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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Big apologies but I've come down with a stinker of a cold with accompanying fever and won't be able to make the gig tonight in Norwich. We're looking into arranging another date in November. Sorry folks but I am f**&*£d

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Off to Cheltenham on Monday 12th October, to the Lit Fest, to talk about my Memwaaah, Young Once.

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Rambling shed is on holiday this week, so our episode is a repeat; but a belter, starring @nigelplaner1.bsky.social as well as our President Tony. Catch it again on Acast -> shows.acast.com/tony-slatter... Spotify-> open.spotify.com/episode/1ezX... Apple-> podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My ep of not going out is going out

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Edge Street Live @edgestreetlive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

WARNING, WARNING: TOURS INCOMING 🎟🎙 Edge Street Live is ready to take over theatres and live venues across the UK this Autumn 🙌 Coming up soon in 2026… 🕶 @johncooperclarke.bsky.social 🖤 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social 🎸 @daverowntree.bsky.social 📖 @brianbilston.bsky.social 📚 @henrynormalpoet

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Edge Street Live @edgestreetlive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🎭 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social Autumn Tour begins in Masham 🎭 Friday 4th September marks the start of Nigel’s autumn tour, and we’re thrilled to be welcoming him to Masham Town Hall 🫡 🎟️ Tickets are already running low, so don’t miss your chance to see Nigel live and grab yours via the 🔗 in bio

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Louder Than Words Festival @lthanwordsfest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Something to lighten a November evening! Over the moon to announce that @nigelplaner1.bsky.social will be joining us in conversation 6pm, Saturday 14th November at The Innside, Manchester. 'Young Once: A Life Less Heavy' All tickets and info: tinyurl.com/mud87sca

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Louder Than Words Festival @lthanwordsfest.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

70s RSC fans of Litz Pisk & Cis Berry will just *die* for the portrait of Cis Pizch, voice guru, which is indeed, pitch-perfect. 10m30s www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #NicholasCraig #IAnActor @nigelplaner1.bsky.social

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I, An Actor - 2. Importance - BBC Sounds

Nicholas Craig - the world's greatest actor – on critics and the 1970s

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Jem Roberts: Author &c. @jemroberts.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A seriously un-heavy evening in my old neighbourhood in BA2 with the heroic @nigelplaner1.bsky.social celebrating his triumphant memoir Young Once – “Just a damn fine actor!” (Yes, I brought my own book. There may turn out to be a reason.) ✌🏽

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Last poem in my new book “Travelling Light”

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

You wait years for your book to come out and then two come along at once. Fna fna fnaa! Travelling Light is my latest poetry collection.

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hi Heather, lm ok to do Radio Rotherham. In a couple of weeks though may have bit more time

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I wrote something that is occassionally a little critical of the tiny cohort of dodgy blokes who are pushing AI. I thought I'd get a lot of pushback, but it seems many agree.

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The 'AI is Garbage' argument,

Apparently I've had a kidney transplant

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AJ Walt @ajwalt.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Finished it just over a week ago (hard back version). Very good 👍. Hadn’t appreciated how many things you’d done!! Thank you.

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Mat Mckenzie @matmckenzie.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Mwah to your memwaaah 👌😀

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Out in paperback this week. Young Once, My memwaaah

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.

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Chopmunky @chopmunky.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I recently completed the audiobook of @nigelplaner1.bsky.social’s Young Once and I can’t recommend it enough. Joyful, funny, honest and beautiful. What a life lived (to date!).

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I am not interested in being a person on Instagram, doing collaborative posts with people or filming myself talking to the camera. I want to be a person who fucks off away from the noise and works hard and writes better and better books for the rest of his life and then dies. Why is that not ok?

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Paperback of Young Once, my memwaaa is out May 7th.

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

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.

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Tacchi Morris Taunton October 17 Young Once see you there

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

It’s Bookshop Day so here’s a poem in celebration of all those amazing bookshops out 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.

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Clare Mumford @claremumford.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Hope you have a great launch on 4th October!

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hev1981.bsky.social @hev1981.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Looking forward to seeing.you @ Off The Self in Sheffield xx

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Mat Mckenzie @matmckenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

tickettailor.com/events/themann… It's Saturday it must be Mannington Book Fest in Norwich and I get to meet Adam Buxton! Huzzah!

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

tickettailor.com/events/themann… It's Saturday it must be Mannington Book Fest in Norwich and I get to meet Adam Buxton! Huzzah!

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dominic-mcg @dominic-mcg.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

That @herring1967.bsky.social has made me buy another book! This time it’s @nigelplaner1.bsky.social‘s Young Once. 🙄🤔🙂

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Chopmunky @chopmunky.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

@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 😎 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rhl…

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ALT: a surprise sign is displayed in a room

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Clare Mumford @claremumford.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

@nigelplaner1.bsky.social really enjoyed the show tonight!

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

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/

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

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!

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Someone left a cake out in the rain

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

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

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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. biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie... Groovy!

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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. nigelplaner.bandcamp.com/track/back-o...

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Back Of The Q (New version), by Nigel Planer and Roger Planer are Planerbros

track by Nigel Planer and Roger Planer are Planerbros

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

🎵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.

Front cover of Nigel Planer's new memoir "Young Once"

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@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Here are the tour dates for September. YOUNG ONCE, I'll be reading from the memoir and talking about a whole "Life Less Heavee"

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