I’ve moved to Substack!
Dear honoured and lovely readers, I have moved my newsletter over to Substack. You should have had your subscription transferred over automatically, but in...
Next Level Sketch with Joz Norris next Wednesday! / County Cricket Travels / New Newsletter launch on Friday
Hello everyone! The birds are singing on my estate, and the cat is staring furiously out the window. Spring, or something that feels a lot like it, is...
Brighton Folk Choir on t’radio / Trust Us, We’re Doctors! / Next Level Sketch’s April Show
Hello! I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter Weekend, filled with rampaging rabbits, symbolic eggs, and chocolate Jesus. Shows!!! I have two main plugs for...
Cat Sitting in the Panopticon / Trust Us, We Are Doctors! / Next Level Sketch’s busy spring
Hello everyone! Big exciting news here in James-land: I have belatedly realised wireless keyboards for tablets exist, and now I can write newsletters...
Horse Passports ride again / Next Level Sketch spring dates now on sale
Hi readers! A tired James this lunchtime, after watching much more of England’s cricketing defeat in New Zealand than he perhaps should have, given that New...
Next Level Sketch tomorrow / 52 postcards
Hello everyone! Apologies for no newsletter last week. I hope you got through without it, and used the time you usually spend reading it equally...
Horse Passports through to the Quarter Finals! / This Machine Killed Wasps
Hi everyone! Sorry for late newsletter, I caught something flu-ish and shook it off slowly, like Taylor Swift wading through treacle. This Machine Killed...
Half Man Half Biscuit / Upcoming Shows / A Letter to the Editor
Hi valued subscribers! Half Man Half Biscuit I saw my favourite band ever last week thanks to being The Mate Of The Bloke I met at the Walthamstow Wassail,...
Tudor Wassail at Michelham Priory / A Brighton Cyclist / This Machine Kills Wasps
Hello subscribers old and new! I hope you are not too cold, wherever you are. This is one of those mornings where I like to go and look at the sea, to remind...
Vermillion Monday
Today is "Blue Monday", a conceit dreamt up by a now-defunct travel company to convince you to buy more holidays. Regardless of whether it's real or not...
This Machine Kills Wasps / Walthamstow Wassail 2023
Howdy newsletter subscribers! I hope you all enjoyed the first New Moon of 2023. What else has happened? I had a lovely sauna session at the Porchester Spa...
This Machine Kills Wasps / Sketch-Off tickets on sale now
Hello! I hope you are enjoying the futuristic year of 2023 so far, with its flying cars, modernist housing and chocolate bars named after space hardware....
My Top Podcasts of 2022 / Next Level Sketch Early Bird Tickets / Hovercrafts
Hello comrades! Hope you’re all full of sprouts, in a non-denominational kind of way. Top Podcasts of 2022 I listen to too many podcasts. Here are the ones I...
The Last of the Great Indie Discos: interview with Chris from Offbeat
Hi everyone! A very short edition of the newsletter today to share an interval I did with Chris Stride, of the wonderful Offbeat in Sheffield. He’s been...
Park Hill: Urban Splashback
Hi everyone! I’ve been sick but now I am slowly emerging from my cocoon, like a beautiful, snot-encrusted butterfly. The whole city is your jewellery box...
It’s hard to be an anteater at Christmas
It’s 4am, it’s freezing, and the birds are singing. The dawn has never felt further away. Definitely the ideal time to send a newsletter. Well tonight thank...
Suburb on the Edge of Forever: Paris Edition
Hi there! I trust whoever reads this newsletter is feeling good, perhaps has a cup of tea or coffee within easy reach, and is situated somewhere safe, kind...
Next Level Sketch Halloween Special this Thursday! / Spooky Infrastructure Month / Write-Up of my gig in Brighton with MJ Hibbett
We're getting towards the business end of spooky month, with ghosts, spectres and the like becoming ever more brazen in their haunting antics. Stay safe out...
Interview with Phoenix Remix / Spooky Infrastructure Month / Come and see me and MJ Hibbett / Halloween Sketch Show!
Hello everyone, from this beautiful autumn day. My conkers, abandoned, slowly shrivel on my windowsill. And this is beautiful. Interview Please read this...
Tory Conference / Cycling / Next Level Sketch / Hibbett Gig / "James Walsh Month"
Hi Comrades! Lots to get through this week, please delay the singing of The Internationale until you get to the end. #CPC22 Some friends have found it...
Psycho (Geography or Otherwise)
Bristol, after seven months away. Familiar but no longer mine, my tenuous grip on the place long since removed. The bed I slept in now twin cots, my winter...
Next Level Sketch next Wednesday! Come and watch me and MJ Hibbett sing songs in Brighton!
Hello! I managed a full media blackout in the lead up to the queen’s funeral. My only accidental glimpse of Anything Royal was seeing The Queue on MJ...
Burrito Falls / Simon Munnery / Joz Norris / Next Level Sketch
Sherlock Holmes had Moriarty. I have chain burrito restaurants. Yesterday I was having a late lunch at Tortilla near London Bridge. I found a little enclave...
Camden Fringe Reviews / The Divine Comedy at The Barbican / Factually Inaccurate on the 13th September
Hello! Summer has ended, we need to buy new trousers, and one’s thoughts turn inevitably to conkers. Improv at the Camden Fringe One Fringe, 3 Improv groups,...
Factually Inaccurate returns!
Hello! We’re not quite into the season of mellow fruitfulness yet, but there’s something in the air. It may be uncollected rubbish. It could be sewage...
Cycling to Edinburgh (part one) / Fringe Reviews / Hearty Plugs
Hello! First newsletter in a few weeks. I hope you didn’t assume I’d been murdered by crows. I wasn’t. Cycling to Edinburgh (part one) I cycled to Edinburgh...
Cycling to Edinburgh / Next Level Sketch tonight
Cycling to Edinburgh Right then pic.twitter.com/okAdOkVWYI— James Walsh (@jamesofwalsh) July 28, 2022 “Is it for charity?” As some of you may already know,...
Brighton Comedy Garden / Horse Passports / Next Level Sketch
Hello! I’m still hunkered down in Coombe with Jazz the 14 year old Labrador. She did not care for the extreme weather event but got through it with plenty of...
Medico Review / Horse Passports / Next Level Sketch
Hello everyone! This week’s newsletter comes to you from a gated community in Coombe. I’m looking after a lovely but very old dog (14) who is addicted to...
Julia Masli’s Comedy From Hell / Ditchling Beacon
Hi comrades! It’s the 4th July. I wonder what that reminds me of? I swam in the sea yesterday. The wind made it feel like being in a malfunctioning washing...
Brown Sauce review / Next Level Sketch this Wednesday!
Hi comrades! I’m back with Kenzo the spaniel, who is bringing me many gifts of my own socks. Next Level Sketch on Wednesday at Hoopla Impro <br /> Next Level...
Brighton Fringe reviews / Factually Inaccurate Next Tuesday
Hello comrades! I hope you all had a good Jubilee weekend. I’m pleased to say I missed all coverage of it entirely, with the exception of the clip of Boris...
Review of The Producers, Next Level Sketch tomorrow night!
Hello dear subscribers. How I cherish you, as a pirate cherishes his non-wooden leg. Euan in The Producers He was fabulous. Full review below. <br /> The...
Gigs! Dogs!
Hi everyone! In Sydenham this week, with a floofy dog, an escapologist cat, and the nearby sight of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs. A few shows to promote this...
Factually Inaccurate tomorrow night!
Greetings, good day, and a special “hi” to my new subscribers, you crazy fools. I’m very tired after learning how to attach a big ol’ trailer to a cargo bike...
Factually Inaccurate next Tuesday / A Folk Festival in Todmorden
Hi everyone! I hope you all had a good holiday from the banks over the weekend. Yesterday central London was strange, peaceful, and ominous. Confused...
Factually Inaccurate on Tuesday 10th May / Do you need someone to sit on your pet
Hi loyal subscribers! Whether you hang on every word or this remains unopened in your spam folder, I appreciate each and every one of you. Except Nathan....
The City is an Onion
Hi newsletter fans! Whether you’re an avid reader, or you only occasionally fish this out of your fetid spam folder, the eyeballs are always appreciated in...
A Farewell to New Malden
Hello everyone! James here with his letter full of news. Buckle up, it’s sure to be a thrill-filled ride! A farewell to New Malden On 10th April I’m finally...
Factually Inaccurate on 12th April with Isy Suttie / Write-Up of Next Level Sketch with Shelf
Happy Pancake and also Wales day! How the Welsh love stuffing their faces with eggy treats both sweet and savoury. It’s why they ensure their most important...
Next Level Sketch tomorrow! / Alan Parker: Urban Warrior / Factually Inaccurate Write-Up
Happy new week everyone! I trust everyone is well and their trampolines aren’t currently somewhere off the coast of Spain. Next Level Sketch in London...
Tour Review / Next Level Sketch next Tuesday / IMDp / Charlie’s Comedy Cabaret
Lots to get through and we’re already at Clapham Junction, so let’s do this thing! Lads on tour My sketch troupe, Next Level Sketch, did their first ever...
Sketch! Stand Up! Fictional Owls!
Hi comrades! Welcome to the latest edition of my exciting email newsletter, arriving to a spam folder near you on a fairly regular basis. We did a gig in...
Clambering back upon my comedy bicycle
Greetings loyal readers, Welcome to my first newsletter of 2022. I hope the new year finds you well. From my current position, I can see the Post Office...
Factually Inaccurate on Monday 13th December at The Miller!
Greetings loyal subscribers, This week Next Level Sketch happened! And I was in an improv show playing a director! It went ok! And there was an audition I...
Covid diaries
Greetings comrades, I tested positive for Covid over the weekend so I’m in a bit of a limbo at present. The days all have merged into one a bit more than...
Factually Inaccurate Newsletter
Hi subscribers! I know I said I’d send out a newsletter every Wednesday but it is practically Wednesday, right? Ish? Ah well. Onwards and upwards. Factually...
Newsletter on the Edge of Forever
Hello! I have been neglecting my humble newsletter, having had my head turned by the glamour of dog sitting and alternative comedy promotion. But the...
Modernism of Notting Hill
Are you all ready for some more hot modernist action? Modernism of Notting Hill Heading north from some of the buildings I gawped at last weekend, I looked...
Sculpture In The City / Modernism of Holland Park
Hello! I am writing this from a train, because trains are where I feel most able to write. I often catch a train in order to write, which is financially...