Tom Robinson

ONE SPARE TICKET FOR BRUM THIS SATURDAY is being offered free by Paul Barker on Facebook - see www.facebook.com/tomrobinsonm...

TRB DUO COMING TO BRUM: Tom Robinson plays MAC Birmingham with lead guitarist Adam Phillips. Expect Motorway, Up Against The Wall, Too Good To Be True and The Winter of '79 - plus 80s hits like War Baby & Listen To The Radio. Starts 8pm w/short set from guest Joel Bailey. See tomrobinson.com/mac

Tim Walker’s Fairyland is an exploration of queer identity, community & love at the National Portrait Gallery. It starts with 70s UK queer pioneers in the style of Holbein the Younger, including Olivette Cole-Wilson, Andrew Lumsden, Lisa Power and...er, me.

CALLING THE SOLENT AREA - if anybody's at a loose end this evening (Sat 3 Oct) and fancies a free night out, we have a couple of spare places on tonight's guest list at The Pallant Centre in Havant. Just ping me an email via the link at tomrobinson.com/hello if you want to come x

What's The Story is a feature on Steve Lamacq's 6 Music shows exploring a pivotal moment in the career of a favourite artist. Last Mon he featured 2468 Motorway: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rcs... SHOWS Fri 2 CARDIFF bit.ly/TR2026Cardiff Sat 3 HAVANT bit.ly/TR2026Havant Sun 4 BATH bit.ly/TR2026Bath

TOUR NEWS + RADIO/VIDEOS/INTERVIEWS etc www.patreon.com/TomRobinsonM... 24 Sep MANCHESTER 25 Sep COLCHESTER 27 Sep DUBLIN 28 Sep KILKENNY 29 Sep WATERFORD 30 Sep BANGOR (NI) 02 Oct CARDIFF 03 Oct HAVANT 04 Oct BATH 22, 23 Oct LONDON 24 Oct BIRMINGHAM 25 Oct SHOREHAM 27 Oct LONDON 06 Dec EXETER

A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂

CALLING MANCHESTER: Thursday's gig is at HALLÉ ST MICHAELS, a gorgeous old church in the Northern Quarter, just 5 mins walk from Piccadilly Gardens. Adam and I are joined by our mate, Moston legend Lee Forsyth Griffiths playing a rare hometown set. Don't miss it - he's on at 8pm! tomrobinson.com/mcr

Cat looking at rice fields near Asakusa, Colour woodblock print by Hiroshige (1857)

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50 years ago I never imagined I'd be opening a Welsh music festival at age 76. But my gig with Adam at Acapela Studio, Pentyrch is now opening the first night of Cardiff Music City Festival on Friday 2 Oct and we'd love you to join us. Pizza from 6.30pm, showtime 8pm £30 tomrobinson.com/cardiff

IRELAND Sep 2026: two shows already sold out on my mini-tour with Adam Phillips and Sister Ghost. Sun 27 DUBLIN - Whelan's Mon 28 KILKENNY - Cleere's [SOLD OUT] Tue 29 WATERFORD - Garter Lane Arts Wed 30 BANGOR - Court House [SOLD OUT] Tickets: tomrobinson.com/gigs

Still makes me laugh...

youtu.be/KmiL_dQ0KjY?... The lovely Scott Makin hosts the afternoon show on BBC radios Tees and Newcastle. He chatted with me this week about my upcoming show at STOCKTON ARC with Adam Phillips on Friday 7 Aug. Details of all my upcoming shows this year tomrobinson.com/gigs

My brother Matthew is based in Cambodia, but visiting the UK to celebrate his 82nd birthday this Monday. Here we are on Cromer Beach, I think, circa 1951.

Remember him this way... #KevinKeegan #1979 . Photo Eamonn McCabe.

From Alan Bennett's recent diary collection, Enough Said: "A call from Radio 4 from my views on assisted dying. Answer - too near to the unassisted type to be keen on it."

I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.

From BBC Radio 4 in 2012 - remembering the great educationalist George Lyward www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... who founded Finchden Manor. Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_....

Ten random snaps found on my telephone

Cartoon by Andrew Birch rom the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social

The Warming Stripes by Professor Ed Hawkins, University of Reading @edhawkins.org. Graphic representing the changes in global temperature from 1850 to the present day. Each stripe represents a year, with blues for colder years and reds for hotter years. Please share & discuss with family & friends..

More woke nonsense from the BBC... If only they could get back to the values of the good old days just after the war... oh wait.

Trying to identify a piece of instrumental light music I remember BBC Dance orchestras playing on the Light Programme's Music While You Work show in the early-mid 1950s. I stil remember the melody - plonked out here on one finger piano. Anyone else out there old enough to be able to help?

My first band met when we lived on Teesside - our ambition was to play Boro Town Hall. Playing Stockton 50 yrs later feels close to home. Expect songs from Rock against Racism, encounters with Eddy and Elton, new tunes, old jokes & outstanding guitar from Adam Phillips. See tomrobinson.com/gigs

Heard this 66 second Chopin etude on R4's Broadcasting House yesterday. But you sort of need the visuals, so here it is played by ridiculously gifted amateur pianist Lynden Wu: youtu.be/ReU3v5vK_Oc?...

My firstborn just texted me saying: "sorry I didn't get you a card yesterday but I had seen this one I would've done..."

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to fellow dads everywhere... xx

It's the 82nd anniversary of the D-day landings in 1944. If people then had looked back 82 years for something to celebrate, it would have taken them to 1862. The year of Victor Hugo's Les Mis, the invention of the Gatling Gun, and escalating carnage in The American Civil War. #enoughalready

A good time to revist this oldie from W1A... BBC Director of Better - job introduction. The Establishment of a Director of Better represents a turning point to the BBC by placing the idea of betterness at its core going forward and beyond.

6MUSIC BIRTHDAY SHOW MONDAY 1st JUNE + NEW NOODLE BAR THIS THURSDAY... I'mon BBC 6 Music tomorrow (Monday June 1st) for one afternoon only from 4-7pm. Then Adam and I are doing a livestream for Noodle Bar subscribers on Thursday 4 June from 8.30pm. For full post see: www.patreon.com/posts/6music...

Posted on Inastagram this weekend by Ben Johns www.instagram.com/ben_johns/. The sudden discovery that the village he grew up in is no longer a place where he can walk the street in safety has clearly been devastating...

Good morning Summer...

Barnes from across the Thames...

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I don’t know about you, but around this point in the week, I do like to watch Gunhild Carling playing 3 trumpets at once youtu.be/z83ahy2vRbU

Don't miss Kongo Dia Ntotila showcasing their new album Moving Fire live in London on Saturday, May 23 at The Jago, Dalston. Soundtrack is School Of Rumba from the new album: phenomenal musicianship married to life-affirming energy. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kdn-moving...

Dainty dining for dogs...

Went to an #olderqueervoices event at Westminster with #LeeForsythGriffiths yesterday. Photo by @josephgall.bsky.social

*NOODLE BAR TONIGHT 8.30PM* Free livestream with Adam Phillips and myself. Available to all members of Patreon community including everyone on our free tier... sign up here www.patreon.com/c/TomRobinso... and hopefully we'll see some of you this evening...

2026 TOUR DATES: acoustic power duo shows with Adam Phillips - see tomrobinson.com/gigs for box office links and more info. See Alt Text for text version...

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