August 2023 - The Diary

 As with last month, we kicked off August with more roleplay gigs with the Medical School at Glasgow University and with NHS Lanarkshire and again throughout the month and really enjoyed the various different scenarios and the research one has to do beforehand to give convincing case studies for students.

This month saw the repeat on Sky Arts of the brilliant PATRICK MELROSE, featuring an amazing performance from Benedict Cumberbatch and again, a delight to work with on this epic series, directed by the fab Edward Berger of All Quiet On The Western Front fame. I played Angus Broglie in this fab series

which was a real career highlight to work on. Again August was full of more auditions for more superb shows and another two Bollywood film offers for later in the year from Producers I have previously worked for, which is always a good sign that you did a decent job previously! 

Next up was a great night out at the opening of Sam's Bar at The Barrowlands Ballroom, pictured above with my fellow traders and old pal Gavin Mitchell. A great night and delighted to be asked along. The following day it was back to Edinburgh for the EIFF screening of the brilliant CHOOSE IRVINE WELSH

documentary in which I was interviewed and which went down really well with the audience and much hilarity followed with a great after party at The Little White Pig and great fun catching up with friends

old and new and to celebrate the career of this generation's greatest writer. A brilliant night and huge congratulations to Jack Pepper Media for making a superb and fascinating documentary film, which

will be out later this year on Netflix. Thanks so much to Director Ian Jeffries and Producers Jason Allday and Brian Anderson for a fab night and to Lisa Moorish, Zoe Devlin Love, Kirsty Allison, Gavin Mitchell, Gail Porter and Emma Welsh for such fun company and to all who came along. Superb fun.

Finished off the month with more roleplay bookings and more auditions and lots to look forward to in the next few months, with jobs booked in all over the country and another pile of scripts on my desk to read!

July 2023 - The Diary

Into the second half of the year now and back to Glasgow University for more roleplay work with the GU Medical School, followed by another series of NHS Lanarkshire roleplay work. July also saw the release of series 1 of Irvine Welsh's CRIME, starring Dougray Scott in his Emmy-winning lead role. The show was finally aired on STV/ITV this month and I was featured in Episode 4 as Miles. Great to see the show

finally on terrestrial television and gaining a whole new audience. Delighted to have been a part of it and there is a second series now in the can. Back to more auditions and self-tapes this month for some excellent productions and thanks to IAM for presenting me with so many opportunities so far this year.

Back to Glasgow and more roleplay work and rehearsals for two separate films we are shooting this summer, before heading back to my old stomping ground of Luss, Loch Lomond to shoot an excellent arthouse film with the brilliant Robert Firth and my old pal Mark Barrett on THE ORIGINAL NIGHT.

This was a fun shoot on Inchconnachan Island, famous for it's population of Wallabies and I play an Animal Handler in this film, directed by Artist Alasdair Asmussen Doyle with a fab international crew and a great story. 

We shot on film, not having worked in the analogue form since the 90's it added an extra special dimension to the shoot and certainly the lack of huge amounts of film certainly concentrated the action!

Stunning locations and lots of laughs on this one and great fun working with these guys and for me to be back in Luss, where I spent 8 years shooting TAKE THE HIGH ROAD was a joy and brought back a lot

of very happy memories.  Really enjoyed working with Mark and Rob, and his tales of Hollywood and his long career was a delight. A brilliant gig this one and great to be back filming in Scotland again. Topped off a good month with another feature film offer, more of which to come next time!