BENEFIT SHOWS

8th July – The Secret Spy Cops’ Ball – Rob Newman, Evelyn Mok, Mark Steel, Stewart Lee, Jackson’s Lane, London. For women tricked into relationships w undercover police. Most of the performers on the bill are adopted orphans, oddly.
https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/whats-on/the-secret-spycops-ball

CAPRI-BATTERIE W STEWART LEE

You can buy Bristol Fashion, an industrial jazz album which we improvised in an hour, here for £7.
https://capri-batterie.bandcamp.com/album/bristol-fashion

Space Shambles – Royal Albert Hall, June 15th.

Science, music, comedy, poor time-keeping and wonder collide in Space Shambles, presented in association with The Cosmic Shambles Network™ ®.
Part of the Festival of Science: Space.
Legendary astronaut Chris Hadfield™ and Robin Ince ® (host of Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage) are your hosts for the evening, plus an eclectic mess of surprise special guests for comedy lovers, music fans and science enthusiasts alike.

We are excited to announce that the first headliners joining us in June include Apollo™ ® astronaut Rusty Schweickart, theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili and science-comedy phenomenon Festival of the Spoken Nerd!

In the tradition of Nine Lessons and The Christmas Compendium of Reason, these huge shows have included guest appearances from Professor Brian Cox, Professor Alice Roberts, Charlotte Church, Skeletal Family, Hugh Grant, Dr Spunkfield Leominster, Pristeen Vagamutt, King Tinkale Omoono, Apollo™ ® astronaut Randy Vanwarmer, Sproutmaster Sprat, Dripknob The Weeping Physicist, The Drunken Astronomers, Laika and Uranus, The Gay Space Mice, Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Mad Aryabhatas, The Metaphysical Circus, Schooly D, Principal Ince’s Magic Theatre, Mike Peters & The Alarm, Albert’s Wanking Rocket Monkees, The Astronomers Royale, and Dara O’Briain.

As the show comes to the Royal Albert Hall for the very first time, expect an impressive collection of familiar faces – there’s no telling who else might show up in this secret stew of stars.
https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2018/robin-ince-and-chris-hadfields-space-shambles/

Home Town Tales

The writer Maria Whatton and I are the joint authors of a new book of autobiographical fiction about Birmingham, Home Town Tales, which is out at the end if the month.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hometown-Tales-Birmingham-Maria-Whatton/dp/147460594X/

Post Nearly Press

Neal Jackson of Post Nearly Press conducted a lengthy interview with me, available as a stand-alone book here www.postnearlypress.com

I Arrogantly Recommend

1) Ben Moor – Pronoun Trouble. New show from the performance art genius.

13th June 2018
7.30pm
Crystal Palace Festival
Bookseller Crow on the Hill
50 Westow Street
London SE19 3AF
A wonderful bookshop, and you’ll be able to buy some of the books mentioned in the talk here.
Just &pound5 tickets, and that will get you a drink and nibbles too!
TICKETS ON SALE SOON

5th July 2018
7.30pm
Greater Manchester Fringe Festival
Anthony Burgess Foundation
3 Cambridge Street
Manchester M1 5BY
The most academic place I have so far found to give the talk, and maybe the coolest.
There are lots of other great things going on during the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival too – why not check out the full programme?
TICKETS

29th June – 1st July 2018
Also Festival
Compton Verney
Warwickshire
A compact weekend of terrific speakers, musicians, performers and makers – I’m thrilled to be invited.
TICKETS

15th July 2018
Idler Festival
Fenton House
Hampstead Grove,
London NW3 6SP
This will be a wonderful weekend of talks by fascinating folk like Michael Palin, Sally Phillips and Carole Cadwalladr.
And I’ll be performing a gentle Sunday morning version as part of the celebration of intelligent distraction.
TICKETS

16th – 19th August 2018
Green Man Festival
Crickhowell
Brecon Beacons
The lecture can be located in the brainy enclave of Einstein’s Garden.
I’m so glad to be returning to Green Man; this is always an amazing weekend of music, inspiration, fresh air and laughter.
TICKETS

2) Drenched – Third Man Theatre Company.
I liked Third Man’s work so much I became a patron of the company, essentially a vehicle for the visions of Dan Frost. They have a new show with dates so far in London this month and Edinburgh in August.

Daniel Drench. West Cornwall’s most prolific and unstable storyteller, presents a bewildering and potentially moving interpretation of the classic Cornish folk tale ‘The Mermaid of Zennor’.
Drenched is a one man comedy-theatre piece, challenging the form of a traditional solo performance with a combination of storytelling, character comedy and physical theatre.

Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington
2nd & 3rd July @ 7pm
4th July @ 9.30pm

Edinburgh Festival 2018
1-27 August – Pleasance Courtyard @ 3pm

3) Giant Sand. Howe Gelb’s unexpectedly reactivated desert rock outfit.

5th June – Under The Bridge, London.
9th – Whelans, Dublin.
10th Oran Moor, Glasgow.
11th – Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh

4) Bardo Pond.
Mind blowing space trance rockers.
June 6th – 100 Club, London.
8th – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds.

5) Andy Moor.
Improv set from Ex guitarist. Café Oto, London.

6) The Ex.
Enduring Dutch anarcho-jazz punks.
June 19th – Hope & Ruin, Brighton
21st – London?,
22nd-24th Supersonic Fest,
23rd – Wharf, Leeds,
24th – Soup Kitchen, M’cr.

7) The Rebel.
Weekly June Wednesday residency at The Windmill, Brixton, London, by the provocateur/troubadour/auteur and ex-Country Teaser.

8) Alan Wilkinson/Steve Noble/John Edwards.
Peerless sax/drums/bass free jazz trio.
Cafe Oto, London. June 26th.

9) Wolves In The Throne Room.
The environmentally concerned doom metal band play the following UK dates

JUN 23 The Garage London
JUN 25 La Belle Angele Edinburgh
JUN 26 Corporation Sheffield
JUN 27 The Invisible Wind Factory Liverpool,
JUN 28 The Globe Cardiff

10) PIGSPURT’S DAUGHTER
Daisy Campbell’s memories of her father the performance art/comedy innvator Ken Campbell, is at Hampstead Theatre 11th-14th July
TICKETS

11) Bridget Christie – What Now? (New stand-up show)

June 2018
Saturday 9th – WHAT NOW? – Comedy Hall, TIVERTON – 8pm – 07443 502523 – TICKETS
Monday 18th – WHAT NOW? – The Stand, NEWCASTLE – 8.30pm – 0191 300 9700 – TICKETS
Tuesday 19th – WHAT NOW? – The Stand, NEWCASTLE – 8.30pm – 0191 300 9700 – TICKETS
Thursday 21st – WHAT NOW? – Playhouse, NOTTINGHAM – 8pm – 0115 941 9419 – TICKETS
Wednesday 27th – WHAT NOW? – Picturehouse, HEBDEN BRIDGE – 7pm – 01422 842807 – TICKETS
Friday 29th – WHAT NOW? – Playhouse, OXFORD – 7.30pm – 01865 305305 – TICKETS
Saturday 30th – WHAT NOW? – Playhouse, OXFORD – 7.30pm – 01865 305305 – TICKETS

SEPTEMBER 2018
Friday 7th – WHAT NOW? – Tobacco Factory, BRISTOL – 8pm – 0117 902 0344 – TICKETS
Saturday 8th – WHAT NOW? – Tobacco Factory, BRISTOL – 8pm – 0117 902 0344 – TICKETS
Thursday 13th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Thursday 20th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Friday 21st – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Saturday 22nd – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS

OCTOBER 2018
Friday 5th – WHAT NOW? – Theatre Royal, WINCHESTER – 8pm – 01962 840 440 – TICKETS
Saturday 6th – WHAT NOW? – Corn Exchange, EXETER – 7.30pm – 01392 665938 – TICKETS
Tuesday 9th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Wednesday 10th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Thursday 11th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Friday 12th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS

NOVEMBER 2018
Thursday 1st – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Friday 2nd – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Saturday 3rd – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Tuesday 6th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Wednesday 7th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Thursday 8th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Friday 9th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Saturday 10th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Saturday 24th – WHAT NOW? – Nuffield Theatre (NST City), SOUTHAMPTON – 7.30pm – 023 8067 1771 – TICKETS

12) WILSON DIXON
Jesse Griffin’s dead-on parody of an American outlaw country singer, WILSON DIXON, has an intimate UK tour

June 2018
Monday June 25th – Soho Theatre, London – 020 7478 0100 – 9.30pm
Tuesday June 26th – Soho Theatre, London – 020 7478 0100 – 9.30pm
Wednesday June 27th – Soho Theatre, London – 020 7478 0100 – 9.30pm
Thursday June 28th – Soho Theatre, London – 020 7478 0100 – 9.30pm
Friday June 29th – Soho Theatre, London – 020 7478 0100 – 9.30pm
Saturday June 30th – Soho Theatre, London – 020 7478 0100 – 9.30pm
Booking link

July 2018
Sunday July 1st – The Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow – 0141 212 3389 – 4.30pm Tickets
Sunday July 1st – The Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh – 0131 558 7272 – 7.30pm Tickets
Tuesday July 3rd – The Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh – 0131 558 7272 – 7.30pm Tickets
Wednesday July 4th – Chapter Arts, Cardiff – 029 2030 4400 – 7.30pm Tickets