LONDON LIFES 12 – SAVAGE CLINKING - April 2007 What's On In London - By Stewart Lee - April 10th, 2007

Savage Clinking is a punk-historian, and is the author of almost two books on the music and politics of the era, featuring random use of capitals and some photos of Sid Vicious falling over. So, farewell then, Hammersmith Palais, venue of PUNK Legends. Long may you ROT in peace! I was there when THE PISTOLS…

LONDON LIFES 11 – ANTON FREEZEY-COLD - April 2007 What's On In London - By Stewart Lee - April 3rd, 2007

Anton Freezey-Cold is an ice-cream man. He can usually be seen in Regent’s Park in hot weather. I been selling ice creams since I first come here in 1958. The hotter it is weather-wise, the more ice cream I sell, sales-wise. I sell a lot of ice cream these days. This George Bush, saying Global…

LONDON LIFES 10 – BRENT CROSS - March 2007 What's On In London - By Stewart Lee - March 27th, 2007

Brent Cross is a security guard at the Brent Cross Shopping Centre. He is 37 years old and was born in Wellington, New Zealand. I suppose it was inevitable that I would end up working at Brent Cross. I was born to Mr and Mrs Peter Cross, in New Zealand in 1970, two British hippies…

LONDON LIFES 9 – MERVIN GRIFFIN - March 2007 What's On In London - By Stewart Lee - March 20th, 2007

Mervin Griffin is a mythological heraldic beast with the body of a Lion and the wings and head of an Eagle. He lives in a nest in a tree on a small island on the River Thames in the South West London borough of Brentford, eating mainly dead rats and discarded MacDonalds packaging, and was…

LONDON LIFES 8 – A MOUSE - March 2007 What's On In London - By Stewart Lee - March 13th, 2007

Mus Musculus is a house mouse, currently resident in London’s fashionable West End. People say that in London that no-one is ever more than six feet away from a mouse. But we in the London Mouse Community have our own saying. “In London, no mouse is ever more than six feet away from a piece…

The Cowboy Junkies - March 2007 The Sunday Times - March 11th, 2007

In November 1986, The Cowboy Junkies huddled around a single microphone in a Toronto church to record their breakthough second album, The Trinity Sessions. The four Timmins siblings played country music in a spacious, spooked style, like a Nashville Velvet Underground, but when their third album, The Caution Horses, arrived on a major label sounding…