Edinburgh-based (Leith-bred), singer and comedian Bill Barclay has learned his trade over years of hard and, for audiences world-wide, extremely entertaining work. Bill is second-to-none with the comic's stock-in-trade, "one-liner", and has compered many events drawing upon his immense fund of "cracks" as well as taking the stage in his own right to produce side-splitting responses world-wide.

During an illustrious career spanning more than 30 years, Bill Barclay has toured in more than fifteen countries around the world including ...

• Abu Dhabi
• America
• Ascension Island
• Bahrain
• Canada
• Dubai
• Falkland Islands
• Germany
• Gibraltar
• Guernsey
• Hong Kong
• Jersey
• Kuwait
• Oman
• Quatar
• Saudi Arabia

and, he even had them rolling in the aisles in Iraq!

In the 1970s Bill Barclay toured with the big boys of rock. In 1974 he supported Rod Stewart on his British tour. That was followed by a one-night stand in Edinburgh's 3 000-seat Playhouse Theatre supporting Elton John and a Glasgow Apollo gig with Bill Haley. Then then there were three nights in London's Theatre Royal with Dusty Springfield. He has taken the stage in front of audiences exceeding 50,000 in three major rock festivals, at Reading, White City and Lincoln.

Of course, in addition to the jet-setting, Bill Barclay is very well-known back home here in Scotland where he has appeared in countless golf-clubs, smokers, rugby clubs, bowling clubs, folk clubs, concerts, and festivals, and at special dinner functions for every conceivable organisation.

Bill's acting roles on various UK television channels have seen him appearing in plays and soap operas including ...

• Sense Of Freedom
• Down Where The Buffalo Roam
• Shoot For The Sun
• Gunfight At The Joey Kaye Corral
• Down Among The Big Boys (as the police sergeant)
• Taking Over The Asylum (award winning BBC TV Scotland series)

Bill can be regularly seen in his sergeant's uniform popping up in Taggart (Scottish Television) and Rab C. Nesbitt (BBC TV Scotland). Over the years he has played various characters in Take The High Road (Scottish Television), in which he has now a regular part as the local bobby.

For the past 20 years Bill has presented his own radio show on Edinburgh's premier commercial radio station, Radio Forth. He is currently the lunchtime show presenter on Forth's Max AM station from1200 - 1400 Monday to Saturday.