Haven’t seen this for a while!! It was brilliant to have the whole thing taken so seriously by BBC. Hilarious
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Haven’t seen this for a while!! It was brilliant to have the whole thing taken so seriously by BBC. Hilarious
I can’t work out why the defunct publishers didn’t just crowdfund the debt owed to the authors from their mates, by working like dogs to persuade generous people to help out, you know like the authors did in the first place to raise the money that was stolen.
Tacchi Morris Taunton October 17 Young Once see you there
Never Judge a Bookshop by its Cover It may call itself a bookshop, but don’t be fooled by that. There may be books in the window, on the tables and shelves, but really, it’s a travel agent selling all-immersive holidays, weekend breaks, first-class tickets to other worlds, with a low carbon footprint. It’s a pharmacy as well, dispensing medicines, pick-me-ups, balms: if symptoms persist, please consult your local bookseller; it’s a tailor’s, offering a made-to-measure service to achieve the perfect fit; and a hardware store, with a range of empowering tools to fix you up, recharge your batteries, switch on lightbulbs. Its walls are lined with treasure as precious as any jeweller’s, and twice as bright. Spines shine gold, silver, sapphire, emerald; there are diamonds amongst them. It’s a garden centre, a place where ideas get planted and a thousand stories bloom, and a greengrocer, selling fresh, locally-sourced produce, as vital as your five-a-day and more readily consumed.
It’s a multiscreen cinema. Peek behind the curtain of each jacket and you’ll find a movie waiting silently to begin. A stationer’s supplying notepads, reams of paper, with the words conveniently filled in to save you both the time and bother. A wholefood store and a fast-food joint. A cosy haven from the cold. A friendly, family restaurant: Today’s special will revive a flagging spirit and restore a lagging soul. It’s a tourist information centre equipped with maps and helpful guides to steer us on our way. A busy square in which a whole town gathers or just a place to hold the world at bay for a few untroubled stolen minutes. It’s itself, and yet it’s something larger, a universe so vast you could spend ten thousand lifetimes there – it may call itself a bookshop, but don’t be fooled by that. Brian Bilston
It’s Bookshop Day so here’s a poem in celebration of all those amazing bookshops out there.
Hope you have a great launch on 4th October!
Looking forward to seeing.you @ Off The Self in Sheffield xx
Guys, you don't understand. I've got something real scary to lay on you, okay, so, like, sit down.
I managed to get a signed one 😀
@nigelplaner1.bsky.social ✌️
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It's Saturday it must be Mannington Book Fest in Norwich and I get to meet Adam Buxton! Huzzah!
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It's Saturday it must be Mannington Book Fest in Norwich and I get to meet Adam Buxton! Huzzah!
That @herring1967.bsky.social has made me buy another book! This time it’s @nigelplaner1.bsky.social‘s Young Once. 🙄🤔🙂
@herring1967.bsky.social smashes is again with the wonderful @nigelplaner1.bsky.social interview! I’ve just purchased Young Once and can’t wait to get stuck in 😎
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Thanks Clare
@nigelplaner1.bsky.social really enjoyed the show tonight!
Off to Morecambe poetry fest this Saturday. Pleased to be invited by Henry Normal. Going to have a really good time, some of our poems may even rhyme. Others won’t of course. url:https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Lancaster/Morecambe-Winter-Gardens/Henry-Normal--Nigel-Planer/41286476/
Just been fed an ad for a film where the cast talk about how wonderful the adaptation of the book is, and where everyone says that the magic starts with the script, but no mention of the writer’s name (a mate).
Carry, on, you weird disjointed star-wank industry, and don’t you DARE go changing!
Someone left a cake out in the rain
Here's a little video with a song I made with my brother Rog, sort of homage to Nick Drake, recorded recently, written fifty years ago!
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#psychedlicfolk #nigelplanermemoir #youngonce
Front cover of Nigel Planer's new book!
SIGNED BOOK NEWS!
🎵Once in every lifetime.
Comes a book like this🎵
"Young Once", the new memoir by the amazing Nigel Planer
@nigelplaner1.bsky.social
It's out in September.
And we'll be getting SIGNED COPIES.
You can pre-order one HERE.
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Groovy!
Here's a little video with a song I made with my brother Rog, sort of homage to Nick Drake, recorded recently, written fifty years ago!
youtube.com/watch?v=mxa2Ct…
#psychedlicfolk #nigelplanermemoir #youngonce
Today's bit of niceness... @nigelplaner1.bsky.social and his brother Roger are recording the songs they wrote in the very early 1970s and good grief, this a lovely bit of Witchseason-friendly acid-folk.
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Front cover of Nigel Planer's new memoir "Young Once"
🎵Once in every lifetime.
Comes a book like this🎵
"Young Once", the new memoir by the amazing Nigel Planer
@nigelplaner1.bsky.social is out in September.
And we'll be getting SIGNED COPIES.
Pre-order one HERE.
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
It'll weigh about 507g.
That's not heavy.
Here are the tour dates for September. YOUNG ONCE, I'll be reading from the memoir and talking about a whole "Life Less Heavee"
I’m off on a new book tour in September. Out of the frying pan into another frying pan!
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HENRY & BRIAN ARE COMING TO A VENUE NEAR YOU THIS MAY 🫵🏼🎙
"The Banksy of the poetry world" Brian Bilston and BAFTA award-winning writer, producer & poet Henry Normal are heading back on tour this May with dates across the country.
At last Neil sells out
As a valentine gift to my wife I’m going to be miles away in Yorkshire doing a special poetry gig with Henry Normal
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We’re going previous on the 13th, join us for the night before Valentine’s
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