Companies worked for (either directly or through crew companies) include, but not limited to:
Assembly Festivals Ltd NL Productions, Edinburgh Theatre Modo Commoved Melbourne International Comedy Festival (AUS) Strut N Fret (AUS) Token Events (AUS) Laughing Stock Productions (AUS) Bella Union (AUS) Right Angle Events (AUS) Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Summerhall, Edinburgh Gingerline Gilded Balloon Productions Underbelly The GRV National Theatre of Scotland Diamond Event Services
Tower Events SKL Tapestry AV Northern Light Black Light
Fisher Lighting
Brahler ICS
BBG Audio
Edinburgh International Conference Centre
The AV Dept. Saville AV Metro AV
Edinburgh Fringe Office
UZ Events
Unique Events
Puppet Lab
Sound & Vision
PSS Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline
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Various freelance roles from Warehouse Tech (prep and pack) to Onsite fit-ups/Get-outs, construction of set pieces, and onsite Duty Tech
Major events worked on include: -Monteviot Lights 2023 -Edinburgh Zoo Christmas Nights 2020/2021 -Edinburgh Castle of Light 2021/22/23 -Burns on the Beach, Ayrshire 2020 -RBS 6 Nations Rugby, Murrayfield 2020
For the Edinburgh Christmas Markets and Hogmanay sites
Provided roving site management support and cover, as well as running crews and staff for day to day tasks, spread over 2 Xmas market sites, and the George Street ice rink, the busiest in Europe. This included the build period.
Aden-Een is a large outdoor site-specific event, in Aden Country Park, Aberdeenshire, involving a cast of hundreds of local performers. The entire forest is zoned and lit to have many different simultaneous performances. Over 10000 people attend.
Responsibilities included: -Prep / sort hire equipment for use across all zones -Install/derig exterior lx and sound across the site -Operate Qlab for "Forest Walk" zone
TSM and Stage Tech for DJ AV show. Main responsibilities being stage gear setup/packdown, technical liason with venue staff, pyro operation and artist liaison.
UK & Europe club / hard ticket headline tour.
Venues included:
Brixton Academy (London), Paradiso (Amsterdam), Lollapalooza Festival (Berlin), Academy (Dublin), Limelight (Belfast), and other Venues and Universities all over UK
Included Hot Dub Stein Machine, our own outdoor Oktoberfest festival at Gosford House, Scotland
Massaoke is an internationally touring live band karaoke show, where the audience is the singer
Part of a small roster of AV ops, who operate projected lyrics/graphics in real time with the live band. This is not time coded to give band flexibility, so relies heavily on operator's musical timing and knowledge of the songs!
The product is now so popular they can have multiple seperate bands out on the same night, gigging across the globe, hence the need for a roster of AV ops
TSM and Stage Tech for DJ AV show. Main responsibilities being stage gear setup/packdown, and technical liason with venue staff.
UK University & hard ticket headline tour.
Venues included: Wardrobe (Leeds), Band on the Wall (Manchester), O2 Academy (Sheffield) and other Venues and Universities all over England and Scotland
SM for long running late comedy show Late N Live, running a team of 2 ASMs and 2 Tech Operators
Running band / comedy soundchecks/logistics, making sure the on and offstage needs of all acts are taken care of, and that all acts can be turned around technically in a matter of seconds, ensuring a smooth show
2 hours of comedy, followed by 2 hours of live music with different acts/bands every night for all of August
Building of George Square and Assembly Hall venue sites for Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Responsibilities included: Physical labour building entire sites, Laying of Astroturf, building pop-up site huts, bars and venues, loading/unloading of building materials and technical equipment, leading small teams of other site crew
Providing production support across two precincts of 20 venues (out of a total of nearly 50), as well as any other areas requested by the Production Manager, such as set ups for extra events and filmed performances
Led / managed a team of interns from local technical colleges (many past interns have gone on to work with MICF as TSMs)
One of my roles was to execute incredibly quick turnarounds daily in busy venues, such as turning a live comedy venue into a late night TV filming environment (ABC Television's Comedy Up Late series)
T In The Park festival (Scotland) -Reading / Leeds festivals (England) -Corn Exchange Edinburgh (Fringe residency, 5 shows) -O2 Academy venues: London Forum, Leeds, Glasgow ABC, Glasgow Academy, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol -University shows: Loughborough, St Andrews, Bournemouth, Staffordshire, Heriot-Watt -Garage Nightclub Aberdeen
Responsibilities included: Rigging the "Time Machine" (180 degree curved video panel DJ console), Maintaining DJ equipment and electronics, backstage duties and venue liason, trigger C02 confetti effects during show
Band turnarounds, drum tech, artist tech liason, backstage logistics/organisation
JFES was again the busiest music stage on site, with over 50 acts over the weekend. Acts included The Blizzards, The Strypes, The Academic, exmagician and Bitch Falcon
General site responsibilities, including: Assisting Site and Production management with all aspects of site build, fencing, container un/loading & logistics, venues construction
General site electrics responsibilities, including: Rigging and maintaining site lighting / festooning, running power distro for whole site/concessions/venues in accordance with plans, Assisting lighting crew with venue rigging / truck packs
Providing production support across a precinct of 9 venues (out of a total of nearly 50), as well as any other areas requested by the Production Manager
Led / managed a team of interns from local technical colleges (many past interns have gone on to work with MICF as TSMs)
One of my roles was to execute incredibly quick turnarounds daily, such as turning a live comedy venue into a late night TV filming environment (ABC Television's Comedy Up Late series)
Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow (Electric Picnic festival)
September 2015
Stradbally
Ireland
Band turnarounds, drum tech, artist tech liason
JFES was the busiest music stage on site, with over 50 acts over the weekend. Acts included legendary irish bands Sultans Of Ping FC and The Frank And Walters.
Immersive promenade theatre show with interactive elements, and parallel narratives, in a 25000 square foot custom built military complex.
Show was called by me, entirely from multiple CCTV and audio feeds, with live lx/audio/video and practical special effects.
Duties included: -Calling show "on the book", remotely -Running large team of ASMs, techs, cast and volunteers -Set/prop maintanence -practical horror SFX (blood squibs etc)
PM/TSM for Christmas run, Paradiso Spiegeltent, "Edinburgh's Christmas"
PM/SM Edinburgh's Hogmanay, Headlining Rewinder Stage on The Mound.
Hogmanay, was the biggest /longest/proudest HDTM show I have been involved with, to an estimated 100,000 people in the crowds, our entire show being simulcast to the Princes Street video screens, as well as our stage, and other sites in the city.
Acts worked with: Hot Dub Time Machine, Bec Hill, Steen Raskopoulos
Production Manager for Hot Dub Time Machine, 16 sold out shows. LX and Stage Coordination in Pre-production, Stage Manager during the shows.
LX/Audio Operator/SM for "Bec Hill in Ellipsis", Additional SFX production.
LX/Audio/SM for "Steen Raskopoulos: I'm Wearing Two Suits Because I Mean Business", which was subsequently nominated for "Best Newcomer" at Fosters Comedy Awards.
Acts / Companies worked with included: Sam Simmons, Michael Workman (Token Events), DJ Tom Loud's Hot Dub Time Machine (Laughing Stock), DeAnne Smith (Little Red)
LX / Sound / AV relights and operating, SM & PM duties, Tech Manager for HDTM
"PrimaDoona" starring Doon Mackichan. This show was awarded a prestigious "Fringe" award in Edinburgh. Rehearsed at Pleasance London, run at Bristol Old Vic, then Edinburgh Fringe.
SM "on the book", Operating LX / Audio, Script Editing, Re-lighting, SFX production, props buying, running rehearsals.
"Heart & Sole" and "The Plan" by and starring Lynn Ferguson.
SM "on the book", Operating LX / Audio, Script Editing, LX Design, Re-lighting, SFX production, props buying, running rehearsals. Rehearsed at Jackson's Lane Arts Centre,
