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Stewart Lee – WARNING! DOES NOT CONTAIN COMEDY. - April 2014 GrayComedy Blog - April 26th, 2014
I went to see the Usurp Chance Tour featuring Stewart Lee at the Komedia in Brighton a couple of weeks ago. Now before pretentious musos start shouting at their computer screens, yes I knew it wasn’t going to be a comedy show. I mean, lots of people there didn’t realise this and expected some Comedy…
Stewart Lee/Indeterminacy review – ‘riffling through Cage’s subconscious’ - March 2014 The Guardian - By Alfred Hickling - March 30th, 2014
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool: Eastern poetry, mushrooms and Schoenberg’s composition classes emerged as recurring themes in Lee’s randomly ordered readings from John Cage’s anthology Comedian, Observer commentator and experimental-music fan Stewart Lee has a great line about the branch of Nando’s that displaced his favourite jazz club: “They ought to introduce a new menu which, through…
Usurp Chance Tour With Stewart Lee, Komedia, Brighton - March 2014 The Brighton Argus - By Kirsty Levett - March 26th, 2014
In Komedia’s laidback underground North Laine lair, tables on the stage were covered in toys. A child’s Speak & Spell, modified stylophones, a Barbie strapped to a sitar and a biscuit tin, just a few of the curios on display, were a colourful aesthetic introduction to the Conspirators of Pleasure. Promising to introduce us to…
Stewart Lee meets John Cage at Kings Place - September 2012 BachTrack.com - By Paul Kilbey - September 27th, 2012
They say you should never meet your heroes. But they don’t say anything about them meeting each other, so I had very little idea of what to expect at Kings Place on Monday night when comedian Stewart Lee performed John Cage. In the event, this was a hugely enjoyable short recital, though I do wonder…