STAGE
Last month, I arranged and staged the five-hour comedy-&-music Malcolm Hardee Memorial Show at the Hackney Empire, London with 41 performers and 25 acts. Last year in July, (4-star review in the Times) Last year, I was a judge at the semi-final of the British Funny Women Comedy Awards and, in August, helped publicise the Edinburgh Fringe stand-up show Janey Godley Is Innocent. At the 2004 Fringe, I was consultant on stand-up show Good Godley!.(40 stars in reviews). At 2003’s Fringe, I was script consultant on an original mystery drama with laughs: Legend of the BBC. At the Edinburgh Fringe in 2002, I was script consultant on the anarchic Charlie Chuck is Scrooge and on the biographical show John Laurie, Frazer & I, (which returned to the Fringe in 2005).

NEW MEDIA

In August last year, I wrote, as I did in 2004; Edinburgh Fringe comedy reviews for the Chortle website as well as a Fringe blog and a Fringe feature for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. I recently designed and built websites for comedy scriptwriter Nigel Crowle, for soft-core DVD producers Laid Bare and for the Wibbley Wobbley pub and French Fred's restaurant; I previously designed and built sites for, among others, London-based comedian Ricky Grover, Scots-based comedians Janey Godley & Ian Watt and a tribute site for the late comedian Malcolm Hardee as well as sites for eccentric Northampton-based inventor John Ward, Milan-based VW car dealer Elettrofficina, Monza-based translator/artist Sandy Wild and best-selling London author Cass Pennant. I also designed and built the Gangster Videos sales website as well as a separate - currently dormant - ConArtists site which features convicted UK and US prisoners' writing and artwork. And I also webmaster Ricky Grover's Bulla's World site.

DVDs & VIDEOS
Last year, I was production manager and creative advisor on Gangster Videos' boxing DVDs Punch-Up 10, Punch-Up 11 and Bamford's Bust Up 1, their true-crime profiles Roy Shaw: Brute Force, The Ultimate Gangster Video 2 and their 5-DVD set The Ultimate Gangster Collection, their documentary DVDs Dave Courtney's Party - Uncut! and Cass Pennant: Enough Said! plus their forthcoming boxing video Bamford's Bust Up 2 as well as their soft-core subsidiary company Laid Bare's DVD Shell & Vanessa Laid Bare. In 2004, I performed the same job functions on their boxing DVDs Punch-Up 5, Punch-Up 6, Punch-Up 7, Punch-Up 8, Punch-Up 9, Thug Club and Warriors IV and on four of their true crime profiles A Tribute to Tony Lambrianou, Angel of the Underworld, The Krays' Geordie Connection DVD and Dave Courtney's Dodgy DVD.

PRINT
Published in hardback in June and reprinted in December last year and March this year was Handstands in the Dark, the non-humorous, pre-showbiz autobiography of comedienne, actress and playwright Janey Godley, which I edited and advised on. It will be published in paperback in August. Last February, the Independent newspaper commissioned me to write the obituary of comedian Malcolm Hardee. In 2003, with Malcolm, I had compiled and edited the anthology Sit-Down Comedy - a book of specially-commissioned writing by 19 British and Irish stand-ups. Before that, I wrote his autobiography - I Stole Freddie Mercury's Birthday Cake - and I contributed three chapters to Anatomy of The Movies (other contributors included Martin Scorsese and Donald Sutherland). Click for reviews. I have also written for various magazines and partworks, including Screen International, The International Times, Starburst, House of Hammer, The Movie, Mensa Magazine and Halls of Horror.