The Hashtag Show

🎬  BILLY BOYD AKA SILIBIL — THE TRUE STORY BEHIND CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN'!  🎙️🔥 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN OUTRAGEOUS STORY BECOMES A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE? www.silibil.com to buy Billy's Book This week on  The Hashtag Show , Scott Gibson welcomes  Billy Boyd, aka Silibil , whose remarkable life story inspired  California Schemin' , the directorial debut of Hollywood actor James McAvoy. It's a s...

🚨 HEATHER FINNIE — THE VOICE OF A GENERATION | ULTRA-SONIC, QFX & THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCOTTISH DANCE MUSIC 🚨🏴 SCOTLAND. THE 1990s. THE RAVE REVOLUTION.Some voices are instantly recognisable. Some songs transport you back to a moment in your life. And some artists help define an entire generation. HEATHER FINNIE IS ONE OF THOSE ARTISTS.❤️From the unforgettable vocals of Ultra-Sonic's *Obse...

🚨  HEATHER FINNIE — THE VOICE OF A GENERATION | ULTRA-SONIC, QFX & THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCOTTISH DANCE MUSIC  🚨 🏴  SCOTLAND. THE 1990s. THE RAVE REVOLUTION. Some voices are instantly recognisable. Some songs transport you back to a moment in your life. And some artists help define an entire generation. HEATHER FINNIE IS ONE OF THOSE ARTISTS.  ❤️ From the unforgettable vocals of Ultra-Sonic&#39...

🎙️  SOLO PODCAST — 1,000 SUBSCRIBERS, TIGERS & ABSOLUTE NONSENSE!  🔥 THE HASHTAG SHOW IS BACK WITH ANOTHER SOLO EPISODE! No guests. No sensible conversation. Just Scott Gibson, a microphone and absolutely no idea where the conversation is going to end up. 😂 ❤️ First up, we're celebrating a massive milestone for the podcast —  1,000 SUBSCRIBERS ON YOUTUBE! Scott takes a moment to thank ev...

🚨  DENIS McBRIDE — HANGAR 13 | THE CLUB OF THE FUTURE  🚨 🏴  SCOTLAND. THE 1990s. THE RAVE REVOLUTION. In the early 90s, Scotland was at the centre of an explosion in electronic music. And in an old pavilion in Ayr, something extraordinary was happening. It was called  HANGAR 13 . A nightclub that became legendary. A place where thousands of young people travelled from across Scotland and beyond...

👕  HARRY MILLER — FORTY CLOTHING From a three-year-old boy drawing a monster… to one of Glasgow’s most recognisable independent clothing brands. This week on  The Hashtag Show , Scott sits down with  Harry Miller , founder of Forty Clothing, for a proper deep dive into the story behind the brand — and the man behind it. Harry talks about his early years in Glasgow’s fashion and club culture, his...

Sydney Sweeney. Bayne’s the Bakers. Danny Dyer. MobLand. Nigella Lawson. Five subjects that have absolutely no business appearing in the same conversation. Welcome back to  Solo Gibb . This week Scott locks himself in a dangerously overheated podcast studio and attempts to make sense of another completely normal week on planet Earth. It doesn't go well. Sydney Sweeney has caused another intern...

The story of Ultimate Buzz continues — and this time, Robert McLean tells the part he's never really told before. In Episode 332 of The Hashtag Show, Scott sits down with Rab McLean for Part 2 of their conversation — moving beyond the glory days of Scotland's rave explosion and into the complicated story of what was happening behind the scenes. Rab talks openly about his relationship with...

“We were part of a movement.” This week on The Hashtag Show, Scott sits down with  Robert McLean — original member of Ultimate Buzz and now founding member of The Deejay Project. Robert was there when Scotland's rave scene exploded. Packed clubs. The Barrowlands. All-nighters. Tom Wilson. Steppin' Out. Ultra-Sonic. The Rhythmic State. Carl Cox. Vinyl. Sweat. Smoke. Strobes. And thousands o...

This week’s episode was supposed to be a brilliant three-hour conversation with Zoe and Kev from Lost Soul Tattoo Collective. It is not. Because Scott has, once again, discovered that owning thousands of pounds worth of podcast equipment does not automatically make you a sound engineer. The cameras were pointing at foreheads. The audio was destroyed. And an entire interview disappeared into the gr...

David Forbes Part 2 | A State of Trance, Hal Stucker & Scottish Rave Stories David Forbes is back — and Part Two goes even deeper.  🎧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 After taking things right back to the beginning in Part One, this week we continue the story of one of Scotland’s most respected DJs and producers. From the nerves of closing  A State of Trance  to the madness of the Scottish rave scene, Davie opens up...

David Forbes | From Glasgow’s Mayfair to A State of Trance This week on  The Hashtag Show , Scott sits down with one of Scotland’s most respected and enduring DJs and producers —  David Forbes . 🎧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 And this time… we actually remembered to record the whole thing. From walking into Glasgow’s legendary  Mayfair Club at just 17 years old with a handful of records , to producing music, travelli...

This week on  The Hashtag Show , Scott sits down with  Andy Cocozza , founding member of Scottish rave legends  The Rhythmic State . And what a story this is. From two young guys in Livingston experimenting with keyboards and trying to turn the sounds in their heads into music, to creating some of the most recognisable tracks of Scotland's legendary 90s rave scene. Andy takes us right back to...

This week on  The Hashtag Show , Scott sits down with legendary Scottish music producer  Andy Haldane  for a fascinating conversation about the music that shaped a generation. From producing  Ultrasonic ,  TTF , and countless Scottish dance classics to working alongside Mallorca Lee, Andy shares incredible behind-the-scenes stories from one of the most exciting eras in Scottish music. Together the...

Scotland is melting, the World Cup is reaching its conclusion and Gibbo has discovered that neither his body nor his wardrobe was designed for 28-degree heat. This week’s solo episode of The Hashtag Show travels from fat-man summer fashion and painfully expensive restaurant meals to the strange fears forced upon Scottish children in the 1980s. Why were we convinced dog shite would make us blind? W...

The Governor is back. 👑 For the first time in Hashtag Show history, we welcome back a returning guest as Scottish dance music legend Joe Deacon joins Scott for another completely unfiltered conversation. What begins with terrible flights, airport chaos and the decline of modern life soon takes a trip through Glasgow’s past — from growing up in the Calton, first jobs and family life, to the legend...

🏴 Scotland might be out of the World Cup... but did we actually lose? This week Scott looks back at Scotland's unforgettable time in America, why the Tartan Army completely won over Boston, Steve Clarke stepping down, Peter Murrell heading to prison, surviving Scotland's ridiculous heatwave... and why maybe politicians could learn a thing or two from football fans. Plus... ⚽ The greatest...

The world feels like it's falling apart... but somehow Scotland have managed to cheer up an entire American city. This week Scott talks the G7, social media bans, protests, free speech, men's mental health, and why he thinks everyone needs to calm the hell down. There's also a deep dive into Scotland's World Cup campaign, the Tartan Army's takeover of Boston, why Americans have...

Scotland are heading to the World Cup and for once we're not interested in hearing the usual doom and gloom. This week Scott talks Scotland's chances in America, the proposed World Cup bank holiday, American football fans, and why Scottish supporters are about to drink every bar dry from New York to Miami. There's also a look at the Clackmannanshire village slowly sinking into the grou...

This week it's a solo episode and absolutely nobody is safe. Scott dives into Peter Murrell's guilty plea, the world's most disappointing embezzlement scandal, and the bizarre shopping list that has Scotland asking one very important question: if you're going to steal £400,000, why spend it on a camper van, coffee machines and salt shakers? Elsewhere, Susan Boyle has unveiled a bra...

This week on  The Hashtag Show , Scott sits down with Scottish DJ and vinyl obsessive  William Daniel  for a proper deep dive into music, memories and Glasgow club culture. 🎧 From working in  23rd Precinct , discovering hardcore and rave through tapes passed around school, to playing his first gig at  The Metro  aged just 16, William shares stories from a life built around records, dance music an...

It’s election week in Scotland, the country is in full squeaky bum mode, and Scott Gibson has accidentally created a brand-new political movement:  The Poseidon Party . 🌊 This week on  The Hashtag Show , Scott rants through Scottish politics, the SNP, Reform, fishing wars, oil in the North Sea, why Scotland should invade France and Spain, and why anything that comes from the sea is good for you a...

The world’s in chaos, diesel prices are rising, Scotland’s heading towards another election, and somehow  The Hashtag Show  is still here to make sense of none of it. 🌍🔥 This week, Scott Gibson dives into politics, global madness, rising costs, tsunamis, mushrooms, wellies, and the general state of a country that feels like it’s running on fumes. As always, it’s raw, unfiltered, very Scottish, a...

DJing, techno, vinyl records, the future of music, and the death of club culture… this one goes deep. This week on The Hashtag Show, Scott sits down with Scottish DJ and producer DJ Valhalla (James Boy) for a raw, unfiltered conversation about music, creativity, and building a career from the ground up. From pressing his own vinyl records to running Groove Shack Records, Valhalla shares what it re...

Another solo episode and it goes exactly where you’d expect… absolutely everywhere. Scott kicks things off with war talk, diesel prices and a world that feels like it’s falling apart 🌍 before diving into stories about his dad, care homes, panic alarms and why getting old in the UK is chaos 😂There’s a rant on weight loss culture, the madness of things like Weight Watchers, and the reality of tryi...