The comedy gods have smiled upon us. Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle is back again for a third series. Of course there is no god, comedy or otherwise, so let’s just celebrate the return to television of contemporary stand up’s smartest sage. In fact there are two smart sages for the price of one here. Chris…
Luminaries of the Melbourne mafia gathered around the multi-instrumentalist Murray Patterson to soundtrack found ‘70s super8 footage of the New South Wales coastline. Patterson’s lap steel, its swooping sweeps familiar from Tex Perkins’ pellucid Dark Horses records, lends a rustic flavor to the group’s quietly expansive compositions, though there’s an empty space in the shape…