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Lyn McNicol

Spiritual Crafter, Dream Weaver and PR Expert

Lyn McNicol is a partner in Lunicorn along with artist Laura Cameron Jackson. She also runs a music, entertainment and broadcast PR company.

Born in 1966 in Ayrshire, Lyn had dreams of working in the music industry and being a writer.

Working with her father selling toilet rolls, she started writing for local newspapers and managing bands. Within a few years, she stumbled into a job as Scottish PR for Wet Wet Wet, started writing a music column for a national tabloid and became guest arts reviewer on QFM in Paisley. She was also writing poetry and short stories, with a few successes in terms of publishing.

Disillusioned with tabloid life and realising a gap in the Scottish-based music magazine market, she set up her own magazine called Bigwig. It ran successfully for three years and sold all over the world and on the UK high street. For this, she won Cosmopolitan Magazine's Women of Achievement Award for media. She was also managing a wee band called 7/11 who have now become The Mull Historical Society and another successful singer songwriter called Lorna Brooks.

In 1997, Lyn went freelance again and worked for a number of music industry clients, including Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy (both in London & Scotland).

In Scotland she organised the first ever Nordoff-Robbins Tartan Clefs music awards whose recipients included Sharleen Spiteri, Simple Minds and Lulu. She launched whisky on Isle of Arran with Ewan McGregor, launched new music stores with Noel Redding and Hank Marvin, and was invited to become a director of Chrysalis's bid for the new Central Scotland Regional Radio Licence with Billy Connolly. She did Scottish press for Joan Armatrading and a variety of promotions with MTV, Glasgow City Council and Bacardi.

In 2000, she decided she should get a proper job and became Publicist at BBC Scotland. In this she accompanied the BBC SSO to LA for the grammies winning front page in Los Angeles Times for their nomination, orchestrated the promotions surrounding Radio Scotland's 25th anniversary, plus the usual bump & grind of getting column inches for BBC Scotland's TV output. Throughout all of this, Lyn was furthering an interest in mind, body & spirit 

Getting tired of tip-toeing through egos and becoming frustrated at the back-biting nature of her industry, she, along with artist partner Laura Cameron Jackson, set up Lunicorn and Lyn temporarily left  PR.

Lunicorn is a mystical treasure trove of all things related to unicorns. From hand-crafted unicorn believe boxes to meditation cds for children, from velvet believe books to original unicorn artwork and greeting cards, from school workshop to  meditation classes, Lunicorn exhibits its wares at most body and soul fayres throughout Scotland and pops up in the most surprising of places. Why not visit lunicorn.com and take a peek?

As Lunicorn has been evolving, the past five years have been a huge learning curve. She has now returned to PR but on her own terms, choosing the artists and clients she wishes to work with. Publicity with simplicity and ethics and she finds that the two worlds, the esoteric with Lunicorn, and the fast pace of PR, can exist symbiotically together. 

Check out both www.lunicorn.com and Lynmcnicolpr.co.uk

More about Lyn

Sign: Aries

Origin: Scotland

Colour: Purple & Red

Cultures: Celtic

Places: Dublin, Letterfrack, New York

Religion: Vegetarian

Art: Bryan Evans

Music: Kate Bush, Dusty, Al Green, Boards of Canada, KT Tunstall, Elvis, Joni Mitchell

Album: Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

Gems: Rose Quartz, amethyst

Fabrics: Velvet, cord & furry

Patterns: cowboy piping, psychedelic, pantomine

Favourite House Style - rustic, wood, stone, weathered

Favoured attire - Pantomine Principal Boy/Victorian male/cowboy

Celebrity - the late Dave Allen, comedian

Film - Brokeback Mountain

Book - The View Over Atlantis - John Michel

Animals - Dogs

Plants & Trees - Lillies, old trees

Time of Year - Spring

Favourite Luxuries - Indian Head Massage/Jamesons/French Toast

What professions are appealing to you? Writer

Which would you consider the most unappealing profession? anything to do with fish or meat

Frustrations - realising I've been smitten by an errant Virgo-an gene for making lists/mis-guided ambition/misunderstandings

Loves: swimming/adventures/learning/playing sax/pals

Bad Habits: smoking/drinking/alphabetising cds

One thing you feel strongly about: people hurting others intentionally

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