New tour booked by me 🙃🎩 Such a joy to work with these two. Immersion are Colin Newman (Wire) & Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact) and together they make beautiful, hypnotic electronic music with a hook! Tickets on sale today linktr.ee/immersiontic...

It’s a Terminal Cheesecake kinda day

Such a brilliant weekend playing Mach Comedy Festival & Loopfest in Shrewsbury. Drumming really is my therapy 🥁

STAGE SHIRTS ASSEMBLE!! The Nightingales play two festivals this weekend - Machynlleth Comedy Festival today & Loopfest in Shrewsbury on Sunday. Hopefully see some of ya out there ⭐️

Ted Chippington & The Nightingales hit Ireland!! Looking forward to heading back to some favourite spots where the good Guinness flows. Tell yer mates for us! thenightingales.org.uk/live

Back on the oss! This Saturday Nightingales play Mach Comedy Fest … after Robert tells Stewart Lee jokes at 2pm (yes, this is actually happening) Then Loopfest Shrewsbury this Sunday & later in May we head out on an Irish run w/Ted Chippington. All dates & tickets : www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Nightingales go nuts in May ! Some festivals, a run of Irish gigs and the return of Ted Chippington. Tickets : www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Happy to reveal we will be Teenage Fanclub’s special guests at The Crossing in Birmingham on November 20th. Tickets on sale Friday April 24th at 10am at moseleyfolk.co.uk

Dreamt of this day. PEACHES BABY !!!

The great Fall alumni HOUSE Of ALL head out on tour today - all booked by me 🙃 catch ‘em if you can linktr.ee/thefallconti...

Alexander Hacke - BLAST: Distorted Memories at Walthamstow Trades Hall Sunday 5 April 📕 #EinsturdzendeNeubaten @flisskitson.bsky.social

On Thursday April 9 I’ll be doing an in conversation with Alexander Hacke (Einsturzende Neubauten) about his brilliant new memoirs in Manchester : tickets from dice.fm/event/wwe3bx...

Ba-dum-tish! Nightingales hit Machynlleth Comedy Festival ! We’ll be there on Saturday May 2nd playing the big top stage (free) PLUS Robert will be telling Stewart Lee old jokes at 2PM in the main hall (ticketed) machcomedyfest.co.uk/show/2026/jo...)

Alexander Hacke (former Einsturzende Neubauten) has announced his memoirs 'Blast' and UK book tour louderthanwar.com/alexander-ha... via @louderthanwar

Join Alexander at this UK Book tour in April linktr.ee/AlexanderHacke @thequietus.com

Wonderful time at Louder Than War festival yesterday - well done @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social and all! Smiles all round for House Of All & Immersion !

NIGHTINGALES & TED CHIPPINGTON REUNITED We’ll be sipping the good Guinness, playing 4 Irish dates with good mate Ted Chippington this May PLUS pulling up to Bearded Theory Festival together. Waterford is already SOLD OUT get booked in for Galway, Dublin & Belfast www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Book in for Alexander Hacke’s - of Einstürzende Neubauten - UK book tour next month! A true polymath that has been breaking boundaries in music for over four decades!! 🛒 Tickets linktr.ee/AlexanderHacke @muterecords.bsky.social

Lily Allen 🩷 New album theatre show … simply wonderful. Oh if only we could all vent our true feelings of bad breakups and horrid people via best selling records hey?

FIN! Wow, what a brilliant tour. Wonderful to be back together on the road again, had much fun on and off stage. A lot of work to make this happen so I’m made up with the packed out shows! Lovely to see friends along the way … this particular tour was very important to me for lots of reasons 🩷 🥁

The Nightingales play Edinburgh TONIGHT at the Voodoo Rooms! Doors 7.30 / Terry Edwards 8 / Gales 9. Final tickets : tickets-scotland.com/t5146 @scotspostpunk.bsky.social @creepingbent.bsky.social @neilcooper.bsky.social

Woo back at the Trades Club tonight with The Nightingales. Sold out, message for any returns x

TONIGHT we make our return to the Trades Club w/ special guest Thomas Truax. Sold out, contact venue for any returns

Happy happy days after a storming show in Brum last night - Nightingales in Sheffield tonight SOLD OUT

@nightingalesuk.bsky.social on top form tonight at the C&F Brum. Loved Jim’s riffage and @flisskitson.bsky.social’s beats and for me the highlight was Natalie as an equal and energetic member. Her voice complemented Fliss’s and her viola brings a new dimension to the band’s sound. Wunderbar!

Nightingales tour continues tonight at London MOTH Club & it’s just about to sell out so hurrah for that!

Nightingales Tour day 4/11 tonight we play Cambridge Portland Arms - early show Thomas Truax 6.30 / Nightingales 7.30

The Nightingales tour continues tonight in Ramsgate ! www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Me & @brumradio.com having a chat about The Nightingales tour, last album and playing Birmingham next Wednesday 🥳 brumradio.com/the-nighting...

STAGE SHIRTS ASSEMBLE!! The Nightingales UK tour starts today! Hope to see you out there ⭐️ Final tickets : www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Why am I getting Americans who don’t follow me sharing and liking my posts about gigs in the UK?! Anyone else? It’s all a bit Twitter

I’m going to post about our *FEB 25TH BIRMINGHAM* date here again because it’s where I live and only a few tickets to go now. To have your support here in particular will be really special to us … and I have no guestlist left 🎟️ www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Bir... @thisistmrw.bsky.social

Not long now! We haven’t done this in a while … really hope to see you out there 🩷 www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

A magical day for the premier screening of ‘Melt It!’ a film about the legendary comedy act ICE MAN … his set was an attempt to melt a block of ice in 20mins Fantastic & I can’t wait to see its journey from here. Keep an eye out ! @wringham.bsky.social

Oooh arrr it appears to be FRIDAY again! Why are we together every bloody Friday you ask? Working hard getting the set sorted for our gigs in two weeks and it’s sounding delicious so don’t let us down … get yer arse to a gig!! Down the hatch you lovely lot www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Booked my first book tour! Very excited to have been asked to work with Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten and combine the worlds of literature and music 🪄 Alexander’s book ‘Blast’ out in English on March 20th Tickets on sale Friday linktr.ee/AlexanderHacke

Bam! Gripped by all 640 pages (!) … spurred on by the library notification that 4 people were waiting for it 🫠 Fantastic book

BRUMMIES UNITE ! A rare hometown show & a night of top entertainment in store on Feb 25th at the Castle & Falcon. Come out and support your own www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Bir...

Wreckless Eric’s miniature guitar paintings !

Going through my ‘film recs’ list on my notes. I do need to write names next to them from now on. Just watched The Coffee Table which was all kinds of horrid 😢😞 BUT yesterday watched Another Round & that really was true greatness

Back rokin’ with The Nightingales next month. 10 dates in some towns and cities we haven’t been to for a long time, all booked by me 🙃 It’s been a good while so come out come out wherever you are, you never know when yr next Nightingale fix is gonna come www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

& the Jackdaw With Crowbar afternoon show at my local certainly did not disappoint ! !

Hebden Bridge is now SOLD OUT. Don’t snooze and lose www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Well, well, well … turns out Jackdaw With Crowbar are playing my local this afternoon and it’s FREE!

Carrying on whatever ‘they’ say … with our first headline tour in 3+ years next month AND our first as the new five piece PLUS a bit of a belated celebration of a record we never got to tour Tickets at the ready please friends, we’re on the home straight now : www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

A snowed in bonus is that I now have a house kit !! A good looking, full size electronic kit 😮 … didn’t even know that was a thing & I am very happy with her 🖤 Dusting off the cobwebs for the Gales tour in Feb 🕸️

BACK IN BUSINESS!!! For the first time in 3+years us Nightingales are on tour in February AND we have a new member, Natalie, who is really bloody great! A few of these gigs are on the home straight now so best get on it 🎟️ www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

Magic weekend at Rockaway Beach Festival! Didn’t really take photos of any of the bands - oop! Was a mixed bag for me but a couple of real stormers such as PIL / Blackgold / Moonlandingz & Gans I danced A LOT at the silent disco 🪩 Great to see so many familiar faces too ✌️

Hello Bognor @rockawaybeach.bsky.social

Soundtrack to my Boxing Day