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.
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