Rebel City Podcast

Welcome to Episode 101 of Rebel City Podcast and thank you to every single person who has listened to any of our first 100 Episodes and here is to the next 100!! This week we spoke with Natalie from Sisco Recovery. Sisco develop and deliver recovery initiatives offering pathways into Housing, Education, Employment & Recovery creating a bridge between prison & the community. We loved this conversat...

Welcome to the 100th Episode of Rebel City Podcast and what a episode we have for you this week. We had the pleasure of catching up with Scottish Greens Councillor and MSP List Candidate Kim Long. We spoke about what got Kim into politics, how the Iraq War protest was life changing, being involved in the community at University, how the climate emergency impacts us at a local level and much more....

This weeks episode of Rebel City we look at 2021 and how we are dealing with limping into the new year! We also look at the situation in US with political and societal discontent taking hold, changes in store for Scottish Labour, fall out from Celtic's trip to Dubai and much more! We will be returning to hopefully weekly with guest shows very very soon as we see the light at the end of lockdown ge...

This is a special look back at the year that was 2020. Matt and Paul took time to have a look back at 2020 and we didn't even get round to Epstein or Randy Andy...that's how much of year 2020 has been. Want to take the opportunity to thank all of our listeners for their support in 2020, we've managed to keep the Podcast going through difficult times and we are very proud. Here's to 2021!!

This week Matt and I got together for a Pre-EOY catch up. With recent performances we had to talk Celtic and Neil Lennon. Also got in about Brexit, COVID-19 Vaccine Roll Out, how fear of real life and escaping into conspiracy could be a sign of mental illness and even came up with a themed movie night when giving our usual recommendations for content. We appreciate every single listen and have see...

This weeks episode we are delighted to bring Aidan Martin, author of the amazing personal memoirs 'Euphoric Recall'. We've been on a quest to speak to the best in Scottish literature and Aidan fits right into this theme. We spoke a little about his experiences with writing the book and how he found the creative process, as we are obsessed with this topic. We also spoke about Aidan's experience wit...

This week we caught up around life and gave some reaction to Joe Biden winning the 2020 US Presidential Election to become the 46th President of the United States.

This weeks guest is fellow podcaster Kieran Burns from All About Ability. we got into a lot with Kieran who was a great guest: - Inspirations for starting All About Ability. - Playing power chair football and how its inspire him - Does limiting ideas of ability come from MSM? - Disabled representation or lack there of - Experiences in craving to be included in physical activity at school - Teacher...

This weeks guest, we have the distinct privilege to have, Douglas Stuart. Douglas, for those who have been under a rock for the last few months, is a author who has been nominated for the Booker Prize for his first novel 'Shuggie Bain'. Douglas called in from New York to speak to us about not only the book but his upbringing in Glasgow's East End, how he wrote the book for himself, how he tackled...

Another week and another pile of political shite to get through... This week we cover new lockdown rules, noticing peoples blatant disregard for them, Netflix American Murder and Spoiler alert we speak about the details, Trumps Covid scare, and Margaret Ferrier's Covid Breach. A massive thank you to everyone listening, we found out last week we are 56 in top 200 podcast in....WAIT FOR IT...Belarus...

Guys this month we have made the top 200 Podcast charts not only for the first time but for second and third! Massive thank you to everyone who has listened! This week me and Matt caught up and we had a lot to talk about: - Everyone's a covid expert and crap advice. - How people round about us are sharing strange disinformation. - Bleeding into the main stream and the idiocy pandemic. - Why are we...

Rebel City Podcast - Episode #90 - Kirstin Innes by Podcast out of Glasgow by Paul Shields and Matt Diamond

Part Two of our interview with Scottish Indie Rock Legend James Allan. Part two is amazing, James is so funny and some of stories are incredible: • Standing up to Major Record Labels • Lyrics writing themselves • Meeting Alan McGee, playing for him at King Tuts and his take on things • How fresh the Debut album feels to this day • How James relates to his own music • Playing with U2, Oasis and Kin...

This weeks guest is Scottish Indie Rock Legend, James Allan from Glasvegas. In Part One we speak about: Growing up in East End in the shadow of Celtic Park. Changing Landscape of Glasgow. Early years, school and Football. Experiences of having two passions. Transition from Football to Music. Misunderstanding of people in public eye. Early gigs and getting Glasvegas off the ground. Flow state and l...

This week we spoke to Callum Flanagan from 'Let's Talk About Loss'. LTAL are a peer support ground aimed at helping 18-35 year olds through the process of loss of a close loved one. Both me and Matt really enjoyed chatting to Callum and sharng our own expeirnces when it comes to loss. We spoke about: Who are 'Let's Talk About Loss'. Shared experiences and coping with different types of loss. diffe...

This week we managed to get back into the studio!! We got in about a lot: - Scottish podcast scene during Lockdown. - passion projects post Lockdown and how they keep you happy. - How we are coping during extended Lockdown and we are not along mentally. - anxiety of post Lockdown life. - Can we come back together like we saw at the start of Lockdown? - Socially distanced drinking. - Paul Facing Re...

This week we had the pleasure of talking to Ex Police Officer Graham Goulden. Graham is the former Ch Insp with Scottish VRU (Violence Reduction Unit) who were in partly responsible for the world renowned reduction in violent crime in Glasgow since 2005. We spoke to Graham about the changing attitudes towards how to tackle violent crime. The role that schools play in the formative years to reduce...

Rebel City Podcast - Episode #84 - Barrington Reeves - Black Lives Matter Scotland & Too Gallus by Podcast out of Glasgow by Paul Shields and Matt Diamond

This weeks guest is Better Than Zero, a organization created post Scottish Independence Referendum to tackle workers on zero hours contracts. We spoke about opinions of UK Government Furlough scheme. Potential for mass unemployment post Lockdown. Workers right, PPE and best practice if anyone has any concerns. Tam was a pleasure to talk to and gave out some valuable advice for anyone with concerns...

This weeks guest is Glaswegian Photographer Tommy Ga-Ken Wan. We got Tommy in to talk to us about being present and targeted at George Square in Glasgow, by 'Loyalist' Right Wing thugs there under the guise of protecting statues. Tommy talks us through what happened and we had a great conversation about why we find ourselves here in 2020 and some potential solutions.

Rebel City Podcast - Episode #80 - Jamie Cooke by Podcast out of Glasgow by Paul Shields and Matt Diamond

This weeks guest is former Labour MP Paul Sweeney. We got into Paul personal experiences of Lockdown, life after being an MP, new Labour Leader Keir Stramer, how the new Leader has started his opposition, current Tory Corona response, his experience of applying for Universal Credit and the back lash he got after going public.

Shaking things up from our last 7 or 8 episodes, we hooked in with the guys from Drunk Therapy Podcast. The guys, as I'm sure most know, are a great bunch and a right laugh. We spoke about how we are all finding Lockdown, polarized Scotland and UK, UK vs New Zealand Covid-19 response, sports behind closed doors and more!

This week we chat about dealing with symptoms and impact on mentality, test and trace in UK, situation in Venezuela, trying to get us back early, people waiting 45 mins on a Costa Coffee and Star Wars binges. This is our first videoed Podcast since Lockdown and so will be looking to include some guests over coming weeks :)

Part Two of the short version of the Podcast with 'Mrs Brain Trainer'. In the second and final part we talk about: • Practical advice to get out of your head. • Importance of inner dialogue and how to train that. • Offer to reach out to Amanda for effective interruption on thoughts. • How what you think is your reality. • What you put into your mind shapes that reality. • Managing personal relatio...