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You Need To Be Careful With The Tits
“Tits are quite difficult”. It is half four on a freezing April morning, and a softly-spoken man is teaching us to listen for the birds. As the light threatens, a group of mainly retired folk are standing in the woods at RSPB Arne, a place very well known to nature types. We’re shown the clearing… Read more
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The subscribe to my newsletter T-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my subscribe to my newsletter T-shirt
I’ve been doing a bit of thinking about what, or who, I’m writing for here on m’blog, which sometimes feels like a bit of a Mary Celeste from an earlier blogging sea in comparison to my newsletter over on Substack. In my head the newsletter is the more “professional” presence, with lots of links to… Read more
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The Dip, with Lilla Multipass, Freddie Hayes and Maria Telnikoff
A fun evening in the backstreets of Kentish Town, where myself and some other Next Level Sketch luminaries went to a rival comedy night, The Dip, run by our nemesis Chris East. Chris is a lovely host, and always books an interesting, alternative lineup. The venue is a little gem, an eccentric little cafe with… Read more
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Review: Rice, Alvin Liu, The Glitch, Waterloo
Note: this review first appeared in the Morning Star Alvin Liu is from China, where even milquetoast liberals [1] are brutally censored. Still, a thriving standup scene has developed in the past few years in Shanghai and Beijing – though your entire venue might get shut down if someone makes a joke that could even… Read more
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Review: Paul Merton and Suki Webster’s Improv Show, Comedy Store
Note – a shorter version of this review is in today’s Morning Star newspaper. The Comedy Store is showing its age. The logo is very eighties, as are much of its regular clientele. Most are here to see Paul Merton, him off the telly, who has been doing improv for longer than your correspondent can… Read more
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Swimming in whatever we find
Since I had a very minor operation on my back, I haven’t been able to swim. It’s clearly been on my mind enough for me to write a more personal than usual instagram post, embedded below. I think a lot about how I come across on the internet, the performative aspect in particular. It’s important… Read more
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Scarbados: a day trip to Scarborough
The initial plan was to walk to Whitby, until I remembered it’s 20-odd miles and the cats would kill me. So I settled for a day of bimbling around town, looking at buildings and gazing at the sea. Scarborough was the original seaside town, after a 17th century resident discovered the scam of claiming the… Read more
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Songwriting is like welding two cars together but you don’t know where either car came from
I was going to go to an open mic tonight, and practiced three songs of mine and one cover in preparation. I then banged my head on the entrance to a medieval alley – York, knock it all down and start again – and took longer than I expected to make dinner. And lo, was… Read more
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