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Tom Robinson
@tomrobinson.com
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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 https://linktr.ee/tomrobinson
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So very sorry to hear of Chris Rea's passing. A fine artist & genuinely big-hearted human being. We first met in 1974 when he and my first band were managed by Teesside legend John McCoy. By 1994 Chris was an international star but played on my album Love Over Rage as a favour for a penniless mate.
December 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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For anyone in need of a daft three minute chuckle this weekend, here's Spike Milligan youtu.be/p-IU-NQ8c14
Spike Milligan - The Fresh Fruit Song
YouTube video by Spine Millington
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December 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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"Let me just get some proof of delivery"... cartoon by Martin Ross from @privateeyenews.bsky.social No.1665 - on newsstands now. An annual Private Eye subscription is £48 quid for 26 issues. www.subsonline.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Albums of the Year
hear tracks from exceptional albums of 2025

BBC 6 Music
Sunday 6-8pm
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Together for Palestine’s charity single LULLABY is out today 12th December. Let’s make compassion this year’s real winner and get Christmas #1 for Gaza’s children. Buying from Bandcamp will count towards the chart & pass on the maximum of your money:
togetherforpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/lullaby
Lullaby, by TOGETHER FOR PALESTINE, NAI BARGHOUTI, LEIGH-ANNE & NENEH CHERRY
2 track album
togetherforpalestine.bandcamp.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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From the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social cartoon by Dink: "Latest UK espionage report from LinkedIn: Colin Watkins has Mandy from Accounts in the Secret Santa".
December 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Episode 6 of the Tom Robinson Show on @amazingradio.com went out on Sat 6 Dec 2025 at 9pm. Rewind/Listen Again link: amazingradio.com/shows/the-to.... For full tracklist see Alt Text on picture...
Playlist: HENS BENS - Baby KATIE TUPPER - Right Hand Man HOT CON MUSIC - The Count Is Gone CATBEAR - Lullabies PHWOAR - Pleasure Island NIGHTMARES ON WAX ft GREENTEA PENG - I Remember OSCAR MIC - Mountain Melody Maker RRYRRY - Fanny Kaplan (At The Second Time Of Asking) PANIC SHACK - Thelma & Louise KING FLOOD - Everyday Kingdom THE MAGPIES - All Night PATCHE - Influence J.CHAMBERS - Liberation Ft Qyor KAHLLA - nose ring MASI MASI - The Cafe CIEL - Stay Along/Sail On CUSP Ft TOM A SMITH - Human Nature A FRIEND IN VILNIUS - Heartbeats GABBY RIVERS - Leave me alone IMARHAN - Tellalt BREN BERRY - I Love This City ANAMOE DRIVE - Diamond Effigy MAYSHE-MAYSHE - Island Garden SPARKLING - Nobody But You NORTHERN SKY - Walk In The Park BOX 5 - Hi There SAMUEL TAYLOR - I Just Hope WATERFALL - Feather STAY LUNAR - Pull the Rug BIRD - Lay Lady Lady CHRIS T-T - Bury Me With A Scarab WITH SUN - Shoebox TIDETIED - Deepfield WITCH - Nadi TB WIZZ AND THE DARK - My Delusions AUSTEL - The Beach In December DULL - Spilling ROBOCOBRA QUARTET - Wellness CH’LU - Sunt Româncă SAUL WILLIAMS - Before The War YAEL NAIM - Multicolor CUCAMELLO, SLIK P - These Streets SWANSEA SOUND - Not My Order NICK PARKER - Maison D'Etre HELLO MIDLANDS - Moon ARAB STRAP - Sociometer Blues JESSICA WILDE - Phenomenal Woman BLACK COUNTRY NEW ROAD - Good Will Hunting LAMIA - Angel NEWDAD - Angel HELLO COSMOS - Fuk Zuk GABY DUBOISJOLI x ŌKUBI - Je Veux Ton Feu LANDERIM - The Black Swarm
December 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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#TheRebelBear Instagram has even better pics of the new bronze pigeon atop The Duke www.instagram.com/p/DRIL7HlDOBN/
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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HEALTH HEART & HERNIA UPDATES / GABRIELLE SEY / PAUL WELLER / MAIL ORDER CDs / NEW RADIO SHOW / SOLD OUT GIGS... All the news that's fit to print in the latest TR newsletter - now online at mailchi.mp/tomrobinson/...
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Happy weekend everybody! If you would like to make it that little bit more joyful, do yourselves a favour and watch this video at least once: youtu.be/-tfH1nty62U
Ugly Nasty Commie Bitch (Official Video)
YouTube video by Carsie Blanton
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November 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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ARTISTS! BANDS! MUSIC FANS! Can you lend FOTN your ears & expertise this weekend to help some deserving artists find a wider audience? Please drop by the Listening Post & tell us your favourite tunes at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch591 Big love & warm thanks if you’re able to help x
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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UPDATE: finally got that hernia op last week. Now back home for rest & recovery for next 5 wks til Xmas. Then at the end of January it's back out on the road for 10 extra duo shows by popular demand. Winchester's sold out already, Cromer & Stourbridge going fast: full details at tomrobinson.com/gigs
THEN & NOW: Tom Robinson with Adam Phillips Jan 2026 21 NORWICH - Arts Centre 22 CROMER - Community Centre 23 HALESWORTH - The Cut 24 HARLOW - Victoria Hall Theatre 25 SUTTON - Sound Lounge 28 WINCHESTER - Railway [SOLD OUT] 29 WOKINGHAM - Music Club 30 LICHFIELD - The Hub At St Mary's 31 STOURBRIDGE - Katie Fitzgerald's Feb 2026 01 TROWBRIDGE - The Pump 20 OOSTERZELE - CC De Kluize For more gig info and box office links see Linktree on profile.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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The Tom Robinson Show returns to Amazing Radio tonight (Sat 22 Nov). Listen live from 9pm via amazingradio.com/onair or after broacast via Rewind link: amazingradio.com/shows/the-to...
Return of the Tom Robinson Show Saturday 22 Nov 2025 on Amazing Radio: EMILY BARKER - Machine THE TWILIGHT SAD - Waiting For The Phone Call FALSE ADVERTISING - The Sorry Window LECHANI - Enter The Sixth Alphabet HANNAH SANDERS & BEN SAVAGE - Magicians WILLIE DOWLING - Long Drop Down TEMPLE OF SHIBBOLETH - In The Shadow LUKE WHITE - Think Of You ROE - Lydia HANG LINTON - Broke HADDA BE - New to the Office ANIMAL NOISE - Baddow LOST CHIMES - Man Mother Boy RICHARD DAWSON - Two Halves Clean Edit HOLYSSEUS FLY - Anchors BEAR BEAT - Midama EMILY BARKER - White Geraniums TOM HOUSTON - Wishing For Snow MAAMI & THE LIPSTICK QUEENS - Woman Time TOM OC WILSON ft DUNCAN WALLIS - Armchair ALEXANDRA LEAVING - These Scars VINCENT BURKE - Stronger than a Mountain SHRIMP EYES - Rumour CHRIS INGRAM - Project Sex ANYA VINCENT - Catfight BEN DENNY MO - Asylum RARA - Better Without You SEAMUS FOGARTY - I Passed Your House NATALIE HOLMES - Alone Time FRANK AND LOUIS - King Baby HADEN & PEPPER - Shes A Fool HECTOR GANNET - Until My Bonnie Can Be Revived SHIVANI SEN - Ghar Se THE DIRT - Crash Test SKIES UP (ft Natures Jaidah) - Hate Cannot Exist Here HPLUS - Coral Reef SORRY - More A FRIEND IN VILNIUS - Tango Amnesiac B OF BRIZ - Reality forward CROPS - Tap TF Out JIMMY ANDREX - Who's This About 3HEAD - Talk To Her DAVE DARK AND THE SHARKS - Pale Blue Dot MINDLIGHT - Playful Dreams JACK CHESHIRE - Interloper
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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THE SECRET LIFE OF THE FORD CORTINA on BBC iPlayer. [Full disclosure: a much younger, slightly camper version of me appears about 5 mins into this classic Arena film by the late great Nigel Finch...] www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Arena - The Private Life of the Ford Cortina
A witty look at the history of the Ford Cortina, which was, in the 1980s, Britain's most popular, most stolen and most misunderstood car. With Alexei Sayle, John Betjeman and Magnus Magnusson.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Reposted by Tom Robinson
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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"So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity" From @privateeyenews.bsky.social No.1662 - on newsstands now.
Cartoon of man with microphone presenting a Lime Bike as if to camera
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Nov 15
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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This literally made me laugh out loud this morning www.instagram.com/reel/DRFLjdo...
Johnno Casson on Instagram
17 likes, 5 comments - snippetcuts on November 15, 2025
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November 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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"Surely the clearest indication of the BBC's fundamental truthfulness and integrity is the number of known liars who wish to destroy it."
Isabella Stone
Sheffield
• Surely the clearest indication of the BBC's fundamental truthfulness and integrity is the number of known liars who wish to destroy it. Isabella Stone Sheffield
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Lest we forget.... youtu.be/lyZ_fQFwb4s
It's Not Because of Brexit! | Spitting Image
YouTube video by Spitting Image
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November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Caption competition ?
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Oh no - the wooden mice are at the nuts again...
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Tom Robinson, Adam Phillips & Gabrielle Sey playing Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio live on tour - video by Andy Simons youtu.be/w4auXmg1a94
Last 4 shows:
Wed SOUTHAMPTON - The Brook
Thu LONDON - Cecil Sharp House
Fri BIRMINGHAM - MAC
Sat STURMINSTER - Exchange
See: tomrobinson.com/gigs
Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio (live on tour 2025)
YouTube video by Tom Robinson
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November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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HEALTH UPDATE: see alt text on image for full text...
HEALTH UPDATE: In recent years I've had a low level version of a fairly common heart condition called Atrial Fibrillation (AF). I normally keep it controlled & safe with medication. Had a flare-up after last Tuesday's gig in Shoreham and had to go back to my GP in London for an ECG and to change the medication. Regrettably this meant cancelling our Norwich show on Wednesday, which will now be rescheduled to January. After some bed rest I was then able to play Cambridge, Nottingham and Sheffield this week with no further heart issues. I'm seeing a consultant on Monday with a view to sorting it out permanently ASAP, so all good! This all comes at the end of an 26 date tour at the age of 75 - playing to amazing audiences - many of whom have grown old with me. The response has been phenomenal, with a number of sell-out shows and standing ovations most nights. Thanks so much for your support in the last 50 years. We have just 4 shows left to play, including London's Camden Town on Thursday and a wild tour-end party at legendary Dorset venue The Exchange, in Sturminster Newton Do come and join us if you can! HEALTH UPDATE: In recent years I've had a low level version of a fairly common heart condition called Atrial Fibrillation (AF). I normally keep it controlled & safe with medication. Had a flare-up after last Tuesday's gig in Shoreham and had to go back to my GP in London for an ECG and to change the medication. Regrettably this meant cancelling our Norwich show on Wednesday, which will now be rescheduled to January. After some bed rest I was then able to play Cambridge, Nottingham and Sheffield this week with no further heart issues. I'm seeing a consultant on Monday with a view to sorting it out permanently ASAP, so all good! This all comes at the end of an 26 date tour at the age of 75 - playing to amazing audiences - many of whom have grown old with me. The response has been phenomenal, with a number of sell-out shows and standing ovations most nights. Thanks so much for your support in the last 50 years. We have just 4 shows left to play, including London's Camden Town on Thursday and a wild tour-end party at legendary Dorset venue The Exchange, in Sturminster Newton Do come and join us if you can! HEALTH UPDATE: In recent years I've had a low level version of a fairly common heart condition called Atrial Fibrillation (AF). I normally keep it controlled & safe with medication. Had a flare-up after last Tuesday's gig in Shoreham and had to go back to my GP in London for an ECG and to change the medication. Regrettably this meant cancelling our Norwich show on Wednesday, which will now be rescheduled to January. After some bed rest I was then able to play Cambridge, Nottingham and Sheffield this week with no further heart issues. I'm seeing a consultant on Monday with a view to sorting it out permanently ASAP, so all good! This all comes at the end of an 26 date tour at the age of 75 - playing to amazing audiences - many of whom have grown old with me. The response has been phenomenal, with a number of sell-out shows and standing ovations most nights. Thanks so much for your support in the last 50 years. We have just 4 shows left to play, including London's Camden Town on Thursday and a wild tour-end party at legendary Dorset venue The Exchange, in Sturminster Newton Do come and join us if you can! HEALTH UPDATE: In recent years I've had a low level version of a fairly common heart condition called Atrial Fibrillation (AF). I normally keep it controlled & safe with medication. Had a flare-up after last Tuesday's gig in Shoreham and had to go back to my GP in London for an ECG and to change the medication. Regrettably this meant cancelling our Norwich show on Wednesday, which will now be rescheduled to January. After some bed rest I was then able to play Cambridge, Nottingham and Sheffield this week with no further heart issues. I'm seeing a consultant on Monday with a view to sorting it out permanently ASAP, so all good! This all comes at the end of an 26 date tour at the age of 75 - playing to amazing audiences - many of whom have grown old with me. The response has been phenomenal, with a number of sell-out shows and standing ovations most nights. Thanks so much for your support in the last 50 years. We have just 4 shows left to play, including London's Camden Town on Thursday and a wild tour-end party at legendary Dorset venue The Exchange, in Sturminster Newton Do come and join us if you can!
November 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Tom Robinson
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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM