1) ROBYN HITCHCOCK AT EARTH THIS SATURDAY 14TH I am compering British psychedelic legend Robyn Hitchcock’s show at Earth in Hackney, London this Saturday September 14th, and doing a 30 min greatest hits set. https://earthackney.co.uk/events/robyn-hitchcock-14th-sep-earth-london-tickets-pwq7y/ 2) GLOUCESTER HISTORY FESTIVAL THIS SUNDAY 15TH https://www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/stewart-lee-in-conversation/ I am in conversation with the Goth antiquarian Janina Ramirez this Sunday…
Stewart Lee performs his latest tour show Basic Lee filmed in April at The Lowry in Salford. Superficially an uncharacteristically simple Stewart Lee show, in which the gnomic fifty-six-year-old veteran attempts to define by example what stand-up comedy is, Basic Lee slowly reveals a subtext about staying sane by re-structuring reality. But Lee’s most personal…
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 3rd December 2024 – 17th January 2025 AND UK TOURING THROUGHOUT 2025 In this brand-new show, Lee shares his stage with a tough-talking werewolf comedian from…
“Spotify’s opaque algorithm rewards conformity to rigid metrics, including song length, and the prominence of chorus and hooks, and actively punishes any kind of experimentation … this method of recommendation is harmful because of the drag it will have on pop.” – John Doran of The Quietus BASIC LEE The tour of the current stand-up…