February 2021 - The Diary

Another month of self-tapes, including a 13th audition for a hugely popular television show...will this be the one I wonder! (Sadly no, as it turned out!!) as we again moved into a 3rd lockdown due to Covid.

But used the time wisely in streamlining my showreels and thanks to Fraser Coull for editing in my scenes from last year's episode of the BBC's DOCTORS series, which is now on my IMDB reel, which you can have a wee swatch at here: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3645423897?ref_=nmvi_vi_imdb_1 

January 2021 - The Diary

Happy New Year! Kicked off 2021 with some more voice over ADR work on the epic SARDAR UDHAM feature film, which is currently being edited and some additional British voices were required to add in.

Lots of auditions again this month, all now by self-tape due to the current situation and hopefully will have something to report soon from them! Again, many thanks to my agent IAM for keeping me busier

than ever before! Also this month we are pleased to announce that we are producing THE TOMMY BURNS STORY later this year at Celtic Park's Kerrydale Suite! The script is by Davie Carswell,

who penned The Benny Lynch Story previously and is the 3rd show I have produced. Details to come!

December 2020 - The Diary

A week of isolation/quarantine finally over and onto set for costume fittings and hair and make-up tests and delighted to join the cast of the hit BBC Scotland drama series GUILT for season 2. All will be revealed in due course, but just LOVED this job and working with fab actors and lots of old pals in

the Crew. Delighted also to finally work with Patrick Harkins, our genius Director and someone I have wanted to work with for years. This was a fab job and a lovely way to round off another positive but very difficult year in general. And just a joy to be able to continue to work in television and film despite this

horrendous pandemic. Huge thanks to Luc and all the team at International Artists Management for this one, having tried out for series one & really enjoying it on TV last year, it was just marvellous to finally

become a part of it! There was just time to squeeze in another self-shot scene for an American Feature Film in late December, with the third film in the SAVE ROSEMARY series. The film was released a week later having had contributors all across the USA and United Kingdom and is streaming on YouTube now!

November 2020 - The Diary

A busy November, filled with auditions and more roleplay work as well as more ADR recoding on another Feature Film, to be released next year. We had our first coverage in the national press for ORIGINS OF THE LAOICH. The edit continues for this pilot and from what I have seen already it promises to be

a really exciting project to be a part of and was delighted to be asked! Photo below is again courtesy of the excellent Sonja Blietschau from the Arbroath shoot last month. I booked another television role this month

but more of that later! Delighted to get to see the final cut of CROOKED FRAMES, an Edinburgh set feature film I worked on last year with another really nice cast and crew, in which I play an Auctioneer

and should be released soon, to travel the Festival circuit next year hopefully! The 'behind the scenes' photo below is courtesy of the Production Office. Keep an eye out for it's release in 2021!!

Contracts signed for my next telly role, and was then put into self-isolation for ten days and already December is looking good! Forza..!

October 2020 - The Diary

October was busy, with more roleplay work with Badenoch & Clark in Glasgow and Stirling throughout the whole of this month. It was also another really busy period of auditions and thanks to IAM for some quite brilliant opportunities this year once again. Delighted to be reunited with Team Dropshack again

for this year's 48 Hour Film Challenge and another beautifully shot film in various locations across Glasgow, with all photos here courtesy of Sean Campbell. Fab working with these folk again, and again directed by Jack Willison. The film went down really well with the audience and it can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQkKH3zcenQ&list=PL24263E8D090A63E8&index=60

Had a real laugh shooting this with another fun cast and so enjoy every one of these film challenges in October! Huge thanks & congratulations to all at Team Dropshack. More meetings and self tapes after

this shoot and back into more roleplay work, with potentially more now booked in for 2021. Of course, everything depends on this lockdown being lifted at some point. Had more 'live' work finally cancelled this month which was a huge but expected disappointment. With the onset of this epidemic I have now

had a full 2 years of theatre work delayed, postponed and now eventually cancelled. However, theatre will return and there are far more important things happening in the world at present! Onwards...

September 2020 - The Diary

Shot some extra footage for A PERFECT WORLD this month and prep for ORIGINS OF THE LAOICH began this month, with Gaelic coaching and fight rehearsals! First up in September was another trip down South to St Albans to shoot a COLOPLAST UK Training Video, as the 'live' gigs have all now been 

put on hold for the forseeable future due to the current pandemic. Just lovely to see the team again and really enjoyable work as per usual with these guys. Then back to Glasgow for the first of our fight rehearsals for ORIGINS at Websters Theatre in Glasgow's West End.

A wonderful room in which to rehearse and such fun wielding a broadsword once more! Thanks to Sonja Blietschau for these amazing, atmospheric photographs which were taken during my and Holly Jack's

days of rehearsals, training with STRIKE fight choreographers. More to come on this project later! Was really pleased to be asked by my old pal Mark Buckland to play the role of William in his debut film, SUCH GRACE,THE THIEF, which we shot in one evening in early September, pictured below. 

Lots more auditions followed, and another roleplay booking from POLICE SCOTLAND care of Paul Hughes and hosted by Badenoch & Clark. Worked with a fab team of actors and co-ordinators on this

project, which ran for two months and which will hopefully go again in the future. 

Finally, my episode of BLOOD OF THE CLANS was screened again on BBC4 and is now available on the BBC Iplayer if you missed it! Late in September we finally shot the teaser trailer for Fraser Coull's series ORIGINS OF THE LAOICH at some epic locations, including the cliffs of Arbroath. As you can

see from these location shots, this series looks amazing. Our fight scenes were excellent, and with the special effects to be added, this mystical adventure series should attract a lot of interest from broadcasters

as it goes out to Producers over the next few months, once the edit is completed and further funding

sought to add effects, music and post production costs. An absolute pleasure to work on with a great cast and production team and a really fun and enjoyable shoot once again. It rounded off another really good month for me and really enjoyed these gigs, especially the way things are at the moment!

 

August 2020 - The Diary

 In August I again worked on PROJECT 19, later renamed A PERFECT WORLD and I self-shot footage throughout this month, combined with more scripted scenes. Great to see this ambitious project coming together! Fab to meet up with the creative team behind ORIGINS OF THE LAOICH in Glasgow  

and a superb costume visit to Slater's Menswear in St Enoch, and a lovely, beautifully fitted suit as seen above! Really looking forward to shooting this film, which is set in both the present and the 1700s. But before that I had more ADR recordings to do at my home studio for the short film THE CASTLES OF 

BEACHCOMBE BAY, pictured above. Really impressed with the editing job on this as we all shot our scenes separately on green screen, but they have managed to splice it together seamlessly! Also in August I recorded another SHOOT THE BREEZE podcast with the usual team and our guest Chris Brookmyre.

My commercial for Legal & General PENSION DRAWDOWN also went live on the website late in August (below) and the trailer for the BBC Scotland series BLOOD OF THE CLANS was released

as it will be broadcast next month! Here is a little taster pictured below of what looks to be an epic show!

So, another busy few weeks done and have now booked three more gigs for 2020 this month, all challenging roles and all very very different..! Again, thanks to everyone I worked with this month.