It's Almost Nine Lessons Time!
And other news.
Hi everyone! Hope you’re well!
Nine Lessons
Well we’re now just under three weeks under Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People 2024 kicks off at Kings Place! Tickets for all dates are on sale now. There are very few tickets left for the evening performances on Friday December 13th and Saturday December 14th, but there’s still some good seats left for the evening of Sunday December 15th and, quite frankly, far too many seats overall left for the Saturday December 14th matinee.
There are incredible lineups for each show so makes sure you get in now!!
Just some of the new guests announced in the last few weeks include Tanita Tikaram, Rosie Jones, Andy Zaltzman, Subhadra Das, Bec Hill, David McAlmont and Clara Nellist!!!
This year, all profits will go to our two chosen charities, Hope Not Hate as well as our long time charity partners Two Wheels for Life.
We will also be collecting donations on site for the Euston Foodbank as usual. Please bring any items you can to donate, there will be a collection point by the merchandise stand.
The most urgently needed items this year are canned tuna, corn beef, biscuits, chocolates, long life custard, rice pudding, rice, dry pasta and nuts.
Gifts for Christmas
If you’re looking for some last minute Christmas gifts, we’ve got you sorted!
For the first time ever you can now gift someone a Shambles Patreon subscription! Not only will you be supporting us but you’ll be giving someone the gift of all the exclusive Shambles Patreon video content, podcasts and more PLUS access to the ENTIRE back catalogue!!
You can gift any amount of time you like but if you get the full year subscription you get a nice discount. Head here to purchase.
You can also check out the Shambles shop online now and take 10% off any item, including signed books, with the code SUBSTACK10, valid until December 10th.
Plenty more signed books will be available at Nine Lessons too.
Book Shambles
We’ve been busy popping up lots of new episodes of Book Shambles that we hope you’ve been enjoying. Robin and Josie kicked things off a few weeks ago and since then we’ve had lots of great guests from live events including Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian, Chris Lintott, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Claudia Hammond and Jakko Jakszyk. Audio versions are free for all and available wherever you get your podcasts, with extended video editions for paid Patreon and Substack Subscribers.
Other Shows
Last week our lead producer and co-founder Trent Burton gave the keynote speech at the Institute of Physics communicators conference about how Shambles approaches communicating science to the wider world. We’ll put up a version of the talk soon if we can.
A few other Shambles chums have got some fun shows to check out in the next week or two as well.
Josie Long is doing a work in progress gig TONIGHT and December 1st at the Glasgow Stand, so check that out. Hannah Platt has just announced her first UK tour as well. And Grace Petrie and Charlotte Carpenter have tours on sale as well.
And this coming Saturday night Steve Pretty is doing a special live version of his music podcast The Origin of the Pieces in London. Our own Robin Ince will be one of the special guests alongside Guy Pratt, fresh off his work tour with David Gilmour. Tickets from the link above.
Other News
We’ve been busy as ever behind the scenes filming for lots of big upcoming projects which we’ll tell you about just as soon as we can!
Some exciting new live shows and events on the horizon too so watch this space!
Also, we’re ob BlueSky now if that’s your thing.
Thanks as ever for your support, following us on social media, subscribing to this Substack, sharing our stuff and signing up to the Patreon. We appreciate it immensely!