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A PRESS RELEASE FOR BOOTHBY GRAFFOE’S 4TH ALBUM - January 2012 Boothby Graffoe Sleevenotes - By Stewart Lee - January 1st, 2012
Most stand-ups secretly want to be rock stars, their ambitions thwarted only by their total lack of musical ability. This man is unique amongst comedians, in that he’s a real musician, who has been moonlighting as a funnyman since re-naming himself after a Lincolnshire village sometime during the Thatcher era. Cut from the same English…
SLEEVE NOTES FOR A FLYING NUN RECORDS SAMPLER, NOV 2011 - November 2011 Flying Nun Sampler - By Stewart Lee - November 1st, 2011
The Eighties is still regarded as something of a wasteland for rock, the first period in which the relentless forward motion that had propelled white boy guitar music from rock and roll, through acid rock and into punk, had run out of steam in a mess of hair metal and anthemic stadium-sized post-punk derivatives. The…
Heard the one about the right-on comics who HATE the funniest man in Britain? - July 2011 The Daily Mail - By Jan Moir - July 19th, 2011
Stewart Lee: What I really think about Michael McIntyre - July 2011 Chortle - July 19th, 2011
On Sunday, at 2.26 in the afternoon, a man claiming to be the transport correspondent of the Daily Telegraph rang me up asking me why I had described Michael McIntyre as ‘spoon-feeding his audience warm diarrhoea’. I hung up, assuming it was some weird prank call, like the people who ring me at 3am asking…