The good news is my chickens won't starve this Christmas as I've been working rather a lot lately (hence lack of posting) and National Express refunded a £90 taxi cost incurred due to them giving me wrong timetable advice = nice.
However don't get too excited as the Hoegaarden's aren't really on me because I was handed a nasty bill to replace the engine on my scooter due to a misunderstanding with regards to oil - potential legal case pending so won't say anymore here....
One of the highlights of the last few weeks was the Vodafone World of Difference national tour with Gok Wan. We traveled to Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow and Belfast. I was the edit-producer and so working with cameraman to the stars, Jonas Abbott, and one of London's hairiest soundmen, Anthony Arghyrou, we shot and produced films on each of the site visits. It was quite intense cutting on Gok Wan's tour bus - which he declared with the love bus - and I took in the field editing to a new level by cutting on the flight from Glasgow to Belfast, even finishing the sequence off on the runway. We had an incredible team in charge of logistics - ex Marines - and so we adopted the brand of being the Crack Team. Steak and chips was on the agenda every day after filming (and in my case: cutting, encoding & uploading) although I couldn't help but feel for the PR and Social Media guys who still had more planning/writing to do whilst I tucked into the beef (washed down with some good old fashioned Trempranillo). Dining with Gok Wan, Vodafone's top PRs and the crack team in Manchester's rainbow decorated streets is a memory to cherish.
In amongst various other random corporate shoots, web streamed tv shows and an interview with Jedward (in which I had a minor fail getting confused between Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer) I got to visit Kensington Palace to chat with HRH Prince Michael about his views on new education techniques - Sound! On my out of the palace I was informed about a certain video tape which was made of Princess Diana in the grounds of the palace - a youtube release is doubtful this century mind :)
