FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee – NOVOBER 2021 - October 2021 October 30th, 2021

1) KING ROCKER CINEMA TOUR Our labour of love Nightingales rockumentary King Rocker really landed. I arrogantly think it knocks most rockumentaries into a cocked hat and will cheer you up no end in the awful times. “I loved every minute” – Ben Dowell, The Times **** Financial Times **** Chortle “One of the best…

THESE FERAL LANDS, Vol. 1 - November 2020 Boomkat.com - November 13th, 2020

Laura Cannell invites Stewart Lee, foghorn fetishist Jennifer Lucy Allen, Irish cellist Kate Ellis, and musician/writer Polly Wright to the table for a suite of haunting, real and imagined musical lanndscapes Laura’s follow-up to her superb ‘Sing As The Crow Flies’ album with Polly Wright, and unexpected synth-pops as Hunteress for our Documenting Sound series,…

Laura Cannell & Stewart Lee: These Feral Lands Volume 1 – A fevered collection - November 2020 Irish Times - By Siobhan Long - November 13th, 2020

If ever there was a collection of, by and for our times, this is it. English composer, recorder player and violinist Laura Cannell dives into the deep end of these endlessly deep ended days, in search of a connection to the folklore of her people. Her unlikely collaborator is English comedian Stewart Lee, whose conjured…

FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee – Oct 2020 0000AC - September 2020 September 18th, 2020

“Ghastly, puritanical, po-faced, sanctimonious, finger-wagging, Woke-Witchfinder-in-Chief” Toby Young, Twitter “Sphincter-poppingly angry, totally unamusing and uninsightful, and painfully, excruciatingly right-on. A bitter, politically correct member of the Remain-voting liberal elite. The type of comedy which is not designed to provoke laughter so much as solemn head-nodding and applause at the politically correct sentiment.” James Delingpole, Steve…

Laura Cannell – These Feral Lands V1 - September 2020 September 9th, 2020

Laura Cannell – Violin & Voice is joined by Stewart Lee – Writer & Comedian, the Contemporary Irish Cellist Kate Ellis, the Writer & Broadcaster – Jennifer Lucy Allan and Musician& Writer Polly Wright. “Wherever we lay our heads, in cities, villages, marshes or borderlands, in this century or the next, we will have the…

TUSK INTERVIEWS #2: LAURA CANNELL AND STEWART LEE - September 2020 Tusk Festival - By Laura Cannell - September 9th, 2020

Laura Cannell: Hi Stewart, So here we go, I thought I would ask you some questions and please can you can ask me some too? A conversation really… We were going to work together live for the first time in July at Kings Place which has now been postponed until 2021, the idea for a…