From Clarkson’s Farm to Meet The Richardsons, 2022 was a hell of a year.
2022 started as 2021 ended, in the cold, wet and windy yard at Diddly Squat Farm with Jeremy, Lisa, Kaleb, and all the gang. Clarkson’s Farm is probably my favourite show to work on. I live on my own farm, so it’s an environment I’m very happy in. This photo was taken on an unusually sunny day, I seem to remember a lot more rain, wind and snow!
After a few months on the farm, I started work on the drama reconstructions for another Amazon show called The Confession, a true crime series about a historic crime in West Yorkshire, watch it here:
Later in the spring, after a much needed holiday, I started series 4 of the award winning show Meet The Richardsons, this kept me going, off and on until the middle of summer. I loved every second of it, it’s a great cast and crew, we had some incredible special guests, and I got to catch up with some spooky old friends for the Halloween special, I wonder if you can guess who?
Shooting a scene for MTR with Adrian Chiles, I took a photo of him that got published in the Guardian. All in a days work….
On a week off from MTR, I had a dream job, recording Johnny Marr, ex of the Smiths, in his studio in Stockport, he’s an incredibly nice man, and I really enjoyed meeting him, we recorded a few tracks, and an interview, all of which can be seen here. I’ll always regret not being able to take him up on his offer of joining him and the band on an American tour with The Killers, but I’d got jobs already booked, shame!
Through the year I was working as second unit mixer on a Sky drama called This England, chronicling Boris Johnson through the pandemic, directed by Michael Winterbootm. Here’s the trailer.
Late summer, into Autumn, I spent a couple of months in Sheffield, with the amazing A.J. Odudu, shooting a competition format property show for Channel 4, where the lucky winner won a £250,000 apartment that they’d designed themselves, that’ll be on mid 2023 I think.
These are the main highlights of the year, I’ve done lot’s of other days here and there, and met some wonderful people, and counted myself lucky to have the job I do. 2022 was my busiest year yet, which after almost 30 years in the business is something I’m very pleased with.
In other news, we got a new dog, he’s called Momo and he’s ace, he was one in January, here he is 🙂