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UK-based songwriter and broadcaster (b.1950). Rock Against Racism, Glad To Be LGBT+, Sometime DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music linktr.ee/tomrobinson

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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 23/09/2026
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
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I'll be back sitting in for Huw Stephens next month for another afternoon show on BBC 6 Music on Wednesday 7 October. Warm thanks to David P
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Mike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 19/09/2026
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
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 17/09/2026
Cat looking at rice fields near Asakusa, Colour woodblock print by Hiroshige (1857)
Cat looking at rice fields near Asakusa, Colour woodblock print by Hiroshige (1857)
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 10/09/2026
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 30/08/2026
There was an Old Man in a tree
Who was horribly bored by a Bee;
When they said, " Does it buzz?" 
He replied, "Yes, it does!
It's a regular brute of a Bee."
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 29/08/2026
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
I'm Tom Robinson. Back in the punk era I'd never have imagined I'd be opening a Welsh music festival at seventy-six. But on Friday the second of October, Adam Phillips and I play the first night of Cardiff Music City Festival — at Acapela Studio in Pentyrch, a converted chapel just outside the city. 50 years of songs, and the stories behind them. Showtime 8pm, tickets £30 at tomrobinson.com/cardiff
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 19/08/2026
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
Tom Robinson with Adam Phillps and very special guest Sister Ghost - Tuesday 29 September Garter Lane Arts Centre. Tickets EUR 24.68 from https://garterlane.ie
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 15/08/2026
Still makes me laugh...
 Cartoon in two frames: 1) drowning man shouts to his dog "Lassie! Get help!" 2) same dog talking and gesticulating as it lies on a psychiatrist's couch...
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 25/07/2026
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
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Chatting with Scott Makin chat on BBC North East 22.7.26
YouTube video by Tom Robinson
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 23/07/2026
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.
one-year-old infant with blond hair held up against the back of a seven year old boy with a bucket, sitting on a sandy beach near the sea
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 20/07/2026
Remember him this way... #KevinKeegan #1979 . Photo Eamonn McCabe.
Kevin Keegan in action in 1979. Photo Eamonn McCabe.
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 19/07/2026
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."
Picture of Alan Bennett from the cover of his recent book Enough Said
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/07/2026
I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 14/07/2026
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_....
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BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, George Lyward
Tom Robinson explains how educationalist George Lyward saved his life.
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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 03/07/2026
Ten random snaps found on my telephone
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 27/06/2026
Cartoon by Andrew Birch rom the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Cartoon by Andrew Birch of the usual free Wise monkeys with an added fourth monkey angrily throwing away its Mobile phone.
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 26/06/2026
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..
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 24/06/2026
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.
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 24/06/2026
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?
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 23/06/2026
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
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 22/06/2026
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?...
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Etude Op 25, No 9 "Butterfly" by Chopin
YouTube video by Lynden Wu
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 22/06/2026
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..."
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 21/06/2026
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to fellow dads everywhere... xx
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 06/06/2026
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
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 02/06/2026
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.
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 31/05/2026
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...
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6Music Birthday Show + Noodle Bar on Thursday | Tom Robinson
6Music Birthday Show + Noodle Bar on Thursday by Tom Robinson on Patreon. Join Tom Robinson's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 24/05/2026
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...
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 24/05/2026
Good morning Summer...
Woodland glade and path, with early morning sun glimpsed through the trees
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 23/05/2026
Barnes from across the Thames...
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 20/05/2026
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Sign the petition: End Factory Farming
Factory farming is industrial-scale animal cruelty. Millions of animals are bred to grow unnaturally fast, confined so tightly they cannot move freely, and processed through mechanised systems where s...
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 15/05/2026
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
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playing three trumpets at the same time
YouTube video by George Collier
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 13/05/2026
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...
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 13/05/2026
Dainty dining for dogs...
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 06/05/2026
Went to an #olderqueervoices event at Westminster with #LeeForsythGriffiths yesterday. Photo by @josephgall.bsky.social
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 28/04/2026
*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...
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M 💓🇺🇸🗽🌊🌈✨🧘‍♀️ @liveadivinelife.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
NPR received $113 million in donations after losing federal funding, including $80 million from Connie Ballmer, wife of former Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer "I support NPR because an informed public is the bedrock of our society, & democracy requires strong, independent journalism” #SheShed
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Wife of Former Microsoft CEO Gifts NPR One of Its Biggest Donations in History
Connie Ballmer, philanthropist and wife of former Microsoft CEO, donated $80 million to National Public Radio
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 21/04/2026
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...
11 Jun SUTTON - Sound Lounge [solo]
12 Jun STOWMARKET - JPC [with TV Smith]
13 Jun NEWCASTLE/LYME - Rigger [solo]
14 Jun STANLEY - White Room SOLD OUT
14 Jul MENEN (BE) - CC De Steiger
15 Jul NIEUWKERKEN-WAAS (BE) - Vlasbloem
04 Aug BLACKPOOL - Viva [matinee show]
05 Aug COATBRIDGE - Georgian Hotel
06 Aug EDINBURGH - Voodoo Room
07 Aug STOCKTON - ARC
08 Aug HULL - Wrecking Ball Arts
23 Aug HENLEY - Rewind [short guest set]
24 Sep MANCHESTER - Hallé at St Michael's
25 Sep COLCHESTER - Arts Centre
27 Sep DUBLIN - Whelans
28 Sep KILKENNY - Cleere's
29 Sep WATERFORD - Garter Lane
30 Sep BANGOR - The Court House
02 Oct CARDIFF - Pentyrch Acapela
03 Oct HAVANT - Pallant Centre
04 Oct BATH - Komedia
22 Oct LONDON - PizzaExpress Live
23 Oct LONDON - PizzaExpress Live SOLD OUT
24 Oct BIRMINGHAM - MAC
25 Oct SHOREHAM - Ropetackle Arts 
22 Nov CAMDEN - Electric [solo]
06 Dec EXETER - Phoenix
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 19/04/2026
From the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social No. 1673
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
He’s not the problem…
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 18/04/2026
Gutted to hear of Andy Kershaw's passing. A memorable broadcast journalist for #BBCRadio4's #FromOurOwnCorrespondent, the #TodayProgramme & #TheWorldTonight, Andy reported from the 1994 #Rwanda genocide, the #Angola civil war in 1996, #SierraLeone in 2001 and repeatedly from #Haiti.
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 17/04/2026
Escher's Ants On A Möbius Strip... still freaks me out 😬
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 16/04/2026
Dr Donald Trump famously posted this AI image to Truth Social on April 13. MAGA influencer Nick Adams first posted it in Feb, framing it as the POTUS "healing a sick America". Trump's since deleted the post, but in case you'd like a 1500x1100 copy for your archives...
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 14/04/2026
CALLING STOCKTON: ARC show added to 2026 Tom Robinson live dates www.patreon.com/posts/new-sh...
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 13/04/2026
CALLING FLANDERS: Tom Robinson with Adam Phillips live at KC De Vlasbloem, Nieuwkerken Waas (Sint Niklaas) on 15 July 2026. Tickets: bit.ly/TR26Vlasbloem
Then & Now: Tom Robinson with Adam Phllips Woensdag 15 Juli 2026 20:00 https://devlasbloem.be
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 08/04/2026
CALLING BLACKPOOL: special acoustic afternoon show on Tuesday 4th August in the run-up to #RebellionFestival Honoured to be sharing a stage with #TheWildhearts #KirkBrandon #SteveDrewett and #DaveSharp. Tickets & info: bit.ly/TR2026Blackp...
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
tech people used to tell optimistic stories
The scene is ALEX KARP, CEO of Palantir, sat in an armchair by a fireside with an open children's book. His hair is wild, his stare intense, his eyes shifting round the room. The comic has many panels of silence where he just stares at us intensely.

[Silent pause]

[Silent pause]

ALEX KARP:

Hi there.

I'm Alex Karp.

CEO of Palantir.

[Silent pause. Shifty eyes]

[Silent pause]

And if you're an enemy of America something really bad is going to happen to you.

And your friends and your cousins and your parents

And you need to go to bed scared and wake up scared

[Waving his arms around now]

Because the American people don't wanna hear your woke pagan ideology anymore

And you need to know that this technology will take power from educated female voters and -

VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE 
Alex...

ALEX KARP:
Huh

[Pull wider to show that this is in fact the set of the CBEEBIES BED TIME STORY and a CBEEBIES PRODUCER is talking to him from next to a camera operator].

CBEEBIES PRODUCER:
This is the Cbeebies Bedtime Story

[The book Alex is supposed to be reading is on a screen. It is titled: THE TECH BRO AND THE MAGIC BUBBLE]


ALEX KARP:
I could destroy you

CBEEBIES PRODUCER:
Sorry

[Ends]
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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 06/04/2026
Great news - just found out the mighty Gideon Coe is on BlueSky @gidcoe.bsky.social Morning, Gid - hope you're well - thanks for the follow!
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