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Rushing Headlong Down The Highway of 2019...

1/2/2019

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2018 was my most creative and successful year, starting the year with an award win and ending it with an award nomination. I also co-produced and co-directed the first animated Tale from Paradise Heights (above) and the film will be entering film festivals this year. On top of this The Haunting of Blaine Manor played Buxton Festival and set new house records in terms of audience numbers at the Underground Venues, and then there was the Sold Out winter tour of the play - totally independently produced without any funding and a tremendous success every where we went.
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I love all my collaborators, their input is invaluable, their talent incalculable, their friendships so precious and their support simply monumental - none of this is achieved without them, all of this is down to them throwing themselves into the mix and giving their all. Jo Haydock, Peter Slater, Andrew Yates, Phil Dennison, Ed Barry, Daniel Thackeray, Darren McGinn, Justin Wetherill, Darren Barker (set builder for I'm Frank Morgan: RewiRED) - I love you all so much and there's much more to come. Of course I also want to say a huge thank you to the management and staff of all the venues, the reviewers and the fabulous audiences we met along the way.
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Then there was the first Broken Banshee Cabaret that came out of Frank Morgan's club, The Ace of Spades (The Kings Arms), a small and intimate affair as the first one was bound to be. But this will grow and the talents we had that night were amazing including, Andrew Yates, Jo Malone, Zoe Iqbal, Johnny Ryall and The Hurtful Taunts, Johnny Giro (Peter Slater) Anne Addiction (Moni Wilkes), Harlow Kitty (Clare Bagnall) Ian Curley, Phil Dennison, special thanks to Lisa Connor of the fabulously Bohemian Boozer - The Kings Arms. There will be four Broken Banshee Cabarets a year so watch this space - the next one is at Easter. An extra special thanks to the incredibly talented photographers that I've been lucky to have get involved in all of this - Karen Mcbride, Shay Rowan and Darren McGinn, you've all created some truly iconic imagery.
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2018. What a great year.

So, 2019 - last year was the bench mark. This year I intend to go beyond that, no biggie, and the collaborations I have and will make further along the way will make that happen. Age is just a number - the drive, the urge, the obsessions and the will to do will make it happen.

So with 2018 fast disappearing in the rear view mirror, here's to rushing headlong down the highway of a FAB 2019, starting with the return of that ferocious Shark next month. See the next update for details...Happy New Year x
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