Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit - March 2014 March 5th, 2014

Like Happy Mondays, The Fall, and William Blake, Sleaford Mods are English visionary ranters, seeing the big picture reflected in the toilet bowl. The East Midlands duo’s second album throws Andrew Fearn’s decade dissolving scuffed dance loops and churning post-punk bass under Jason Williamson’s kitchen sink hallucinations, profanity strewn, furiously funny. Reporting from Poundland Britain’s…

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle Season 3 - March 2014 Digital Fix - By John White - March 4th, 2014

Now being funny is a serious business. If you can make a name on panel game shows and then fill out stadia with your well rehearsed schtick you can make money hand over fist. In the last ten years, people like Michael Macintyre have followed the well worn path of monetary success by following this…

‘not the cheeky chappy next door’ - March 2014 The Metro - March 3rd, 2014

Stewart Lee declared he’s ‘not the cheeky chappy next door’ in response to criticism from the likes of fellow comic Lee Mack who accused him of being part of the ‘Oxbridge mafia’. I’m not the cheeky chappy next door,’ declared Stewart Lee helpfully at the top of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle (BBC2), just in case…

TV On Remand: The Funniest Show On TV - March 2014 askmen.com - By Michael Hogan - March 2nd, 2014

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle isn’t your traditional Saturday night TV comedy. There’s no sparkly suits, dazzling white grins or jazz hands here. No smell of the crowd or roar of the greasepaint. Instead, there’s a fat, depressed Todd Carty lookalike (his description, honest) mumbling into a microphone in a working men’s club. This weekend’s comeback…

TV review: Stewart Lee’s guilt trip makes for a brilliantly rude awakening - March 2014 The Independent - By Ellen E Jones - March 2nd, 2014

It’s almost impossible to review Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle (Saturday, BBC2), the meta-stand-up show which has returned for a third series, because Stewart Lee is his own best critic; he’s already done the hard work for us. So, as he put it, this episode was both “weaving magic out of thin air” and “some sort…

Carla Bozulich – Boy - March 2014 March 2nd, 2014

Bozulich’s 2002 album Red Headed Stranger illuminated the itinerant art-punk survivor’s exhaustingly immersive world with familiar country and western sounds, but here she’s adrift in an alien landscape of tortured heroin-blues and unstructured torch songs, scarred by industrial noise and collapsing percussion. There are no simple signposts in this stormy sea, but if Boy emerged…