Backshed - Then and Now

• The Video Diaries ... Series One   "Scamus Animalus" has finished production and is being marketed to radio stations around the country. Beautifully put together by Max Thrower in Bellingen, with voices recorded in Sydney and Adelaide.
• The Video Diaries ... Series Two  ("Stonehenge or bust" ) is currently being written.
Six episodes done and Video has only reached Corsica - could be 20 episodes! We welcome the talents of Paul (PJ) Johnstone and Lucy Suze Taylor to our team of players for Series Two. Once again Anna Steen, Robbie McGregor and Luke Sumner will be sharing their range of voices, alongside Peter and Hugh.
• Senile Delinquents ... still looking for production partners to assist in getting it to pilot stage.
• The Cafe Village by the Sea and other poems ... production underway for a spoken word CD of about 30 poems with soundscape. Written and read by Hugh Wade in musical partnership with David Chambers and some fabulous guest musicians.
• The Garden ... a short film by Brent Williams and Dejay Vi Ngyuen.
  Starring Peter and Luke Sumner, as father and son, with art direction and production design by Hugh Wade.

• For Peter, this month sees the completion of "Baba's Birthday" and the beginning of  work this month on research and writing for a documentary relating to environmental change.
• Hugh is providing narration for "Most Shocking" on Network 7 and has recently completed Set design and Art Department duties on a short film called "Grace", written and directed by Nicole Tanzabel and starring Maggie Dence and Jan Kingsbury. He also provided a couple of stock characters - the litturgy-reading mourner and the white-coated arm of a doctor!
• Together, the greying renegades are working on pre-production for a new podcast series, "The Video Diaries", which follows the exploits of Video, an investigative reporter for the New Roman Times.
• The pilot for "What's That" (or Senile Delinquents) is being appraised by several potential partners. Keep alert.

April 2007

How the months fly by!!!

• backshedman podcast, poetry and pictures up and running on a regular weekly basis, with slow but steady increase in numbers of people interested in receiving the weekly newsletter.
• Hugh still voicing the Tourism NSW television campaigns and has recorded two episodes as narrator for "Milly and Molly".
• Peter appeared as the Governor in the recent documentary celebrating "Our Sydney Harbour Bridge". He has also completed editing "Baba's Birthday", and is now focusing on writing short silly comedy for the backshedman podcasts.
• We are also refining and script editing a pilot episode for our television comedy series, (working title "What's that?"), and hawking it around to potential producers.

November 2006

• Fingers crossed - we have written a treatment, a couple of episodes, and several storylines for a half hour TV comedy ... and people are interested!
• Peter has nearly finished editing the documentary "Baba's Birthday" and Hugh will soon start recording as the Narrator for an animated children's series.
• More later.

July 2006

• "Under Mulga Wood" to be released on Audio CD in August through ABC Enterprises.
• Hugh is one of several readers of  "Great Australian Fly-fishing Stories, again for ABC Enterprises, and to be released on Audio CD in ABC shops later this year.

March 2006

• Peter return from directing a documentary in India and will be putting it together painstakingly over the next few months. Short film project simmering in the background waiting until we all can afford to give it the time and space it warrants.

• Hugh roadtesting poetry and photography for the next little while.

• " diversify to survive" ... new 21st century mantra

February 2006

• Hugh is appearing in a one-off performance of "Spell" by Daniel Damiano, a New York