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Pop culture’s past is growing faster than its present - February 2013 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - February 3rd, 2013
Saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell: appreciated by 17-year-olds and septuagenarians. Photograph: Massimo Valicchia/Demotix/Corbis Just before Christmas, I saw the early-80s Boston hardcore band Mission of Burma in a Shoreditch cellar, playing to a crowd of young people barely born this century, typically too inarticulate to explain exactly what had led them to a room I expected to…
Sun Zoom Spark - February 2013 Beaux Arts, London - By Stewart Lee - February 1st, 2013
Sun Zoom Spark takes its title from a song by Anthony Frost’s beloved Captain Beefheart, the Mojave desert avant-blues auteur and abstract neo-primitivist who died in 2010. Much has been written already of the importance of music in Frost’s work. Perhaps, on arriving in Cornwall, critics can’t help but expect artists to cite the light…
As HMP goes under, we can wave goodbye to underpant passion - January 2013 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - January 20th, 2013
Mine is a generation of men that was defined by its underpants. We prized them for their garish styles and loud colours; and because they annoyed our baffled parents, still shell-shocked from the second world war; and because they told people – teachers, the police, girls – who we were. It is painful for men…
New year raises the eternal question: is it possible to live a life without crisps? - January 2013 The Observer - By Stewart Lee - January 13th, 2013
Crisps. Those perfect golden wonders transform even the loneliest moments into treasured memories. Consumed with caution, crisps provide salty rewards for the dreary daily tasks of my paternal and professional duties. As a child, every school holiday I would be left in the hot car outside a succession of Devon pubs with only a pint…
2012 End Of Year Round Ups - December 2012 The Sunday Times / Wire Magazine / Faber - December 31st, 2012
BOOKS: David Rees’ How To Sharpen Pencils, Penguin’s new edition of Arthur Machen’s White People, Savage Continent by Keith Lowe, a deliberately unreliable history of obscure ’90s comedy called You Are Nothing by Robert Wringham, Julian Cope’s Copendium, Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics The Untold Story. TV: Endeavor (Young Morse) on ITV. BBC’s Sherlock Holmes, Call…
Happy Birthday Conan The Existentialist - December 2012 TheQuietUs - By Stewart Lee - December 13th, 2012
“Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars…. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword…