A Look Back at the 2024 Shows
(2025 Dates will announced in due course)

Over the course of those shows we had 68 different speakers and performers take the stage, 30 of them making their Nine Lessons debut. One of the things we love most about Nine Lessons is being about to bring new people to the Shambles audience, and a new audience to them, each and every year.

Go to our Flickr page for a full photo gallery of everyone that was on stage so you can see what you missed, relive the show or check the name of the that person that gave a fascinating talk that you can’t quite remember.

A Post Show Message From Trent Burton (Producer, Director and Lead Curator)

Thanks as always to the best audience in the world for coming out and supporting the shows every year. It means the world to us and also the charities that will receive the profits from the shows this year; Two Wheels for Life, Hope Not Hate and the Euston Foodbank. Likewise thank you to those that brought donations for the foodbank. We collected two huge stage trolleys worth of food and essentials and the team from Euston were incredibly thankful to you all.

My thanks go out to the brilliant technical and behind the scenes crew at Kings Place, led by production manager Sally Pochciol, who are so welcoming to our madness each year. The best in the business, no question.

Big thanks to my Trunkman and Shambles crew. Our production assistant and photographer Alice Degrassi. Jo Gostling on merchandise (who sadly missed half the run this year due to flu) and Newham Books. Our musical director Will Bartlett alongside Ben Handysides, Charlie Pyne and Amy Baldwin who made up the Shambles Trio house band. Our peerless associate producer who also had to take on double duty running the merchandise this year, Melinda Burton.

Thanks to all the speakers and performers who took to the Nine Lessons stage as well. There’s obviously no show without you and each and every one of you was superb. I love hearing the audience fizzing with excitement and ideas at interval and after the show as they wrap their heads around everything they’ve just seen.

And, of course, last but not least, everyone’s thanks go to Robin Ince, MC of all four shows and the creator of this incredible show nearly 20 years ago. None of us are here without his original vision and passion to promote curiosity and create wonderment.

As for me, I did a throwback to when I broke my ankle before the 24 hour show in 2020 and threw my back out the day before the shows this year so that’s why, if you saw me over the weekend, there was a lot of grimacing and limping going on. So my personal thanks to Tiger Balm and paracetamol. I’d like to say we’re now all off for a lie down now but that’s not the Shambles way. We’re already back at it on multiple other projects including Nine Lessons 2025. Watch this space and we’ll see you next year!

Nine Lessons, and everything we do at Shambles, wouldn’t be possible without your support throughout the year on Patreon and Substack. So please do sign up if you can!

All profits from this year’s shows will go to our chosen charities Hope Not Hate and Two Wheels for Life. We will once again have a collection for the Euston Foodbank. Scroll below to find a list of their most needed items.

If you want to find out more about the history of shows be sure to watch our new free feature length documentary, Curious People: An Incomplete History of Nine Lessons and Compendium.