Category: Robin Ince’s Blog

Robin Ince is on tour, which means lots of time on trains, which means lots of time for reading. Here’s what he’s recently enjoyed.

Writing my new book, I’m a Joke and So Are You most of my “guests” only turn up in one chapter. Here is some of the chats with Noel Fielding and Tim Minchin that didn’t make the cut.

To avoid my book plugging becoming too relentless, I thought I would review a few of the books I have read in the last week of book festival touring. Robin Ince reviews.

I like to keep a lid on it.  I am the last generation brought up on Saturday afternoon movies with Richard Todd and Jack Hawkins. Robin talks about getting emotional on stage.

When touring on Fridays and Saturday nights, I try as often as I can to remain in my performing location. Public transport contains a word variety of people caught in either slightly too high spirits or bent over in pain.

Some kind of balance, not just black and white, would come in handy. Robin reflects on a day of books, stand up and ticket sales.

“I’ve been thinking about my mother a lot recently. Today would have been her birthday”. Robin Ince reflects on reading from his book for the first time.

Robin’s reminiscences on 2018’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe including his 3 shows, Book Shambles Live, Chaos of Delight and Satanic Rites of Robin Ince.

Today, by chance, I found myself walking down the street that leads to the hill that I climbed up and sat on when overcome with nerves the night before a New Comedian final over a quarter of a century ago.

It takes a lot to knock easy flippancy out of a comedian.

I soon find out why, the news has just come in that Robin Williams has killed himself.

Skipping through the playground of social media, I saw a comic ask, “What is the point of doing the Edinburgh fringe nowadays?”