And the amazing Professor Abigail Gardner (youtube.com/watch?v=jkFIiv…) will bless us with 'Chartreuse: Tipple, Colour and Clergy' The Interesting conference. 16 short talks about Interesting things. 3 September. Conway Hall. £30 eventbrite.com/e/interesting-…

And if you'd like some Interesting flavour, here's @alicebartlett talking about her talk from 2016 about Tampon Club and what's happened since youtube.com/watch?v=ghZdKP… And that's it until Monday. We now return you to your regularly scheduled lack of programming

Warning: we are firing up the Interesting content engines to target the vital only-buy-tickets-in-the-evening demographic

Our first talk duo combo! The incredible Nicki Sprinz and helen fuchs are going to do a talk entitled “Why we need ravers today.” Eat. Sleep. Interesting. Repeat 16 short talks about Interesting things. 3 September. Conway Hall. £30 eventbrite.com/e/interesting-…

And the magnificent Anab Jain will be doing a talk called "How confronting my worst fear became a metaphor for our flailing world" How can you resist that? 16 short talks about Interesting things. 3 September. Conway Hall. £30 eventbrite.com/e/interesting-…

Finally for this early evening sales period The terrific Maurice (instagram.com/thechippietown…) is going to tell us all about "Detroit on Thames" HUGE Interesting 16 short talks about Interesting things. 3 September. Conway Hall. £30

Finally, an actual blog post about Interesting Answers to questions such as - who's speaking? - when? - what about? - will we be providing beverages? (no) - will we need some volunteers? (yes) - can I still buy tickets? (yes) russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2022/…

If you hurry you can buy tickets for Interesting before it happens (ie Saturday) eventbrite.co.uk/e/interesting-… Late breaking news: the estimable Nick Hand of Letterpress Collective is going to come and print things with his bike (#theprintingbike) and say things about it. Printastic.

Well. Phew. Interesting is done. Thanks to everyone for coming. Speakers. Listeners. Volunteers. You were all magnificent. We will return. Follow Interesting for updates and bits and pieces in the meantime.

Endea Owens and The Cookout. Some joyful and tender jazz. youtu.be/KD3vTmbIZdU

Funk from the discount bin and a Fischer vs Spassky chess game youtu.be/q9hsauhoP8M

Everything about this is gorgeous. The sound. The look. The vibe. The vibes. youtu.be/4cq1XhQCfYs

If you're interested in the history of PowerPoint AND OF COURSE YOU ARE you can hear me get key facts wrong on this fantastic podcast: pod.link/1612089556/epi…

Hurrah. Ben Thompson is back. With Dad Rap, a lovely bit of Donny Hathaway and an introduction to Sabu Martinez and his Swedish percussionists. mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-…

All of Anne's books are brilliant. Buy them all!

Just popping back to say that Interesting is back for 2023. Wednesday May 17th. The Conway Hall. The evening this time. Still only £30. Free sticker for the First 100 buyers! eventbrite.co.uk/e/interesting-…

The first of our speakers at Interesting 2023 will be the excellent Alex Mitchell russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2023/… Get yourself a ticket: eventbrite.co.uk/e/interesting-…

Speaker two for Interesting: Steve Watson. He's going to be talking about 'interesting magazines' because of course he is. Steve is the most interesting magazine person there is. If you don't know about Stack Magazines you should. Get yourself a ticket eventbrite.co.uk/e/interesting-…

Details for next week: russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2023/…

The Conway Hall is booked for Interesting 24. May 15th. 7pm. Get it in your calendars.