1) BASIC LEE IS ON SKY & NOW TV SOON

2) STEWART LEE VS THE MAN-WULF

John Mackay & Sally Homer, in association with Debi Allen/Curtis Brown present
STEWART LEE vs THE MAN-WULF BRAND NEW SHOW
LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE, LONDON

3^rd December 2024 – 17^th January 2025

AND UK TOURING THROUGHOUT 2025

In this brand-new show, Lee shares his stage with a tough-talking werewolf comedian from the dark forests of North America who hates humanity. The Man-Wulf lays down a ferocious comedy challenge to the culturally irrelevant and physically enfeebled Lee. Can the beast inside us all be silenced with the silver bullet of Lee’s unprecedentedly critically acclaimed style of stand-up?

Stewart Lee, (“the world’s greatest living stand-up comedian” The Times), is in danger of being left behind. He’s approaching sixty with debilitating health conditions, his TV profile has diminished, and his once BAFTA award winning style of stand-up seems obsolete in the face of a wave of callous Netflix-endorsed comedy of anger, monetising the denigration of minorities for millions of dollars. But can Lee unleash his inner Man-Wulf to position himself alongside comedy legends like Dave Chapelle, Ricky Gervais and Jordan Peterson at the forefront of side-splitting stadium-stuffing shit-posting?

Opening at Leicester Square Theatre in December 2024 the new show will tour to UK cities throughout 2025.

Leicester Sq Theatre, London 3^rd Dec 2024 – 17^th Jan 2025 7pm, except for 6pm and 8.30 pm Sat 4^th Jan. 0207 734 2222 www.leicestersquaretheatre.com

STEWART LEE vs THE MAN-WULF 2025 TOUR SCHEDULE

January 2025

Sunday 19th January 2025 – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton – TICKETS
Monday 20th January 2025 – Dorking Halls, Dorking – TICKETS
Tuesday 21st January 2025 – Dorking Halls, Dorking – TICKETS
Wednesday 22nd January 2025 – The Alban Arena, St. Albans – TICKETS
Thursday 23rd January 2025 – The Alban Arena, St. Albans – TICKETS
Friday 24th January 2025 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham – TICKETS
Saturday 25th January 2025 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham – TICKETS
Sunday 26th January 2025 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham – TICKETS
Tuesday 28th January 2025 – Theatre Royal, York
Wednesday 29th January 2025 – Theatre Royal, York
Thursday 30th January 2025 – Theatre Royal, York
Friday 31st January 2025 – Theatre Royal, York

February 2025

Saturday 1st February 2025 – Theatre Royal, York
Monday 3rd February 2025 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Tuesday 4th February 2025 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Wednesday 5th February 2025 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Thursday 6th February 2025 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Friday 7th February 2025 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Saturday 8th February 2025 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Monday 10th February 2025 – The Marlowe, Canterbury
Wednesday 12th February 2025 – Chelmsford Theatre, Chelmsford
Thursday 13th February 2025 – De Montfort Hall, Leicester – TICKETS
Friday 14th February 2025 – De Montfort Hall, Leicester – TICKETS
Saturday 15th February 2025 – Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe – TICKETS
Sunday 16th February 2025 – Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe – TICKETS
Tuesday 18th February 2025 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS
Wednesday 19th February 2025 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS
Thursday 20th February 2025 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS
Friday 21st February 2025 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS
Saturday 22nd February 2025 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS

April 2025

Tuesday 1st April 2025 – Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 – Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
Thursday 3rd April 2025 – New Theatre, Peterborough – TICKETS
Friday 4th April 2025 – Palace Theatre, Southend – TICKETS
Saturday 5th April 2025 – Palace Theatre, Southend – TICKETS
Sunday 6th April 2025 – Palace Theatre, Southend – TICKETS
Tuesday 22nd April 2025 – Royal & Derngate, Northampton – TICKETS
Wednesday 23rd April 2025 – Royal & Derngate, Northampton – TICKETS
Monday 28th April 2025 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Tuesday 29th April 2025 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Wednesday 30th April 2025 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS

May 2025

Thursday 1st May 2025 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Tuesday 6th May 2025 – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool – TICKETS
Wednesday 7th May 2025 – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool – TICKETS
Thursday 8th May 2025 – Playhouse, Leeds – TICKETS
Friday 9th May 2025 – Playhouse, Leeds – TICKETS
Saturday 10th May 2025 – Playhouse, Leeds – TICKETS
Monday 12th May 2025 – Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton – TICKETS
Tuesday 13th May 2025 – Orchard Theatre, Dartford – TICKETS
Wednesday 14th May 2025 – Orchard Theatre, Dartford – TICKETS
Thursday 15th May 2025 – King’s Theatre, Portsmouth – TICKETS
Friday 16th May 2025 – The Forum, Bath

September 2025

Tuesday 16th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Wednesday 17th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Thursday 18th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Friday 19th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS
Saturday 20th September 2025 – New Theatre, Cardiff – TICKETS

MANY MORE DATES TO BE ADDED.

3) WORK IN PROG DATES NEW SHOW

Small club dates of these seem to sell in a few hours as the venues announce them to their lists but I will be doing some ½ hrs of new material at various festivals and bigger gigs between now and Dec, and a small venue London run at the hidden gem of The Museum of Comedy, where you can see Little Titch’s actual amazing boots and marvel at a massive collection of jackets and hats belonging to various handsy comedians of the ‘60s and ‘70s, many now the subjects of criminal investigations.

Sunday 28^th July – LATITUDE I will be doing 30 mins very early somewhere at Latitude Festival

Saturday 17^th August GREEN MAN – I will be doing 30 mins somewhere at Green Man Festival. The Nightingales film KING ROCKER will also be introduced during the weekend by me and director MICHAEL CUMMING

Sunday 1^st Sept – END OF THE ROAD I will be doing 30 mins early at End Of The Road Festival

Sunday 8^th Sept – 30 mins at Laughterarma Castlefield Bowl with Lou Sanders, Louise Young, Rob Auton and Felicity Ward  – a great bill! https://dice.fm/event/yo2r8r-laughterama-stewart-lee-lou-sanders-more-8th-sep-castlefield-bowl-manchester-tickets

Nov I will be doing various new material shows at the Museum of Comedy in London.
https://museumofcomedy.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873646622

4) SUMMER T-SHIRT SALE

Special Summer offers on official Stewart Lee merch https://wax-face.com/stewart-lee

5) SNOWFLAKE TORNADO / BASIC LEE

Stewart’s 2019-2022 touring show Snowflake/Tornado, which was originally broadcast as a BBC Special in Autumn 2023 is now available to buy or rent “on demand” from www.mediagarageproductions.com

4) KING ROCKER

King Rocker, the Nightingales rockumentary I made with Michael Cumming, is now available to stream globally.

“One of my all-time favourite rock docs” MARK KERMODE, BBC
“It’s warm, it’s funny, it’s fascinating” Radcliffe and Maconie, BBC6 Music
“The film is ace, the band is ace, Rob is a remarkable man” Marc Riley, BBC6 Music
“A beautiful and fucking hilarious and moving film” Shaun Keavney, BBC6 Music

To celebrate 3 years since the acclaimed film King Rocker premiered on Sky Arts and Robin Ince noticed that “the whole country is watching King Rocker” we will be making the film available internationally on that exact same day. From February 6th everyone, anywhere, will be able to watch. Comedian Stewart Lee and director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast Of London) investigate a missing piece of punk history. Robert Lloyd, best known for fronting cult Birmingham band’s The Prefects and The Nightingales, has survived under the radar survived under the radar for over four decades. But how, if at all, does Robert want to be remembered? The anti-rockumentary ‘King Rocker’ weaves the story of Birmingham’s undervalued underdog autodidact into that of the city’s forgotten public sculpture of King Kong, eschewing the celebrity interview and archive-raid approach for a free-associating bricolage of Indian food, bewildered chefs, vegetable gardening, prescription medicines, pop stardom and pop art. Featuring Frank Skinner, Nigel Slater, Robin Askwith, Samira Ahmed, John Peel, Gina Birch, Marc Riley, Danny Fields, John Taylor, Paul Morley, Fuzzbox, Kevin Eldon, Nish Kumar, Bridget Christie, Andrew O’Neill, Seann Walsh, Paul Putner, Steve Beresford, and more. ‘King Rocker’ is now available to pre-order. From February 6th you can stream and download globally.

Film trailer URL: https://youtu.be/Zy-ZeKkgXas

Stream URL: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/kingrockerfilm

7) ITALIAN WESTERNS

I did this pilot of a thing that never happened 4 years ago and Egghead Ince has seen fit to put it out there. It’s just us talking about films for 2 hours.

An Uncanny Hour Special in Three Parts: Italian Westerns (Pt I) with Stewart Lee and Robin Ince https://www.patreon.com/posts/101751159

8) STOP THE TORIES

Carol Vorderman wants us all to work together to stop the Tories, and here’s how https://stopthetories.vote

9) THE FALL – SLATES LIVE

I have done sleeve notes for this superb live album

https://bellaunion.bandcamp.com/album/slates-live

10) STEWART LEE INTRODUCES THE GARAGE PUNK GREATS

LEXINGTON, PENTONVILLE RD, LONDON JULY 1^ST-3^RD
DOORS 7.30

At 8.30 each night sharp, Stewart Lee (“world’s greatest living stand-up comedian” – The Times) offers 30-45 unfinished minutes of work-in-progress material from his forthcoming show Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf before bringing on a headline set from one his favourite Garage Punk Greats at 9.30

Monday 1^st July. The Primevals. Now entering their fifth decade, and a dozen albums down, Glasgow’s gutterbilly veterans lay widescreen Americana and free jazz flavoured freak-outs over a durable garage punk template. Immortal and imperious at last, now The Primevals really are what they once merely dreamed of being. https://www.theprimevals.com

Tuesday 2^nd July. The Shadracks. Garage punk’s not dead. This youthful trio from English garage punk’s traditional Kentish spawning ground combine a reverence for the form with a disrespect for its application that fuse into an action-painted explosion of Instant Art ™. https://damagedgoods.co.uk/bands/the-shadracks/

Wednesday 3^rd July. The Fallen Leaves. Sucked up from the sticky carpet strands of Subway Sect, these sharp-operating masters of Corby-creased mod-punk are the sound of a splattered psychedelic Sixties canvas slashed into shape by a ’76 stanley knife. The Who’s A Quick One While He’s Away is pushed down a punk rock escalator by the Hatton Garden Guitar Gang, tambourines in hand. https://www.musicglue.com/the-fallen-leaves/

https://www.thelexington.co.uk/events.php

11) BILLY CHILDISH

I improvised the introduction to Ted Kessler’s new Childish biog in one take, and will be discussing the book with both of them and chair Laura Barton here at London Rough Trade on July 4^th

TICKETS HERE

‘Rough Trade East is very excited to present an in-store conversation and book signing from Billy Childish. This unique event celebrates the release of ‘To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorised Unauthorised History of Billy Childish’ by Ted Kessler released via White Rabbit. Billy will be joined by Ted Kessler for the evening and Laura Barton will be your host. Tickets for this event also include a physical copy of the book to be collected from Rough Trade East on the day of the show.”

12) BLACK SHUCK FESTIVAL W LAURA CANNELL, BUNGAY

I will be doing a special work-in-progress and musical show with the genius avant-folk dronemadchen Laura Cannell at St Mary’s Church, Bungay, Norfolk at 10.30 am on August 3rd as part of the Black Shuck Festival.

THE RULE OF THREE with Laura Cannell and Stewart Lee
August 3 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm £10.00 “Stand-up comedian Stewart Lee tries out twenty minutes of unvarnished new material. The musician Laura Cannell performs new music from her monthly release series ‘A Year of Lore’, conjuring animals and landscapes inspired by real and imagined folklore. Then both collaborate on a performance of Stewart’s music-enhanced comic monologue Pea Green Boat.”

https://blackshuckfestival.com/event/the-rule-of-three-with-laura-cannell-and-stewart-lee/

Here’s me there last year battling the black dog of legend himself in the very church where the devil first manifested the spectral hound.

13) STEWART LEE INTRODUCES LEGENDS OF INDIE

LEXINGTON, AUGUST 12^TH-14^TH
Door 7.30
At 8.30 each night sharp, Stewart Lee (“world’s greatest living stand-up comedian” – The Times) offers 30-45 unfinished minutes of work-in-progress material from his forthcoming show Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf  before bringing on a headline set from one his  favourite Legends of Indie at 9.30

MONDAY AUGUST 12^TH. Connie Planque. Not to be confused with the German record producer Conny Plank, Connie Planque is a French chanteuse raised in rural isolation on Brazilian tropicalia, British Radiophonics, and vintage commune Krautrock by bohemian parents who also home-schooled her in Marxist doctrine, French New Wave cinema and Lava Lamp technology. Here Planque honours us with a rare solo show ahead of high profile dates with her band later this year. Stereo sounds under lab conditions, sounding so sad in your ear.

TUESDAY AUGUST 13^TH. Swansea Sound. A Manassas-style supergroup drawn from the fallout of the ‘80s DIY lo-fi Big Bang – Talulah Gosh, The Pooh Sticks, Heavenly, Sergeant Buzzfuzz and The Dentists. Swansea Sound reflect archly on advancing adulthood and late capitalism with intertwined indolent indie-pop harmonies and punk rock punch. https://swanseasound.bandcamp.com

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14^TH. David Lance Callahan. Former frontman of C86’s sharpest social critics The Wolfhounds, and mainman of the pioneering Moonshake, (surely soon to be systematically re-evaluated), today Callahan essays a distinct form of English Primitivism, manifesting himself as a post-punk Blind Joe Death, a John Fahey who rides the rails of Transport for London, with looped lone guitar in hand, in search of the dark heart of Brexit Britain. He is also the author of an acclaimed series of birdwatching guides and currently plays in Jowe Head’s revivified Swell Maps.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/david-callahan/

https://thewolfhounds.bandcamp.com

https://www.thelexington.co.uk/events.php

14) BRIGHTON PSYCH FEST 30^TH AUG

Brighton Psych Fest asked me to host and program a stage, which is reckless of them as the last thing I curated, the 2016 Prestatyn All Tomorrow’s Parties, went bust. And no, I didn’t get paid either. Nonetheless, here’s a mind-melting day out of acid-hued action from five of my favourite acts, with minimal onstage interruptions from me. I’ve tried to skew the selection towards Brighton and Hastings talent because sometimes we don’t always acknowledge the geniuses on our own doorsteps. There’s loads of other ace stuff on in other rooms too, including the shouting bloke from Black Midi and PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS.

The Bevis Frond

Nick Saloman’s enduring underground legends enter their thirty-eighth year utterly undimmed, surging inland from the seafronts of the South Coast with paisley power-pop anthems Teenage Fanclub would’ve clobbered them for, short sharp shocks of Wipers-influenced melodic hardcore, and vast electrical storms of duelling guitars that sound like the ‘70s Miles Davis band battling The Quicksilver Messenger Service. The Bevis Frond are a silver thread running through my life. Please play High In A Flat.

The Physics House Band

Like punk never happened, the Brighton trio offers ugly-beautiful instrumental progressive rock that aging King Crimson fans think no-one can play anymore, leavened with a pastoral psychedelic seasoning, a Mondrian mathematical complexity, and a sly sense of its own audacious absurdity.

Alison Cotton

Formerly a folk rocker with The Left Outsides, the Sunderland multi-instrumentalist currently essays vast John Cale-coloured string-drones with incantatory overtones, wrenching ritual music for our ruined land from the overbowed strings of her viola and the breathy bellows of the harmonium. A Nico for now.

Eliza Skelton

Like a cross between Steve Nicks and a Stygian witch that can see into your soul, this long-term low-key local legend finally goes solo, and delivers an immersive and smoothly cinematic epic acid-folk music of widescreen grandeur, wyrd enough to thrill weirdoes, yet classy enough to subversively snaffle the casual consumer.

Secluded Bronte

People who hate my stand-up often deny it even constitutes ‘comedy’. Doubtless many would wonder if the work of the veteran improvisatory trio Secluded Bronte should be considered ‘music’. Instruments may be involved, perhaps furniture, maybe even words, or all three in a chance collision of calculated heterogenity. All that is certain – time will pass, and something will happen.

Start your day in a right state. https://brightonpsychfest.com

15) STEVE WYNN TRADES HALL, WALTHAMSTOW, SUNDAY SEPT 22^ND AT 2PM

I will be interviewing the Dream Syndicate front man and solo artists Steve Wynn about his book I Wouldn”t Say It If It Wasn’t True, and Steve will do a solo set.

TICKETS HERE

16) THE SAMHAIN RITUAL 29/10/24

Weird Walk magazine presents Stewart Lee introducing wyrd musicians headlined by Daisy Rickman, 6pm Earth, Hackney, London. Tickets: https://thesamhainritual.eventbrite.com There may be Were-action, costume pending.

17) A WORD IN YOUR EAR

I am on this episode of Mark Ellen and David Hepworth’s podcast https://shows.acast.com/word-in-your-ear-2/episodes/word-podcast-644-stewart-lee#

Or Apple …

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/stewart-lee-knows-the-rigours-of-animal-costume-work/id1567029088?i=1000659109065

18) FUND THE QUIETUS

Keep on funding the Quietus folks!

https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/stayin-alive-we-need-you-to-subscribe-to-the-quietus/

19) FASCINATING AIDA DVD 40^TH

I’ve done the interview extra on this 40^th anniversary dvd of the Prosecco-Anarchist music-comedy veterans Fascinating Aida.

https://fascinatingaida.vhx.tv/products/fascinating-aida-the-40th-anniversary-show

20) THE BALSALL HEATH BOHEMIANS

The doc I narrated and presented on the Birmingham surrealists is repeated on  BBCR4 on Monday July 8^th at 9.30

“Stewart Lee takes us into a world of life-sized chess pieces, alcohol-guzzling nuns and crucified naked bespectacled men. The story of British Surrealism began, not in Bohemian north London, but in a Birmingham suburb.  Today, the tradition continues with Birmingham artist Cold War Steve, whose work is featured on the website. His detailed collages evoke the surrealist world of the original Birmingham Surrealists. The seminal moment for British Surrealism was the 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition when Salvador Dali donned a diving suit and walked through Piccadilly. But art historian and critic Ruth Millington reveals that the actual crazy beating heart of British Surrealism had already begun. A Birmingham group of artists refused to take part in that Exhibition, viewing the other British artists chosen as ‘overnight surrealists’. The Birmingham group, including Conroy Maddox and John Melville, were the first and truest expression of the movement in the UK, meeting in the Kardohmah café in New Street and the Trocadero pub in Temple Street. Later joined by Emmy Bridgwater and zoologist Desmond Morris – who left a giant elephant skull in Broad Street – they frequented Maddox’s house in Balsall Heath. Inside were life-size chess pieces and wallpaper handprinted by an adapted washing mangle. They held parties where communists, Caribbean immigrants and naked women in high heels smashed pottery underfoot. Activities included Maddox being crucified, naked and bespectacled while a nun drank from a two pint bottle of local brew Mitchell and Butler. Maddox wanted to replicate this in shop windows in Birmingham but the Council refused. Stewart Lee explores the creative explosion in the Surrealist court of Birmingham and the art it produced. Guests include Stephen Forcer, Ruth Millington and Desmond Morris.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001p6rs

21) I ARROGANTLY RECOMMEND SOME HAPPENINGS

ITHELL COLQUHOUN – ELEMENTAL, BEN HUNTER GALLERY, – 31^st May to July 26^th A London commercial gallery showcases the work of the surrealist, whose reprinted travel books I wrote intro’s for. https://www.benhunter.gallery/exhibitions-all/

FLAT & THE CURVES – GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT TOUR. The prosecco hen night from hell housed in a surprisingly savage musical comedy form by these witty, obscene, often clownishly grotesque, and also unnecessarily musically gifted, four best girlfriends you never had. I love Flat & The Curves and I don’t know why! The Nolans of Filth!
JULY 3^rd Aberdeen Tivoli, 4^th Dundee Gardyne, 5^th Dunfemlin Alhambra, 6^th Livingston Howden Park, 10^th South Shields Custom House, 11^th Lancaster Grand, 14^th Camberley Theatre, 16^th Taunton Brewhouse, 18^th Winchester Theatre RoyaL, 19^TH Tewkesbury Roses, 20^th Stevenage Gordon Craig, 21^st Tamworth Assembly Rooms

DETROIT COBRAS Garage punk party time JULY ^2nd Bristol Lost Horizon, 3^RD M’cr Rebellion, 4^th Glasgow Oran Mor 9 (w Primevals), 5^th Leeds Brudenell, 6^th London Camden Forge

THE SADIES Surf-twanged country-Canadiana JULY 3^rd Oxford Bullingdon, 4^th Leeds Brudenell, 5^th Eaton Farm Park Woodbridge, 6^th London 100 Club

ROSIE HOLT THAT’S POLITAINMENT ELECTION SPECIAL Soho Theatre, London, 3^rd & 4^th July. https://sohotheatre.com/events/rosie-holt-thats-politainment/

IDLER FESTIVAL Egghead art-wank events. Fenton House, Hampstead, London. July 5^th – 7^th. ZADIE SMITH . ROWAN WILLIAMS · TIM KEY. DOMINIC WEST · DJ PAULETTE · NINA STIBBE. ARTHUR SMITH · OLIVIA LAING · CHARLIE HIGSON. ROSIE HOLT · SALENA GODDEN · BEN MOOR. REBECCA & MICHAEL FRAYN · CALEB AZUMAH NELSON. GUY STANDING · LUCY COOKE · CHRIS LINTOTT . ANIEFIOK EKPOUDOM · MARK VERNON · CLARE POLLARD . GEORGIA MANN · GAVIN PRETOR-PINNEY · HENRY ELIOT . VIRGINIA IRONSIDE · CATHERINE FITZGERALD . GUY HAYWARD · LOUISA YOUNG · MIXMASTER MORRIS. SUNDRA LAWRENCE · RUTH IVO · ROWAN PELLING.ALISON COTTON · MURRAY LACHLAN YOUNG.LOUISE WINTER · ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH. DIVYANAND CAIRD · NATALIE WILDGOOSE. HARRY MOUNT & JOHN DAVIE · DIANA DE CABARRUS.ROB ORCHARD · LUCIA STUART · OLI BROADBENT.ELLA BERTHOUD · RACHEL KELLY · EMILY RHODES. https://www.idler.co.uk/festival/

DANIEL KITSON – COLLABORATOR. The world’s greatest living stand-up’s new show. JULY  7th and 8th – Bolton Octagon – On sale Now (with code Kitson2024). KISTON says, “You can still Buy or Rent Tree (a good film or a good play i did with good Tim Key in the solid past) by clicking HERE.”

PATTI SMITH QUARTET JULY 21^st London Somerset House

BLUE AEROPLANES 27th July, London Lafayette. Lone one-off from poet Gerard Langley’s televisionary performance art post-punks, generations of Bristol beatniks in full flight.

ART W SEANN WALSH The TV sex comedian, entertainment personality and conscientiously probing stand-up tackles Yasmina Reza’s much misunderstood masterpiece. Lighthouse Poole (29-31 Aug), Theatre Royal Bath (3-7 Sept), Norwich Theatre Royal (10-14 Sept), Mercury Theatre Colchester (17-21 Sept), Malvern Theatres (24-28 Sept), Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne (30 Sept-5 Oct), Nottingham Theatre Royal (7-12 Oct), Belgrade Theatre, Coventry (15-19 Oct) and Sheffield Lyceum Theatre (22-26 Oct).

MELT BANANA Japanese art rock geniuses return. SEP 1^st Grimsby Docks Academy, 10^th Carlisle Brickyard, 11^th Edinburgh Mash House, 12^th Glasgow Stereo, 17^th Ipswich Baths, 24^th Cardiff Globe. A must!!!

LLOYD COLE  Solo tour by the godfather of arch introspective indie  SEPT 4^th Limerick Lime Tree, 6^th Ballycotton Sea Church, 8^th Bexhill on Sea De La Ware Pavillion, 9^th Exeter Corn Exchange, 10^th Bath Komedia, 13^th Guildford G Live, 14^th Bury St Edmonds Apex, 16^th B’ham Town Hall, 18^th Shrewsbury Severn, 19^th Lytham St Anne’s Lowther Pavillion, 21^st Hamilton Town House, 22^nd Greenock Beacon, 24^th Whitley Bay Playhouse, 25^th Ilkley King’s Hall, 26^th Sheffield City Hall

CAROL VORDERMAN The Pepper Potts of pinko politics uses maths  and memory to hold the world to account. SEPT 13^th M’cr Home, 14^th Chester Storyhouse, 15^th Bristol Old Vic, 17^th Oxford Playhouse, 20^th Guildford G Live, 21^st London QEH, 24^th B’ham Town Hall, 25^th Cardiff New, 27^th Newcastle Tyne Theatre, 28^th Doncaster Cast, 30^th Buxton Opera House https://www.carolvordermanlive.com

MARK RADCLIFFE AND MARC RILEY LIVE SEPT 26^th Shepherd’s Bush Empire London NOV 3^rd Shrewsbury Severn, 5^th Crewe Lyceum, 10^th Warrington Parr Hall.

MUDHONEY Grunge godheads still growling, SEPT 27^th Brighton Concorde 1, 28^th M’cr New Century, 29^th Glasgow St Luke’s, OCT 1^st Bristol Academy, 2^nd London Electric Ballroom

LONG RYDERS Another final chance to see the resurrected and now seemingly immortal Alt Country Punk pioneers – like the Clash gone Nashville – The Long Ryders. OCTOBER 10^th Glasgow Oran Mor, 11^th Birkenhead Future Yard, 13^th M’cr Band On The Wall, 14^th Nottingham Metronom2, 16^th London 229, 18^th St Leonards Piper

ALFIE BROWN Brilliant pure stand-up – Edinburgh Fringe & Touring https://www.alfiebrowncomedian.com/

TIRZAH GARWOOD: Beyond Ravilious, Dulwich Picture Gallery London, 19 November 2024–26 May 2025. The first major exhibition devoted to the artist and designer Tirzah Garwood (1908–1951) since 1952. Best known until now as the wife of Eric Ravilious and as the author of the autobiography Long Live Great Bardfield, Garwood excelled as a fine artist and printmaker. Her diverse and enchanting works are gems of the mid-20th century.

THE DAMNED Black Album/Strawberries line-up, with hard-wristed Holy Grail headhunter Rat Scabies back on drums. DEC 4^th Newcastle NX, 5^th Glasgow Barrowlands, 6^th M’c Academy, 8^th Leeds Academy, 9^th Nottingham Rock City, 10^th W’hampton Halls, 12^th Bristol Beacon, 13^th S’hampton Guuildhall, 14^th Eastbourne Winter Gardens, 16^th Cambs Corn X, 18^th London Roundhouse

22) IN OUR LAMENTATIONS 2024

Tony Oxley (Sheffield’s Sunny Murray, 1938)
John M Burns (His modesty blazed, 1939)
John Pilger (News terrier, 1939)
David Soul (The covered man, an inspiration 1943)
Annie Nightingale (Gateway drug, 1940)
Pitchfork (Signal to noise, 1996)
Mary Weiss (She led the pack, 1948)
Chris Karrer (Archangel’s Thunderbirdman, 1947)
Iasos (Greek space muso, 1947)
Phil Niblock (NY art noise, 1933)
Pluto Shervington (Ram Goat Liver Eater, 1950)
Tisa Farrow (Zombies ripped her flesh, 1951)
Norman Jewison (Rollerball Superstar, 1926)
Neil Kulkarni (Era-enhancing music critic, 1972)
Wayne Kramer (He kicked out the jams motherfucker, 1945)
Steve Brown (He left Avalon and taught the world to sing, 1954)
Christopher Priest (Dorset future-ist, 1943)
Aston “Family Man” Barrett (dub bass headcase, 1946)
Ian Lavender (Don’t tell him, Pike, 1946)
Damo Suzuki (Krautrock witness cuddled me & Noel Fielding, 1950)
John Rotheroe (Shire Book Seer, 1935)
Steve Wright (massive old-skool pro made it look easy, 1954)
Ewen Mackintosh (Office secondary superstar, 1973)
Alan Tomlinson (Jazz trombonist, dry northern wit, beatnik, 1947)
Jenni Nuttall (Chaucerian)
Richard Lewis (Worthwhile American comedian, 1947)
Nick Dimbleby (Sculptor of note, scholar, gentleman, comedy fan, 1946)
Edward Bond (Whitehouse-infuriator, 1934)
Karl Wallinger (Waterboys’ prime period pianist, 1957)
Eric Carmen (Raspberry sensation, 1949)
Wally Shoup (Hard-blowin’ hero, 1944)
The Wye Salmon (pollution-fucked fish)
Paul Brett (Crazy World guitarist, 1947)
Shane Baldwin (Vice Squad drummer and punk scribe, 1963)
John Sinclair (Beatnik, 1941)
Carl Andre (None more brick, 1935)
Graeme Naysmith (Pale Saint)
Marian Zazeela (Eternal Musician, 1940)
Shelley Ganz (Claimed, at last, 1959)
Steve Albini (Big blackhead, 1962)
Dennis Thompson (He also kicked out the jams motherfucker, 1948)
Gary Floyd (Double happy dick punk, 1953)
Roger Corman (King of the Bees, 1926)
Doug Ingle (The Iron Butterfly, 1945)
Gerry Conway (Folk drummer for hire, 1947)
Nicholas Ball (His house bled to death, 1946)
Larry Page (Wild thingy, 1936)
Francois Hardy (Chanteuse genieuse, 1944)
Arthur Gaps Hendrickson (Selectaman under pressure, 1951)
James Chance (He contorted himself, 1953)
Donald Sutherland (Kilroy was here, 1935)
Dexter Romwebber (Guitar jet, 1966)
Clarence Frogman Henry (Anthropomorphic blues amphibian, 1937)
Randy Fuller (He fought the law, 1944)
Lucy Rimmer (She fell briefly on a birthday)
Callum The Highland Red Deer (Killed by twat tourists’ food)