Alan Down Under

I am writing this from the South Island of New Zealand, having a few days of delicious downtime between the Auckland Writers' Festival (which was a blast) and the Sydney Writers' Festival (which I am very much looking forward to). It's been a while since I have been to Sydney and am looking forward to catching up with friends, and of course, watching the Eurovision Song Contest next Sunday with a bunch of Aussies celebrating their country's first time competing in this illustrious institution!

What's been going down this week...

The lovely Sienna Miller joined the cast of Cabaret as Sally Bowles. Wilkommen!

 

I have started writing a column for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Canada, and you can read my first one, about turning fifty, here

 

Here's a wee PSA I made to highlight the bigoted and totally stupid blood ban that exists for gay and bisexual men here in the USA. Unfortunately, the situation is similar in many other countries too, including my homeland of Scotland

 

Also I was interviewed by the lovely and talented Jeffrey Self for his podcast, This Is Really Important, and you can listen to it here

I attended the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary bash this past weekend. I hosted the show in 2000! It was a great, surreal evening. And oh yes, I'm wearing Calvin Klein.


And finally I interviewed my dearest chum and former fiance, Saffron Burrows, for Interview magazine and you can read it here