September 2023 - The Diary

In September it was back to London for another excellent roleplay with COLOPLAST UK in Islington and great fun working with the usual team and joined by Glen Dickson for these sessions, pictured below

before heading back to Glasgow and meeting up with former Celtic & Partick Thistle FC goalkeeper Andy Murdoch for lunch and drinks and a great catch up, having previously worked together with Police Scotland, in which I did the roleplay work. A great evening ensued and met fellow ex-pro's Paul Paton and Paul Ross at The Horseshoe Bar, also all pictured below! Back to the screen work and this month saw a

repeat broadcast of the brilliant CASE HISTORIES series starring Jason Isaacs on the UKTV Play channel. I played a hit man, Paul Bradley and loved working on this show alongside a stellar cast

in a great role, taken from the novels by Kate Atkinson, a still from which is above, alongside Adam Godley of Breaking Bad fame. Back to Glasgow Caledonian University for the first time since I quit

Photo above with Blythe Duff and Clare Waugh at the TAGGART Exhibition in Sept 23 in Caley Uni.

my Degree course in Social Sciences to pursue my acting career and the fab exhibition and celebration of all things TAGGART. Organized by Blythe Duff, this was an honour to be a part of and I freely gave my own 'witness statement' of my involvement in this flagship show from STV to the retired Detectives present and it brought back some brilliant memories. Great to bump into Laura Harvey, who had photos

of the WRAP Night party from 1999/2000 when we shot the episode entitled FALLING IN LOVE in which I played Billy 'Skud" Mackay. This photo is above! Great catching up with lots of old friends at this event and doing the interview for the documentary film that will accompany the exhibition in future.

Then time for another grand meeting of The Hellfire Club and anothe fun-filled night at Sarti's Glasgow, followed by a raucous night watching the Scotland game in the Horseshoe Bar once again. Great fun indeed. The following Monday it was back to Parkhead and a really fun interview with Paul Dykes

for A Celtic State Of Mind's A WANDER ROUND PARADISE series, which you can watch here:

A WANDER ROUND PARADISE and great fun chatting about Celtic FC and our new fashion store

Zico Fashion Boutique and huge thanks for having me back on the platform. Always great fun!

Also this month I helped organize a shoot in Glasgow for a funding reel short film by Jason Allday entitled RUN. The majority of the shoot was in New York and features cast members from The Sopranos and Goodfellas and is Directed by Danny Provenzano. Thanks to David Wilde for shooting these scenes

above and below and to our cast of Scott Peden, Douglas Sannachan and Peter McPherson and to Tom Joyce at The Barrowland Ballroom for permission to shoot another scene there. Great fun again and

another nice project for the future. Here's the cast and crew below under the iconic Barras Market sign!

Time to squeeze in a couple of medical roleplays with Glasgow University before the end of the month at the Woolfson Building and another slew of exciting auditions from my agent. Booked another feature film role but more of that in the weeks to come!