FROM STEWART LEE – Sept 25 – As slippery as a greasy pig since 1968 - September 2025 September 1st, 2025

IRISH ANNOUNCEMENT Stewart Lee will tour to Dublin, Drogheda, Derry, Wexford, Cork, and Waterford in June 2026, his first tour to Ireland in 14 years. June 2026 Monday 1st June 2026 – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin – TICKETS Tuesday 2nd June 2026 – Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin – TICKETS Wednesday 3rd June 2026 – The…

Richly illuminating new podcast asks What Happened to Counter-Culture? - August 2025 The Financial TImes - By Fiona Sturgess - August 25th, 2025

It was “the most glorious, bravest, the most splendid music”, says British folk singer Shirley Collins of her time collecting folk songs at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in the 1950s. “It was all recorded out in the open, so there was a wonderful echo there.” Collins, the one-time leading light of the postwar British folk…

Is counterculture dead – or mainstream? - August 2025 The Observer - By Katherine Cowles - August 10th, 2025

Shirley Collins didn’t think much of Bob Dylan when she first saw him play at the Troubadour in London. He was an American, singing American songs, badly. Worse, he wasn’t wearing a Stetson, which might have helped to set pulses racing. “We didn’t know what to make of him,” she tells Stewart Lee in his…

Radio review #4: What Happened to Counter-Culture? - August 2025 Simon Warner's Substack - By Simon Warner - August 7th, 2025

IT IS HARDLY unhelpful, for the readers of this website, to report that a new BBC radio series on the history of the transatlantic counterculture begins with Allen Ginsberg reading in a 1950s performance of ‘Howl’ in the US and ends with the same poet speaking with a similar and distinctive tone at 1965’s International…

FROM STEWART LEE – AUG 25 – As slippery as a greasy pig since 1968 - July 2025 July 30th, 2025

1. ALEXANDRA PALACE LONDON MAN-WULF RUN FEB 3RD-15TH 2026 STEWART LEE VS THE MAN-WULF. The unstoppable Man-Wulf show has another London run, having already done 12000 seats at Royal Festival Hall and 12000 seats at Leicester Sq Theatre. It’s sure to look great in the gothic confines of the Alexandra Palace theatre. My favourite show…

FROM STEWART LEE – July ’25 – As slippery as a greasy pig since 1968 - June 2025 June 26th, 2025

1. ARTS EMERGENCY IN AN EMERGENCY ARTS EMERGENCY is a charity I have done stuff for in the past. Its work is more important than ever and the situation for the people it helps has worsened considerably since it was set up. Please help fund them. Neil Art says, “Arts Emergency is a charity and…