June 2022 - The Diary

Down to London again this month for a brilliant COLOPLAST UK live event in Islington with the usual gang and great catching up with Irvine Welsh and Rob & Nick from The Alabama 3 in Soho afterwards

Train back to Glasgow and a call from Producer Jason Allday (also pictured above) to ask me to take part in his latest documentary, CHOOSE IRVINE WELSH which is shooting now. Delighted to be asked and 

we had a great time shooting this and thanks to everyone at Jack Pepper Media for making me feel so welcome. The crew are following Irvine everywhere over an 18 month period for this television show

which will be released at some point in 2023. Then into our first readthrough of our latest Edinburgh Fringe show script with our great cast, more of which will be revealed in July. Really looking forward

to this one! Back to more roleplay work with THE WHEATLEY GROUP and GLASGOW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL, before heading back down south to Manchester and a fun COLOPLAST gig below

It was off to New Lanark next for my second day's shoot on Amazon Prime series A TRUE MISMATCH in which I play Officer Muir, a rare 'cop' role for me, as I am usually the villain! Again, lovely people to

work with and another fab shoot in a brilliant location. Hopefully we will be seeing more of my character in future episodes and huge thanks to Dan Reynolds and the team at Stray Productions for casting me.

Lots more auditions and travel thius month as well as more Roleplay work booked and great catching up with lots of old friends this month in Brixton, Islington, Manchester and on the various corporate gigs!

Back to Glasgow and more zoom roleplay work with THE WHEATLEY GROUP, followed by more medical roleplay work at Glasgow University this month. We began rehearsals for a new play at the

tail end of June, and here's a wee taste (above) with Scott Kyle and I. More to be revealed next month about this project. Finally it was back to a sunny Birmingham to work with COLOPLAST UK again on

another excellent roleplay, with these lovelies above, Henry Baukham and Rebecca Collingwood, before heading back to Scotland for a recall audition and press and rehearsals for our new show..!

May 2022 - The Diary

Again, lots of castings coming my way and delighted to receive an offer from a short film I auditioned for way back in January! I was offered the role of Mitch O'Farrell in the short film REDEVELOPING HOPE

and shooting in early May. So, back into the car and off to Oxford for a 5 day shoot and my first role in a New York US accent. Great cast to work with, some lovely American actors and a friendly crew and it

is based on a real case in New York building and planning. Our fab director was the very talented Jian Tian Ye, and was a fully international production, with cast and crew flying in from all over the globe

and we shot the whole thing in the Said Business School in Oxford, the perfect location for this tale. Back to Scotland and a visit to the Glasgow Police Museum for research and costume fittings for my role in

a new Amazon Prime television series, A TRUE MISMATCH, in which I am playing Officer Muir. Thanks to all at the museum for their invaluable research and tour of the exhibits, charting the Glasgow polis over

the last Century and here I am above in the genuine article, on loan from the museum! Rehearsals via Zoom again this month ahead of the shoot, followed by a trip back to the beautiful Ayr Gaeity theatre

to record an interview for the upcoming documentary on the first play I produced, Des Dillon's fabulous SINGIN I'M NO A BILLY, HE'S A TIM, which is fast approaching it's 20th anniversary and still touring

and thanks to Chris Taylor and the team for a great chat and wonderful company. The programme is provisionally titled BILLY & TIM : PLAY THE TRUTH and will be screened next year. Really nice

to be asked to be a part of it. The above cartoon is courtesy of Fraser Coull, in which I am pictured as the dastardly Alisdair Ban in ORIGINS OF THE LAOICH. Booked more roleplay work this month and lots

of self tapes! The Short Film REMNANTS which I shot last year in The Peak District is scheduled to be released this summer and the photo below is a sneak peak from the film, in which 'guilt will not stay

buried' and really looking forward to seeing it! Back to the Sma Shot Cottages in Paisley to shoot my first scene on A TRUE MISMATCH with a great cast and crew again and an enjoyable Sunday afternoon at

the tail end of the month shooting Episode 2 of this Victorian crime drama, which will be coming to Amazon Prime at some point later in the year. I still have a couple of scenes to shoot next month but

really nice to be a part of and another project that could hopefully run and run! The first episode is now available on Amazon Prime UK and I shall be popping up in Episode 2. Finally booked another 20 dates

of roleplay work for the next 8 weeks and then into rehearsals for our new play for this year's Fringe, much more of which to come in the following months...

April 2022 - The Diary

April saw the eventual release of feature film 83 on Netflix! It is streaming now if you want to give it a watch! In Hindi and English, and starring the brilliant Ranveer Singh as the famed skipper, Kapil Dev.

Following on from last month's announcement, we are delighted to announce that last year's smash hit show THE TOMMY BURNS Story will be back, at the wonderful KING'S THEATRE in Glasgow from

 the 7th - 9th of July 2022 and tickets are now on sale from the King's ATG box office. Get them quick as this show sold out  very quickly last time and can't wait to see the show again in this wonderful place!

Off to Leeds again this month for the first COLOPLAST UK live roleplay event with the lovely team above and our first gig for over two years due to the pandemic. Hopefully we have more events now in

the diary for this year! To Ayrshire next for costume fittings and rehearsals for my next short film, titled HAWKER, set in WW1 in the Royal Flying Corps, pictured above on the brilliant set. More NHS work this month too and delighted to see the music video CROWS released and entered into film festivals

and love this retro 60's poster that has been issued for our short film. A great shoot and song and hope it will continue to garner more awards. And another short film, the eagerly anticipated 1815 had it's first

screening at the GFT this month for the cast and crew and am blown away by how well made this little low budget film is. The acting, direction & cinematography are wonderful and I feel very lucky to be

the villain of the piece! The film is now touring the world in various festivals and will keep you posted as this really deserves success and to be expanded into a feature length movie. There was more roleplay

work this month with Blue Beetle for DEMATIC, which was great and nice to work with Graham again.

On the 7th of April WHY ME? finally was broadcast on the Sky Arts channel to a great reception and was brilliant to see. Great comedic performances all round and is now available streaming on NOW TV

and was produced by DBK Studios and Sky Studios as part of their Unearthed Narratives series. You can check out all 5 of their short films now also streaming on the same site. Delighted to be asked by Sara 

Gatland, with whom I have worked before, to come to a lovely sunny Broughty Ferry to shoot her musical short film, THE SELKIE'S SONG as a cruel old Fisherman harbouring a dark secret. Loved working on 

this one and really enjoyed the experience. Unfortunately I succumbed to the dreaded Covid 19 after this shoot, causing me to have to pull out of HAWKER and was seriously floored by the illness for two weeks.

Once recovered I was delighted to be invited along to my old pal Scott Kyle's touring play, the very moving and important ONE MISSISSIPPI in Easterhouse's Platform Theatre and great to catch up with Scott after the show. The play is touring venues in Central Scotland now and should not be missed!

March 2022 - The Diary

 At last, another Scotland Writers FC match against the auld enemie this month as the England Writers travelled to Scotland for the annual Hamilton Crescent Cup match, which has been postponed several 

times due to Covid. I met up with the England folks the night before the game, including my former agent Daniel Tasker and had a great night. The game at Glasgow Green was a tight affair, but delighted to report

we finally won back the cup and you can see how much I enjoyed that in the photo below, despite a crushing hangover! Great result & fab event after the match at the BAAD venue in Gallowgate in

which I read from one of Billy Letford's wonderful poems. Some publicity stills from the wonderful short film 1815 were released this month in advance of our upcoming screening and loved this shot of my nasty

character as well as the fab new poster for the film, which will also be going on the festival circuit, starting in Dunoon in the next few months. In other news, I have another short film scheduled to screen in the next

few weeks on Sky Arts. Below is a still courtesy of DBK Studios of my character Mr Perry in Nikki Fagbemi's superb film, WHY ME? Really looking forward to finally getting to watch it as I had such

a good time with this cast making the film. Also this month our film 83 has won Best Film Of The Year at the 21st ITA Awards! Congratulations to everyone involved as the film is superb! And finally this month

I am delighted to announce that I will be Producing the long awaited stage sequel to Trainspotting, PORNO. Adapted from the book by my producing partner Davie Carswell, we are bringing this new

show to The Pleasance Beyond venue for the whole of August 2022! Watch this space for details...

February 2022 - The Diary

 Another month of travel and roleplay work with Police Scotland and the NHS and yet more auditions courtesy IAM and a couple of film offers that sadly fell through! Had a first look at the sizzle reel for

ORIGINS OF THE LAOICH series and it looks great and excited for you all to eventually see it! This month saw the UK release of cricket masterpiece, Kabir Khan's 83, which was screening in The Quay

Cineworld to a great reaction and I loved it! I play the character Toor's Boss, a rough old garage owner in London who won't let him go to the game, pictured below, and was a joy to have been a part of and the

the film's cricket action scenes are wonderfully realistic and emotive and the feature totally encapsulates the atmosphere and characters in the tournament in England in 1983, when India rocked the world by defeating the West Indies in the Cricket World Cup Final. The film will be released on Netflix soon!

January 2022 - The Diary

Happy New Year folks! Short film RATS is now in the edit and back to more Roleplay work this month again with NHS Lanarkshire and with Police Scotland, touring around Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness 

and another raft of castings and self-tapes and again, huge thanks to my agent IAM for keeping me busy this month! I signed a deal this month for a football project which will be announced later this summer!

Back to Aberdeen for more roleplay work this month, staying at the wonderful Chester Hotel and thank you to the lovely staff there for a great stay! I was all over the north of Scotland this month on this job 

 and great to be back! Then back to Glasgow and more NHS roleplay gigs and more self-tapes and delighted to see the world television premiere of Shoojit Sirkar's epic feature film SARDAR UDHAM

which will soon be coming to the United Kingdom on Amazon Prime! Will keep you posted...!

December 2021 - The Diary

 Back in the car and down to a chilly Northampton this month to shoot another excellent short film with Greyhound Productions and directed by Matthew Summer. Another really enjoyable shoot with a fab

cast and friendly crew and really good script, entitled RATS. I play a brusque ratcatcher named Pat and the film will be out next year. Just the one day shoot for me on this and then back to Scotland for a voiceover

for Nick Knight and more horse-riding and hopefully landed another 'horsey' role for a feature film in 2023. Fingers crossed! First poster release details announced for the eagerly anticipated Bollywood film

which will be released in cinemas in India on the 24th of this month, with the film out in the UK next year. More roleplay work as well this month with NHS Lanarkshire and have more booked in for 2022. So, despite the continuing Covid-19 epidemic and various delays, lockdowns (and a lots of testing) it was another good year and have a good few projects still due to come out & hit the Festival circuit in 2022.