Rebel City Podcast

This week we continue to chat about the ongoing bin-fire that is modern life in the UK and beyond. We get into the spectacle of who can claim to be the biggest a***hole that is The Tory Leadership contest and why their horrible rhetoric isn’t actually aimed at you. We discuss whether or not Trump is finally done and what that means for the nutter MAGA movement and for some light relief, get into r...

Paul and I finally manage to get caught up on recent events after a few weeks of life getting in the way. We chat Roe vs Wade, it’s impact in America and further afield. How Matt’s YouTube tried to use reviews of Sci-Fi content to radicalise him and more. All likes, shares and comments welcome.

This week we’re talking about the good fans can do for their respective communities through football with Neil Cowan of Jags For Good. Jags For Good are a Partick Thistle supporters group who are currently engaging with the club in a number of ways, from season book donation drives that include the local refugee population to help them settle in their new surroundings, to food bank drives and coll...

This week we’re talking about the rise of Cryptocurrency and NFTs with Daniel Thomas, Chancellors Fellow at Strathclyde University, who specialises in Security and Cybercrime. We discuss everything from the mechanics of Crypto and it’s impact on both the environment and society, the volatility of the markets and if the claims made around the security of exchanges and the blockchain are everything...

It‘s been a few weeks since we last got something out, a mixture of covid, holidays and laziness held us up. This week we’re catching up on recent events before moving on to our upcoming guests. With the absolute shit-show that the UK has become, this one gets a little heated, fair warning.

This week’s guest is David Cranna, author of Glass City, a self-published detective noir comic set 100 years in the future - where Glasgow (Glass City) finds itself amalgamated with Edinburgh to make one massive mega-city. We chat about the process of making comics, including building a team and funding your endeavour. We compare notes on some of our favourite comics as well as discuss Glasgow’s p...

In our first episode of 2022, Paul and I caught up on what’s been happening over recent months, the stresses and strains of Christmas and New Year and the impact of Partygate amongst other things. Sorry our new year episode is out in February, Paul had this ready a week ago and I totally missed that we were ready to go. We’re a slick operation! 

Hi guys,  Sorry for the long break but we're back with another excellent guest in Anna Cowan!  Anna is the Co-Founder of Girls Against, a campaign group standing up to sexual assault and misogyny in live music venues.   We'd like to thank Anna for her time and her voice on a growing issue with the rise in spikings happening in Night Clubs across the UK.

This week we’re getting into independent Scottish cinema with Paul Morris, writer, director and, from the sounds of it, pretty much everything in between at some point in the production of his new film Angry Young Men. We chat about the challenges and hurdles faced when making a movie independently in this country, how technology has changed things and how Paul’s influences can be seen in his work...

This week we got together to catch up on the news of the last month or  so.  We spoke about the hysteria around Saudi money being pumped into  Newcastle United, how COP26 is a load of pish, our pal Jeff over at  Amazon ruined a genuine human moment for William Shatner and Dave  Chappelle's latest special and controversy around its content. Please like, subscribe, comment a...

After a few weeks of being respectively floored with both Covid and Novid, we left the beers alone and finally did some work! We discuss plans to explore streaming formats and some of the great content producers we’ve engaged with so far, the nonsensical hypocrisy at the heart of Cancel Culture, the word “Hun” in the context of the current attempts to deflect legitimate criticism for overt racism...

This week we caught up with long-time friend of the show and host of her own We Stories with People Podcast, Jen Murray. We discuss the power of conversation, travel and more. All likes, shares, subs, etc welcome

This week we got into the studio on our own to talk about the recent drug death statistics in Scotland, how it has been communicated after last years report, how we see the history playing a part, the responsibility the SNP must take and where we go from here.    We also chat about Billionaires going to space, how blind they and the media are to the view of this from the general pub...

In this week’s episode we get into a topic we’ve been looking to cover for a while, disinformation. We hear about it more and more, wether that be in the election of Trump in 2016 or throughout the Covid pandemic. Our guests are Nik Williams a Journalist Protection Advisor at CFWIJ and Director at The Ferret as well as Lawyer and Academic Stephen Macleod Blythe. As always all likes, shares and sub...

Hi guys,    This week we got back in the studio with Joseph Donnelly author of  'Checkpoint: How video games power up minds, kick ass and save lives'.  If that book title didn't give it away, we're following up on our short a few weeks back to talk about Gaming and how it can and does have a  positive impact on mental health.    We hope as always you enjoy this e...

Hey guys,  It's been a couple of week but life got in the way!!  We got back into  the studio and caught up on a lot that we've been looking at over the  past couple of weeks.  We really enjoy these one to one podcasts and it  give Matt and I the opportunity to really chat and it tends to have a  real no pressure chat that has a cathartic effect!  We hope yo...

Hello and Welcome to Episode 110 of Rebel City Podcast, This weeks guest we had the privilege of sitting down with one of Scotland's top Podcasters and Producers Halina Rifai of the incredible 'A Sonic Hug' podcast, which if you haven't already you should 100% go check out before the new series gets published. We spoke about a lot and Halina was a great guest but we spoke about podcasting as Halin...

Hey guys, Welcome to Episode 109 of Rebel City Podcast, this week we had the pleasure of sitting down with Jubemi AKA Glasgow up and coming Rapper Bemz. We had an incredible conversation with Jubemi about how he ended up in Glasgow and becoming the Rap focal point in Glasgow during Lockdown with his amazing EP, Saint of Lost Causes. We spoke about the Glasgow Rap scene as he found it moving up fro...

Hi guys, Welcome to this weeks episode of Rebel City Podcast. This week we have for you the larger than life Donald C MacLeod MBE, creator and owner of Glasgow's legendary Rock Club The Cathouse. It was an pleasure to sit down with the man responsible for the most inclusive club in Glasgow if not Scotland, a man who has brought so many incredible acts to our city and had so many punters cross the...

This weeks guest is the incredible Glaswegian Singer-Songwriter Scott Charles. We caught up on his new single 'Central Station', talked about mental health and how music and the scene has changed over the years. We had a wee beer to celebrate getting back to face to face interviews and we couldn't have asked for a better guy to be the first one back!

This week's guest, following on from previous coverage of the 2021 Scottish Elections, is Bob Doris SNP MSP for Maryhill and Springburn currently running for reelection. It was a pleasure to talk to Bob about his path into politics, how politics seems to be evolving, what he would like to see happen in an independent Scotland, the Scottish Government's handling of Covid-19 Pandemic and much much m...

Back to the Studio....AGAIN! - Rebel City Podcast - Episode #105 by Podcast out of Glasgow by Paul Shields and Matt Diamond

This week we had the pleasure of chatting to Ely Percy about their latest book 'Duck Feet'. What a lovely chat we had and we advise everyone to go grab a copy of this amazing book, and to wet your whistles we have Ely read Chapter One at the end of the Podcast. :) Buy the book here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/duck-feet/ely-percy//9781916117921

This week we welcome back the amazing Tom McGuire for Tom McGuire & The Brassholes. One of a few to return for a second episode here at Rebel City and we can't be happier to do so in line with the release of their new single, the tremendous 'Super Solid Soul Vehicle'. We caught up with Tom about how he's found that second album mountain, lockdown life, finding new ways to be creative and much more...

This week's guest is Keiran O'Neill, Scottish Labour MSP Candidate for Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn. We found Keiran to be a lovely guy and although we don't agree with everything that Keiran is standing for in his election attempt, we wish him luck and think he personally would make a great MSP.