Robin Ince

Yup and so many interesting voices are getting drowned out by hugely expensive arena shows leaving people with no spare cash

Four tickets left for Taunton on Thursday

www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/tau...

Rhoda Dakar cancellation poster

Sad to see Rhoda Dakar has had to cancel her Scottish tour - non mainstream artists have more and more of a battle to sell tickets - our world is becoming banal and tediously fascistic (because that has the simplicity of lazy thinking)

Thank you

Also if they did it would probably be a mixture of a tax dodge and damage limitation

And hotel rooms and errrr any rooms

Gav cross and me about to talk

If you have little to do it 830pm - join @gavcross.bsky.social and me online

It’s Jack Whitehall night in Riyadh - everyone will be there - oh, except Asaad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, a teacher that criticised the government that is paying Jack and so is in prison for 20 years

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) is out on Friday. Not long to go until you can listen to my new album! Pre-save it now to get it in your library on release day ☀️
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I love how Russell T Davies always uses his platform to fight for progress - I hate how it is always so necessary

I love these

Cover of a 1968 puffin post magazines with two carton puffins in wizard robes and hats patterned with stars, on the left red, on the right bright blue, standing over a cauldron filled with bubbling yellow and orange liquid over a fierce burning fire emitting grey curls of smoke from which are emerging sparkly clouds filled with cartoonish characters - the three little pigs, a witch, a lion, a dog, a puffin and some musical instruments with faces. To the top right, puffin post is written in curly black letters inside a zig zag shape in pink

New Puffin Post acquisition. What can I say, I am powerless before the incredible art of Jill McDonald.
I have a personal Puffin pusher and everything now, one who knows my proclivities, my weaknesses, my unappeasable appetite for 20th century illustration

Yes, there is justice sensitivity - I researched it more for my recent book

The life of every child, whatever their race, religion or creed must be of equal worth - to place children into one side or another is grotesque

YouTube video by SaveTheChildren ‘Don’t Mention the Children’ | A poem for the children of Gaza, by Michael Rosen

Utterly heartbreaking - the bullies thrive as the children die

m.youtube.com/watch?v=tENn...

So many still sell well though

And no

It was a poetry festival

Thank you

This is the world we live in - where good people are mocked and thugs are celebrated - I presume the Business Secretary will say this is a great example of freedom of speech

www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/10...

Hey chums , don’t forget that tomorrow is a special day for a free speech warrior & surprise masturbator to join hands at Riyadh comedy festival (& Jack Whitehall will be there for some splashback) - & they’ll still be on your TV all the time because these values are more acceptable than socialism

The Labour Party is the genocide party.

Whatever the Customer Wants "Hello Kirsty Could you join me? The boss would like to see All the most fun new toys For girls and boys And maybe have a little play" "Oh Kirsty I better leave you Get back to the teddies : But I know the boss is ready to see a little more And it's better not to disappoint him During this appointment There might be promotion For those who show devotion To the store. Show him the moves of that new Barbie doll On the floor" "Kirsty's had to leave now She's been feeling a little ill of late We always though she might not have the ambition For the requirements of the position. So Sue Will you Help me show What the boss might want to have a go on. Bring the clockwork puppies that can walk But leave behind the dolls that can talk"

This is a little poem about working in Harrods toy dept in the late 80s

Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth | Flapjack Press Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth by Robin Ince - a debut collection of poems about life, death, and the odd bits in between.

Sometimes I worry if I have done no work in daylight , but then I realise , writing poetry really does count now

flapjackpress.co.uk/shop/ice-cre...

It would have meant deleting and putting it up a third time and I thought that would start to look silly - haha

Probably the best place for it anyway - have put on instagram with fuller Trigger warning - thanks for advice

I think it is a statement lacking curiosity too

And I would probably have nodded at Fry’s statement years ago

It smacks a bit of “these criminals are just criminally minded”

I meet people across the country - in community centres, libraries , prisons etc many feared being curious - believed the world of art or science or poetry was not what they were allowed or that they could be part of