The Brass Neck Podcast

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 36 With Billy Boyd “But What About Really?” You know you’ve had an interesting life when it spawns documentaries, films, books and folklore. What’s real, what’s fake, what’s genuine and what’s fabricated and blown out of proportion? Movies aren’t documentaries but when it’s a story about your life eventually you want the truth to come out and people to understand wh...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 35 With Valissa Scott “Over Sharers Anonymous” Some people are quiet, reserved, shy and fiercely private. A camp that myself or today’s guest have never belonged to. It takes all different types of people to make the world go round but we’re here to make it just a wee bit louder! We may over share or say things that people would never say but that’s our therapy If y...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 34 With Johnny Malice.

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 33 With Ghostbusters Alba. Who You Gonny Phone?? If there’s something fishy happening in your scheme or even worse you find out you’ve been sleeping wae a see through guy…dont worry, I’ll gie my pals a phone. If their Particle Throwers or Proton Wands don’t scare them away maybe a bucket full of pound coins to the napper will! Ghosts might be scary to normal people...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 32 With Jack Traynor - When Stauner met Crackpipe. We existed in the same cinematic universe but had never met in real life. Think Deadpool and Wolverine but Glaswegian… (Even I would camp outside Cineworld to be first in to see that masterpiece!) The comedy scene in Glasgow is thriving and it no mystery as to why, one word…PATTER! Join us from Barlinnie to Grimsby...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 31 With Reese Jack - Bean Doon The Barras Lately? In a world of mass produced AI shite and criminally expensive coffee chains charging you a fortune for slop in a fancy cup…be like my next guest He discovered a genuine love for hospitality while washing pots straight out of school and took that passion all over the world sourcing beans to bring back home to The Barr...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 30 With John Jackson - Smell Yer Braw! What does growing a beard and breaking your back have in common? Generally not very much but for my next guest it meant a transition from one life to another. High speed mountain bike races are extreme but so is having a beard shaped like a boat…which is more mental? I’ll let you decide Check out the Braw Beard and Moustache Ch...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 29 With Mark Dallas - All Hail the Highlander from HELL! Well folks we have our very first returning guest and it could only be the one person who I’ve walked a million roads with, drank a million beers with and collected a million scars for! When talking about the absurdity of the profession we spent our entire adult lives in it sounds far fetched, that is of cours...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 28 With Artie Trezise - The Big Brass Neck Song Book. I’ve done lots of shows in my time but now where near the amount that my next guest has. 7000 shows is an unbelievable number but it’s even more unbelievable considering he had a 15 year folk career before he even started the group that would become the the soundtrack to millions of childhoods…mine included! We h...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 27 With Maggie Stevenson - John Wayne Was An Arsehole! A phenomenon took over Glasgow a few years back, it strutted in like It owned the place, kicked the door down and it doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere anytime soon! Its followers are passionate, loyal and protective. You’ve seen them in town, they’re everywhere and they mostly travel in groups. Uniform isn’t...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 26 With Robert & May Miller - Have Another Biscuit Father & Ignore that Monkey. There aren’t many performers who can claim to have entertained generations of people and there are even fewer who are still going strong after 50 years! I knew about them long before I ever met them because their names are legendary in the city of Glasgow. You name a place, they’...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 25 With Bebe Amadeus - Porn 2 Pop, Pain 2 Power

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 24 With Sean McLaughlin - In For a Penny In For a Plum. Teaser. Pro Wrestling Referee, Nando’s connoisseur, Certified old man, Brass Neck Podcast fanatic, Father…My Pal. We’ve lived life on the road, foot down to the floor, 70 miles an hour but no more. Tonight he jumps through the telly and straight into The Variety Bar. He likes his chicken spicy and his ice cream...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 23 With Audrey Tait - Evil Eye (Brow Appointment) Lockdown was a very strange time, One minute you’re doing a Zoom gig and rushing to get your eyebrows done and the next minute you’re joining Franz Ferdinand. Join us from The Variety Bar as we take a wee trip down memory lane, from High School soul band buddies all the way through the weird and wonderful world of li...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 22 With Jane Henderson - Nobody Puts Baby in an Ambulance. Nappies, Dummies, Rattles, Talcum Powder?…Nah! Drag Queens, X-Rated Balloons, GBX and a free Ice Cream Van…That’s a baby shower! Join me in The Variety Bar as I talk wedding plans with that may or may not include a baby highland cow called Brenda. What am I talking about? It’s too hard to explain but all wil...

Balls. Bollocks. Nuts. Plums. Goolies. Gonads. Just a few of the countless words we use to avoid saying testicles . We've got no shortage of nicknames for them... but how often do you actually check yours? Do you even know how to check them? And if so, how often should you? If the answer is yes, brilliant. You're already doing something that could save your life. If the answer is no, you're far fr...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 20 With Jen Neil - It's Finger Clickin Good! “What really goes on backstage during a Glaswegian Panto season? Two shows every single day from November to January while living in each other pockets. You’d think we’d all be at each other throats but in reality it’s just a three month long wind up between a cast who are all trying to out do each other. From a childhood...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 19 With Pike n Patters Jamie & Dayle - Patter Doon The Watter. Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse, Robson Green. Giants of the fishing world who have dominated the sport for a very long time…too long in fact. Well boys move up because there’s a new triple threat hitting the water and we’re here to dominate. Fresh off the winners podium at the Scottish Podcast awards...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 18 With Tony Wright - Mohair, Monkey Business. Is there anything worse than getting a dodgy hair cut? Nobody wants the anxiety of meeting their mates or going to work for the first time knowing they’re about to get absolutely slaughtered. What is the solution? Get yourself a barber you trust and hold on them for dear life! I’m Jack Jester. This is The Brassneck Podc...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 17 With Joe Coffey - Guns Dont Kill People, Sunbeds Do. Scotland has been the talk of the world the last few weeks, The Tartan Army have taken America by storm and people are becoming aware just how special it is to be a Scot. We invented everything, we supply non stop patter but only 3 people can say the trained Dwayne “The Rock” Johnston for Wrestlemania and my ne...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 16 With Toots_Spilled_Ink - We Need To Talk About Kevin. The term “quality over quantity” applies to many things in life and that includes friendship. It’s not how much time you spend with someone, it’s how you spend that time that matters. Picture the scene…you meet a bar man called Kevin at a gig in Glasgow then 20 years later you’re spray painting his face on the...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 15 With Veronica Salt Teaser 1 The late great Glen Campbell once sang “Like a rhinestone cowboy, riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo” but if that song were to be covered by my next guest the lyrics would be “Like a rhinestone G-string, limping out of the club with my arse screaming NO NO NO!” Would it be a number one hit? Yes it would. So buckle up, get y...

The Brass Neck Podcast: Episode 14 With Kevin Brannigan "The Anaphylactic Shock Factor". “Glasgow has a reputation for being rough, dangerous and intimidating, all of which can be true. What isn’t spoken about enough is the heart that runs through the city and the people who live there. Our humour can be harsh and we laugh at things that shock other people but that all comes from growing up in a p...

We’ve all had a smoked sausage but not all of us have actually smoked a sausage. No I’m not talking about putting a sausage in a smoker I’m talking about actually smoking a sausage…like a hamlet or perhaps a cigarillo. I bet nine of you invite your scheme down to the shops to admire your new clobber either. No judgement, why would you? I know a gout who does though. He can also dance with 100% com...

We’ve all heard someone saying “There’s nothing worse than people not putting their weights back when they’re finished with them” but those people clearly haven’t been threatened with a gun halfway through a shoulder workout but my next guest has! He has also been berated for wandering along the motorway looking for a urinal but no guns were involved in that encounter just harsh words… Fresh from...