Musician Spent 6 Hours Covered In Pink Slime For A Music Video & World Record
Johnny Lynch is a 44-year-old musician from the Scottish Inner Hebrides island of Eigg, population approximately 100, who records and performs as Pictish Trail, runs a cult independent label called Lost Map Records, and has spent over two decades making psychedelic folk pop in one of the more remote corners of the United Kingdom. His sixth album is called Life Slime. It is a record about transformation, exhaustion, the end of relationships, and the feeling of time slipping through your fingers, and to make the music video for the title track, Lynch spent six hours in a Glasgow studio in February 2026 having 170 litres of warm pink goo poured over his head before lowering himself backwards into a 30-litre slime bath and sinking slowly until his entire face disappeared beneath the surface. The total volume of slime used was 200 litres, equivalent to 606 cans of Coca-Cola, and Guinness World Records has certified it as the most slime ever used in a music video, a record that did not previously exist and now belongs to a man living on a Hebridean island.
Lynch described the shoot as strangely relaxing once it got going, and said the strangest part was how quickly everything went quiet as the slime began to build up around him. He does not particularly recommend the ending, in which he blew bubbles from beneath the surface while slowly vanishing from view: he accidentally swallowed some slime, inhaled it through his nose, got it in his eyeballs, and spent the following week with a sinus infection. He then had to drive home and get up at 4am to begin the journey back to Eigg. The video was directed by Oscar Sansom and produced by BAFTA winner Beth Allan of Forest of Black, who cooked the slime fresh in large pots alongside the filming so it would be warm when poured. When Lynch received confirmation that the record had been verified, he described himself as massively relieved given how much effort everyone had put in. He also noted that the biggest surprise was the reaction at home. As far as his kids are concerned, it is the coolest thing he has ever done. Over two decades of independent music, tours, critically acclaimed albums, and festival curation: all of it has been surpassed, in his children's estimation, by a man sitting in a vat of warm pink slime in Glasgow.
