CANCELLED GIGS

I had to cancel some previews in June in London and Chippenham. I am sorry.
First of all I was bitten five times in my sleep by a False Widow Spider and it went septic and I had to go into hospital and go on a drip and be on drugs for ages lying down.

I have rescheduled the Chippenham show and some London ones.

CONTENT PROVIDER BOOK

I have a new book out on August 4th, Content Provider, through Faber. “Over the last five years, often when David Mitchell has been on holiday, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain, and his own place in it, in a series of irregular newspaper columns. Will Scotland become the Promised Land of the Left? Is it possible to live a life without crisps? Who was Grant Shapps? What does your Spotify playlist data say about you? Are Jeremy Corbyn and Stewart Lee really the new Christs? And so on. Selected, introduced and, where necessary, explained by the author and corrected by readers, Content Provider is funny, grumpy, provocative, confusing and brilliant.”

This is the Faber link: http://www.faber.co.uk/shop/drama/9780571329021-content-provider.html

This is an Amazon link:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Content-Provider-Selected-Pieces-2011-2016/dp/0571329020/

CONTENT PROVIDER TOUR

This clunky title, as well as being the same name as my next book, will be another full-on, finished, Carpet Remnant/41st Best/Milder Comedian type epic show, with projections, although the exact material is currently in freefall post-Brexit. Until Dec the shows are work-in-progs and then I will tour it for about 18 months (everywhere in UK and EIRE, except Carlisle) into mid-2018, unless there is no demand for it. Here’s some dates.

AUG
Stand, Edinburgh – Content Provider.

OCT
11th – 15th, 18th – 20th Digital Content Provider w free DVD, Leicester Sq Theatre London

NOV (Digital Content Provider w free DVD)
November 1st – Watford Colosseum – 7.30pm – 01923 571102 – TICKETS
November 2nd – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – 8pm – 0151 709 3789 – TICKETS
November 3rd  – Cambridge Corn Exchange – 8pm – 01223 357851 – TICKETS
November 4th – Cardiff St. David’s Hall – 8pm – 029 2087 8444 – TICKETS
November 6th  – Newcastle Upon Tyne Theatre Royal – 7.30pm – 08448 11 21 21 – TICKETS

NOV (Content Provider)
8th – 12th, 15th – 19th, 22nd 24th, 29th Leicester Sq Theatre, London

DEC (Content Provider)
1st – 3rd, 5th -8th, 10 Leics Sq Theatre

JAN 2017
2-7, 9-10, 12-14, 16-21, 23-28 Leics Sq Theatre

Unpaid Charity Benefit Shows

As usual, I continue to work tirelessly for charity.
Sept 14th – White Helmets Syria @ Union Chapel w Michael Legge, Bridget Christie, Nish Kumar, Eleanor Tiernan

Other live s-up Dates

(mainly 30 mins sets w some previews)

August
19th Edinburgh Book Fest
22nd Simon Munnery 30th Anniversary Show – Alan Parker’s Urban Warriors.

SEPT
2nd – 4th End Of The Road
9th Martin Soan’s gig, South London
12th Tattershall Castle, London
15th Soho Theatre, London
24th Union Chapel, London
27th Soho Theatre
28th Soho Theatre
29th Chippenham, rescheduled

OCT
1st Aldeburgh Comedy Festival
3rd Susan Murray’s Covent Garden gig
4th and 5th Red Imp, London
6th Sevenoaks somewhere w Maff Brown
7th Bush Hall, London
10th Happy Mondays, London

Global Globules with Baconface

On Wednesdays at 11pm on Resonance 104.4 fm and on the station website, the barely present cult Canadian stand-up comedian Baconface continues to play lengthy and mainly uninterrupted selections from his late brother’s extensive record collection of ’60s and ’70s psychedelia, progressive rock, free jazz, folk, acid folk, folk rock, acid rock, electronic music, and ethnoforgeries. In association with the Chilliwack Office of Leisure. [Repeated Saturday 4am.] The shows can also be heard here.. http://www.baconfacecanada.com/global-globules/

Resonance is a groundbreaking 24/7 radio station which broadcasts on 104.4 FM to central London, DAB to Greater London, nationally on Radioplayer and live streamed to the rest of the world.

TWO POSTS ON JULIAN COPE’S WEBSITE GUESTBOOK, THE SECOND VERY INSPIRING

At the moment I don’t know what to say about Brexit in the widest sense or, more narrowly, how it affects my future as a stand-up comedian or a British citizen. I am lucky that I am not playing comedy club gigs to politically split rooms, my future bookings dependent on promoters’ anxieties about not alienating the punters. I can’t see how you can write a tour show for the whole of the UK that will have any consistency in its reception from region to region. Maybe that is the angle to embrace?
In the meantime, this exchange on Julian Cope’s website’s guestbook inspired me. Although I concede that Sin Agog, like many of us, has the luxury of inviting people to frown at the sight of him. There are people now experiencing hostility that they haven’t invited or provoked.
Anyway….

Sanctuary: “We need to stop all the bickering and accept that we are now all in this together whether we like it or not and work together to re-stabilise this wonderful country after the shock the ‘remainers’ suffered just a few days ago. Be honest with yourselves and admit that if you had voted out, this is exactly what you would be saying now yourselves to the remainers who didn’t get their way. I’m sure in time all the issues troubling folk will be resolved, but we need to work together to make that happen. You know it makes sense. Let’s do it!”

Sin Agog: “Your way assimilation lies. The remaining left needs to wriggle and bite and snap else we’ll become tamed, broken-in zoo animals, pacing up and down our tiny cages whilst yokels stare at us. We need to become as angry and virulent as the ’80s anarcho culture. Become as passionate as the most ardent of EDL and UKIP members. If we are to be pushed ever further into the fringes, then we should revel in the freedom that affords us. We should make passersby frown at the sight of us, though secretly wishing they had the stones and strength to shake off their bridles, too. We should be like Havel, open-eyed dreamers convening at wild, noisy Plastic People of the Universe concerts and sewing the seeds for the future despite incredible odds. We must be the sorest, most ignoble of losers; guerilla soldiers, picking off bright red infantrymen abiding by the tenets of an outdated rulebook.”

MICHAEL GOVE’S TEENAGE POEM

In the early 80s I was published in a book of precocious teenagers’ poems, alongside Michael Gove and Kieron Winn, who became a proper poet.
My poem was rubbish, but I didn’t go on to wreck the UK, did I? The one by the teenage Michael Gove was worse. It comes from the point of view of a weird loner with a grudge, hell bent on revenge, and one wonders if this is what it has all been about, all along. The first verse seems especially ironic now.

Larking About – Michael A Gove

Facile words in Flexible mouths
Play games that no-one can win.
The verbal delights of social engagements
Are wearing audibly thin.

The constant retelling of lewd innuendoes
Assails your sensitive ears.
The score is the number of women you’ve had
Whilst still keeping down all those beers.

The vomit lies not on the floor though.
They keep it stored up in their heads
For constant recycling at parties
On the way to acquiring more beds.

Their clothes are as sharp as their talking.
Their hair is impeccably styled.
They are the beautiful people
But in their mouths beauty has died.

A Cat Called Paul Nuttalls

IN EARLY 2015 I had a long routine about a cat named after UKIP politicians, but I had to drop it over the Summer of 2015, and re-write it to be about Corbyn. So utterly had UKIP dropped from public consciousness that no-one was even interested enough in them to laugh at them. Of course, now they are a major force again, so here are 2 versions live of the routine from the spring of 2015.

Click this link to download them…

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