Jimmy Carr, Dave Chappelle and Vladimir Putin feature as Stewart Lee’s Snowflake/Tornado returns two years after lockdown - March 2022 Kent Online - By Ed McConnell - March 1st, 2022

What a difference two years makes. When I was last sat in Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre awaiting the arrival of Stewart Lee it was against a backdrop of impending doom. He was set to play two nights here as part of his Snowflake/Tornado tour in March 2020, but things were cut short after the first. In…

Snowflake/Tornado Live Review – Brighton Dome 25/02/22 - February 2022 Woodland Decay - By Mark Hughes - February 26th, 2022

It is the 18th of February 2020 and I am sitting in Row B of the Circle at the Brighton Dome (Dome) for the Snowflake/Tornado tour. After two years of pandemic and confusion, we reach the 25th of February 2022 and I now sit in Row A of the Circle at the Dome for the…

FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee January 2022 - January 2022 January 2nd, 2022

1) COVID TICKET NEWS – LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE AND BEYOND We are now in the same position as in March 2020, where there is a tension between advice to avoid places and events, and the fact that the gvt aren’t actually closing pubs and theatres. I can’t reschedule the tour of SNOWFLAKE TORNADO a 4th…

A Stewart Lee DANCE PLAYLIST - October 2020 October 15th, 2020

DEAR FANS If you would like to dance around in your home in real time from 11-midnight THIS SATURDAY NIGHT (17th Oct) I have complied an hr of dancing music for Ian Watson’s currently virtual club night HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE LOVED. Apparently I once made Peter Baynham and Ian Watson laugh at…

What’s the story with Britpop and Covid denial? - September 2020 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - September 20th, 2020

On Monday, the Oasis pop star Noel Gallagher announced his suspicion of masks: “If I get the virus it’s on me, it’s not on anyone else… it’s a piss-take,” declared the People’s Virologist. “There’s no need for it… They’re pointless.” The previous week, in a punctuation-resistant statement Auto-Tuned into near coherence, former Stone Roses singer…

Virus / Tornado Work in Progresseseses - September 2020 September 11th, 2020

Dear FANS I am doing some small shows to work out a rewrite of the SNOWFLAKE half of SNOWFLAKE/TORNADO which hits the road again to complete its interrupted tour next Spring. The shows will be one hour and will be messy new material. They will take place under social distance rules and regs and the…