robin ince

The pick of this week’s music gigs.

The low-down on the first night of this Notting Hill festival – in dialogue form.

One of the best festival line-ups we’ve seen in a while.

Robin Ince once again curates an excellent night of intelligent comedy: can he and his guests find an activity better than reading?

The London Word Festival returns! With excellent guests (Alan Moore, anyone?), inventive and immersive performances, witty and intelligent ideas, and a Scrabble tournament.

A host of comedy names, including Richard Herring, Barry Cryer, Shazia Mirza and Arthur Smith, debate comedy at the British Library, plus two nights of stand up.

If you were ever curious about life, the universe and everything, Robin Ince and friends may be able to help out as they bring their science tour to London in May.

The release of Aung San Syu Kyi this week caused widespread euphoria. But, as Amnesty International remind us, there are still at least 2,200 political prisoners in Burma. Helping to keeping them in the spotlight, the Islington and Hackney Amnesty International group host “Another Joke …

Just being in the same room as Robin Ince raises your IQ by about 20 points. He talks of Wittgenstein and evolution and makes passing gags about Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, but in a way that includes and embraces rather than snots about your lack of …

Robin Ince‘s Book Club used to be a staple of the comedy circuit – Ince would read from whatever awful volume he’d picked up that month, and other comedians had the freedom to do things they might not get away with in a full set. …