The Back Bar Podcast

We move into week 2 of Doddie Aid and are joined by Warriors & Scotland legend, current Saracens assistant coach& Team Glasgow headliner, Kelly Brown! We chat about how, as a borders native, he ended up with Team Glasgow, how his challenge is going, working with Saracens and also a look ahead to the 6 Nations. The Warrior Nation also receive quite the compliment on behalf of Saracens... Th...

Glasgow Warriors Captain and co-Captain of Doddie Aid Team Glasgow, Ryan Wilson, joins us at The Back Bar for a chat ahead of Doddie Aid kicking off on 1st January. We also touch on how the rugby's going for Glasgow and Scotland this season, as well as a condensed but enlightening speed round...Remember you can sign up to #DoddieAid at www.doddieaid.com and make sure you pick #TeamGlasgow :) 

Just in time for Christmas we're joined by former WBO Cruiserweight champion, Enzo Maccarinelli. A tough guy in the ring, that packed one hell of a punch, but an absolute gem outside of it. We heard about a teenage Enzo getting driven up to Glasgow for a fight and supposed mismatches, winning world titles, slapping about some heavyweights and the big bouts against David Haye and Roy Jones.  T...

Join the boys for a brand spanking new episode as we get hammered in a different way with Scottish Olympian and Commonwealth games hammer thrower Chris Bennett!  We chat about his training regime, representing Team GB at the Rio Olympics, breaking records (and why some have lasted so long), and sleeping on Dame Kelly Holmes shoulder. We also dig into the mental side of making it to Olympic standar...

We're back baby! The boys are back at the virtual back bar for another season of guests stories and banter. To kick it off we've got a bit of hollywood glitz and glamour to the show with Hamilton's own movie star and producer, Mr Gianni Capaldi.  This is quite the insight into life in showbiz, where he hear about the Celtic supporting Scots contingent in Hollywood, doing movies with...

We're back to finish off Season 2 of The Back Bar Podcast! Real life got in the way for a few weeks, but we're behind the mics again and re-joined by our first ever guest and everyone's favourite prison guard, Adam McCormick!  We'll hear what he's been up to, what's been going on with all your hosts, discover some podcast guest rivalry and get a peek at a new feature...

As ever, be friends and tell friends. Spread the word of The Back Bar, and the easiest way is to like, share, retweet, rate, review etc even do it all twice if you want! :)  Park yersel up, get a couple of drinks to hand and just sit back and enjoy this one, it's well worth the listen, even in our humble opinions. Our mum's think so too though so there is that.... We're joined by fo...

Next up at The Back Bar is Brewgooder's co-founder James Hughes. This was a great chat with a very impressive entrepreneur, who not only makes one of our favourite things, but also does it with an important social impact purpose behind it all. It turns out there's more to setting up your own brewery than just being able to have a limitless supply of beer, although we do confirm that is a...

This time things are taken up a notch intellectually as we have Consultant Neuropathologist Professor (not Dr, we did check) Willie Stewart on for a chat.  Willie specialises in sports head injuries, examining the impact this has on the brain and the long term effects for athletes, both professional and amateur. It's a pretty hot topic at the moment so it was great to hear his thoughts on how...

Here we go again, and this time we welcome Scott Steele to the back up for a catch up. We talk through being part of a history making Scotland team after this years 6 Nations wins in London and Paris, and confirm how many positions he's played in his relatively short international career so far!  Also, how that all capped a whirlwind year since the impact of COVID and lockdown threatened to d...

OiOi!! We went transatlantic for this one, welcoming Scottish exiles Adam Ashe and Glenn Bryce from the Golden State to the back bar for some banter. An absolute pleasure hearing from these lads as they fill us in on the LA adventure so far, the beach lifestyle, celeb spotting and the few things they miss from back home. Find out where Steve-O and Nicole Scherzinger come into the story and how lif...

Are you with me? Aye we are! The lads were buzzing to have Scottish singer/songwriter and social media sensation Brooke Combe (not Coombe ya dummies) join us at The Back Bar!  She's recently released her debut single and launched into the hearts of Scotland fans last year with her acoustic cover of Yes Sir I Can Boogie! You'll no doubt have seen or heard her on This Morning, Sky Sports,...

Award winning Scottish crime author Chris Brookmyre is with the lads for this episode. It was a bit of a challenge for us to keep up with this super intelligent guy, but we gave it a go and had middling success....Hear how Chris got into writing and what is was like having James Nesbitt bring one of his characters to life on tv! We also chat about the Ambrose Parry novels co-written with his wife...

The guys are back for Season 2 at The Back Bar, and kicking off with former Celtic & Scotland bhoy wonder, Simon Donnelly! It's a great chat talking through Simon's playing and coaching career, and getting real insight into the highlights and lowlights (Denilson's manners need brushing up) of it all, along with all our thoughts on Steve Clarke's Scotland squad for the upcom...

This is a fun one as we're joined by their good mate and brother of a previous guest, Mr Babatunde Ojo, or Babs to friends. We find out that he's been far more productive than us throughout the year of lockdown, and come out of it looking and sounding gooooood, between his fitness goals and singing aspirations (check out @tjomusic on instagram). We hit some listener questions, an impromp...

The brilliant Emma Dodds joined us for a refreshment and a chat at The Back Bar. We had an incredibly entertaining and insightful conversation with Emma, in particular on her thoughts of her own progress and that of other women in what has been predominantly a male environment. We also go over some of the roughly 10 million achievements in her career to date, from delivering sausage rolls to the g...

The latest guest to The Back Bar is all American hero, Nate Boyer. We could have spent hours talking to him, and only really scratched the surface of his incredible and inspiring life story. We hear about his time volunteering in Sudan, which was followed by distinguished military service as a Green Beret.  We then got into what it's like to follow that with moving into student life in your l...

As we hit the half-dozen mark (who had us not making it past one?)  we're joined by a certified legend in former England International and London Irish record holder, Topsy Ojo.  Plenty of laughs in this one, as questions are raised on the accuracy of Wikipedia's try count and hearing what it's like to intercept the great Dan Carter for a length of the pitch try on your internationa...

Absolutely delighted to have the legend of Scottish media and fitba, Tam Cowan, on shooting the shit with the guys this week. It's a hugely entertaining and interesting weave through different aspects of Tam's career and hearing about the characters he's met along the way, some real belly laughs were had on this one! We also put to bed any speculation on who he really supports (spoi...

The owner of Archangel 1608 tattoo studio, David "Tattoo Dave" McKinlay calls in to join us at the Back Bar this week, and it's a hilarious conversation. We covered everything from a spat with Tam Cowan, to reality tv shows, his claim to the WWE world title and of course his attempts at securing a sponsorship deal (or even just a festive bake) from Greggs. We had a great time here a...

Joining the lads this week is former Glasgow, Scotland and British Lions star, Ryan Grant. We delve into how to have yourself multiple stag doos without multiple wives, arriving in pro rugby via the Army, touring with Scotland & the Lions and life after rugby . As always the back bar team have their heroes and zeros to discuss, and find out why Thor is really the favourite Avenger....get it do...

This time we're joined by former Scotland rugby international Ruaridh Jackson. We talk everything from baths to big hits. Hear about Glasgow and Scotland debuts against Wilkinson & Carter. Did Courtney Lawes just get a lucky hit?! How did Jordi Murphy get back up?!  Get some inside chat on in pro rugby, the big rivalries, pitchside banter and social media interactions. An entertaining hou...

The boys have a top guest, Adam 'A-Dogg' McCormick join us this week. In amongst all the chat we get some insight to life as a prison officer, hear the story of how he got capped for Scotland at rugby and find out which one of us would make the best prison guard. We also hit him with the speed round and discuss our heroes and zeros of the week.