pictured above! Then to the excellent BAAD venue at The Barras Market as a guest of Paul John Dykes as he hosted The Stone Roses & Primal Scream bass player Mani for a brilliant Q&A event. Lovely to meet Mr Mounfield, whose Insect Royalty track was the opening to our short film The Granton Star Cause in 1997. We had a great chat and another brilliant night and again, great company with lots of old friends
in attendance, including James McAnerney, as well as musicians Paul Quinn and Dillon Squire, all pictured below. Thanks to all at ACSOM for a brilliant night and to all the staff at Barras Art & Design for hosting this event. August was as usual crammed full of events, and delighted to attend the EIFF final
night of Awards and the Premiere of Director Paul Sng's brilliant documentary on writer Irvine Welsh at The Cameo Cinema, REALITY IS NOT ENOUGH. Delighted to appear in this brilliant film very briefly at the beginning, as the team from LS/Velvet Joy Productions filmed our final performance of PORNO
during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at The Pleasance. This film is a masterpiece and deservedly is already winning awards and another fantastic night at the Edinburgh Film Festival, back at the very cinema where we first screened The Acid House all those years ago.
Another packed audience and a great reaction to the film, followed by more celebrations afterwards at two after parties, which were again another opportunity to meet up with old pals and colleagues from my career and a real joy to spend time with the likes of Irvine & Emma, Paul, Tam Dean Burn and Jason Connery and lovely chatting with T2 Trainspotting's Producer Andrew MacDonald.
Here are a selection of photos from this wonderful evening, pictured above with the brilliant Paul Sng and below with Tam and Andrew, and brilliant to meet up with our former Granton Star barman, Hibs legend
Pat Stanton at the Premiere, pictured below, along with Jason Connery who was presenting Best Film and Short Film Awards on the night. Always great fun with Irvine and this night was no exception as he took charge of the decks for a DJ set later, following a second sold-out screening of the documentary film!
An honour to be involved and eternal thanks to Paul for sorting out a ticket for me and thanks to everyone at EIFF and The Cameo for supporting this brilliant occasion. REALITY IS NOT ENOUGH will be out in selected cinemas from the end of September 2025. Go see it! Also great fun catching up with my screen
daughter Olivia Caw and her mum at the film, as Olivia is one of the brilliant cast of voice actors in the documentary and my co-star from the recent PIECE IN DAL RIATA, which also screened this month at the Skye Community Cinema Festival, to an excellent reception!
Here we are before the film on the red carpet! Such a fun night and a 7th appearance in an Irvine Welsh project, having worked on TRAINSPOTTING, THE ACID HOUSE, T2 TRAINSPOTTING, CRIME, PORNO, CHOOSE IRVINE and REALITY IS NOT ENOUGH. This doc was a celebration of his life and work and is a brilliant and clever film and captures the essence of a man I am proud to call my friend.
Popped by Mayors in Scotstoun and great fun with Yati, pictured above,who gave me my first job in the old shop when I was just 11 years old! Mayors is a Scotstoun institution and I spent many fun years working there since I started in 1984 and the reason why I still have a fashion store to this day! Then
to my brother Robin's for his 50th birthday party with the family, Happy birthday wee brother! Pictured above with my siblings Tim, Rob and Lucy. Back to the football and another fun night with actors Tony Curran and Colin McCredie and musicians Bobby Bluebell (The Bluebells) and Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai) at Tennents Bar but a disappointing result as Celtic lost to Kairat on penalties and crashed out
of The Champions League., pictured above at half-time when there was still hope! Great bunch of talented people and lovely company. And really nice to catch up with Colin again, having worked with him on TAGGART and feature film NIGHT IS DAY. Finally this month it was announced that our short film
BURIED is to be screened as part of the HB Film Festival in Glasgow this year, alongside some great films. Loved making this film in Tyndrum with Stephen Kerr and looking forward to seeing it on the big screen for the first time!
