May 2025 - The Diary

 Drove down to a sunny Corby for the next leg of our BILLY & TIM tour and two nights at The Core Theatre. Another brilliant venue and another great audience on both nights. Again both shows were great and went down a storm with the largely ex-pat audience! Back to Scotland for another job with the Medical School at Glasgow University and then back to the tour and drive to Cairnryan and the ferry

to Belfast for the next leg of the Billy & Tim tour. Our accommodation was in a lovely farmhouse in Portadown and we travelled to Derry for the first gig I've done in Northern Ireland for years. Great to be back and another full house and a standing ovation, which was lovely. I then took the opportunity to

visit my Boylan ancestors village of Mullabrack in County Armagh, where my g-g-grandparents were married in 1865, before migrating to Greenock a few years later. Their son, Patrick went on to play football for Arsenal and Morton FC and guested for Blackburn Rovers in a fine career. 

The following day we moved to Armagh itself and again a lovely venue, and a great audience at The Market Place Theatre. Delighted to report that the show was a huge success here and been a brilliant experience being a part of this fab show after all of these years.

The audience feedback was great and the show much improved with the addition of lighting and sound effects we have added of late. Scott and I collaborated well on this project and there are more changes to come! It is amazing that this show continues to fill theatres across the United Kingdom and delighted

to be involved and proud of the fact it was the first show I ever produced back in 2005. We first performed SINGIN I'M NO A BILLY, HE'S A TIM at the Pearce Institute in Govan on the 12th of July 2005 and then toured Scotland and Northern Ireland, The Edinburgh Fringe and took it to The Glasgow comedy Festival,

The Merchant City Festival and The Cathedral Quarter Festival, Belfast and toured schools up and down the country and provided anti-sectarianism workshops, funded by The Scottish Executive and Sense Over Sectarianism. The original cast were Gordon Brown, Andy Cameron & myself. And it is still touring!

On arrival back in Glasgow we headed to Firhill Stadium to record new dialogue for the show with football presenters Rob McLean and David Tanner, alongside former players Charlie Miller & Simon Donnelly and this went in to the show this month. Back into rehearsals for the next show and another

opportunity to play Ronnie this time at the famous Glasgow Pavilion Theatre, as a part of SINGIN SHE'S NO A BILLIE, SHE'S A TIM, with an all-female cast, joined by the commentary team and Hawaii 50, and we are all pictured above in rehearsals at Vivace Theatre School. Lovely working with my former HIGH

ROAD co-star Rachel Ogilvy once again too! Having never actaully performed at The Pavilion, this was another wee box ticked for me as I opened the show in a quick wee scene we added this month and another full house who loved the show. Huge congratulations to the cast who learned the changes and

were all brilliant. It was the first show to unite all 3 versions of Billy & Tim, with The Legends cast joining the ladies cast and The Young Offenders cast as well. A great night and a big success. Below is the new show poster featuring all three different casts. Then back to another series of roleplays with both

Glasgow Dental School and City Building in Glasgow, another couple of successful castings and more film work now booked in to the diary for November. I also turned 52 this month and had a great time with the family at Ronzo in Broomhill, below pic! Also this month our wee short film HERE COMES THE

NUN was screened at Cannes 2025 and was well received. Congratulations to the cast and crew who headed to France for a fun time. Richly deserved. And thus my time in BILLY & TIM has come to an end but really pleased to have been back involved. The show will head to Edinburgh for the Fringe 2025

and will no doubt be still touring for the next 20 years! An excellent month of good work, great fun and lots of opportunities opening up for the remainder of 2025. Thank you to Scott Kyle, James Miller and Colin Little for making me feel so welcome back into the show. Much appreciated.

April 2025 - The Diary

 Back into lots of roleplay work in April, kicking off with two days at Glasgow University, followed by The Wheatley Group, then back into rehearsals for the play I have been asked to step into for the next 2 months. Delighted to reveal that I am again playing Tim in Des Dillon's brilliant SINGIN I'M NO A BILLY, HE'S A TIM for the English and Irish dates and joined their year long tour in Yarm for my first 

show in this revamped version of the show, now in it's 20th year! Honoured to be asked back to the show that launched my producing career, in which we toured with my company Dapper Productions from 2005 - 2007. The show was a great success in this fab intimate little venue, with a fantastic audience and great

audience feedback. Then back to The Barras and lovely to welcome my old pal Stephen McCole to Zico and reunite the cast of THE GRANTON STAR CAUSE from 1996! Here he is pictured above with his new Granton T-shirt! Then in another surprise gig, I stepped in to play Ronnie The Turnkey in BILLY & TIM : THE LEGENDS show at Ingliston Country Club in a wee scene I had written and featuring former Old Firm legends Simon Donnelly & Charlie Miller. Again, another great, fun show and the start of a 

much larger version of the play which will tour in the future. The players then had a Q&A and an auction after the show which went down well with the packed audience in this beautiful venue. Here we all are pictured below after the show! Back to rehearsals and a couple of Scottish indie film auditions, both of which I was offered. More of those later in the year! 

Thanks to my fellow trader Cheryl at The Barras I got tickets to watch The Glasgow Warriors at the Scotstoun Stadium and was joined by my Billy & Tim co-star Scott Kyle for a great night's rugby. We are pictured below at full-time. Great fun! Then back to more roleplay work and auditions and more re-writes

and rehearsals for the next round of shows in England next month. Back in the van and now off on tour once again! An excellent month and delighted to be back on stage again and to be working with Scott again, the first time since we did Irvine Welsh's PORNO 2 years ago in Edinburgh! And finally our

multi award-winning short film HERE COMES THE NUN will be screened in May at The Cannes Film Festival! Sadly I will be on tour and unable to attend but delighted for the team and director Jack Willison.

We are already planning our next collaboration in late summer and looking forward to it already! Some great performances in this film and am so happy it has garnered so many awards and been screened in America and now travelling to the South of France. 

March 2025 - The Diary

 Thankfully another busy month, despite another raft of unsuccessful audition! Really happy with the opportunities that are coming my way of late and booked lots of corporate work again this month. Back to Glasgow University again for the next round of roleplays and OSCE exams which were great fun before going into rehearsals for a Feature Film. Then a long drive to London and back to shoot the vertical

crime drama BLUE SEASON at these fab film studios pictured above in Whitechapel, East London. Another lovely wee part in this and a great bunch of talented people working on this one, in which I have                                                   

a lovely cameo scene. Directed by Zen Nguyen and produced by Featherstone Pictures, this will be released later this year and was a joy to work on. The feature PSYCHO SEX DOLLS was released this month on VOD and will be rolled out across other pltforms in the months ahead, including Amazon

Prime. We are in pre-production at the moment for the sequel, set and shooting in London this year. Back to Glasgow to record LIFE WITH BRIAN podcast with former Celtic & Man Utd star Brian McClair and a great, fun chat about my career and football, of course! You can listen back to our interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUuyfIEyMdo Huge thanks to Brian and the guys for having

me on, twas great fun indeed. More good news this month, with HERE COMES THE NUN screening at Filmapalooza and winning the Grand Champion Award for Best Film 2025! Delighted for all involved and the film now travels to the Cannes  Film Festival. 

Back on set to shoot another indie feature film, THE CARD MECHANIC, written and directed by Paul Di Stefano and produced by Le Frank Films. We shot my scenes in a fab location, the old Ropeworks building in Gourock. A great shoot with a talented cast and crew and lovely to team up with Michael

Cooke again on this film. The feature will be out next year. Another good month and booked in more film work and more corporate gigs for next month. Here are a couple of photographs below from THE CARD

MECHANIC, courtesy of Le Frank Films. A joy to play another nasty character and some fab actors to work with on this one! Rounded off March with more roleplay work with Coloplast UK in Glasgow 

followed by more at Glasgow University. Also commenced rehearsals for a play which is touring at the moment and great to be back in the rehearsal room again. More will be revealed in the coming weeks

so please check back for the latest updates. Photo above with Steve North who also worked on THE FOOTBALL FACTORY and co-wrote SW9, who I last met in Brixton many years ago at the WRAP Party for that film. Great actor and fun to work with.