Robin Ince

Writing, performing #poetry #photography #nature #books  Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal

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2026-05-10 07:48:00 UTC

GLASGOW 4pm Today
https://www.thestand.co.uk/performance/21390/robin-ince-let-the-quiet-ones-rise/20260510/glasgow #comedy #poetry #books

2026-05-09 10:24:40 UTC

Hope to see some of you at Glasgow tomorrow - having burnt a major bridge for ethical reasons, live work has become even more important PLUS people’s reaction to the show is very positive
https://www.thestand.co.uk/performance/21390/robin-ince-let-the-quiet-ones-rise/20260510/glasgow
Then Manchester on Monday
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/event/literature-robin-ince-book-tour/ #comedy #poetry #book

2026-05-08 21:10:27 UTC

Today’s a victory for BBC’s relentless appeasement of far right, for Labour Together which prefers Farage cos they can say “vote for us because we ‘re not Reform”, for our bigoted press - but I will NOT despair & I will stand up for those who woke up feeling more threatened by the hate in the world
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2026-05-04 11:19:56 UTC

I am in #GLASGOW this coming Sunday
https://www.thestand.co.uk/performance/21390/robin-ince-let-the-quiet-ones-rise/20260510/glasgow #comedy #poetry #books

2026-05-03 17:33:35 UTC

Glasgow tickets here
https://www.thestand.co.uk/performance/21390/robin-ince-let-the-quiet-ones-rise/20260510/glasgow #comedy #poetry #mentalhealth #books

2026-05-03 12:49:16 UTC

Should you conceal your mental health / neurodivergence? #neurodivergent #adhd #autism #books www.robinince.com
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2026-05-01 12:06:37 UTC

Hurray, I’m indie book of the month for May #mayday #books #bookshop #bookstodon
Lots of bookshop gigs imminent www.robinince.com
And big London gig
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/robin-ince-let-the-quiet-ones-rise-launch/
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2026-04-30 10:17:35 UTC

Paperback of Normally Weird is out today - as recommended by Robert Smith - now on a long book tour - Berkhamsted , London , Swindon , Edinburgh, Manchester , Pontypridd , Newquay , Bath and lots more
www.robinince.com
I believe this is the most honest and loving book I have written
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2026-04-29 12:12:25 UTC

A world full of cis male abusers in power and getting away with grotesque violence - but don’t worry, wealth and media power is focusing on breaking children’s hearts in other ways too
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2026-04-28 20:12:53 UTC

Normally Weird is officially out in paperback on Thursday but should be in most of the lovely bookshops now #bookshop #books #neurodivergent #autism #adhd
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2026-04-26 10:03:59 UTC

With Trump administration making most of “shots being fired” - a good time to think of how often they have justified “shots being fired”, how often they have gloated over “shots being fired”, how often they have mocked the victims of those “shots being fired”
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2026-04-25 20:04:22 UTC

Had another of those moments of depression thinking about how it was more important for the monkey cage team to support aggressive transphobes than for us to continue making a successful and engaging science show (there is even more to it than that and fortunately I kept more records than they might imagine)

2026-04-24 09:47:54 UTC

So utterly sick of anti trans lot still writing utter nonsense about me - i don’t seek it - but some of if leaks back to me - still relentless - they are the reason I quit from Infinite Monkey Cage - I job I utterly loved , but I really feel they aren’t happy til your dead and I’m afraid they won’t bully me into an early departure

2026-04-23 12:16:44 UTC

I have tried to avoid these stories of Oliver Sacks’s stories for a while - I can’t deny that I feel his books are ruined for me now (and not long after I found out that Anne Sexton sexually abused her daughter - old news I know, but has changed her poetry for me)
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/12/oliver-sacks-fabricated-key-details-in-his-books.html

2026-04-19 11:02:53 UTC

Unrehearsed poetry and music with David Gray last night in Slaithwaite - I will be doing a gig with music and pictures at Kings Place in London on 16th May - tickets here
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/robin-ince-let-the-quiet-ones-rise-launch/
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2026-04-17 12:32:17 UTC

Just leaving Wolverhampton - on the way to Marsden
https://www.marsdenmechanics.co.uk/events/author-event-normally-weird-weirdly-normal-with-robin-ince/
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2026-04-16 09:50:16 UTC

A poem for Jane Goodall #poetry #poem #environment #science
New poetry collection - Let the Quiet Ones Rise is out today
https://flapjackpress.co.uk/shop/let-the-quiet-ones-rise
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2026-04-15 14:06:15 UTC

I am performing a solo show in Manchester next month - spread the word if you can - thank you
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/event/literature-robin-ince-book-tour/ #poetry #comedy #adhd #neurodiversity #mentalhealth #autism #love

2026-04-15 08:54:02 UTC

I’ve been talking a little about situation that led to me resigning from Monkey Cage on stage lately - this explains a little more about why trying to be a supportive voice to trans people and their allies was “problematic”
https://skepchick.org/2026/01/the-bbc-chose-transphobia-over-science/
#lgbt #lgbtqia #translivesmatter #bbc

2026-04-14 14:33:56 UTC

Hello LONDON! I hope some of you can come to my solo show on 16th May. Tickets here
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/robin-ince-let-the-quiet-ones-rise-launch/
#comedy #poetry #love #neurodivergent #adhd #autism

2026-04-11 21:07:07 UTC

publication day of paperback of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal is 30th April - I have Margate Bookshop as event for that night but no hint of the event’s existence - I’m still presuming it’s going ahead but seems very late for publicity etc so may be no one there
https://www.themargatebookshop.com/

2026-04-10 14:47:52 UTC

I am talking in #Newcastle 3pm tomorrow (Saturday) - I will have copies of new poetry collection with me
https://www.ticketsource.com/newcastleskeptics/t-glllapj
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2026-04-10 09:33:51 UTC

Playing around with music and poetry - come to #manchester gig on 11th May https://www.anthonyburgess.org/event/literature-robin-ince-book-tour/
or #london on 16th May https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/robin-ince-let-the-quiet-ones-rise-launch/ The Quiet One is the first poem in my new collection Let the Quiet Ones Rise #poetry #prog
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2026-04-09 20:06:08 UTC

Approaching Edinburgh and footling with words
https://Robinince.com
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2026-04-09 14:51:53 UTC

That was a proper morning - wrote my next Big Issue column , then wrote a piece about Mel Brooks, then filmed interview with Majid Fotuhi about neuroscience , now off to Edinburgh for physics panel at Summerhall tomorrow
Tickets here
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/particles-with-purpose-tickets-1985642710800 #physics #science #particlephysics

2026-04-09 09:52:24 UTC

I am in #edinburgh on Friday talking about physics with those who know - it is free but you can secure a ticket here
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/particles-with-purpose-tickets-1985642710800

2026-04-08 12:47:18 UTC

This is the first half of my #poem about the freedom to read and those who fight for it #library #books #margaretatwood #jamesbaldwin #progressive #kurtvonnegut
I will be on a bookshop and library tour if my new #poetry book and the paperback edition of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal www.robinince.com
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2026-04-07 15:56:01 UTC

So often the press, politicians and electorate treat the powerful as if they are who they pretend to be and not who they so obviously are (Farage, Trump and so many more)

2026-04-05 15:52:13 UTC

I will be touring the paperback edition of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal and my new poetry book Let the Quiet Ones Rise from mid April #birmingham #margate #newcastle #edinburgh #tring #london #newquay #nottingham and many more
https://www.robinince.com for details
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2026-04-03 16:46:43 UTC

In the studio working with Jakko Jakszyk on more music for show at @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social 16th May - excerpt of a #poem about @lucia-oc.bsky.social who fights tirelessly for victims of Epstein and his buddies
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/robin-ince-let-the-quiet-ones-rise-launch/
https://Robinince.com
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2026-03-31 19:35:25 UTC

I sat down and talked to a hero , someone whose activism saves lives , one of the major inspirations for me leaving the BBC so I could speak freely - here is a transcript of some of the conversation I had with Lucia Osborne Crowley at Laugharne nine days ago
https://www.thenerve.news/p/lucia-osborne-crowley-epstein-the-lasting-harm-survivors-ghislaine-maxwell-laugharne-festival-book-v
#trump #epstein #andrewmountbattenwindsor

2026-03-30 12:37:11 UTC

I am performing a solo show in Manchester on 11th May - hope to see some of you there
https://www.anthonyburgess.org/event/literature-robin-ince-book-tour/
#comedy #poetry #neurodiversity
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2026-03-29 22:48:05 UTC

horrible to see the number of platformed people who vilify those who speak up against the murder of children in Gaza, not realising they would have been the ones silencing those speaking out against the holocaust of WW2 - it is always easy to be on the right side of history after it has happened

2026-03-29 10:51:02 UTC

My new poetry book - Let the Quiet Ones Rise - has more anger but also more love - 16th May for London show - lots of others www.robinince.com
#nevent1q…gufz

2026-03-29 09:52:21 UTC

My London solo gig went on sale this week - tickets here
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/robin-ince-let-the-quiet-ones-rise-launch/ #comedy #poetry #books

2026-03-27 08:23:03 UTC

An anti trans voice gave a one star review of Normally Weird on Goodreads - “Basically a man blaming mommy issues and trauma for his ADHD” - harsh and untrue - but here is a #poem about the early days after the crash - i am not ashamed to be emotionally honest
www.Robinince.com for dates
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2026-03-25 12:49:03 UTC

A good summary of me - I reached into my bag and found a forgotten hagstone with one of my anti acid reflux pills stuck in it https://Robinince.com #acid #pebble #stone #tour
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2026-03-24 22:49:05 UTC

Ever since the Monkey Cage betrayal and debacle , I’ve realised that maintaining my tenacity and having some confidence in the future has required even more teeth gritting. Self belief is a precarious notion. When it slips out of your hands it really can fall a long way down into the stinky water of the well.

2026-03-21 11:09:17 UTC

This morning in Laugharne #nature #water #photography
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2026-03-18 23:29:05 UTC

I used to find George Carlin’s last comedy specials too nihilistic , but not anymore . I aim to make my performances upbeat and inspiring whenever possible because the alternative is too bleak - better to keep battling even if the conclusion seems inevitable

2026-03-01 17:57:59 UTC

I am in #brighton this Friday at the lovely Brunswick - tickets here
https://www.brunswickpub.co.uk/event-details/filthy-fridays-standup-comedy-acts-tbc-2 #comedy #poetry

2026-02-26 00:29:06 UTC

Wandering around Manchester Piccadilly waiting for the train after a funeral #photography #trains #bricks #wall
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2026-02-24 13:11:31 UTC

Spring on the way to the railway station - eventually I will be in Linlithgow for a Thursday gig but first Levenshulme
https://www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com/products/further-from-festival-2026-robin-ince-thursday-26th-february-7-00pm
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2026-02-22 15:03:17 UTC

I have two solo shows this week
LINLITHGOW on Thursday 7pm
https://www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com/products/further-from-festival-2026-robin-ince-thursday-26th-february-7-00pm
READING on Saturday 2pm
https://www.fourbearsbooks.co.uk/event-details/fourbears-fest-26-robin-ince-ice-cream-for-a-broken-tooth. #comedy #poetry

2026-02-21 20:30:40 UTC

I had a lovely time wandering about Norwich on my birthday #norwich #photography
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2026-02-13 12:14:21 UTC

A little poem for Lucifer - who can be found at the Birmingham City Art Gallery #art #sculpture #poetry #poem #birmingham
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2026-01-03 13:18:18 UTC

Looks like 2026 is the year I finally build that industrial cooling tower #architecture #technology #photography #books
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2025-12-13 12:43:58 UTC

Last night on stage , I announced my resignation from the Infinite Monkey Cage - here is my statement #science #radio #bbc
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2025-11-15 22:26:42 UTC

I have no idea how to build up followers here so I will keep guessing and until I do @nprofile…eyca @nprofile…jqr8 @nprofile…zfsr @nprofile…femk

2025-01-23 13:26:53 UTC

Hello, another platform - let me start with yesterday’s blog post about positive reading in negative times https://thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/godammit-youve-got-to-be-kind