New book Before I Go (and two older others) available here https://xitter.cf/t.co/ORkoONlHy8
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Very pleased to say that P&H Books are issuing digital versions of my previous memoir The Freewheeling, plus the play Jesus My Boy, and (in digital and print) the forthcoming effort Before I Go, which is also a memoir and can be preordered here: poniesandhorsesbooks.com/sho…
Very pleased to say that Jesus My Boy, my play/monologue, is now available in book form, just in time for Easter. Coincidence? Of course not. Available here and nowhere else poniesandhorsesbooks.com/pro…
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Honoured to have John Scott playing on one or two of my songs. RIP John
#SITSOL 9am tomorrow @ALLFM Tribute to
John Scott (48 Chairs, @dowiejohn etc). Plus @ArcticMonkeys @BillMacKay68 @ryleywalker @theslowday @hellswelles @buckmeek @JoePerniceBros @Ventrellesound @TheDelines
Listen Mcr area 96.9 fm or dab. Worldwide allfm.org
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Somebody here once posted a drawing of a robin that they did as a child, with a cruel comment by a witless teacher. I found it inspirational (the drawing not the comment). I kept it and now I've lost it. Is the artist still there? And may I have another copy?
Today!
On Saturday I'll be joining my publishing pals poniesandhorsesbooks.com/ at smallpublishersfair.co.uk/ hoping to shift copies of THE GREATEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN with the help of these lovely reviews. Please pop by if you're passing.
On Saturday I'll be joining my publishing pals poniesandhorsesbooks.com/ at smallpublishersfair.co.uk/ hoping to shift copies of THE GREATEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN with the help of these lovely reviews. Please pop by if you're passing.
Forget Spinal Tap. Best rock-and-roll gag ever 1 hour 10 minutes in. Plus bravery, idiotic surgical choices, heart warming family tales and the triumph of one poor child against the planet. First time I've felt proud to be a Brummie. Ozzie Osbourne. paramountplus.com/home/
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Laid low with the news of Brian Patten’s death. My soul-mate.
R.I.P. May he Rest In Poetry.
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I don’t recall there being so much outrage and media coverage when Jeremy Hunt supposedly forgot to declare 7 luxury seaside flats. Privately educated man from a wealthy family that’s fine. A woman that has worked her way up against the odds, not fine. Double standards it seems.
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‘They’ are the ones pulling your strings, normalising comparisons between races and religions, making xenophobia socially-acceptable by calling it patriotism, and ‘They’ are the ones who have made the Far Right stronger than it’s ever been in our lifetimes.
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Very happy to do this and even happier when Barry Cryer decided to join us
RHLSTP with hugely important figure in alternative comedy John Dowie. shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo… With added Dave Cohen!
Come and see RHLSTP live in Edinburgh richardherring.com/rhlstp
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Very sad to hear about Nigel Farage. Nothing's happened to him, I'm just sad to hear about him. – at South West, England
Out loud
I just went rogue again while panicking with the phonetic alphabet. I pulled out a “T for Terry… as in the maker of chocolate oranges,” and the other person on the phone replied, “Sorry, was that O for oranges?” I replied, “No, T, for chocolate oranges,” and they said, “Sorry, I’m very confused now.” So we started again, and I said, “Actually, it’s T for Tango, isn’t it?” They responded, “Like orange Tango?” so I said, “Don’t start that again, please.”
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Thanks to Chortle for publishing this little tribute (from me) to Tony Allen on what would have been the old bugger's birthday chortle.co.uk/correspondents…
It’s a petition. Almost certainly a futile gesture. But worth making: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio… via @38degrees
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Had the pleasure of meeting him, briefly. Did a gig supporting him. When I came off he had two bottles of beer waiting for me. A gentleman
Remembering the great singer-songwriter and poet Jake Thackray who was born on this day in Kirkstall, Leeds in 1938. He died in 2002. #JakeThackray #Kirkstall #LahDiDah #TheBlackSwan #CountryGirl #Sophie #BrotherGorilla #BantamCock #SisterJosephine #OnAgainOnAgain #ThePoorSod
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“Wonderful comic’ is right
On the anniversary of her tragically early death, remembering the wonderful comic performances of actress Emma Chambers, best known as Alice in The Vicar Of Dibley. comedy.co.uk/people/emma_cha…
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How delightful to come on here and tell people I'm somewhere else
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