January 2023 - The Diary

Happy New Year! As is tradition, we welcomed the new year in my MacTavish ancestral home of Kilmartin in beautiful Argyll, seen below! It is always a lovely trip and the weather was superb and a great way to kick off another busy year, as I have a few jobs already now in the diary.

Delighted to land more work early in January 2023, with zoom Roleplays with NHS Lanarksire once again, followed by several face-to-face Roleplay gigs with Barrow & Parker in Glasgow with more booked in for next month. Then a series of really exciting auditions from my fab agent IAM, and

was cast in a brilliant short film on ANN BOLEYN, playing Thomas Cromwell, which we shoot in London in March, from a tape I recorded in late December. Another infamous historical figure whom I will relish playing (portrait below) and delighted to book in my first screen role for 2023. More tapes

and booked another round of roleplay work for next month. Next up was another Wheatley roleplay in Glasgow with a great cast and more NHS roleplay work on Teams this month. Finally treated myself to a new motorbike in January, my first in over 20 years! Many thanks to my old pals at Victor Devine in 

Anderston for this little beauty! Back to more self-tapes at the tail end of the month and another Bollywood feature film is in the pipeline, which is my 4th and are always great fun, more details

to come next month on that one! Picked up lots of costumes and props this month from The Barras and Treasure Bunker as well as Ebay for another film project I am co-writing at present and have a few trips down south booked in for next month for more roleplay work and a few Festival screenings to attend.

Finally got a chance to visit the brilliant ACSOM studios in East Lothian this month and great fun catching up with old pal Paul John Dykes and the team. Delighted to receive my copy of his epic tome THE CELTIC JERSEY at last and looking forward to working on a new project with the A State Of Mind team later this year. Huge thanks to all involved for a great trip through this month.

All told, a very decent start to 2023...

December 2022 - The Diary

December saw the recording of another series of our retro football podcast, SHOOT THE BREEZE! with Tom Brogan and Andy Smith. To celebrate the wonderful Qatar 22 World Cup we recorded three special 

episodes to look back on previous tournaments in 1974, 1982 and the current, quite brilliant tournament which ended in a thrilling victory for Argentina on penalties against France. Our brilliant guests were Andy Cameron and Graham Lambert (Inspiral Carpets) and are available on Youtube now. Listen back to the recent episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TmIHoVvww0&feature=youtu.be

Back to a series of excellent roleplays with Blue Beetle this month, when called in to cover the title role of MOTHER GOOSE in Glasgow Arts fabulous touring pantomime once again! Thanks to Mari Binnie and the cast and crew for welcoming on to the show, where I opened in Maryhill Community Centre, then to

Barmulloch and a final two shows at Knightswood Community Centre. Loved being back on stage with these guys and all shows were sold out and the audiences were just brilliant. An unexpected but fab end

to the year and a second stage show of 2023. A brilliant script by Alan McHugh and a great cast to work

with once again, having toured with Glasgow Arts previously with Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty and Beauty And The Beast. A joy to have been a part of! Then back in to more podcasts and roleplay work with NHS Lanarkshire and then to Master Of Ceremonies duties at my beautiful sister Lucy's wedding to Simon Craig at the University Chapel and party at The Tall Ship in Glasgow, photograph below! An honour to

be asked and this was yet another wonderful wedding in 2023. A couple of exciting auditions to end the year with too, so fingers crossed I will have some good news to report soon. Short film REMNANTS is now available to watch here @shortly_film on Twitter. Ended 2023 with another great, fun evening

with Irvine Welsh as The Hellfire Club reconvened in Glasgow in late December. Great to catch up and a lovely end to another busy and interesting year. Proud to have worked on lots of good productions this year and travelled all over again working with good people. Thank you to all my cast mates, directors

casting directors and producers I have met and worked with in 2022. It has been a blast! Personal highlights for me have been playing Sick Boy in PORNO at The Edinburgh Fringe, adding another Bollywood feature film to the CV, doing panto again and appearing in two books this award winning year!