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...