauffeur driven car, and to Michelle Mooney and her team at 29 Private Members Club for a lovely afternoon on the roof terrace with far too much wine.

And last but not least thank you to Pauline and her team at West Brewery for a great end to our day.

Apologies though to Marcel, our very hunky German tour guide who tried in vain to educate us all about the brewery itself after we'd arrived in a rather dishevelled state from 29.

I genuinely don't think I've ever had to utter the words "no, he's not a stripper we've hired so put him down" before.

So thanks for being a great sport and taking those unwanted kisses on the chin.