July 30th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Film / TV, Music, Work
Taking a bit of a break from getting Northern Exposure ready for TX every week, I joined me old mucker Feargal and the ATL / ATL TV crew (I’m not producing this series) for a trip down to the Glasgowbury festival near Draperstown on Saturday.
Glasgowbury is a small, growing festival – their slogan is “small [...]
July 25th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Film / TV, Work
I’ve been a bit slow with posting ‘cos I’ve been up to my eyes getting my show ready for transmission tonight. Anyway, you can watch Laurence & Jackie’s Northern Exposure at 9pm on BBC One Northern Ireland. If you’re outside Northern Ireland in the UK, you can catch it on Channel 973 on Sky Digital or Channel [...]
July 13th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Film / TV, Work
Hoorah! The week before last, we wrapped filming on “Laurence & Jackie’s Northern Exposure“. All six episodes are now in the can, and the first two are edited and ready to go. I’m going to be spending up to the end of August editing programmes 4 and 6, while another producer does 3 and 5.
I’m [...]
June 29th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Film / TV, Work
So I’ve been sweating it out recently series producing a new six part series for BBC Northern Ireland. It’s called “Laurence & Jackie’s Northern Exposure” and starts transmitting at the end of July.
The idea behind it is that Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife, Jackie, spend 48 hours in a different county in Northern Ireland every [...]
March 26th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Work
Sunday in Austin, and our last day there. South by Southwest had pretty well finished by now – the streets were a lot quieter, the convention center had been completely tidied, and the doors were locked, and that was left was flyers for bands nailed to lampposts. This was a day off for us guys, [...]
March 26th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Work
Ok, Saturday – day 5 at South by Southwest! Again, more editing in the hotel room, and then at night, I went to meet up with the guys. They’d spent the day at a pool and BBQ party in the country which made me insanely jealous, but apparently there weren’t that many good looking [...]
March 26th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Work
Well I have fallen waaaay behind with this sorry. Obviously I’m writing this after I got back to Belfast, but it’s just been manic since I got back, and I’m just in the middle of my first lot of days off in three weeks (unless you count one day off in Austin). Anyways, I’m now [...]
March 16th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Travel, Work
Day 3 at South by Southwest baby! I can honestly say the weather has been brilliant this week – it’s been around 95° every day, which is very nice.
Thursday then was to have the same pattern as the next couple of days for me really. Rigsy, our presenter, Feargal and Jim, our cameraman went out [...]
March 16th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Travel, Uncategorized, Work
Day two at South by Southwest! And I have got a bit behind with this so have some catching up to do!
Wednesday was our first day filming – so we went off to a Belfast / Nashville Sister City party to hear and film some Northern Irish acts performing. The main attraction for a lot of people [...]
March 3rd, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Uncategorized, Work
I got to meet one of my favourite bands this week. Tegan and Sara are two identical twins from Canada, and I have a couple of their albums. They were gigging in Belfast this week, and we were doing an interview with them for ATL TV, so I sheepishly turned up and had a quick [...]
