Battle of the Bands is a rock band contest held annually in Europe. Lebowski, a band from Edinburgh made it all the way through four gruelling contests to the Scottish final in Glasgow, with the winner going through to the European final. Filmed and edited by me for Portobelly Telly.
Battle of the Bands; Lebowski
This video is an interview at the final, discussing their progress so far…
Being a runner on Living TV’s fourth season of ‘Britain’s Next Top Model’ in 2008 was an amazing experience. Reality TV doesn’t get much more intense than this.
Set in a post-apocalyptic Scotland after the deadly ‘reaper’ virus has decimated the population, sufferers turn into flesh eating zombies and those immune, into cannibals. Hadrian’s Wall has been rebuilt in an attempt to quarantine Scotland but when the virus breaks out in London, a small group of soldiers are sent over the wall to find suspected survivors, and if possible, a cure.
I was a production and catering runner on Neil Marshall’s third feature film, ‘Doomsday‘. I was involved with the filming in the various locations in Scotland in 2007.
I was a runner for the ghost-hunting show ‘Fit & Fearless‘ the freeview channel Nuts TV. I was invoved in 6 episodes, filming in various haunted locations around Britain in 2007.
This often involved sitting alone in the dark, in the middle of the night, in the scariest places in Britain, waiting to scare scantily-clad women. One of my stranger runner jobs.
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This was my first professional experience in film. I was a production trainee on Richard Jobson’s award-winning film ‘16 Years of Alcohol‘. It was filmed in Scotland in 2002. Richard Jobson was nominated for Best Director in the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2004.
I was a production trainee involved in hiring and casting 200 extras, and general production duties on set and in the office.
I was a runner for an episode of a pilot comedy sketch-show called ‘The Cowards‘. It was filmed for BBC 4, in Glasgow, 2008. It aired in January and Febuary 2009.
Working as a catering runner on Neil Marshall’s latest feature film Centurion was intense and exhilirating. The weather was not always kind up in Aviemore and I needed all the thermals I could fit on. We used army vehicles to get to mountain tops and despite the cold, everyone appeared to enjoy filming in the location, Neil especiallly.
I recently worked on the current series of Britain’s Got Talent. I Filmed the preliminary rounds in Glasgow and Newcastle and was a runner for the second round in London. Perhaps the biggest highlight was chaperoning the Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle. The link below shows her first televised audition. By chance, I am in the background at 42 seconds.