TV, Music and Podcasts
A mix of various appearances with bits and bobs of other music and TV that I like.
A mix of various appearances with bits and bobs of other music and TV that I like.
August 2017: I decided to make 4 short videos in a series, of me giving a brief account of all my books so far, from 2003 to now. Nice!
Season's Greetings
I'm part of the festive video message organised by Glasgow Caledonian University, where I did my undergrad degree. From their staff and various famous graduates, including Alex Ferguson, that pair from the excellent 'Still Game' Scottish TV programme, yer man David Farrell from STV Glasgow and a whole bunch of other good folk...
Nice!
And Glasgow Caledonian University has a lot of interesting notable aspects: a female principal, a muslim chancellor (the first non-British international figure to hold the office of University Chancellor in Scottish history), old workling place of PM Gordon Brown and footballer Pat Nevin, the president of Iran was a student there, as was comedian Kevin Bridges...Nelson Mandella and writer Mark Miller as honourary graduates...when i was there its student union was one of the main gig places in Glasgow, with bands like Primal Scream and The Pastels... and its motto is 'For the Common Weal' - a good old socialist motto there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqu2VkkI7vI&feature=youtu.be
I'm part of the festive video message organised by Glasgow Caledonian University, where I did my undergrad degree. From their staff and various famous graduates, including Alex Ferguson, that pair from the excellent 'Still Game' Scottish TV programme, yer man David Farrell from STV Glasgow and a whole bunch of other good folk...
Nice!
And Glasgow Caledonian University has a lot of interesting notable aspects: a female principal, a muslim chancellor (the first non-British international figure to hold the office of University Chancellor in Scottish history), old workling place of PM Gordon Brown and footballer Pat Nevin, the president of Iran was a student there, as was comedian Kevin Bridges...Nelson Mandella and writer Mark Miller as honourary graduates...when i was there its student union was one of the main gig places in Glasgow, with bands like Primal Scream and The Pastels... and its motto is 'For the Common Weal' - a good old socialist motto there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqu2VkkI7vI&feature=youtu.be
Franki Valli and The Four Seasons
December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
A great wee funky song, in which yer man Franki doesn't sing much! But get doon anyway, kids.
TV documentary I wrote and presented in Japan
A 13 minute documentary about Miyamoto Musashi's life in Kumamoto, that I presented for Amakusa TV, a television station in Japan
Peter Cook - At a Slight Angle to the Universe
A TV programme about the late, great, comedian Peter Cook, who I find fascinating.
BBC Radio Interview
I did several media appearances about the terrible Kumamoto earthquakes in 2016, since I was right in the middle of that, including for the BBC, The Telegraph, Herald Scotland, US radio and the Japan Times. This is an easy link to the contribution I made to a BBC programme:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-36056904
The Who
The greatest rock n roll band ever? A lot of people think so and I adore them more than toast and tea. Certainly they made some VERY good songs. And this is one of them, from 1971:
Baba O'Riley
The greatest rock n roll band ever? A lot of people think so and I adore them more than toast and tea. Certainly they made some VERY good songs. And this is one of them, from 1971:
Baba O'Riley
Interview
My first interview in Italian, in an excellent digital magazine for ipad, COMX DOME. Which includes this video of me (and one by Dave Gibbons too), alongside lots of other great stuff - and it's free:
https://itunes.apple.com/it/book/comx-dome/id585317968?mt=11
James Brown
James Brown on Soul Train Performing the songs:
Hot Pants
Get Up (I Feel Like A) Sex Machine
Get On The Good Foot
Podcast
Myself reading a wee free form poem that i wrote for a US poetry podcast.The show itself has 3 poems by me. The presenter said he loved my Scottish accent, which is nice...but actually I was trying to sound clear and not so broad Scottish! It's all good... Starting at 5.40 minutes:
http://rockymtnrevival.libsyn.com
Videos
Below- a little 'flip through' video of our Bushido book made by the publisher,
and also the Spanish version of our book 'The Faceless Ghost'.
Nice!
Below- a little 'flip through' video of our Bushido book made by the publisher,
and also the Spanish version of our book 'The Faceless Ghost'.
Nice!
TV interview
I did a televison interview for Reuters news agency about our book on IRAQ, and to my surprise it was picked up by news shows all over the world, including Turkey, Russia, China. This is a photo of the interview being shown on Korean TV.
Nice bunnet, sonny jim...
Films directed by Sean
From 1997 to 2004 (before returning to focus on comic book making) I made a series of films with my business partner, camera man Alex Rupprecht.
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A list of my film, video and TV work:
2015 - Writer and presenter of a 13 minute documentary film of the life of Miyamoto Musashi, for Amakusa TV.
2012 - presented a 5 minute film about his comic book, manga work for NHK television Japan.
2010 - presented a 3 minute film about his comic book, manga work for KKT (Kumamoto KenMin Television) in Japan.
2009 - Extra on a film with Japanese actor Toshiyuki Nishida (Pigsy in the Tv series Monkey Magic), Clouds over the hill, TV series broadcast NHK 2009 to 2011. Playing a western soldier in Meiji Era.
2007 - Reuters News Interview, discussing my book on Irag, shown in several countries, including CCTV in China, and Al Jazeera Television.
2004 to now - many appearances in conventions in the USA, UK, and Japan; also on radio, podcasts and in magazines discussing my books.
2004 - Wrote and directed the documentary film 'Ready Steady Sew' for the Mods mayday festival, London, UK.
2002 - Wrote and directed the documentary film 'Mod originals' for Home choice network television, UK.
2001 - Wrote and directed the documentary film 'The Japanese Invasion' for the Japan2001 festival.
2001 - Wrote and directed the documentary film 'Mayday 2001' for Home choice network television, UK.
2000 - Wrote and directed the documentary film for Channel 4 television in the UK, 'New Mod Generation.'
2000 to 2005 - Extra actor on several film and TV projects in the UK, including The Biography of Peter Sellers, a James Bond movie, Eastenders etc and including working alongside such actors as Geoffrey Rush, Daniel Craig, Martin Kemp and Rupert Everett.
