Edinburgh musician lands Guinness World Record for most slime used in music video
Wacky music video catches the eye of Guinness World Records team
An Edinburgh musician has landed himself a wacky Guinness World Records entry - for having the most slime in a music video.
Johnny Lynch, who performs under the name of Pictish Trail, spent six hours having 200 litres of pink slime poured over his head during the making of the video for his single Life Slime.
And after being repeatedly drenched in the gooey mess, the singer songwriter and music label boss was then dumped head first into a bath full of the stuff.
The stunt has now officially been declared a word record after it caught the eye of the Guinness World Records team.
The slime feat is currently listed on the Guinness World Records website and states: “The most slime in a music video is 200 litres (52.8 gal), achieved by Pictish Trail (UK, Johnny Lynch) for his track ‘Life Slime’ in Glasgow, UK, on 22 February 2026.
“Pictish Trail is an electro-acoustic psych-pop musician from the Isle of Eigg in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. ‘Life Slime’ is the title track of his sixth full-length album.
“During six hours of filming, Johnny had 170 litres (44.9 gal) of pink goo poured over his head before submerging himself in a 30-litre (7.9-gal) slime bath.”
The video to Life Slime - the title track of Pictish Trail’s sixth album - was directed by Oscar Sansom, produced by BAFTA winner Beth Allan and filmed in Glasgow earlier this year.
Johnny, originally from the capital’s Colinton area, said: “I’ve spent over two decades trying to carve out a career in music, and it's deeply reassuring to know that my greatest achievement appears to be having 200 litres of slime poured over my head.
“After more than six hours of being repeatedly slimed during the filming of the Life Slime video, I developed a sinus infection that lasted a week.
“Receiving a Guinness World Records title makes it all feel worthwhile.”
Scots producer Beth Allan, of Forest of Black, added: “We wanted to capture quite a simple and direct performance from Johnny in this one, so the set-up is clean and graphical, and we were privileged to get some very real emotions.
“We also wanted to completely cover him in warm pink slime, so we cooked up huge pots of slime alongside filming. In the end we poured 200 litres.”
Johnny, 44, was one of the founders of the renowned Fence Collective along with Mercury Award nominee King Creosote and now runs cult label Lost Map Records from his home on the Hebridean island of Eigg.
Pictish Trail is also curating the Lost Map Summer Party as part of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games cultural programme this summer. The event will see the Pictish Trail full band set along with The Bug Club and Both Hands as well as a Hot Chip DJ set, at SWG3's Galvanizers Yard on Friday, July 31.