The Hashtag Show

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 great Hashtag Show technical graveya...

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 about wh...

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, ...

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 the beginning.

🎹 The formation of...

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 they discuss:

🎧 The ris...

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? Why did every television advert ...

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 legendary Metro days, packed bu...

🏴 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 PR Scotland has ever had?
🇺🇸 Boston's inc...

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 fallen in love with Scottish football fans, and whether ...

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 ground, why new builds terrify him, and a surprisingl...

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 brand new look, rumours of new music are swirling, Scotl...

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 and the Scottish...

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 and me. Naturally, it all...

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, and c...

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 really takes to make it in the u...

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 trying to actua...

Scott flies solo for a properly chaotic episode of The Hashtag Show. What starts with a daft musical warm-up quickly spirals into Chuck Norris tributes, mushroom people, Stephen Hawking conspiracy chat, diesel prices, global nonsense, British pubs, rotary phones, and the general feeling that the world has completely lost the plot.It’s one of those episodes where the conversation goes absolutely everywhere and somehow still ma...

This week on The Hashtag Show, Scott dives headfirst into another chaotic conversation covering everything from the mysterious Glasgow fire and the infamous vape shop rumours to the strange world of the internet “manosphere”.

Along the way we discuss AI music, the state of modern comedy, influencer dating advice that makes absolutely no sense, and why relationships might actually be much simpler than the internet wa...

This week on The Hashtag Show, Scott is joined by filmmaker Ally Robertson and script editor Scott Fleming from GTF Films.

Ally is the writer and director behind the upcoming feature film Powder, a project currently in development that explores life on the edges of society and the conflicts between rival gangs in West Lothian.

The conversation dives into the origins and ethos behind GTF Films — a Scottish filmmaking collective ...