Happy springtime! That most insanely stressful time of my year, thanks to the Bath Comedy Festival, now entering its... what? 8th year you say? That sounds about right, and I've put together shows for all of them. In fact, thanks to working on my first book at the time, I'd semi-retired from performing when the…
ISIRTA: AGAIN! #2
Well, what a treat, above all. That’s the main thing to take away from Offstage Theatre’s live tribute to the wonders of I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again – how lucky we all were that they put that show together, and those of us who were born long after the last proper episode of ISIRTA…
ISIRTA: AGAIN! #1
This was something I wasn't going to write about until after I had actually seen the show, but that does seem slightly stupid if there's the slightest chance this can encourage more folk to buy tickets and join in the fun... But, back in my first book, THE CLUE BIBLE, in which I managed to…
THE FROOD: FIT THE FINAL?
This month The Frood is excitingly relaunched in paperback form – which, after all, was always the natural format for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, from its first release. This is a completely updated, fine-tuned edition, which will hopefully spread Douglas Adams' incredible, improbable, never-holistically-told-before story further than ever, and see this Hitchhiker celebration…
Magazine Scraps #3 – #GE2015: THE VIDEOGAME.
I'm not sure what it is about early May and these Magazine-themed entries (just over a year since Magazine Scraps #2), but in trying to find an analogy to suit my dismay at recent events in the UK, gaming seemed to provide the most holistically pleasing answer. This reminded me that, as a writer, my roots…
BATH COMEDY FESTIVAL 2015: The Party’s Over
Waking up on Bank Holiday Monday after a week of frenetic activity for the Bath Comedy Festival has felt a little like being Wile E. Coyote several yards over a cliff edge, with no ground beneath. Back to the workaday author's world, of staring at email Sent boxes lighting candles and praying to the God…
BATH COMEDY FESTIVAL 2015
The Bath Comedy Festival originally took me by surprise, when it kicked off several years ago. For a while, I felt like I was the only person in the city running any kind of local comedy scene, with The Unrelated Family sketch shows (there was Mirth Control, but this tended to be very catholic stand-up…
2014: A Hitchhiker Odyssey & ENDPAPERS
2014: A STRANGELY ADAMSIAN YEAR. This year has had one overwhelmingly apparent theme for me – it was the year that I all-but unwittingly became the official Douglas Adams biographer, and raider of the Adams archives. The honour of this will probably hit me a few minutes before I die. But I was far from…
THE FROOD: Fit The Fifth
THE FROOD – Fit The Fifth First things first – come along to a very special BFI DOUGLAS ADAMS & HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE RETROSPECTIVE on Sunday 14th December! There shall be rare material and cosplay and Trillian and GargleBlasters and fun! More details follow... One of these froods is hoopier than the other – me and the…
THE FROOD: Fit The Fourth
THE FROOD: Fit 1 Fit 2 Fit 3 GETTING THE HANG OF THURSDAYS 15 months is a long time in publishing. It's an excruciatingly long time in politics. And is also quite a bit of a wait in the fields of medicine, confectionary, and professional equestrianism. For me personally, it's the time between sitting down to suggest to…
