Current projects, TV Documentaries

'From Sunrise to the End of the Road'

'From Timbuktu to Los Diablos'
The search for the world’s greatest festivals

 

'From Sunrise to the End of the Road'

I’m in the process of trying to create a 10 part documentary which involves attending 10 music festivals in a row

Synopsis
Man has achieved much we have walked on the moon, built the pyramids, circumnavigated the globe, split the atom, yet there is still one great feat yet to be conquered and I believe I am the man to do it.
The great British music festival has become a way of life for many people who choose to stay in the UK for their summer holidays. There’s such a diverse choice of Festivals that it is said ‘you can spend the whole summer going from one festival to the other’ so that is what I’m going to do! I’ve taken a pick of some of the most interesting and diverse festivals throughout the UK from Glastonbury to Shambala. The task is to go to as many festivals as humanly possibly during the Festival season. It will be a documentary of survival and endurance and entertainment, sunshine, rain and the great British Summer Adventure, smelly toilets and possibly Trench foot. It will be quite literally a survival guide on what to do and what not to do. It will be a reality based documentary, of the Planning, Travelling, getting lost on the motorway, the Festival goers, and blagging backstage passes to get some interviews with Artists and Bands. The documentary will be a series of ten 45min shows highlighting the trials and tribulations and huge amount of fun along the way. It is planned the shows will be edited and ready to broadcast to go out almost live for each festival (if possible). There is such a sense of freedom at festivals one has to ask the question after 10 weeks, will I ever be able to adjust back into society? I also plan to write an article for a newspaper or magazine and I’d like my story to be finalised by being told in a book, one plan’s that this adventurous tale will eventually be published.

June
Stonehenge summer solstice 20th -21st
Glastonbury 24th-28th
July
Wireless 3rd-6th
T in the Park or Guilfest 11th-13th
Latitude Festival 16th-19th
Womad 24th July- 26th July
Cambridge Folk Festival 31st-2nd August
August
Big Chill 7th-9th
Bloom Festival or Bloodfest 14th-16th
One Love Festival 21st-23rd Aug
Shambala Festival 27th 30th

My Legendary appearance on Blinddate

Come dine with me

Come dine with 10 minute edit

 

'From Timbuktu to Los Diablos’

 

The search for the world’s greatest festivals

Synopsis
Throughout the World Man comes together to celebrate on mass, for Cultural historical, and Religious occasions. I have chosen 10 of the most Bizarre, interesting happenings in the World. I plan to visit all 10 of these destinations in a row from one to the other non stop circumnavigating the globe in search of the greatest festivals on the Planet, exploring the phenomena that is the celebration of the human spirit. My aim is not to go as a spectator but as a participant, I’m going to go to Timbuktu and go to the Worlds most Remote Music festival in the Sahara Dessert, Go to the Largest gathering of people on Earth at the Kumbh Mela, Play Samba in Rio Carnival, Help celebrate the Penis in Japan, restore the balance between the heavens and the Sea in Sumba, Cause Civic Chaos in Peru.
It will be a documentary of Cultural exploration and Celebration and participation. I plan to film a series of 10 1 hour long documentaries exploring the historical and cultural significances of the festivals. The Documentary will be a reality based format recording the journey and people that I meet along the way.

Jan
Festival in the Desert Essakane, Mali Timbuktu
Kumbh Mela, The biggest gathering of people on the planet, est seventy million people
Phalgun Festivals Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
February
Mardi Gras New Orleans, Louisiana, USA New Orleans has one of the most original, weird, accessible and mind-blowing carnivals of them all
Mazatlan Carnival, Mazatlan, Mexico Carnival here is an excuse to eke out the last of your sins before Lent,
Rio Carnival, The city boasts the world’s wildest, glitziest and largest carnival of them all February/March - from the first Friday of Carnival Weekend to Shrove Tuesday
March
Hounen Matsuri, Komaki, Japan annual spring celebration of the penis at Komaki
Sumba Pasola, Sumba, Indonesia The island of Sumba is one of the more remote Indonesian islands, a series of battles which is supposed to balance the sphere of the heavens and the sphere of the sea
Semana Santa, Cusco, Peru, the last week of Lent civic chaos seemingly spurred on by the belief that, as Christ is dead for a few days between the crucifixion and resurrection on Sunday, He isn’t going to be around to judge your actions
April
Los Diablos Danzantes St. Francisco de Yare, Venezuela Pentecost