There is a moment after every performance that few people ever see. The audience rises, coats rustle, chairs scrape across wooden floors, and laughter trails off down hallways and stairwells. Someone lingers to shake your hand. Someone else says, “That was brilliant.” Another asks where they can hear more. Then the door closes. And suddenly the room is quiet. The candles burn lower. The stage is just a patch of floorboards again. The air that moments ago held dragons and ghos

When the Storm Becomes the Voice Storytelling is in my bones. That is not a metaphor I use lightly. It is something I have felt in my marrow, in the rhythm of my breath, in the way silence gathers around me before a tale begins. For over fourteen years, I have travelled the world telling stories, old stories, living stories, stories borrowed and stories earned. I have stood in castles and community halls, in theatres and taverns, under open skies and low ceilings, watching fa

If you’ve ever sat on the cold, concrete-filled seats of an airport terminal, clutching a lukewarm coffee or a bottle of tepid water and watching the word "Delayed" or worse, “Cancelled” flash across the screen like a personal insult, you’ve felt a fraction of the power of The Lykan Curse. For most of us, travel is a series of logistics. Yet for me — a man whose voice carries the weight of a thousand Scottish legends and whose beard is slowly developing its own postal code—tr

This was a hard one to write. And I know some people will say, “It’s just a cat”. We all know that is never the case.  It is with the heaviest of hearts and a lot of stray ginger fur on our clothing, bedding and pretty much every piece of furniture, that we share some sad news: our beloved ginger beastie, Monty, has passed away. For those who visited our home or tuned in to our streams, Monty wasn’t just a pet; he was a founding member of the team, one of the OG’s. He was the

When people ask what I do for a living, and I tell them I’m an oral storyteller, I usually get one of two looks: a nostalgic smile or a look of pure panicked confusion. "So... you read books to kids?" Not exactly. Being a professional storyteller isn't about reading off a page; it’s about the electricity between a speaker and a listener. It’s an ancient craft, but making a modern living out of it? That’s where the "self-employed" part gets interesting. If you’ve ever wondered