Saturday 2 March 2019

February 2019 - The Diary

Another frenetic month of travel for auditions and work and another 2000 miles in the car already in 2019! The LABOUR PARTY commercial aired on the 13th February and here's a wee still below courtesy of Simon Baker. To watch the ad check here NHS Labour Party political broadcast 2019


More meetings for the upcoming BENNY LYNCH tour and more self-tapes for some excellent screen projects and some more voice work booked in as well this month. We shot a series of Trailers for THE BENNY LYNCH STORY in which I am playing Tash Conlin, with David Hayman, Stephen Purdon and Holly Jack and thanks to Davie Carswell for the photo below.


Maz Edmond's excellent debut feature CONNECT in which I play 'entertainer' Stevie Sparkles, opened in the Glasgow Film Festival and received more local press in the East Lothian Courier (below). Hoping for a cinema release with this lovely film and is currently doing the rounds of


of the film festival circuit. Thanks to George Mair we received more national press for our BENNY LYNCH tour in May & June 2019 and tickets are already on sale and you can get all the details on our website here thebennylynchstory.co.uk and delighted to report that this is already selling well!


Then it was back into the familiar 'pirate mode' for a brilliant CAPTAIN MORGAN live gig at The Garage, Glasgow with a brilliant crowd and thanks to the staff for again making it one of our favourite venues to play. Photos here courtesy of Hannah from The Garage Niteclub. Then on to


another CAPTAIN MORGAN Tour of Vodka Wodka, Bacchus and The Cathouse Niteclub in Glasgow with the RPM team which went down a storm and a 5th year of playing the mercurial Sir Henry Morgan for me! Great fun as usual and huge thanks to the whole team of Pirate Crew.


Next up was an appearance on BBC Radio Scotland's brilliant OFF THE BALL show with my Stephen Purdon to talk about our upcoming tour of THE BENNY LYNCH STORY and very grateful to Tam Cowan and Stuart Cosgrove for having us on the show. Photo here courtesy of BBC Scotland. You can listen back to the broadcast here: OFF THE BALL BBC Radio Scotland


Rounded off a busy month with another brilliant charity football match at Camelon FC ground in Falkirk and a fine 5-3 Celtic victory over Rangers in the Fitba Greats match. Huge thanks to all who came along to support and to the ex-pro's and players and Officials who made it such a successful


and fun event and great to get my hands on some silverware at long last. Thanks to Alan Watt for the photos on this page. Already looking forward to the next match in March at Kilwinning!Also this month we received nationwide press coverage for our upcoming tour of thebennylynchstory.co.uk


in the Sunday Mail, Sunday Post, Scottish Mail On Sunday and Scottish Sun and thank you to George Mair for his sterling work on our behalf which has already seen a jump in ticket sales for the Scottish Tour 2019 in May and June. Also managed to notch up another victory this month with the Scotland


Writers FC against Glasgow United in a 4-2 win and thanks to Karen Buckland for the team photo below! Great catching up with my old pal Joe Miller of Celtic Fc this month in the West End and


delighted with my new Celtic Former Players Association official jersey! An interesting wee month that was and a few projects coming up in the next couple of months to look forward to...Onwards!