I've ordered it and hopefully my copy is in the post! Excited to read this! xx

Are you an experienced Project Coordinator? We’re looking for someone to support the delivery of our 3 year project ‘Cripping Culture: A Journey into Disability Arts Heritage’. 14 hours per week £32K FTE Hybrid (remote + Brighton & Hove) Apply by 8 Dec: disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...

Mamdani’s full acceptance speech below. It‘s worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKrr...

Happy HalloWEEEEEN everyone! This was from a show at The Double R Club, moons ago...Now, ONLY if yr over 18 & really like horror gore, check this short movie "Party Doll" we made a few years ago. It's nasty, you have been warned, but it's also Halloween, so enjoy! : vimeo.com/479131469?fb...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts94... Remembering NABIL SHABAN: Disability music festival, 1995 the reggae band I was in The Grateful Dub, Nabil guest sang "Working Class Hero". Starts at 3 mins; hear him wail and soar sonically as he'd done theatrically. It was great gig, so glad we did it. RIP Nabil xx

Check out RICHARD III, in the newest Play On Podcasts release adapted by Migdalia Cruz & set in San Francisco at the height of the Latin Punk movement. Directed by Lisa Rothe. For more info visit nextchapterpodcasts.com, or listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

We're looking for a General Manager - Maternity Cover to join our team until Oct 2026. This is a wide-ranging, thrilling job in a vibrant, creative office and is perfect for someone with a passion for theatre, a well-run system, equality & advocacy. Apply by Mon 20 Oct: graeae.org/recruitment/

⭐⭐⭐⭐ “...unapologetically campaigning theatre, demanding justice and accountability." The Guardian Thanks to @livetheatre.bsky.social for a brilliant opening of Bad Lads. Our tour continues to Theatre Royal Plymouth 15 - 18 October. Book tickets here: theatreroyal.com/whats-on/bad...

Happy Birthday to the amazing woman Sister Wife Mother that is Bimla Jackson! My Sister, so proud of you and all you have achieved and love you so much, your old bro Mat xx

I’m playing Richard in RICHARD III, the newest Play On Podcasts release from Next Chapter Podcasts! Directed by Lisa Rothe. For more info and to listen to Episode 1 of Richard III, visit nextchapterpodcasts.com or listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Playing Richard III again - Check out this trailer! I guarantee you have never heard Richard the Third trailed like THIS!! Click on "introducing ...Richard III " www.nextchapterpodcasts.com/playonpodcas...

Today the House of Lords begins its scrutiny of the assisted dying bill They've got the opportunity to prove their worth by doing a better and more honest job than MPs Me for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Londoners! It you're in the Waterloo area at lunch time and hungry, find this place on Lower Marsh, best falafel wraps I've ever had!!

If you like quaint daytime TV detective drama, you may enjoy "Sister Boniface", season 2 of which is available on BBC1 at 2pm on Fridays from this week. I pop up occasionally, playing Clem the local paper editor who thinks he's in Fleet St x

Going wild for Wigan!

U.K. MP Nadia Whittome posted this, I'm re posting her Facebook post. I agree with her!

The multi-talented Mat Fraser (@matfraser.bsky.social) on #C4News earlier, putting the boot into the welfare reform bill.

Londoners! Tomorrow, please show up if you can: www.notdeadyetuk.org/event-details

Back in London, with my most treasured coffee

Julie and me took a walk in the park before I went back to London

Corlears Hook Park looking good! More to come..

I know news coverage of benefit cuts can be distressing. So, I wanted to do something for readers. If you click on a Guardian news story, you’ll see a “drop box” of signposted mental health support as well as benefits advice. Please do share. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It disgusts beyond measure how Labour have betrayed us. Going Underground.

This is shocking. ITV reporting that even those with extreme disabilities in the unfit to work category are likely to lose money under new government plans. Charities have branded the move catastrophic

This is brilliant - made me laugh out loud more than once. #CripComedy #CripCoop Please share

Thanks Emily..."CripTales" was a great project, of 6 monologues written by disabled writers, for disabled actors, and directed by disabled directors. 2 of us wrote our own one, me and Jackie Hagan (RIP).

2025 OK! ONEOFUS Presents...."Buddies". I wrote & acted, with Tyler West, Hannah Nichols-Chia, who also directed & edited, with Maddie Carpenter being our DOP. Music by Mik Barker RIP. All made on phones, shot in Archbishop's Park, London in 2024 HOPE YOU ENJOY! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7eD...

My good friend Emily Goss has a great book out, about writing books. Check it out, then write a book! : www.amazon.co.uk/Write-Now-Yo...

Still unable to attach images to my posts here...can you see the pan of amazing dahl I just cooked?

Now, in 2024, I use a Roland TDK 30, and the sizes are irrelevant as you can assign any sound to any drum pads, but the configuration is similar. Less cymbals but you can get 2 sounds from them with diff pressure, and also assign separate sounds to drum rims, potentially doubling the amount of toms

I told you I was and am a drummer. Back in 1982, this was my drum kit. 8,10,12,14,15,16" toms, 6 inch deep snare, 10", 2 X 16" crash cymbal, 18 "ride, all 2nd hand, and an electric trigger on snare for sounds (hand claps etc)...I used this kit, which I LOVED, in "A Fear Of Sex", and "North"

Hmm, pic post didn't work, can't work out why, will come back to it later

While we settle into this place, see how it goes etc, a few pics for posting..I was recently in the USA, can you guess where this is?

Me from 2003's Edinburgh festival, when I was hosting The Whoopee Club burlesque show, the 1st and only one at the festival back then, though the Pontani Sisters from NYC were there that year too. 21 years ago! Saw this carousel wheel and used it for promo pics. Still have that jacket & shirt.

1st post! Hello everyone, going to be here as well as Tw ( for now, may leave them) and am building up my profile and contacts/connections/followers/following. My profile pic is not representative of how I usually look these days, that's more like this (pic near Death Valley 30.11.24).