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Evan Parker – My Favourite Londoner - November 2006 Time Out - November 1st, 2006

When I am stationed abroad as a stand-up, in New York, Montreal or Melbourne, I spend hours searching for venues showcasing the kind of sounds that are right here on my doorstep all along. London, and specifically North London, is the best place for free-improvised music in the world, and the saxophonist Evan Parker is…

Albert Ayler - October 2006 The Sunday Times - By Stewart Lee - October 8th, 2006

Albert Ayler’s body was retrieved from the East River in Brooklyn on the 25th of November, 1970, a few months after his 34th birthday. The saxophonist grew up in Cleveland, left to find work as a musician playing in restaurants in Sweden in 1962, and returned to New York, changed and inspired, to take the…

The Fall, Live - September 2006 The Sunday Times - September 17th, 2006

The notriously volatile cult group The Fall played four London dates over the course of five nights. The final show, at a delightful Irish showband venue in Cricklewood, saw two of the line-up that played at Brick Lane’s 93 Feet East on Moday already departed. When jazz soloists seek out new collaborators, it’s seen as…

Patti Smith Live At QEH, London - September 2006 The Sunday Times - September 10th, 2006

The Seventies New York punk survivor Patti Smith reminds us of what we have lost. Smith still believes music and poetry can change the world, and, in a time where Bono Vox poses for photo-op’s with George Bush, asking us to visualise the bigger, if severely blurred picture, her stark, uncompromising sloganeering seems increasingly of…

The World’s Greatest Art Event & How To Survive It - July 2006 The Guardian - July 8th, 2006

There are few things upon which I am qualified to express an opinion. I have no interest in sport, and only last night was shamed by a Bulgarian mini-cab driver who could not belive I didn’t know the World Cup was about to start. I cannot understand electricty, its meaning, or its practice. I have…

Lost in translation - May 2006 The Guardian - By Stewart Lee - May 23rd, 2006

In 1873 the British scholar and traveller Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain visited Japan. He recorded his views of the nation’s music in his subsequent book, Japanese Things: Being Notes On Various Subjects Connected With Japan. “Music,” he wrote, “if that beautiful word must be allowed to fall so low as to denote the strummings and…

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