No ordinary Sunday…

This is a blog I wrote today for The Brothers Trust website – which I thought to share here also in-line with advice gleaned from my sporadic bursts at becoming more on-line savvy – which is at best, plodding… * Like all Marvel films, for the diehard fans, Spider-Man Far From Home is more of…

Let’s save a strangers life…

Some people are better than others at pushing themselves and their wares on-line. It seems that the more brazen the person is, the better the results – and so perhaps I should be pleased with my meagre success in this arena. Certainly my pushing is always gentle – a ‘funny’ blog with a covert suggestion…

The boy (man) is back in town…

Finally, welcome to my new site… as torturous an experience I can recall until the last two days, loading the manuscript and jacket of I,Gabriel on to various on-line book publishing platforms – harder in fact that writing the blinking book. This site is designed with ease and accessibility in mind, for instance, the comments…

There are no short straws…

In 2010, I visited New York with Tom because he had been cast in a film called, The Impossible – and the story of Eclipsed was already fully formed in my mind whatever happened to my eldest son from here-on-in. As well as meeting the director and his co-stars, Ewan MacGregor and Naomi Watts (I…

An emotional victory…

I realise that comedy and golf combined has a certain reputation and is most usually maligned and sniffed at. It is not lost on me then that my adulthood has been largely occupied by both pursuits, with mixed and mostly disappointing outcomes, punctuated by fleeting moments of wonder and joy, of which one occurred recently…

What do you know…

Given that Nikki is a photographer and responsible for some stunning reportage images of the various Holland boys over the years, including Tom and his mundane life – you might think it unwise that my favourite photograph of Tom’s childhood is not one of Nikki’s photographs – and is in fact a snap, taken by…

Not an ordinary Sunday…

There are easier things to do in life than being a stand up comedian. Especially being a comedian with no gimmick: no musical instrument, props, or character. Just me and my stories, here goes… As such, most stand-up comics crave familiarity to reduce the stress. Fear of the unknown as they say and it follows…

Wow, this internet thing…

A rare thing when anything technology wise works for me but I have news to share, aside from new Instagram stories and two successful vlodcasts on youtube with more planned… Although my website www.dominicholland.co.uk is ‘terrible’ according to any number of people who tell me so on-line and it needs a complete overhaul… which is…

Upcoming gigs

In the run-up to the Edinburgh Festival, come and see Dominic at these gigs in June and July: 6th June, LONDON – The Comedy Pub, Oxendon Street, W1 – ticketsource: https://tinyurl.com/y7frgufl 13th June, SUTTON COLDFIELD, The Comedy Junction www.comedyjunction.co.uk 16th June, BROMSGROVE, 01527 577330 www.artrix.co.uk 1st July, SHEFFIELD,  3.25pm www.funhousecomedy.co.uk 4th July, TRING, HERTS, www.get-stuffed.biz/tringe 5th July, LEWES, https://www.wegottickets.com/event/441363 14th…