For me it was back to more CAPTAIN MORGAN gigs in Glasgow's Cathouse and yet another brilliant,fun gig with the usual team & a great audience! Then it was onto my 19th Feature Film with an appearance as 'The Auctioneer' in Scottish Indie CROOKED FRAMES from the Thief Of Brisco in Edinburgh with a superb cast and crew and a really lovely scene. Here is my POV of our lovely
auction crowd on our night shoot in lovely Leith! Great fun and looking forward to seeing the finished product, due out in 2019. Great fun shooting this scene with John-James Colvin in the Edinburgh Auction House and thanks to directors Craig Henderson and Andrew Dean and their
excellent and friendly crew for a great experience. Here we are above, courtesy of Laura Hamilton and below here's a wee sneak preview of me in action as 'The Auctioneer'. Great job. Loved it! Two days later and another fun film set, shooting short film EVERY LOVE STORY in Loch Katrine as
part of this year's 48 Hour Film Challenge with regular collaborators Drop Shack Films. Lovely working with my former MERCHANT OF VENICE co-star Julie Martis again on this beautifully shot film, directed by Jack Willison & his brilliant crew in such a stunning part of the world. Photos
below are courtesy of Sean Campbell. This was the 7th year in a row I have taken part in this worldwide competition and I always really thrive on the sheer Herculanean effort required to write, shoot, edit & deliver a full film in only 2 days and we got really lucky with the weather on a tough but brilliant shoot.
After a quick calculation I currently have 12 film and television projects still to be released as well as another 4 currently doing the Festival Circuit at the moment and proud of the work I have done in all of these. Delighted to hear that COPS & MONSTERS is now live on Amazon Prime as of 27th October also! So a huge well done to my long-time collaborator Fraser Coull and his team for achieving this milestone and hopefully we will now be able to press ahead with a second series.
Another great gig at Campus Glasgow with CAPTAIN MORGAN live with the wonderful Marganettes and a great crowd and superb staff and DJ and a superb night all round and only one more gig to go to complete another campaign for the third year in a row and as usual, such fun to play the famous old Buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan in my native city on a Friday night!
Next day I was off to Film City Govan to shoot an interview for Purple TV/BBC Alba n a very exciting football documentary, to be aired in January 2018. Will reveal more about this television show nearer the time!
Lovely interview with presenter Margot McCuaig (above) whom I first spoke to when doing SINGIN I'M NO A BILLY, HE'S A TIM in 2005 in The Edinburgh Fringe and nice catching up on the intervening years. Nice way to end an interesting month's work with my 35th television show credit!
