The Castle is imminent

So here is some news, including shows in Australia/ NZ / Singapore and Brooklyn

Hello! I have much news. I just got back from the cage fight at the White House.

Only a tiny number of reporters got access to the South Lawn itself for fight night, and I was one of them. I wasn’t forced to watch it on a TV in the inauspicious basement of the nearby JW Marriott like the shut-outs were. I’m writing it up for GQ magazine. It was nuts. And funny.

I did it because it’s theme-adjacent to The Castle: how various men - feeling unglued from society – have created strange, fake worlds for themselves inside which they don’t have to interact with other people except on their own terms. But while being a wayward, boundary-less maverick might sound good in theory, how does it work out in real life?

Anyway, I have a bunch of news relating to The Castle. First, I’m touring AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND and then SINGAPORE. I’ll be in Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Singapore. I honestly don’t know how big a crossover there is between Ronson fans and people who live in Singapore, so it may just be me and a drunken sailer on shore leave.

Next, there’s the UK tour. I will end this newsletter with those tour dates.

And I’ll be telling the story for the very first time on stage at The Bell House, BROOKLYN on Sept 1, just before I set off for the UK.

I’m intending for these shows to be like a live documentary version of the book, unfolding on stage, with video clips and audio clips.

Only a tiny number of people have read The Castle so far. It’s embargo-crazy out there. But I was very flattered to get some early endorsements, including this from Patrick Radden Keefe.

Oh, and I play the voice of Shameus the shame deity in the new season of Adventure Time: Side Quests. Episode 13, Island of Shame! And we redesigned my website. And I’m putting the finishing touches to Season 3 of my BBC show Things Fell Apart. It’ll be out in January,

Ok that’s it for now. Thank you!