Port Eliot festival

This Summer, I will be performing at a few events at the Port Eliot Festival, 23rd to 25th July. As the proud owner of ticket 001 purchased at the first Port Eliot festival, I have long harboured an ambition to perform there. I was booked to talk a few years ago but floods prevented my [...]

The Red Men script handover with Shynola

I met Shynola in the bar of the Phoenix on Charing Cross Road to pick up a copy of their script for The Red Men, delivered within a wrapper embossed with their redesign of the Monad logo. Everything within that wrapper was new to me, as I had no part in the process of turning [...]

Very short story competition - and I am a judge

The glorious Hilobrow.com are running a very short story competition, for which I am acting as a judge.

Readers are invited to submit a short-short (250 words maximum) story about a troubled/troubling superman or -woman.

Closing date is 5pm EST on Monday February 15th.

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Download The Dinner Party Wars by Matthew De Abaitua and West Norwood Cassette Library

The Dinner Party Wars by Matthew De Abaitua and West Norwood Cassette Library

For a limited time, my collaboration with the West Norwood Cassette Library is available to download free from Weird Tales For Winter. Yes, a free audiobook and soundscape collaboration: suck it off the net, stick it on your iPod and enjoy.

PS: The [...]

Will Self on Matthew De Abaitua

Ahead of our gig at the Brighton Komedia, Will Self gives an interview to the Brighton Argus about depression and his co-performer Matthew De [...]

Will Self’s Lugubrious Monday

Will Self and Matthew De Abaitua prepare to perform Lugubrious Monday at Komedia in [...]

The Future Human: Advertising at the Frontiers of Consciousness

I will be performing some of my theories and research in the areas of neuroscience and advertising at this event on February 10th at The Book Club in London.
Performing, not presenting: don’t come expect brain surgery, at least not from me. That will be supplied by the experts on the rest of the bill.

I really [...]

Jonny Mugwump's Weird Tales For Winter

Starting on midnight of the 25th January, Resonance FM will be broadcasting a series of specially-commissioned collaborations between writers and musicians, Weird Tales For Winter, curated by the incomparable Jonny Mugwump and including my own collaboration with the West Norwood Cassette Library, entitled The Dinner Party [...]

Coming soon: The Most Depressing Day of the Year

On the most depressing day of the year, January 25th, I will be accompanying Will Self for an evening’s improvised performance at the Komedia in [...]