I wonder where she is…
In all the madness of the last four months, I’d forgotten a lady who turned up to my reading at the Pineapple in Kentish Town in late January. She arrived very early, came straight up to me, and said,...
View ArticleIs being a drunken expat ever a good idea?
I’ve just heard that my fellow Rutlander, Michelle Palmer, is to be deported from Dubai instead of being imprisoned for her on-beach shenanigans with fellow Brit Vince Acors. She will no doubt be...
View ArticleQuoted in the Guardian
A nice namecheck for Cleaning Up. Drastic Measures: Increasingly ashamed of her rare but mortifying drunken displays, Viv Groskop decided to seek help. She spoke to experts and reformed bingers in her...
View ArticleReview in the Independent
As above, the Cleaning Up paperback’s been reviewed in the Independent. Not bad at all, although I’ve come to realise that I don’t write books for reviewers. I could go down the road of fane wrayting,...
View ArticleInterviewed by PY Gerbeau for Radio 4, in the Coach & Horses
A week ago I was struck by one of those cold/flu mutants that is neither, but still lays you out for a few days. Despite that, I managed to drag myself out to the Coach & Horses in Soho on...
View ArticleReviewed in the Morning Star, Irish Tribune & Scottish Daily Record
A slap in the face for the big booze barons. It’s a positive review, but also contains the words: ‘Anyone with a drink problem who wants to find out how to kick it will not find what they need in its...
View ArticleIn the Guardian comment pages, suggesting the UK gives up drinking
Here I am in the Guardian CiF today, suggesting people give up drinking. No, I won’t be reading the comments, although there are 58 of them already! Stop press – I got 121 comments in all. Not bad...
View ArticleQuick phoner on the Vanessa Feltz show
Listen/download here: Talking live on the radio, on Vanessa Feltz (5.3 meg mp3) This was on the back of health secretary Alan Johnson’s remarks about teetotallers being pariahs.
View ArticleRecording of the Big Green Bookshop gig
Here’s me interviewed by Piers Gibbon at the Big Green Bookshop last week. (45 minutes long approx; NSFW.)
View ArticlePY Gerbeau interview audio
Here’s the audio of Calling Time On The Binge Drinkers, in which I appear near the beginning, and then later. Here’s the Radio Four page.
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