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rock festivals update

Thanks to everyone who came to either of my sets at Glastonbury last weekend; for those of you who weren't there, I'm appearing at some more festivals over the summer:

At Latitude (15th-18th July) I'm recording The Now Show on the Thursday evening, then appearing in The Early Edition at lunchtime on the Friday and Sunday.

I'm appearing at the SO 2009 Festival in Skegness on July 24th.

On August 2nd I'm at The Big Chill at Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire.

On August 22nd I'm at Beautiful Days in Devon, then the next day (23rd) I'll be at The Green Man Festival in Brecon Beacons.

steve lamacq glastonbury interview

The interview I gave to Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music from Glastonbury on Saturday afternoon is available to hear on the BBC iPlayer until next Saturday (click here to listen; my bit starts about five minutes in).

The atheist's guide to christmas - available to pre-order

The Atheists's Guide To Christmas, a collection of essays and articles by the likes of Richard Dawkins, Charlie Brooker, Ben Goldacre, Richard Herring and, erm, me, is now available to pre-order from Amazon.  All proceeds go to the Terrence Higgins Trust.

download store now online - twitter ep available

I'm pleased to announce that I've launched my own download store in partnership with Corporation Records.  In addition to my commercially released albums I'll be using the store to make available exclusive and previously unreleased songs.

The first collection of these is The Twitter EP, a compilation of my Twitter-themed songs from the last series of The Now Show (including a guest appearance by Stephen Fry), plus a new song composed for the recent Twitter Comedy Club event.

twitter comedy night extra

If you've just linked here from Twitter Comedy, there's something for you on the Music Stuff page (look left).

Also, please visit my new download store, where you can get an exclusive Twitter EP  (featuring guest vocal by Stephen Fry).

Mitch benn & The distractions - London gig this thursday

Just a few days to go until Mitch Benn & The Distractions' show at the Udderbelly at the South Bank Centre; click here for details and tickets.

last go4it on iplayer

The final edition of BBC Radio 4's Go4it (to which I contributed) is now available to hear on the BBC iPlayer (click here); it'll be up until next Sunday (31st).

twitter comedy night

As you may already know, I'm taking part in the first ever Twitter Comedy Night; an online virtual "comedy club" in which nine comics, including myself, will deliver ten-minute sets via "tweets" (text messages of 140 characters or less).  How I'm going to get comedy songs to work in this format remains to be seen, but I'm sure I'll think of something.

go 4 it finale

I've recorded a bit for the last ever edition of BBC Radio 4's kids show Go 4 It.  It'll be on this Sunday (24th) at 7.15pm and available on the BBC iPlayer for seven days afterwards.

scottish mini-tour

I'm about to embark on a little mini-tour of Scotland, along with Stephen Grant and Daniel Sloss.  Click here or see the gigs page for details.

NB I'm a late replacement for Hal Cruttenden on this tour so some of the venues' websites still list him rather than me.