Pick Of The Day - March 2014 The Observer - March 16th, 2014

Pick Of The Day - March 2014 The Guardian Guide - March 15th, 2014

Pick Of The Day - March 2014 The Daily Telegraph - March 15th, 2014

Pick Of The Day - March 2014 The Times Review - March 15th, 2014

Drive-By Truckers – English Oceans - March 2014 March 10th, 2014

In the last few years critics have ‘come round’ to Athens Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers, accepting the band’s apparently incompatible stew of rousing redneck roots rock and Modern American Poetry professor wordplay as a deliberate artistic choice, rather than a naïve accident. The highlight of their 12th album is Primer Coat, where propulsive Byrdlike arpeggios sharpen…

Stewart Lee: Beware – this man may be only joking - March 2014 The Independent - By James Hanning - March 9th, 2014

The first thing to know about comic Stewart Lee is that much that has appeared about him in print isn’t true. He was not at Oxford with David Cameron. He didn’t invent Alan Partridge. And he is not slavishly politically correct with a smug contempt for his audiences. (He wishes there were more, funny un-PC…