What do I have in common with Vic Reeves? Yes, the comedy and a love of surrealism (I got a first in my French surrealism module at Keele Uni*). But now we have both had an exhibition at Northampton Art Gallery and Museum. Jim Moir’s painting exhibition is called Romans, Daisies, Ones and Twos. It
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Hello, and welcome to my latest roundup of news! First of all, I have been working hard on a couple of books, soon to be released into the wild. My Best of British Science Fiction series from Newcon Press is going strong, and the latest instalment will be launched on 9th August. You can preorder
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I just did my show Donna Scott: Weird Sense of Tumour last night at Leicester Comedy Festival, presented by Jokes on Us Free Festival. Thanks to Alex Hylton for his sterling efforts at running THREE comedy venues at the festival in addition to being a full time pub landlord on top of also being an
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I’ve just updated my See My Stuff page with all my Leicester Comedy Festival appearances so far, but with less than 2 weeks to go before my own full show Weird Sense of Tumour, now is time for the Big Push ahead of the night. Another thing that’s just like a baby then! I’ve put
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January 1st 2022 – how the heck am I still alive? I don’t mean that in the angsty way I used to do as a fifteen-year-old proto-goth: “Ay me, I shall never outlive Pre-Raphaelite supermodel Lizzie Siddall…. I have foreseen…” No, I mean that recently things literally keep trying to do me in. Albeit slowly
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First of all, apologies for interrupting your day with yet more awesome news, hot on the heels of No More Heroes being available to pre-order. But I have yet more book news. Yes, your eyes do not deceive you for the cover featured above is indeed the promised artwork by the very talented Alex Storer
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It has been a horrible start to the year. My Dad, who was very frail, died of Covid in January. Of course, Dad didn’t used to be frail. He used to be fighting fit before suffering a traumatic brain injury at work a few years ago, after which he had multiple strokes. Then, Alzheimer’s started
It’s November, and Lockdown 2 (aka Lockdown2: This Time it’s Ineffectual) has meant that Nottingham Comedy Festival, already compounded by Nottingham being moved into tier 3, is not only cancelled, it is double cancelled as we have all moved into tier 4 now. We have shut that stable door after the horse has bolted, and
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August 15th, i.e. today, is the one year anniversary of my surgery to remove Eric the enormous tumour, and this event has rather unfortunately scribbled itself in the calendar of my brain in Sharpie over the other thing that I always used to think of on this date, my nephew’s birthday. Sorry, Mitchell… if it
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