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…

LONDON LIFES 7 – THE BABY MAN - March 2007 What's On In London - By Stewart Lee - March 6th, 2007

Peter Fleurdelys is employed by Hackney Council as a Men’s Birthing Awareness Generation Officer. I’m the Hackney Council Men’s Birthing Awareness Generation Officer. If you’ve ever attended an ante-natal class maybe you’ve already seen me. I come in late at the end of the official class wearing a cycling helmet, and hand out leaflets about…