Motorhead – Aftershock - November 2013 November 3rd, 2013

Separate Motorhead’s 20th album from the Lemmy legend, and it’s a set of effective punk metal belters. But the 67 year old frontman’s ravaged growl remains unique, unexpectedly suggesting a speed-damaged Louis Armstrong on the contemplative Dust And Glass. Keep Your Power Dry sees enduring outlaw truisms coagulate into the gnomic, but the album’s fatally…

Comedy genius of a 45-year-old railing against the world - October 2013 This Is Cornwall - By David Thomas - October 31st, 2013

REVIEWING a comedy show is normally a pretty straightforward affair. Simply cherry-pick two or three of the best gags from the evening (filtering for a family audience of course), babble about audience reaction, add a cliché or two, and it’s job done. However, reviewing Stewart Lee is a much more complicated affair. For a start,…

King Crimson – The Road To Red - October 2013 October 27th, 2013

King Crimson’s epochal 1974 album Red remains progressive rock’s finest recording, collaborative and curiously egoless, its brutality as undeniable as its beauty. So, who wants a 24 disc set of American live dates leading up to Red? Someone, evidently. Crimson spew recent wrestles with free improvisation at the emerging edifice of supersized stadium rock, tilting…

The Devil – The Devil - October 2013 October 27th, 2013

For two decades Ben Wallers has been head-butting hotspots of race and gender, but his viscerally shambolic garage band The Country Teasers were sacred clowns, not dangerous dictators. The Devil, however, is a polished gothic edifice, Wallers dwarfed by the sepulchral keyboards and Frippertronic guitars of some Satanic ’70s Italian prog band. A stunning ten…

Review: Stewart Lee @ Colston Hall ★★★★ - October 2013 Intermission Bristol - By Sid Sagar - October 26th, 2013

Stewart Lee has long been held in high regard and has been branded as “probably the cleverest comedian working in Britain” (Guardian). Given this reputation, the anticipation at the sold out Colston Hall was almost tangible as the lights went down. Lee emerged to rapturous applause before explaining that the material for this ‘Much a-Stew…

Stewart Lee: Edinburgh Festival Theatre – 9th October 2013 - October 2013 YoungPerspective.net - By Catriona Davidson - October 21st, 2013

Comedian Stewart Lee is currently on tour in the UK, performing with the original name “Much a Stew about Nothing”, a title which set the bar for the show itself. In the usually full Festival Theatre, Lee was much less anticipated, performing to less than a third of the venue, a fact which he was…