November 2019 - The Diary

Kicked off November with another great live CAPTAIN MORGAN tour in Stirling, with brilliant gigs in Fubar and Tingle and a great Halloween week crowd and a great atmosphere, so big thanks to the staff and management of both venues for a really successful night! Also this month Short Film

DILLON, in which I had a cameo, was screened as a part of the British Horror Festival at The Empire, Leicester Square and feature film CONNECT toured the country to a fantastic reaction and superb to have a cinema release for both films! Back on the audition trail for me as well this month and the usual hundreds of miles and blizzard of self-tapes as I am not in panto this year for the first

time in ages, so have an opportunity to go for other work I would ordinarily have missed out on! Working on other theatre productions now for 2020 and 2021 and will have some exciting news on that to come! My episode of DOCTORS aired on BBC1 this month, and you can catch up on it here on the BBC site: DOCTORS Series 21 After The Crash Great fun with a brilliant team and one of my

favourite jobs this year! Photo above courtesy of the BBC. Then it was back to Sheffield for a weekend of more live gigs as CAPTAIN MORGAN with shows at West Street Live, Tiger Works and Popworld on the Friday, followed by Walkabout and Code Nightclub on the Saturday, which, as you

can see from these photos, went down a storm with a great crowd and thanks to the staff of all these venues for helping us put on another great show. This job has taken me all over the Uk over the last 5 years and still having a lot of fun playing the old pirate! Drove back up afterwards to Edinburgh to

then fly out to St. Petersburg, via Paris, to shoot my scenes in the upcoming Indian epic, SARDAR UDHAM SINGH. This feature film stars Vicky Kaushal in the title role and directed by Shoojit Sircar with an international cast and this was my second Bollywood movie of the year, having worked on 83

back in June. This was a wonderful experience in every way and the Indian & Russian crew were magnificent, as were the stunning locations we got to shoot in. I can't reveal too much about the film at the moment but here is a preview of my 'look' for this epic movie, below, and a massive thanks 

to the cast, crew and all involved for making this a career highlight and a very exotic shoot in marvellous St Petersburg. An absolute delight to work with a fab cast which includes Shaun Scott, pictured below and Tim Horton. The film will be released next year and here are our fab crew

including leading man Vicky Kaushal on my final night in Russia, as well as our fab translator and production assistant Tess, and genius Producer Ronnie Lahiri. Massive thanks to Rising Sun Films for an unforgettable experience. Flew back to the UK via Paris again just in time to fit in a final

CAPTAIN MORGAN bar tour in Glasgow's O'Neill's Merchant Square, O'Neill's Union Street and finally a return to The Auctioneers to round off a fantastic month and a great 2019 campaign.

October 2019 - The Diary

Back to London for a 6th COLOPLAST UK live event at the Doubletree Hilton in Angel and great to catch up with the team again and a fab event. More booked for next year and nice to be back in one of my old stomping grounds of Islington! October saw the start of a new CAPTAIN MORGAN campaign, with a new team and tours of Glasgow and Edinburgh this month to a great reaction!

Back to Glasgow and a 9th 48 Hour Film Challenge with the Dropshack team and another mad shoot and lots of laughs as I once again took up the role of Doctor Ness in A FRIENDLY MAN, which won Best Sound at the awards this month! Thanks to Director Jack Willison and Sean Campbell for the

photos on this page and great working with Curtis and Jessica again this year. You can watch the film here A FRIENDLY MAN More football as well this month with another Scotland Writers match and a trip to Blairwood Park in Dunfermline to play for Celtic v Rangers Greats. We suffered a bad, bad

defeat this time round, losing 1-6 to The Rangers but it was an absolute thrill to play alongside one of my all-time Celtic heroes Brian McClair, as well as the likes of Simon Donnelly, Rudi Vata, Mark wilson and Tom Boyd. Thanks to Kelly Neilson for the photograph below with 'Choccy.'

A great day out and thanks to all at Oakley United FC for hosting this Fitba Greats match and for all the supporters who came out to watch the game. Back up and down to London for more auditions before more CAPTAIN MORGAN gigs in Edinburgh, with a receptive and raucous crowd at both

the Three Sisters and Biddy Mulligans in The Grassmarket. We were back in The Capital the following night for more piratical adventures at The Pear Tree and 32 Below which were brilliant fun and a great end to another busy month. Landed another Feature Film as well in October and more of

that to come next month, but huge thanks to my agent IAM for once again keeping me busy this year!

September 2019

Another month of travel up and down to London for auditions and a blizzard of self-tapes, all thanks to my agent IAM and Luc Chaudhary for keeping me busy! Great fun this month with Tai and Irvine Welsh on a few nights out and lovely catching up with these chaps in Glasgow. Much hilarity as per

usual and thanks to Sarti's for hosting another Hellfire Club evening! Passed the 100,000 miles mark in the old car this month cruising up and down the M6 and back to Glasgow for a brilliant night at the The Doubletree Hilton as a guest of Outlander star Scott Kyle. A fantastic night and great to meet

Steven Walters and hundreds of fans on the show. Thanks to Peter Broerse for the photos here and to Scott for putting on such a brilliant show, superb entertainment and such great company. Loved it!

Nice to climb back into the old MacGregor family tartan for a fun night once again! Booked some more corporate work for next month and more meetings

for our next show as well as another possible project for 2021. Rounded off the month with a trip to York and then to Celtic Park's No7 Lounge with these fine gentlemen below for the Celtic v kilmarnock match and another win for The Hoops.

August 2019 - The Diary

Great fun recording THE FOOTBALL DAFT podcast with Ewan Cameron & Grado this month and you can listen back to our chat here: FOOTBALL DAFT podcast in which I was the mystery guest and quite terrified the life out of poor Grado! Be warned though, it's adult content...!

Back on the auditions trail again this month with lots of self tapes and then off to Blackness Castle to shoot the new BBC series BLOOD OF THE CLANS in which I play Archibald Campbell, Marquess Of Argyll. Absolutely loved every moment of this shoot, directed by the brilliant Craig Collinson, 

with whom I had worked previously on the CULLODEN Visitor Centre film. Huge thanks to Graham Hunter for the brilliant costumes and for these photos. The series is presented by Neil Oliver and will be broadcast in April of next year. We shot more scenes in the fabulous Falkland Palace and really

looking forward to seeing the finished film in 2020. Great cast and crew and nice catching up with lots of old friends on this job. More meetings for another exciting theatre project for next year and

more of that in the next few months! Recorded another fun podcast with James Slevin this month, chatting about the life of boxer Benny Lynch and our recent Scottish tour, pictured below. Also

in August I was delighted to be asked along to meet the great man's grand-daughter Sharon Lynch Howard along with the Benny Lynch Statue Campaign Team at the Peoples Palace in Glasgow and thanks to Jim Reid for the photos on this page. We are planning on bringing the show back to

Glasgow theatres next year and launching another wee tour for all of those who missed out on seeing this brilliant production this summer. Thanks to Billy Knox for the pic below with Bryan Turnbull.

July 2019 - The Diary

More auditions and travel this month and it was back to sunny Manchester for another excellent COLOPLAST UK live event followed by more London trips for castings. Meetings in Glasgow for future theatre projects all looking very positive for 2020 with my production company Cathkin Park Ltd and a future tour of THE BENNY LYNCH STORY as well as a new show, more of which next month!

Recorded a series of voice overs for a new language app this month with Nic Knight Management followed by more pro-celeb football with Celtic v Rangers at Irvine Meadow FC and a disappointing 3-4 loss, despite a spirited late comeback!! Photo courtesy of Kelly Neilson below!

June 2019 - The Diary

We opened the month in Greenock's Beacon Arts with another sell-out show and a wonderful audience gave the cast a rousing reception. Even met a lovely couple up from Manchester to catch the show! Thanks once again to Bryan & Jim from the Benny Statue Fund who were there on another fantastic night & for some of the cast of River City to support the show.

Delighted with the response and feedback this show is generating and thanks to everyone who came along to see the show this month. All the years of hard work to get this play up and running is beginning to pay off and we are already planning a new tour for early next year.

More auditions and then back into Producer mode to take The Benny Lynch Story to the wonderful Dundee Rep followed by the beautiful Dunfermline Alhambra. More standing ovations and packed houses greeted the cast as the show goes from strength to strength and full credit to our superb cast

and crew on a thoroughly professional job pulled together in record quick time, as we only had 2 weeks of rehearsals before opening this new show in Ayr last month. Thanks to Jim Spence for meeting the cast afterwards and for his wonderful support and praise for the show.

And we had some very special guests at the Alhambra (above) as relatives and family of Benny Lynch came to the show in great numbers and audience members brought along some unbelievably precious pieces of memorabilia which we aim to include in an exhibition on our next tour.

We managed to sneak Bryan Turnbull onstage as well to get his photo taken in the old street where he was born before the show! Delighted to receive our first glowing reviews as well as the show rolled into another full-house in Motherwell and a brilliant audience they were too. Thanks to Holly Jack

for the photo above of our lovely cast pre-show. We had a well-earned week off after Motherwell and headed down to Birmingham for an episode of BBC daytime drama DOCTORS. Absolutely loved working on this long-running show with a brilliant cast and crew and delighted to be back working

with the BBC again at The Drama Village. My episode will air in November so will update nearer the time. Huge thanks to my agent Luc Chaudhary and all at Letherbridge for such a warm welcome and another great character to play! Then raced back to Scotland to shoot another 4 scenes on a major

Bollywood feature film, 83 and a very enjoyable experience all round on this one with a great cast and directed by the fabulous Kabir Khan. The film is shooting all summer and due to be released in April 2020. Wee photo from the set below and a joy to have been a part of and a film which will

find a huge audience on it's release. Loved working with the Indian cast & crew on this and glad I could squeeze it in between filming DOCTORS at the same time. Lots of travel this month but all very worthwhile and another offer in for a telly job later in the summer. Then back to Glasgow for

our final week of THE BENNY LYNCH STORY 2019 Tour and another sold out gig at Eastwood Theatre and finally to The Brunton, Musselburgh and another OV! Huge congratulations to our wonderful cast and crew and a huge thank you to all of you who came along to the shows. We will be

bringing the show back in 2020 as the reaction has been huge to this tour and we have yet to bring it home to Glasgow! A jam-packed and quite brilliant month and more to come this summer!

May 2019 - The Diary

Back to Birmingham for a COLOPLAST live gig with a great bunch of actors and then back up the road to begin rehearsals for THE BENNY LYNCH STORY which tours Scotland in May & June. Absolutely delighted to welcome Steven Duffy to the team as Director and Kat Siebert as Stage Manager in what promises to be a real knockout show!

Delighted to be asked onto the ACSOM podcast again this month to chat about the show and you can watch the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajegT8dofBY A break from rehearsals to fly to sunny Belfast for another COLOPLAST live event with the usual gang (below) and also

caught up with my old CASE HISTORIES co-star Brian McCardie for an hysterical dinner & a terrifying drive around the Antrim countryside! A brilliant and laughter filled couple of days in Northern Ireland and more events booked in for 2020.

The ACSOM podcast interview was released to a great reaction which will hopefully put some more bums on seats on the tour and took a sore one from Kevin Miles in the promo shot below, c/o Into Creative and Stephen Cameron. Huge thanks to the ACSOM guys for their continuing support.

More hilarity this month with a night of drink & laughter & tall tales with John White and Irvine Welsh in Glasgow for another meeting of The Hellfire Club and great catching up with these wonderful chaps once again! Then back to the hard graft of getting the show on the road after 2

brilliant weeks of rehearsals we moved to Ayr Gaiety for Tech Day and opened THE BENNY LYNCH STORY to a packed house on Saturday 18th May 2019 and utterly delighted by the standing ovation we received after a quite magical evening of new theatre. Huge credit to the cast and crew

who worked so hard to bring this all together & to Davie Carswell for funding & writing this entire production. An amazing night was made even more special by the attendance of the Benny Statue Campaign Group with Steph Bradley bringing along Benny's actual watch & we had a lovely photo shoot afterwards. Thank you to all of the Gaiety staff for their kindness & help in this amazing debut performance. And thanks to Laura Boyd and all at STV for covering the show in their new show

WHAT'S ON SCOTLAND which we filmed at Greenock Beacon and was broadcast the week of our opening show. Then it was on to Kilmarnock Palace Theatre for our second show and a welcome return to a venue I've played many times myself. A smaller but appreciative audience as well as

an appearance by legendary boxing hero Dick McTaggart, whom the cast were delighted to meet  after the show! Huge thanks to Bryan Turnbull of the Statue Group who stood in the town centre handing out flyers all afternoon and presented the cast with more lovely gifts! This week my first

appearance in EMMERDALE also aired to a lovely reception and hopefully I will be back in future as it was one of my favourite television jobs yet! Having spent 1995 - 2003 in HIGH ROAD this show felt really familiar and the cast & crew were an incredibly friendly & hard-working bunch.

Then back for more auditions & self-tapes, followed by a 7th appearance in the Celtic XI v Rangers XI in the Fitba Greats match at Kilbirnie Ladeside. A brilliant experience once again and a hard-fought 3-3 draw resulted in penalties...we missed 3 and lost the cup! But again loved every minute of it and great to be sponsored now by our friends at the ACSOM podcast for this season!

Up and down the country this month promoting the Benny Lynch show and auditioning for some exciting projects and my agent IAM is keeping me very busy once again!And met up with novelist Gary Nolan at Cathkin to help his research into his new children's book, photographed below.

It was off to Dunoon next and The Benny Lynch Story played to a brilliant audience at the Queens Hall and great to meet up with local legend Jimmy McQueen and lots of ex-boxers after the show. Thanks to Tony Gill for the photos on this page. A great month and a fab start to the 2019 Tour.