Dear Friends, Jennie has suggested that whilst I am stuck in the house I should put pen to paper and write down some of the rather curious and hopefully amusing experiences that I have witnessed in my forty years of…
or the tale of channel 101 - In 1984 I was tasked by Theatre Projects to manage the lighting for a concert by Isao Tomita on the banks of the River Danube in Linz, the show went well and I…
In the early eighties I left my role as deputy chief LX at the Adelphi Theatre to pursue a freelance career. Whilst working in the West End I had lit quite a few national theatre tours in the main for…
The Donbass Arena is one of the most remarkable stadiums that I have ever seen and was built in a previously desolate and very poor area of Donetsk which sadly, whilst we were in Sochi with the Paralympic Games in…
At the start of my lighting design career aged seventeen I joined an amateur theatre, The Preston Playhouse, and was allowed to light the pantomime with our limited rig, four Furse fixtures FOH and ten Junior 8 wire wound slider…
In the early eighties I moved from my job as Deputy Chief LX at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford to the West End where I was appointed as Deputy Chief LX at the Adelphi Theatre on London’s Strand. Whilst…
I have been most fortunate in having been invited to light some fantastic events over the years not least of which was my invitation to light the 2012 ‘Handover to London’ during the closing ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic…
During my travels around the World flashing coloured lights in people’s faces (as my son Robert once described my profession) I have found myself in some bizarre situations and sometimes at odds with security or law enforcement through no real…
In the late eighties I had the pleasure of working with Giles Havergal at the Citizen’s Theatre and Welsh National Opera and Philip Prowse at Opera North in Leeds. The first performance with Philip was Tamburlaine which he directed and…
In 2014 I was invited to light the Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies in Sochi with a rig inherited from the mighty Al Gurdon who had designed the Olympic Ceremonies a few weeks earlier. Once again we turned out the…
As we reach the eleventh week of this digest and work, at least in the virtual world of presenting future concepts, seems to be slowly emerging from the chrysalis of the pandemic lock down I have a few final short…
Today my Grandson fell off his chair and I could not catch him. At four pm each and every day I go on Skype to read, a story to my Grandson, who’s four; it fills a heartfelt need.…