Nuart Aberdeen 2026

Added: 2026-05-04

[00:00:00]Yo yo yo, what's happening? I'm going on a big fat adventure today all the way to Aberdeene. Going up to see Kieran and the homies for New Art Festival and I should be a good looking forward to it.

[00:00:12]I need to get the bus up and the bus back which is going to be heavy shan's got me a press pass so I don't know what that means but access all areas I guess.

[00:00:23]Come with me. Let's go and check out new art festival. See what happens.

[00:00:42]So that's me. I've arrived. I've acquired a Kieran Gold Bell.

[00:00:46]>> Welcome to Aberdine.

[00:00:48]>> Welcome to Aberdine. We've got our first mural on our hands, which is this big bad boy by KM Jizzel, who featured heavily in the last video because she was curating the show.

[00:01:06]There's even a weakapan bubble letter. Right, this boy's huge.

[00:01:18]I'll let you see the full scale of it.

[00:01:20]It's kind of mental and it's funny. I get to basically just be a tourist today and just cut about filming murals and [ __ ] like that.

[00:01:39]>> Right, Kieran, tell us >> what is on the agenda for today? Well, we're on day 10 of production. I think it's day 10. H basically all the all the artists are here in Aberine. There's a lot of academics for the new art plus stuff, the conferences and [ __ ] like that.

[00:01:58]>> Panda's just arrived. So, we're going to go and take you out to the hub, get your press pass, access all areas behind the scenes. You're going to see it all here on YouTube. Like, follow, subscribe.

[00:02:14]So Kieran's left me. He has to work on his own artwork. I am alone. He's gave me a map. I've actually just walked up a street thinking it's the right way to go, but it's a [ __ ] dead end.

[00:02:26]Great start. This is probably what it's going to be like all day to be honest.

[00:02:31][ __ ] Google Maps, man.

[00:02:34]Honestly, it was pure like, "Ah, you're on the right path." But I obviously wasn't [ __ ] lying bastards. I should have known to be honest cuz it didn't really feel like a proper street that I was walking up. But saw a we bit of art at the end and I thought, "Fuck it. Let's go." So I'm going to go look for James Clling first because he seems to be closest to where I'm at right now.

[00:03:00]And I go and check out if he's there, if he's painting, or if he's done already.

[00:03:03]And then I'm going to keep exploring Harvard Dean, see what I can find. And so here's a James cling from a previous year.

[00:03:14]Big cable end boy.

[00:03:17]And then that's this year's one over there.

[00:03:29]And so this is quite different from James H. He normally paints more kind of figurative work whereas the theme of the show of New Art this year is poetry in the streets. So this is some text.

[00:03:44]I do want to try and read it out.

[00:03:59]I have a feeling it says seashell seashell maybe.

[00:04:07]I don't think it is. Seashell seashell.

[00:04:12][ __ ] knows.

[00:04:15]Let's go and check out his bigger one here.

[00:04:21]Gigantic.

[00:04:23]And then I can't remember who did this one, but I feel that we saw him at Strat Gallery in Amsterdam. It's pretty sunny.

[00:04:33]I might need to bust out my my cap, my grateful caps. I just need to check my map again. I'm such a tourist. [ __ ] knows what way I'm going down this way, I think. Maybe. It's funny to think that people used to cut about cities. We know Google Maps.

[00:04:50]So, I just stopped to check my map there and I noticed this big builder for Case Mlan, which is amazing.

[00:05:01]And we saw another one of his in Amsterdam next to the gas mural by Smug.

[00:05:10]He's amazing, man. It's very cool.

[00:05:15]What a location for it. I was looking at the map and I started crossing them out.

[00:05:19]I thought, do you think it's possible to see them all? Like some kind of Pokemon Go effort. Let's try and score them all off. So, that's my mission for the day.

[00:05:28]Why not? I like a challenge. So, let's try and see if I can see everything that's ever been painted from New Art.

[00:05:38]Another one for the list already, which is good.

[00:05:47]from 2017, I believe. That's a good name.

[00:05:52]Speaking to Amsterdam.

[00:06:00]Just take me to weird and wonderful places.

[00:06:06]Pretty sick though. Not averse to a we lane.

[00:06:10]A fan favorite.

[00:06:12]Oh, legendary.

[00:06:16]This is by Stina Leak, who is an Estonian artist and she's an absolute badass.

[00:06:23]She runs an amazing gallery.

[00:06:27]I so so sick. I would really really love to go to Estonia. They've got this thing called the sprayation and it looks amazing. I've never really done like a residency or even a festival to be honest. Um, I'm up here just cutting about looking at [ __ ] when I obviously the dream I guess is that you get to come and paint at some of this. It's amazing that no matter where you go, the sort of young team mention always exists.

[00:06:52]These are great. I like to call these scheme memes, which I maybe shouldn't even say out loud because I want to write something about it one day. I've got a Substack, so maybe I'll do it on that.

[00:07:06]Maybe I'll write about scheme memes. In fact, actually up your straight.

[00:07:11]There's a we guzzler.

[00:07:16]And then this is sick.

[00:07:20]Heavy ste on that.

[00:07:25]Really, really love that actually.

[00:07:26]That's a nice E. And I don't know, there's something about like murals are sick, but I just love seeing that. I can't help it. But that speaks to me in a different way.

[00:07:40]It's just I somebody's just out painting it, which is lovely. And these ones are by Dot Masters.

[00:07:57]Quite a mad building to be honest.

[00:08:00]kind of more interested in the building and the artwork there.

[00:08:07]Are you tracking my cloud number?

[00:08:12]And then I think this is Scaps and Koala.

[00:08:20]I love the we koala character.

[00:08:25]I buy some more stuff up this way.

[00:08:36]So true.

[00:08:38]I'm just wondering, man.

[00:08:42]No [ __ ] clue where I'm going. I just need to take [ __ ] off.

[00:08:53]I like these guys. They're cool.

[00:08:58]I think this is a college or something like that.

[00:09:02]It's quite a built. I'm so used to like sandstone buildings though. It's weird.

[00:09:07]The color is just a bit bizarre.

[00:09:11]Check this bench out, though.

[00:09:17]Let's get a shot. I'm going to start a channel called Rape My Bench, I must say. Good bench action, man. Loving it.

[00:09:25]Got a good back. This fountain's [ __ ] going for it.

[00:09:29]>> Check it out, man. Fountain's going wild.

[00:09:32]Here we go. Oh, it's doing all sorts, man. It's doing a lot. This fountain. It is going for it, man.

[00:09:41]We've got nothing like this in Glasgow.

[00:09:43]I remember when they once put a fountain in Paisley. The fountain basically sucked up the rain water and then like sent it back down. This mad water feature, but then it turned out everybody was pissing into it. So eventually it was just piss that was circulating through it.

[00:09:57]Wow. This fountain, man. Epic, man. Top quality fountain action. Oh, it's doing something even moment mental now. It's like a pure pyramid. This is pretty sick, man. These [ __ ] are living it.

[00:10:09][ __ ] the street up, man. Give me a water fountain any day. Wa.

[00:10:18]Check it out, man. Unreal.

[00:10:27]That's it. I give up my [ __ ] life as a street artist. I'm going to [ __ ] get any fountains now. Where is the best fountains in the world? Because that was incredible. I felt like a child again.

[00:10:39]Let me know. Top fountains of the world.

[00:10:41]Top fountains of Scotland. Fountain Gardens and PA. Do they still work? Have they made them good again? He's the fountain info.

[00:10:49]That's amazing.

[00:11:01]That's what I love to see, man. Heavy city center boards been painted. That's a built.

[00:11:13]>> I love it. So, I don't know, man. I'm a big advocate of boards being painted. I guess it's kind of funny though because on a sort of society level when things are boarded up it means that they're closed basically. So it's not in use which is obviously some kind of sign of like economic decline or just like [ __ ] [ __ ] being derelictked basically. So it's not necessarily a good thing. I can't help but feel as though if there is boarded up shops then artists should be allowed to paint them because why should boards just be sitting there blank? I I don't know. You get into much bigger conversations about why are the shops sitting empty anyway.

[00:11:51]So, that was a nice refind. I like that.

[00:11:54]I can spy a scissor lift at the end of the street, which is usually a good sign that something's been painted. I think I'm heading towards Remy Ruff's wall.

[00:12:04]And Remy Ruff is an OG. Basically, he's one of the iconoclastic members of the graffiti world. He's mates with DM and goes way back. And I looking forward to seeing what he's painting. Here's a big M city stencil.

[00:12:24]And another one.

[00:12:28]There's KMG. Oh, it's Molly's wall. Oh [ __ ] man. Empure like lost but finding everything like >> that's like Aine's so small that you can kind >> I didn't realize that Molly was here as well. I was >> M city.

[00:12:45]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:12:46]>> Then behind there's Remy behind Molly Hammers, >> right? Okay. Cool.

[00:12:50]>> And then Mazo's opposite the hotel.

[00:12:53]>> Yeah. C blocks.

[00:12:54]>> Oh, C blocks. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. I just wandered the whole you got Axel Boy.

[00:13:00]Yeah. You got >> Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Nice.

[00:13:02]>> Right. We're back.

[00:13:04]>> See you soon. How you going?

[00:13:07]>> I'm good, man. How are you?

[00:13:08]>> Not bad. Good.

[00:13:11]>> Are you assisting?

[00:13:12]>> No, I know. I'm not trusted with that.

[00:13:16]>> Hello.

[00:13:18]>> Yeah. Yeah. Good.

[00:13:19]>> I'm just making a YouTube video.

[00:13:22]>> This is sick, man. What a size. So, it's nice to see some Glasgow faces up in Aberdine.

[00:13:31]Molly Hankinson.

[00:13:34]It's such a big belter of a wall, man. I love it.

[00:13:42]I've never really had any desire to paint something this big, but I don't know, man. I There is something about the scale.

[00:13:50]It does look fun.

[00:13:53]It looks possible. I don't think it has ever looked possible before, but I guess seeing one of your peers doing it, you're like, "Oh, [ __ ] I I could do that. That would be cool.

[00:14:05]And then I let's go and check out the rest of the stuff down here. Remy Ruff, the OG is here. Be cool to see what he's up to. And so this is Remy Ruff here.

[00:14:17]There's also this thing here, man, which is sick.

[00:14:25]That's a belter.

[00:14:27]I love that one. This is no joke.

[00:14:33]Absolutely massive.

[00:14:48]And so it's interesting to think that in Glasgow we have a festival but it's not out in the streets. So we don't get the public cutting about checking it out as much.

[00:14:59]whereas this is like on the outside of the Bon Accord Center, which I can only imagine is like a big shopping center.

[00:15:08]>> And so it' be quite mad if like the side of the center was getting painted. And maybe that's what we should be aiming for in Glasgow is big public artworks like this and little ones as well getting painted all over the city. Right now I'm in a bit kind of dialogue with the council about the amount of money they're spending on graffiti removal.

[00:15:28]And I do wonder if they were able to take some of that money. They're spending half a million quid every year.

[00:15:34]And if they took a hundred grand that and made a city center street art and graffiti festival, I wonder how much stuff they could actually get done cuz I'm cutting about with this map in my pocket which has years and years of artwork which has been created here during the years of new art. And you can see the impact all over the city. And it would be cool to kind of extend the mural trail out into something more like this. And I maybe that's an idea. Maybe we should do some kind of street art graffiti festival in the city center of Glasgow. That would be pretty cool.

[00:16:12]This is a pretty iconic one.

[00:16:18]And so this one's by Robert Montgomery, as far as I'm aware, one of his earlier ones, but he's got some new ones in the festival this year. There's one in a swimming pool. Some kind of mad installation thing. So I'm going to go and check that out. Maybe actually try and find that pretty soon because it'd be cool to see. And then there's an elky here. Yes, the boy.

[00:16:42]The big man, the one and only stencil master. It's been a while. We used to get magic together. Cause a ruckus. And if I'm not mistaken, these are by Finton McGee.

[00:17:02]And then I think this is another dot masters.

[00:17:07]I'm looking for subvertiser Dr. D.

[00:17:12]his paintings in some kind of student accommodation which makes me feel a bit weird. So I'm cutting about with a camera filming uniforms basically. So doesn't feel great. I'm into this big block of flats man.

[00:17:32]It's looking cool. I'm liking that.

[00:17:36]Yes. Cherry picker.

[00:17:44]That's too funny. I'm like, "Yeah, cherry picker.

[00:17:48]It must mean street art." But it's a guy cleaning the gutters.

[00:17:54]Where is this painting at, man? I'm going to phone Keenan.

[00:17:58]Phone in the SCS. Hey, man. I'm looking for the subvertiser mural up at this student [ __ ] halls. But do you know what it is? If you want I could you just describe it to me. Is it on the back or something? Like now there's a big sexy block of flats like up your old school big kind of brutalist thing. Is it like the top? Is it like down the bottom or is it up that side where the cool building is? A [ __ ] it. Just a He's going to drop it to me.

[00:18:29]Let's just appreciate this building for a bit longer.

[00:18:38]This is the northeast Scotland College Aberdine City campus.

[00:18:49]I do like it though. It was worth it.

[00:18:58]verify you are a human.

[00:19:02]And obviously this is kind of entering into conversations about AI and I guess kind of like digital identity in a sense. How do we prove who's real, who isn't? Just cuz something can talk to you and communicate with you doesn't necessarily mean that it's real.

[00:19:20]But if something can chat to you, then does it matter if it's real or not? Who knows? I like it, man. We're all doomed, ain't we? Subvertiser is always kind of hitting out with the [ __ ] that makes you ain't think [ __ ] We're We're [ __ ] Try and end it now.

[00:19:35]The world's gone too far.

[00:19:43]So, the interest of baldheaded safety, I've stuck my Grateful Gallery bonnet on just to make sure I don't end up with mega sunburn. Although I don't think the sun can be that hot. I'm also just following my nose here, checking out some more of the unofficial graph. These boards look cool.

[00:20:12]This mold looks sick.

[00:20:21]That's quite smart as well.

[00:20:28]Here is a man with a much bigger camera than I.

[00:20:40]So, these just caught my eye a wee bit.

[00:20:49]Some nice bits on the train line. I don't know if it's just because I love graffiti, right? But eyeing up these pieces here is more probably more so far more interesting than most of the stuff I've saw. I think it's because it does slant towards like stencils and I don't know, man. just like a particular style that doesn't really do much for me. I'm not really that into it.

[00:21:22]Um, that's not to be critical. It's just because it's just because I love grafting.

[00:21:36]And the reason I actually crossed over here was because I saw a swim. And if you remember my video from Strat, there was a big sort of swoon thing there. So I've came to kind of check that out here. I think she's operating on a kind of different wavelength which is not necessarily massive murals. She's just operating on doing small like street pieces to end which is maybe slightly better than doing big [ __ ] off gable lens. I think I'm more interested in the kind of small [ __ ] than the big [ __ ] Or maybe to be more accurate, the kind of semi unsanctioned [ __ ] Or just straight up illegal. Let's not [ __ ] about. What's interesting to me is this building over here looks very abandoned.

[00:22:30]I don't know what it used to be cuz I don't know [ __ ] all of it ever. So, if anybody knows what this used to be, maybe I can work it out for myself. But you'd think this would be getting painted now. Maybe it is painted inside.

[00:22:45]It looks like a heavy duty spot.

[00:22:53]Hey man, you seen them at abandoned mountain driver like the axle void stuff.

[00:23:02]It's like a big abandoned mountain. What is that?

[00:23:07]Right. Right. Okay. Cool. My the guys just open open the gate.

[00:23:12]I'll catch you soon. Right. Cheers.

[00:23:13]Bye-bye. Can I have video in there for two seconds?

[00:23:19]>> I was literally just walking by like what is this place? And then >> a hospital.

[00:23:23]>> All right. Okay.

[00:23:24]>> The hospital get abandoned about 10 years ago or something.

[00:23:26]>> Can I just do a we quick sort of scotland?

[00:23:29]>> Legend, man. Thank you.

[00:23:31]That's madness, man. It's so funny. I'm just like that pure like what the [ __ ] Ah, that's heavy duty, man.

[00:23:40]>> Cheers, man.

[00:23:54]I'm just setting off all the alarms.

[00:24:02]madness. So, I don't know what those guys do. They might just come in here and [ __ ] cut out, but I wanted to just set off all the mad alarms. So, cheers, man.

[00:24:17]Madness.

[00:24:20]And this is what I was coming to see this wind. So, this is a paste up, but you can see the amount of detail and it's amazing. That was so funny what the chances of the doors just opening [ __ ] gates like that. Here we go.

[00:24:42]It looks like some spot, man. So, class.

[00:24:46]And again, just big massive abandoned buildings. I think it used to be a hospital.

[00:24:51]Well, that's what that guy said. But o, it looks as though there's more [ __ ] around here. Yes.

[00:24:58]Now we're talking. I can see a big VBN.

[00:25:01]So, this must be a spot that people actually paint. Feel as though we're getting into it now. So, I don't know what this used to be, but it kind of looks like a car park. Maybe it still is a car park. I hear somebody sitting upstairs. So, [ __ ] knows what this place is. This has kind of got me more excited than the festival, but don't tell anybody.

[00:25:23]But it just feels a bit more alive, a bit more [ __ ] hell, man.

[00:25:32]That looks amazing.

[00:25:37]Very cool. Right. So, this seems to be a car park that you can paint. I don't fully understand it, but quite class. I wonder how this came to be.

[00:25:49]Usually places get painted when they're derelict, but this seems to be just getting painted like [ __ ] which is pretty class.

[00:26:03]Pretty cool. I man, this is madness. Can anybody tune me into what the script is with this place?

[00:26:12]Why is there not so much Why is there so many paintings in here?

[00:26:27]This is cool as [ __ ] Is this why the the council in Glasgow wanted to do paintings in a car park? I feel as though this is one of these things where they're like, "Oh, graffiti makes places feel dangerous." And I don't know, man.

[00:26:48]This place feels [ __ ] class to me. It looks glass. And everybody's still parked my cars here. So, what the [ __ ] is going on, though? It's mad. It's honestly trapped me out. This is like a pure abandoned spot. It feels like so class, man.

[00:27:05]It is crazy. Come to Aberine some new art. But come to this car park because this is the real deal, man.

[00:27:16]This is the [ __ ] How did I get upstairs? I want to go to the rooftop bit, man. That looks amazing. Yes. Check that mold out over there. So sick.

[00:27:26]Check it out.

[00:27:29][ __ ] yeah.

[00:27:31]That's class.

[00:27:36]I don't know how I've never heard of this place, but I like it.

[00:27:43]It's very cool. Still trying to work out why it exists.

[00:27:50]Excuse me, mate. How do you get upstairs?

[00:27:52]>> Yeah, buddy. It's my first time.

[00:27:54]>> I'm Could you see the wasn't upstairs from outside, man? Cheers, man.

[00:28:01]There's a we booty.

[00:28:03]Check that out.

[00:28:06]What? What? And then I've seen this before, Mark.

[00:28:12]Seen a couple in Glasgow.

[00:28:15]It's very nice.

[00:28:19]These are What a mad place. But what a joy. That was honestly so so sick. I think this is the way up, man. That's like Don't know, man. There's just something about that. It just fills me with joy.

[00:28:37]It's like a pure buzz. What is this place, man? If you're Aberdeene and I'm just walking about pure shell shocked at this and everybody already knows about it, then apologies. But I'm a [ __ ] tourist, yo.

[00:28:53]So, I don't have a clue. [ __ ] class, let me tell you. This is the [ __ ] I wish I'd brought paint now, man. So, I check it out, man.

[00:29:03]dangerous pestos. See, to be honest, the amount of times that I've spent cutting about mad [ __ ] my lungs are probably covered in it, man. This is cool, man.

[00:29:15]I'm so glad I made it here cuz this is heavy vibes, man. Heavy heavy vibes. The Denburn Health Center. And this place is so sick.

[00:29:25]This is cool as [ __ ] man.

[00:29:28]I think I have seen some photos for here now that I've seen it. Pure highlight of the trip, man. I need to come back up.

[00:29:35]What's the script to this place? You just let paint it. This reckless and rabb thing is so class, man. I saw that online and that is a screamer.

[00:29:48]What a belter.

[00:30:14][ __ ] huge as always covered in glass.

[00:30:22]But that is the nature rings. This VBN is very very thick. I'm heavy heavy into this spot. It's cool.

[00:30:29]It's nice when you discover something like this. A we hidden gem. And shout out to Ay who was just sitting there soaking up the sun who gave me some good tips for Aberdeene and kind of filled me in about this place because I was kind of clueless.

[00:30:45]But it's very cool, man. I love it. Yes.

[00:30:51]An homage to King Robbo. That's cool.

[00:30:55]That's actually well done, man. That's nice. But as far as sports go, man, that's cool, man. And this is me back to the bit that I was at before. I must say that this car parking has been my favorite so far. It's got me the most excited. It's made me feel the most alive. And I think it's just because it's free. It's open to anybody.

[00:31:20]There's no curation. People are just doing it off their own back. These are the things that appeal to me and these are the things that I think are intrinsic to graffiti. This looks cool.

[00:31:31]There's also another swim here. It's pretty cool that they're just dotted about.

[00:31:41]It's pretty amazing how they're done, man.

[00:31:51]And if you want to read this, you can read it here.

[00:31:54]Pause the video.

[00:31:57]It's too hard for me to read on the go.

[00:32:00]Too complicated for this brain right now. I need food. This one looks good.

[00:32:09]This is sick.

[00:32:20]That's a screamer. Pretty cool to just be cutting about trying to get food and finding art along the way. It's quite nice. It's a good way to see the city.

[00:32:33]Really enjoyed that car park there. Big ups to the VBN boys. Oh, here we go.

[00:32:43]Yes, K's living his best life, man. Heavy tunes in the [ __ ] buggy. What a legend, man.

[00:32:53]He's spreading the joy.

[00:32:57]It's funny. I've also noticed that like all our cities have the same streets.

[00:33:01]So, I've walked in Galagate and I'm about to turn on to Rose Street.

[00:33:06]There's a Rose Street in Glasgow. What's the script? Can we not just come up with original names for streets? Do we just need to repeat them all?

[00:33:16]I find it a bit confusing. It's maybe a small complaint.

[00:33:21]Loving these big brutalist buildings, man.

[00:33:26]That's a big belter.

[00:33:29]Gluten-free food is hard to come by, but Spuds just hooked me up. An absolute monster of a munch. a big fat baked potato with chili. So, I'm buzzing. I have no idea where I am. Union Street. So, I'm back on that street again. How [ __ ] long is this street, bro? Must be massive.

[00:33:52]I'm on the hunt for a bench so I can munch this. I think there's a big painting ring here. So, I'm going to go and check that out as well on Summer Street.

[00:34:04]I might be tripping.

[00:34:08]But I think there's a big boy. I think there's eye. I can see it. This one's a belter.

[00:34:20]Very, very cool.

[00:34:23]I've also just spotted a bordal around here. So, I'll need to find that because that is very cool as well. Don't think this big toy is getting munched anytime soon.

[00:34:35]Oh, no way. How's it going? The infamous. Hello. Hello. Do you work for the festival as well or >> No. Yeah, I'm media partner of the festival.

[00:34:45]>> Right. Okay. So, cool. But I'm based >> that kind of super famous photo of the kids on the bike is one of the funny I bumped into Durham there. The guy that I was just kind of walking with a wee bit. Oh, are we rebel bear up there? Oh, this one's sick as well.

[00:35:15]This is Helen ABC CD EFG. What a belter.

[00:35:20]This one's honestly pure next level.

[00:35:22]It's like a pure proper painting, man.

[00:35:34]Oh, that's funny.

[00:35:38]That's literally where I was sitting eating. So, I've just walked in a big massive circle for no reason.

[00:35:46]Ah, well, that's the nature of being in a place that you don't know. What does it profit a man when he's lost in a place that he doesn't know? Let's see if we can sense it. Sense some Ed Hack action.

[00:36:00]It looks as though there's some cool art people down here. So, I'm assuming it must be this way.

[00:36:09]Yes.

[00:36:16]And so this is pretty amazing.

[00:36:19]There's loads of bit of text inside it which is really cool. Full belly. That's what I've got right now.

[00:36:27]Man, a thin line waiting for it.

[00:36:30]Arrivals departures. All is forgiven.

[00:36:34]This is cool. This is just like stream of consciousness stuff. That's nice. And it works well cuz the sun's kind of behind it as well, which is cool.

[00:36:43]We keep moving.

[00:36:45]What is next?

[00:36:47]I'm feeling like what is next for me is to go and sit down somewhere probably in a black sheep coffee and charge my hangs because I run out of charge. I'd quite like to just sit down. I've been walking about loads. It's like half three now and I've been kind of non-stop. So, a we break would be nice, but maybe I should stay in this vicinity cuz there's like a lot of murals about here, it seems. But [ __ ] knows, man. We'll keep it We'll keep it moving. We'll keep walking. So, I've just remembered that I'm here for a purpose. I need to go and see some [ __ ] Thankfully, I looked at my map again and I realized that I'm actually quite close to the baths for this Robert Gordon that's in that installation inside the baths. So, I'm going to go to that cuz I'm an 8 minute walk away. I'll go and check out these guys first. I've gave up on the idea of seeing them all. There's too many. I'm [ __ ] already. I'm gubbed. I don't think this is this is a good way to do it. I don't know. I think I'd just rather move to a city and just live in it and see [ __ ] that way. This is pretty full on, man. Oh, >> hello sir.

[00:37:59]You can answer a question for me. Try my best.

[00:38:03]>> What does your other one say?

[00:38:06]>> Always trust everyone to be themselves, but trust the fact you see them well.

[00:38:10]>> Sharp. Really?

[00:38:11]>> Oh, [ __ ] me. I feel like >> heard I heard DMX post it. DMX was on that drinks champ thing.

[00:38:16]>> Yeah.

[00:38:17]>> And uh he said that he was like, "Yeah, always trust always trust everyone to be themselves, but trust the fact that you see them well."

[00:38:23]>> Right. Okay. Wow.

[00:38:25]>> How are you sir?

[00:38:26]>> Good. So good to see you. This is mad.

[00:38:27]It's a mad style, man.

[00:38:29]>> Something different. So this one is >> a wise man don't play the role of a fool.

[00:38:35]>> Okay.

[00:38:36]>> So thank you Rizza.

[00:38:41]>> It's so good. It's cool spot as well.

[00:38:43]>> Enjoying it though, man.

[00:38:45]>> Really cool.

[00:38:46]>> So there we have it. James Kling explaining what his murals actually say.

[00:38:52]Definitely wasn't seashell seashells on the seashore.

[00:38:58]But that was just because it was really difficult to read cuz it overlaps so much. So, but I'm now heading to the Bonacord baths which I think is down the street. I think from what I could see it's like an abandoned swimming baths and they've put a big massive installation in it. And this is quite a nice we touch this road sign here. Joy diversion.

[00:39:24]A big ass murales.

[00:39:27]I'm assuming I must be close now because that joy diversion sign is new art coded.

[00:39:37]So where is these bests? Oh, there's a big [ __ ] there's a big new art banner outside flying the flag high.

[00:39:52]>> Cheers. Thank you.

[00:39:59]Wow.

[00:40:02]Incredible. That is wild, man. That is so sick. It makes you realize how the how much we're losing in terms of pools and loads of swimming pools closed. But thanks would have been when it was open.

[00:40:17]You could have just came and hung about, watched all your pals swimming.

[00:40:32]And I don't know, I wonder if there's like an argument to be made that people weren't using swimming pools as much.

[00:40:37]But I feel as though now people are mad into like being healthy and [ __ ] like that. And so I maybe like these pools closed because people weren't using them. But then we're in a different time now, man. This [ __ ] would be getting used all the time, man. Think about all the mad [ __ ] young [ __ ] that be learning to dive and [ __ ] like that.

[00:40:56]It'd be amazing. There'd be like [ __ ] Tik Tok superstars doing like crazy flips. It's kind of like the Maui sort of stuff join in New Zealand or the people jumping off. There's like a big pool culture over there. I kind of remember what that's actually called when they do all the mad dive bombing.

[00:41:11]But it looks amazing and that could be like the culture here in Govern Bass. We can just have mad dive bombing competitions. So I bring back public baths, man. and read it. Now, the best thing about this is you can just be walking down the street and then you look up and you're seeing one of your favorite artists. This is by Flem, who is [ __ ] incredible and he's so so good. I'm not on Instagram just now. So, I've been reading Flem's Substack for a we and he's been kind of documenting his process on there cuz I think he's not loving Instagram either, which has been amazing and it's dead interesting to get an insight into his process.

[00:41:51]And I it's just cool as [ __ ] man. Like, he just seems like a really, really talented, hardworking guy who's just got like so much ability and it's class. And I would love for Flem to come to Glasgow and paint a mural there. So maybe we can make that happen somehow. Flem or if anybody that's watching this knows Flem, gives a shout.

[00:42:12]Let's work something, right? Let's find some walls cuz Glasggo's filled the walls, man. We can make it happen.

[00:42:17]Keenan's working production for new art, so he knows what he's doing. And I like chatting to folks. So I'll go and ask people if I can use their wall for you.

[00:42:25]But yeah, he said he's going to return to mural painting soon because he's been in a bit of hiatus because he's been working on these tiny engravings and he's just finished it and it's amazing.

[00:42:36]I'd highly recommend checking out his Substack if you aren't already cuz it's so so good. Bye. That was a real treat.

[00:42:42]I think I've saw this one before, but I really nice to bump into it again.

[00:42:50]And I think the vibe is all roads lead to Union Street.

[00:42:54]Here's another steps.

[00:43:01]Again, I feel as though there's definitely an argument to be made that every single board up shop cart blanch they're getting painted.

[00:43:09]No questions asked. You're just allowed to do it. That would be the way. Doesn't seem like a radical idea to me cuz it's a [ __ ] piece of wood. It's a boarded up shop anyway. The shop is literally empty. It's no bothering anybody. This probably won't be the end of the video, but it might be the end of me cutting them out looking at murals as much.

[00:43:31]There'll probably be a few extra ones, but in fact, there definitely will be a few extra ones cuz I want to go and see the Ed Hicks one as well. He's got another one and it's quite funny and I'd quite like to talk about it. So, maybe I'll try and find that as I head back towards Keenan. So, I couldn't resist walking down this we bit. It's [ __ ] so nice, man. It's class. It's honestly madness. They've even got a [ __ ] Aberdeene sign. Check this out. Like, this to me feels pretty high tech.

[00:44:02]This looks pretty good [ __ ] to me.

[00:44:06]Some nice architecture funk there. The old and the new.

[00:44:13]I'm slightly concerned that I've kind of boxed myself into one side and I need to be on the other side. But [ __ ] it, man.

[00:44:21]This is worth it, man. We're getting to see the Aberdeene sign. Look at these gardens, man. Beautiful.

[00:44:31]We need a big Glasgow sign.

[00:44:34]This is sick. I don't know where this is, but I feel as though I'm in the city center. I mean, we're about to just get a [ __ ] concrete slab for George Square again. Nothing's going to actually have been done. So, it feels kind of mental. Whereas they've got this big crater that's been turned into a pure beauty of a park. Maybe this is what Clyde side's going to become. And maybe I'm going to eat my words. But if you can make it this nice, I'll I'll be sounding it. But I kind of see it happening.

[00:45:05]This is right beside a train track as well, which is cool. I don't know if it's still in use, but that's kind of good vibes. It's just kind of madness, man. Like it's kind of crazy to think that they've made such a good job of this because I just feel as though Glasgow [ __ ] everything up. And again, there's that attitude of why is Glasgow sh etc etc. But it's hard not to feel that way, man. It just feels a bit shight a lot of the time and a bit half.

[00:45:38]This however is [ __ ] balling, man.

[00:45:42]They even got a slide. So basically what you need to do is you need to dig a [ __ ] off crater into the ground and then I get it going. Make it look nice. Check these pillars, man. That is sick. That is some good pillar action.

[00:46:00]So into it. Oh, that's a we train.

[00:46:04]That's cool as well.

[00:46:20]one for all the real autism fans there.

[00:46:25]None of this fake graffiti autism. This cool autism. We're all about the trains, bro.

[00:46:32]And I've walked all the way to the end here cuz I saw a we bit of graph and I thought I want to come and see it.

[00:46:50]and I can't read what it says, but big ups cuz it's very very clean.

[00:46:57]There's also that mural over there which I've seen before. It's an absolute belter. Adfield I believe and that is a class rebuilding man. Imagine that with your gaff loving life. Now I need to get down there on the other side of the train tracks. So this is a problem that I only really face in Edinburgh, Aberdine, pretty much anywhere else.

[00:47:21]Glasgow doesn't have this problem, but you often find in other cities you need to go up and then down and then back up.

[00:47:29]It's a pain in the ass, man. Like how do you how do you know where you're going?

[00:47:32]How do you navigate a city like this?

[00:47:35]because there's a lot of up and down and it's confusing. Whereas in Glasgow, everything's just a grid. So, it's a lot simpler and it's a lot easier to navigate. But, um, once again showing my my bias for the Glasgow, but it's all a no man. It's what I've grew up in. It is the water I've always been swimming in.

[00:47:58]So, I edex poking fun at other mural artists.

[00:48:05]coming up.

[00:48:07]So now I need to go down here. We just don't have [ __ ] like this in Glasgow. We weird kind of winding [ __ ] cobbled streets that feel like they're from the [ __ ] medieval times, the back in the day times, the castle times. We just don't really have that. Maybe we do, man.

[00:48:26]Maybe they're somewhere. But the city center feels pretty [ __ ] easy days.

[00:48:32]Pretty easy going. A this shit's mad, man. This is pretty gnarly as a spot.

[00:48:50]Big beautiful pillars though.

[00:48:53]And so this is Ed Hick's other mural which is poking fun at the different styles of murals that you get. The child with the balloon on a string. A footballer. Endangered animal with graphic shapes, etc. A closeup of some flowers. Lechenstein pop art reproduction.

[00:49:15]Grayscale portrait of artist tattooed girlfriend.

[00:49:20]Full realistic dog. Blurred background.

[00:49:22]Large signature hashtag. B boy with local wildlife and spray can. Stencil of a celebrity. Portrait of a woman holding pot plant. 3D text of well-known saying.

[00:49:34]And then the best of the best, a skull.

[00:49:37]Shots fired, man.

[00:49:41]Shots fired. All [ __ ] directions there.

[00:49:47]Ed Hex is speaking later on and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm quite excited to hear what he's got to say. So much so that I'm getting the 20 12 bus home and I'm not going to be back till like 20 to 4 or something that which seems excessive. I probably just should have just stayed over but [ __ ] it, man. I want to be living life. So that felt like a good way to live life.

[00:50:13]Bye. I like it. It's a commentary.

[00:50:15]Commentaries are fun. And as I walk out here, this should create a bit of a belter because above me about to appear is this boy.

[00:50:31]Hell yeah.

[00:50:33]Smug on winds mural from a few years ago.

[00:50:39]That's so sick, man.

[00:50:44]It's amazing.

[00:50:47]And just next to it, if you're ever coming up to Aberdeen, you can come and look beside it and you can find Track and Mloud's list of things that were gay in school. And so this is a pretty extensive list. List of things that were gay in school. Having your right ear pierced, having your left ear pierced, having your eyebrow pierced, owning a lunchbox, having a packed lunch, not leaving the skill gates at lunch, opening a packet of crisps upside down, eating bananas, eating any fruit, not drinking alcohol or smoking, being left-handed, having nice handwriting, having a pencil case, having gel pens, having a pen pal, having your hair parted to the left, having short hair, having long hair, wearing a gap hoodie, wearing pink, wearing skinny jeans, wearing trousers that were too short, short, wearing a vest, wearing a blazer, wearing short shorts, wearing white socks with black trainers, wearing black socks with white trainers, wearing skill shoes and not trainers, wearing uniform on non-uniform day, wearing a tie longer than 10 cm, wearing your bag on both shoulders, wearing a satchel, wearing a helmet, wearing a jacket in winter, wearing your hood up when it was raining, using an umbrella, doing up your top button, tying your shoelaces, using roll on instead of deodorant, using any other brand of deodorant that wasn't links, any form of eye contact, packed in changing rooms, showering after PE, playing tennis, playing badminton, playing hockey, not playing football, not liking football, not being able to throw, not being able to catch, dropping your gay card, being early for school, getting good grades, doing your homework, putting your hand up, knowing the answer to a question, asking to go to the toilet after someone else, going into school and last day at term, reading, being good at English, being good at drama, being good at art, being in the choir, being able to play a musical instrument, especially one you blow into, carrying a portfolio, or an instrument. Being passionate about anything. Acknowledging your mom at the school gates. Accidentally calling the teacher mom. Giving someone a Christmas card. Having a ring finger longer than your index finger. How you checked your nails. Waiting on the lights to cross the road. Walking under a sign with two poles. Holding your girlfriend's hand.

[00:52:51]Holding anyone's hand. Not having kissed anyone past the age of 14. Not kissing someone you don't fancy. Gay if you don't. Being friends with the opposite sex. Hugging. Crossing your legs. If you're gay, say what? Having a high-pitched voice. waving anything related to England, having a gay sibling, cousin, relative guilty by association, doing anything different from the majority, having sex with the same sex.

[00:53:17]Quite an extensive list.

[00:53:20]And it's funny because I [ __ ] with that quite a lot because growing up in the west of Scotland, it's dead easy to get hung up on all this stuff. and track is a queer artist and that's why that's kind of funny because you're basically dealing with a lot of young people that are potentially like struggling with their sexuality and they're getting hit with all this stuff and it's kind of used as a bit of a kind of just a tool to kind of control and belittle people.

[00:53:47]I actually wrote about it in my dissertation. I quoted Owen Jones who wrote an article about straight men facing homophobia and actually how homophobia wasn't actually about it wasn't necessarily about gay people. It was actually more about policing masculinity which I really loved and I think masculinity has to be very rigidly defined and it can be ambiguous. It has to be like in a box. They call it the man box. So everything on that list is out with the man box. So it falls into the place of being gay. Whereas the things that fall in the man box are liking lasses, playing football, drinking, fighting, [ __ ] basically join. That's it. Cars, that's kind of it. Join. There's like very rigid things that are within the man box. And if you're no inside that box, you're gay.

[00:54:38]I'm pretty sure there used to be a Ben painting there the last time I was here, if memory serves me correctly.

[00:54:46]Ben was there.

[00:54:49]I don't know if it's still there underneath all that stuff.

[00:55:02]Amazing.

[00:55:04]Hera so so good. We saw her in Amsterdam as well.

[00:55:14]It's amazing.

[00:55:21]You can't shove your granny off a bus.

[00:55:51]So, I decided I'm too tired to go home because it's been a big day of walking.

[00:55:56]So, I just booked myself into this lovely hotel.

[00:56:00]Comes with all the good [ __ ] That is even a light in there. It just went off, but I don't know how to get it back on.

[00:56:11]Let's get a new pad, a resone.

[00:56:16]It's like a full gaff.

[00:56:19]This is where the magic happens. I've only been able to afford this because of my YouTube channel. I'm now monetized.

[00:56:26]So, this is what it's bringing me.

[00:56:33]I'm only joking.

[00:56:35]This is Ken's hotel room. He's a way out and I'm charging my camera and my phone and [ __ ] like that. So, don't get any wrong ideas. This is just the reality of when you work for a street art festival in Aberine, I guess, which is pretty sick. And so, I'm back at these boards and I'm outside a thing called the academy >> and there is an exhibition on >> which looks amazing.

[00:57:47]Right. Very cool.

[00:57:49]Going to enjoy myself. Going to an event after this as well where there's some talks and stuff like that. I'll probably check back in either that event or on the bus home.

[00:57:58]>> Comes to that part. Do be aware that your question will be recorded and if you want to let us know your name afterwards, we can record your name next to the question. Um, if you wish.

[00:58:08]>> He did take a bullet to get home. But he's like, "Oh, sweet England. How merry to be here. He's taken the he's gotten he's crossed the >> You will see Hicks, who is a festival artist this year in more formal daytime mode giving an artist talk at the Cry Hall um at the Abedine Art Gallery on Saturday. street artist and a mural painter walk into a pub.

[00:58:34]Graffiti comes up to the bar, goes, "Uh, three parts of Laga, please." Uh, and Bman says, "Last time you were in here, son. You, uh, grafted up the toilets.

[00:58:44]You're barred." Then the sweet artist goes up in his lemon chinos.

[00:58:50]Says, "I'll have a of the three Campari and Bobil's, please." So quirky. So quirky. And >> so that's me4 11.

[00:59:03]Bus isn't there for an hour. It's going to be a [ __ ] long wait. A long boring wait, but it was well worth it. I got to see Ed Hicks do a live crit and it was [ __ ] funny as man. Shots fired and I just totally buzzing. So cheers for tuning in.

[00:59:22]Big ups to New and all the people involved in it. Grateful to be here.

[00:59:27]Peace.

[00:59:29]It's [ __ ] 10:04 in the morning.

[00:59:31]That's me back home.

[00:59:34]I'm never [ __ ] going to Abodine again, man. [ __ ] that [ __ ] Joking. I'll be back next year. Much love. Here we [ __ ] go. New York 2027.

[00:59:48]Here we go.