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This week we sat down with the former Scottish gangster Ian 'Blink' MacDonald, who told us about his rough childhood, 18 years prison sentence, being assassinated and how he gave up on the life of crime.
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Thanks to Ian for sitting down with us. If you want to read more about his story, you can purchase his book here: www.amazon.co.uk/Scotlands-Wildest-Bank-Robber-Glasgows-ebook/dp/B08QDS7QQH
Top guy not a gangster
@Philip Craig subtitles talk sence
Just put his name in KZhead or Google him and you will fined out what he is like
@@brianmckinlay9314 Aye he's not changed lol.
@@toffeelatte6042 good on him
"And I walked around my mother's street laughing because they never got my neck" Absolute savage
Just fishing for likes tbf
@@haza6893 how
@@haza6893 grow up
“Every day is a bonus”
@@haza6893 mate hes well known in glasgow the mans a maniac 🤣
He was my late fathers friend. He came to my house the day after his merc had a bomb under.really nice guy spoke exactly like this to everyone, honest and genuine guy glad hes got a podcast and tellimg his story
You`re under arrest for some questions.
@@fa7842 hes just answere them here lol
Yeah he seems like a cracking bloke. He should be given an O.B.E. for his services to the world 🤣🤣🤣🙈👏👏
@@SiLatics56 people need a chance to reform. But that wouldnt land on somone who uses emojis
@@gordonmckee357 what does using emojis have to do with it?? That's like me judging you for not being able to spell or using poor grammar. The problem with posts like this is everyone hails these gangsters as heroes. Typical reaction from a Lad Bible follower. Someone shows a little remorse and you hail them as heroes, just cos they wear a fancy suit ;). Just like the Bobby lad from London. He killed and maimed people and the last time I checked, that was against the law. Hundreds of years ago people were brutally executed in public, for doing much less. I'm not saying these blokes deserve that but the way you raise them up is indicative of this topsy turvy world we live in. He chose crime, he harmed people. Too right he should be giving up his time to help others, but he should have spent more time behind bars in my opinion. The only way this guy is a good role model is if he helps others to live a life totally different. No doubt Lad Bible will remove my comments, just like the last ones. Bit too controversial for them probably and not following like a sheep.
This is why when you meet people of his generation from Glasgow you show respect. Times have changed since then in the city but their generation was forged by sectarian violence, hard industrial labour, poor living conditions, brutal police, gangs and organised crime. How Glasgow has grown and become, in my opinion, the best city in the world is just amazing.
Aye. Blackhill is still a shithole though, Springburn's a bit better.
@@toffeelatte6042 lived in greenock myself but Glasgow fast became my favourite place on the planet. Nowhere has really felt like home since.
Their scum that contribute nothing to society, they don't deserve respect.
@@chrisfricker7025 you couldn't be more wrong.
@@roryluukas2703 how so then?
When listening to these Old-school gangsters they are always well spoken gentlemen, not like these wannabe gangsta kids who have no respect.
Did you really just use the the word gangster and gentlemen in the same sentence?
They learn to be persuasive, calm and considered after many years when testosterone levels drop and they have survived the fight. Pschopaths are persuasive. He even says himself he was an asshole as a kid
@@sighfly2928 yes, these people were gangsters, but often they were looking out for the elderly in the community. I've listened to many a podcast of these Old-school gangsters and they are all well spoken.
Yeah love these great gangsters such great people love them
Shoot you real quick if they need to though, remember that.
You know this is going to be good.
He’s done a few podcasts. Best one is with James English you should check it out.
@@darrenanderson5654 where do I find that. I've no idea about podcasts so can you tell me please. This man has seen it all. It's a wild lifestyle to hold down and at some point it will either take you out or you will walk out of it and have your life to think about & enjoy the last of your days !
@@demi-rosaastrix4203 kzhead.info/sun/d6aCirKRhXiHdIk/bejne.html thats the interview. Its really good!
Watch it and find out
But you also know that you are happy for the subtitels because Scotish
"Everyday is a bonus" short sentence but powerful words
British bloke here. I went out with a girl from Easterhouse for seven years. Her family were lovely but if I say 'no nonsense types' you get it. I will never forget the first time I spent a week up there. We stayed with her sister and brother in-law. When the clock struck ten he said... "A... Reeet... Pub!" So we both walked the half a mile to the pub, where I noticed that every other house had either been either torched or boarded-up. When we arrived at the pub (metal-covered windows) he stood on the step, turned to me and said: "Just relax... but din open yer Mut ... cuz if someone hears your English... yill get slit!" 🧐 I really wanted a packet of crisps with my beer... But was too scared to ask!!! 😂🤣😂 My week there was more terrifying than driving across North Africa. 🤣😂
I'm surprised by this glaswegians don't hate English people I think your brother in law was making it worse in the pub if you go looking for trouble you will get it Glasgow people are funny decent and helpfull best from Glasgow
@@wboyle9721 Please don't misunderstand me, I don't have an axe to grind with Glaswegians (no pun intended,), I just wanted to share a resounding memory of my first week there! That same week, I was sitting in a restaurant eating a delicious deep-fried Mars Bar (kidding), no but I was sitting in a city-centre cafe eating breakfast with Senga (my girlfriend) and a homeless beggar walked in and without any shame held out his hand and asked: "Got any money mate?" "No mate" I said! "Then how you gonna pay fur ya f@#@#@g fud?" He asked? Can't argue with that!!! Also, please be aware, this wasn't a story from between the wars, the air wasn't thick with the steam from the trains, this was 1994! On the way back on the train, a Glaswegian guy from a submarine base plonked himself down between me and my girlfriend and asked me if I wanted a fight? I told him that I could kill a man in my bare feet, so if he could wait five minutes whilst I removed my shoes..... He laughed and left...... I will stop there.... I make armour as a career now, for cinema and museums etc,, and I honestly think that my trips to Glasgow are one of the reasons I do!!!! 💪⚔️⚒️ Best wishes to you, and please give my love to Scotland. 🌞
@@nigelcarren fair point mate idiots everywhere
@@nigelcarren really funny stories of Scottish people/culture. I think the difference here is the company you keep will dictate your experience. Senga clearly from the schemes, nothing wrong with that. But very different from a weekend away spent in and around the city centre. I expect this could be true of most places really.
@@QuaintQuipster Hello Gary, I totally agree with you mate. My girlfriend bless her hadn't expected any of what hapenned really as it was the first time she had been seen with or been out with a 'Snob'! (What they called me behind my back when I left because I am English). Well, snob I ain't, I am an ex council-house boy from Birmingham working-class stock and not ashamed of if... I make my own luck here! I just think they had a pre-conceived opinion of those from the south? After all, we were only just out of the 80's! ... I did have a ponytail then, so in all fairness, I did need a stiff talking to at least!!! 🙈😂🤣 Best wishes to you. 🌞
Met Ian just by chance at a caravan park at the weekend, asked if he fancied a game of pool. Turns out we grew up in Blackhill and had a few beers and a laugh over the weekend. Lovely guy, got a selfie and a signed book. I wish him all the best in his media career and book sales.
Ian is the most down to earth guy ever , could listen to his story’s for ever. Thanks for signing my book personally 😎
Can you give me title of this book please? 😊 I would like to read it
Got it :)
This is the kind of person you look up to is it? Pathetic
@@James-yy4vl a friend 😉
@@James-yy4vl all it took was one sentence from you for me to know your a knob
Enjoyed this . Real warrior refusing to back down n be bullied. Organised crime hate ppl like him . Great he's changed
It's great you changed too. Keep it up 🙏
I am from Glasgow and you are deluded
Story isn't fabricated or exaggerated, true reflection of a working class, housing estate life at that time in Glasgow. And also to a degree still is "know wit' a mean?"
Good to hear some honest reflection and acceptance of the path he took. I don’t think that comes through enough in all his other interviews. Interesting guy and a good storyteller.
Really? I thought he was a total moron and lost 15 minutes of my life, who wants to be that sad dude seriously, his life is total shit
Quality as always, lads!
I’m from the east end of Glasgow and my dad has spoken about blink and how feared he was. Although there is always someone harder than you no matter what and there’s a lot of hard nuts in Glasgow lol
Bloody weedgies giving Scotland a bad name 😉 just jesting with you, I'm from Aberdeen-sheep shagger town lol-and know quite a few Glasgow folk who've came up here just to get away from some of the shit in Glasgow or for work at the oil rigs, most of them are decent people although why they picked up here to move (except for the ones that have moved for work) I can never figure out, there's much better places than Aberdeen to move to-sadly this place has went downhill in a big way, I'd swap Aberdeen for Edinburgh on a heartbeat and I used to live in Stirling which I miss a lot, maybe some day I'll move back to Stirling
To all youngsters thinking this type of life is cool... look at just how much time he wasted being locked up. Time he will never ever get back and living with tremendous violence. This is not cool. It is just stupid to the enth degree.
Ironic, it's 'nth degree' btw
I don't think it's youngsters genuinely thinking this kind of life is "cool" I think it's more to do with what they perceive as being easy money and also when your young thinking ahead for a lot of them isn't an easy thing to do, that's why having an older mentor of some sort, whether it's a family member or just someone you know is so important. I didn't have a decent mentor and wasted a lot of years of my life-im not going into details but it took a lot of years and self reflection until I got my life together, now im nearly 39 and in a good place. I just wish so much I'd had an older mentor who I respected because the criminal life wasn't about being "cool" for USA, it really was just about finding easy money-or what I thought was easy money, looking back it wasn't easy at all
@@teethgrinder83 this is so important. Most kids now dont have a stable father in their lives. Alot of them that do, are working all the time and cant be there to mentor their sons and daughters. With little time spent with their teenage kids its just "do this or you're grounded" or told "go to college and get a trade" though that is golden advice, you need to teach from every single angle as to why this life is better than having too much fun after highschool. If I have kids one day, I'm taking my son to work as much as I can, I'm teaching my daughter what a good man should act like.
Had me with Scottish in the title. Scottish gangsters are really something else in my opinion. Thanks for the very interesting video!
@@KickTheCockPitDoorDown by 5"5 rats aye
@@KickTheCockPitDoorDown same as you would in Glasgow if you tried shit with them lol
@@KickTheCockPitDoorDown Mexico 😂😅😂😂😂😂
@Ben Campbell where are you from
Another incredible interview.
This was a good quick wee interview. Thank you.
Wow! Great interview. Love your channel!
About 1975 I was a junior seaman docked in Glasgow, about 16 years old at the time was not very world-wise. Went into a bar and had a wad of cash after 3 months at sea, bought a pint then a woman came up and started talking, she said I needed to get out fast as there was a bunch of lads aiming to cut me up and take my wallet. Slipped out the back and we both hopped into a taxi and went back to my ship. We spent the rest of the weekend in my cabin with a couple bottles of whiskey. Can't remember her name now but I guess I can thank her for not having a similar scar.
Awesome story man
@@stephenduke412 She was an awesome lady to help a dumb kid out like that and wherever she is now will always have my thanks.
@@LeeRaldar she made it up for the whiskey and weekend in the cabin
@@mr.t.1237 Don't think so, she gave me the nod as to people with dire plans for my future. Seamen in portside bars around the world who have had a few drinks and with a plump wallet are considered fair game. Was still wet behind the ears at that time so did not know about taking the minimum cash into such places.
Haha aye sounds like glasgow
I taught a lad who'd been in jail for gang fighting and had a face full of scars. He had that same flat affect, that matter of fact approach to what for anybody else would have to be completely intolerable and unmanageable. There seems to be group of people who, if you push them far enough, they just lose all emotion and strong feelings.
Psychopath??
It’s called sociopathy
@@gazzy9136 more like secondary psychopathy than sociopathic.
@@gazzy9136 nope. Stop throwing words you know nothing of around.
What do you mean “group of people” that’s the entire fucking human population you’re talking about. Push anyone far enough and they will be desensitized. Don’t know where you got that this was a choice and not a natural thing the whole world does or will do when confronted with extreme violence for a long period of time
Thanks for the subtitles
Quality, love this channel
I never understood just how violent Glasgow was until googling Tommy Flanagan while watching Sons of Anarchy and fell into the rabbit hole from there, pretty nuts the environment that generation grew up in.
I’m a Glaswegian and brought up the same time as this guy , and let me tell you that Glasgow was full of rundown tenement buildings we did not have fancy three bedroom houses like they did in England most places were poor, high unemployment cause people to find other ways to feed themselves and family some turned to crime the circumstances of poverty caused this not them .
yeah cause everyone in england had fancy 3 bedroom houses
@@shaunmaguire6912 👌🏻😂
What you mention about Scotland also happened in England too if not more so in some cities. It nice to be see Glasgow grow to better place now. Maybes the Midlands and Northern England can grow too.
Mm ,the old excuses wheeled out , as to why people commit crime . Many high flyers commit crime . Big league lawyers , politicians , bankers and the like . It's in your nature or it isn't . The excuse that poverty forces people into criminality doesn't wash . Incidentally , London is not all luxury 3 bedroom houses ,And 2.4 children , much of London has always existed below the bread line . A man with character , determination and honesty makes his own fortune . He shouldn't make excuses about being poor , to shove a gun in a bank clerks face .
@Mandeep Indapoopa Glasgow was much worse in the past.
Great video guys.
I don't know why it's so funny but the weegee patter that comes out this guy is class. "Killt five people... an aw aht nahtmean?" 😂
Fairplay for standing and keeping a sense of humour after everything ian blink Macdonald.. legend
As a Glasweigan myself, I respect this guy a ton! 🏴
Could listen all day
I lived a bit of a life that I'm not proud of in Boston and in Fall River Massachusetts here in the Northeast of the United states. I'm thankful to be alive today. I appreciate videos like this with gentleman like him. I know that there are some things that are very difficult to speak of. Thank you very much. I do appreciate it. 🙏 I myself am second generation Scottish born in the United States. On my mother's side, the clan is Caldwell. 🏴🇺🇸
He was assassinated and he’s here to tell the tale? That’s one tough cookie!
The thing with blink is that everything he tells you is legit you wont get any bullshit from him hes a good guy that chased a life of crime trying to be a millionaire and failed but hes twice the man most of these so called gangsters are blink really was about that life.
If ye know ye know ! Ian is a straight up guy.might kick wae the wrong foot in Glasgow religion and football wise but he’s respected everywere
@@glasgowsgreenandwhite4714 Don’t know about that son 😉
@@TruthTeller00 ah do, he defo does bud ;p 💚
@@TruthTeller00 He,s right, it is.
Cuties 💙
I love this guys story’s
Ian's a decent guy, proper down to earth and humble, always speaks when you see him in the street Great interview and great guest 👍
proper decent guy who has stabbed countless people
“See if you call me jock wan more time I’ll do you in mate” 🏴😂
Respect to this man 👍🏾
respect for a thief , drug dealer and knifeman
@@josiekaposie5783 yes
I know two old blokes who grew up in glasgow, they were connected to some big families, some of the stories theyve told me are rough af
a rough childhood affects everyone differently. love and light
Could listen to blink all day
Ian is class, mad bloke.
great prod by unilad. nice touch 8.50 on the side include facts of the names dropped
Thank god for the translation
3:09 For those not familiar, a PP9 is not the little 9 volt batteries we have today. It was a commonly used in british radios, and it was big, heavy....and could leave a mark if hurled.
Aye, they are a 2" x 2.5" x 3" lump of metal, this event would have made the bar of soap in the sock scene from Full Metal Jacket look like a pillow fight.
PP9 in a sock ,prison tool old school.
It's the noise they made when hit against someone's skull that is frightening. Was a daily occurrence back in the old polmont days
My Dad grew up in post-WAR Springburn, I think like his parents most of them who could back in those days buggered off to the new towns or emigrated to places like Canada. In saying that, although the new towns weren't quite as rough as the schemes in Glasgow, they weren't without their problems either. I didn't grow up in a particularly rough housing scheme, but before the age of 18 I'd encountered quite a lot of violence, three notable incidents I can recall are: escaping multiple stabbings and having to have half my nose stitched up after I was bottled in a case of mistaken identity, and accidentally slicing off someone's earlobe in a gang fight that escalated and got seriously out of hand. I think most working-class Scottish kids that ran in Young Teams or flirted with criminality have similar stories (and the scars) but very, very few of them ever graduated from this to being out and out gangsters. Most of them grew up, found jobs, started families and became fully functional members of society.
Are you by any chance related to Tony Goldie from Castlemilk ? He'd be in his mid 60s . If he's still alive . Top guy .!
I really have to concentrate to get what he's saying. Brilliant!
This guy is top class on these things, great stories. Ask how he got the nickname.
He's very likable.. and what he said about not getting taught Any life skills in prison is right.. people need more help
HOMES THE PLACE TO BE FARK PRISON ITS MISERY i know cos i lived the life and wouldn't change it for nada
Wow. Wish I had someone like this as my uncle or grandad. Very interesting stories I could listen to, haha.
I was born in London, raised in the states to English/Irish/Scottish parents...my mother's Irish side were westies in hells kitchen...but both my mom and dad told me the Scots are the toughest of all three..
Nice story!
As an American who went to Glasgow uni(videos on channel explain more) this was so cool to listen to. We had to take Scottish history at Uni. But getting it from the horse’s mouth is awesome
Have a look on KZhead for he’s auld pal known as the wee man aka Paul Ferris one of the auld school Glasgow gangsters who’s well respected up and down the whole of the uk
@Kane ?
@@gazzbhoy8950 cheers will do
Hope you enjoyed living in Glasgow marinanate best from Glasgow
The man who Danny dyer decided was too dangerous to be on deadliest men back in the day hahaha
Shit, that's saying something.
@@DrumToTheBassWoop he was filming for that show when they found the bomb under his car, Ian was pissed off that Danny didn’t want to record any more
It's official: crime really doesn't pay.
he just said that "new kids on the block" are millionaires by now, so i guess it pays sometimes, and i wonder what happened with those 6 millions he took part in stealing
Crime does pay, unfortunately.theres plenty who live a luxurious lifestyle from the proceeds of crime.its normally the greedy ones that get caught.
crime pays if its 'offical'
Fascinating viewing. Mind you, for hat it's worth, the 9th May 2009 was a Saturday - not a Friday!
You know it embedded in his head when he can tell you dates and times
I know there are some areas in London that were seriously run down, but when you saw those Glasgow tenements, they were _ghetto_
more videos like this please
I hope he finds peace and happiness in the future.
He's a good guy that went down the wrong road... Remember kids watching there's no glamour in this.
being from glesga i dont need the subtitles lol
Ngl his accent isn't the worst.
I’m Welsh and I could understand every word he said, I like the Scottish accent 👍
Yeah his accent is nice and easy to hear IMO. My Glaswegian father pronounces cow as kew and house as hoose, so this guys was no problem to understand.
@@roygeorge5364 Coo
Great story
The subtitles are too funny 😂🙌
Blinks story on shaun attwoods podcast about his holiday to benidorm is the best story ever told
😂🤣🤣 it’s class 👌
Proof of a gentleman under a hard facade due to not having a string fatherly figure.... The respect Ian has and how well spoken and matter of fact he is shows he the growth he has gone through as a person. Correct use of amateurs
@ Bethany Rachel: 'Proof of a gentleman under a hard facade due to not having a string fatherly figure....'. Well said. Thank you!
Lol at the subtitles even though Ians trying his hardest to speak clearly.
It was hingin aff lol.. Blinks hilarious 😂
This dude looks awesome.
"18 years prison sentence, being assassinated and how he gave up on the life of crime." looks pretty alive to me 😉
Absolute honour to have met u earlier today ian met u with my cuz from london
It was John in Wetherspoons it was an Absolute Pleasure mate 👍 💯🎬🎤
When their Scottish you know it’s gonna be a good story
Crosspaths with this geezer, hes a heavy duty old school villian
“I done 10 years, 5 months and 5 weeks” ….so 10 years, 6 months then? 🤔
10 years, 6 months and 1 week
Naw it isnae.. Ya fud
Amazing life story, top show for not being a nark , time to live now mate
Every day is a bonus. I love that.
For anyone outside the UK Glasgow is a Hard city. They don't fuck about. Not many guns but plenty of blades. The razer gangs were renowned for running battles in the street
decent amount of guns, aw your crime families n any sorta organised crime have guns. aye alot more blades but when you get to serious shit then aye there are guns
His story goes to show how fatherless families can lead young men to find trouble.
…and girls with daddy issues. However it’s not always the case. And not an excuse to be a complete c*nt 🤷.
Bollox
@Lindy T Yes I agree. Plenty of examples. I never said that wasn’t. What I will say is there are plenty of examples also where it doesn’t automatically give you the ‘I can be asshole to you/go down a criminal route’ card - for both sexes, I’m not advocating for either or. What I mean is both have plenty evidence of issues. I mean it doesn’t take a scientist or psychologist to work that out, it’s just common sense. However, there are plenty who haven’t had either or and channel that ‘missing part’ in something positive. We all have choices. However I notice you picked women as hurting ‘themselves’ and men on ‘others’. That’s a complete simplification from perspective. Both display introvertly and externally on others dependant on a wide array of situations in and out of their control so I’m not sure why you think that as it’s a very shallow/ignorant conclusion with respect. Take care TLTR: Don’t use it as an excuse to be a dick to others and/or a get out of jail free card for your behaviour. Be self aware of your actions is all it takes and learning to let go. Simple rule of life - don’t be a dick 🤷
no it doesnt, it goes to show what an abusive father can push his children towards when his influence is gone, they then wanted to hang around with who they couldnt, if their mother had more input they would have did things more constructive like homework
@@jamesi2018 There some truths in that too. Toxic femininity towards the father and men as an after thought can push the child towards having an inner anger unknowingly and unaware of where it came from. You see that a lot in broken relationships it’s ridiculous and selfish, no matter if they were right or wrong, it usually only has bad repercussions on the child’s behaviour in society.
I think Bobby and him would go along just famously! 😂😂😂
11:45 "viable" not valuable (screen caps error).
The sadness in this man's eyes 😥 such a shame
He wasted a quarter of his life in prison course he's sad
I knew Scottish gangsters were notoriously violent but bloody hell! Out of any UK gangs, I’d least want to get on the wrong side of those north of the border!
I had a glasgow guy in a concreting gang I had working under me .He was tiny but by god his temper I will never forget.Pull his pin and he blew. Serious violent guy and must have weighed in at 8 stone but very dangerous man.He was the "Glasgow Kiss" .
Glasgow gangs feared nobody, they were feared instead. The Glasgow Godfather Arthur Thompson went to London, walked into The Krays own nightclub with a sawn off shotgun and made one of them kiss his arse. Then got back in taxi headed back home. Notice no London gangsters ever dare stepped foot in Glasgow.
@@heresjohnny999 , aye so he did 😂
@@heresjohnny999 Christy kinehan worse than all of them
@@heresjohnny999 Aye i'm sure he went to America kicked Al capone's arse as well eh?
Cool Interview!!! 😎👍
Blackhill .. brings back memories
Testing my Northern DNA by covering up the subtitles.
Mars bar… it’s been time since i last heard in that demeanour.
Definitely needed the sub titles
I remember a raid on the Dunfermline Building Society at Anniesland Cross...I'm sure he was linked to it?
No
Thanks for the subtitles 😎
Blink needs his own podcast.
As a wifey from the Scottish highlands I love that there’s subtitles! I love Glasgow and the folk down there - they have the best sense of humour and if you’re not a dick you’ll be grand.
13:32 “the turning point, basically, was some people came and said to me…”
Bro that's the Scottish updated version of James Bond..
He has zero resemblance to James Bond other than the suit.
James bond is Scottish
James Bond is Scottish ya bam
@@jaycampbell5335 I think the story is his dad was born in Scotland but moved to London before his birth, no?
@@michaelsMW2movies Born in German, his father was a scottish lad and his mother was a swiss citizen.
Yes it’s going to be a great one
He says ‘viable device’. Love from Glasgow 👍🏻
LUV THE ACCENT
Absolute legend 🏴
His book is on audible. Absolutely brilliant.
I just love that man's voice and accent and his look... I live in greenock but I'm an English bird... I just love it
Greenock eh? Suppose it's better than the Port..
@@andy_warhola anywhere better than the port. Not too much better here though. Where'd you stay
@@Rup869 Little seaside resort called Gourock..🏴
@@andy_warhola resort haha... aye Gourock I know. Was there the other day. Far better than my way anyhoo
@@Rup869 I'm only joking, this is like one town with three separate names. Where you from in England?
A few SAS lads met so called gangsters and just laughed.