Robin Ince: Bleeding Heart Liberal

Robin Ince is a leaping, gesticulating, irate, old lefty. In the manner of your favourite professor, he expounds on his every subject with escalating enthusiasm. His train of thought swerves from Richard Dawkins to bestiality, with sudden mood swings throwing so many ideas onto the track he becomes a little befuddled. Little stabs of devilish humour shoot out at times amidst the rants on the banality of television and the show gets darker and more biting in the second half.
The venue suits his act well, with narrow steeped seating reminiscent of an old university lecture hall - it is easy to imagine a dusty old blackboard behind him for scribbling illustrative diagrams. And like any good teacher, he loves to share knowledge and what he expects in return is students who are curious and questioning and who are unsatisfied by trivial entertainments and the idiocy of ill-formed argument.
Joking he had been diagnosed by one audience member as bipolar, it is easy to see why as he flies from gleeful boyish humour to exasperated rants and back before you can blink. He is unashamedly geeky, and revels in telling stories of his favourite medieval astronomer and throwing in an anecdote about Richard Feynman, with a nifty impression to boot. See the show for the comedy, stay for the odd and unusual scientific education.