CONTENT PROVIDER BBC2

A 2 hr film of the Content Provider Tour is PROBABLY on BBC2 on Saturday 4th August, I think, at 11 pm, not 28th July or July 8th as previously announced.

This is to give the material the best possible chance of being out of date as the political structure of the UK collapses around us.

COMEDY VEHICLE ON I-PLAYER

All four series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle will be going live on lucky Friday 13th of July at 10am as a box set on the BBC I-player.
To save you all the bother here’s a series breakdown.

The first series was filmed ten years ago this year. What a different world it was then!

Series 1) (2008) ragbag of unrelated routines of a reasonable quality interrupted with sketches that have been decreed of mixed virtues, with Stew in a suit at execs’ insistence.

Series 2 (2010) and 3) (2013) Routines specifically worked out and written for half hour format with a single film item each week and Stew in a suit jacket.
Series 2 featured a guitar.

Series 4) (2015) The most stylistically extreme routines of the project performed, to an often baffled crowd compromised by BBC liggers and people’s suspicious friends, by Stew in a shirt.

NIGHTINGALES DATES

I am supporting Birmingham post-punk Legends The Nightingales doing 15 mins of my 80s material on seven of their autumn tour dates.

Thu SEPT 20 OXFORD, THE CELLAR
https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-nightingales/the-cellar/1227777

Fri SEPT 21 BRISTOL, THE EXCHANGE
https://www.seetickets.com/event/nightingales/exchange/1227678

Sat SEPT 22 PORTSMOUTH, WEDGEWOOD ROOMS
https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-nightingales/wedgewood-rooms/1225457

Tue OCT 2 BIRMINGHAM, HARE & HOUNDS
https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Birmingham/Hare-And-Hounds/The-Nightingales/13216234/

Wed OCT 3 LONDON, MOTH CLUB
https://www.seetickets.com/event/nightingales/moth-club/1227677

Thu OCT 4 CAMBRIDGE, PORTLAND ARMS
https://www.wegottickets.com/greenmind/event/439332

Sat OCT 6 BRIGHTON, GREEN DOOR STORE
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/439847

CAPRI-BATTERIE W STEWART LEE

You can buy Bristol Fashion, an industrial jazz album which we improvised in an hour, here for &pound7.

https://capri-batterie.bandcamp.com/album/bristol-fashion

Meanwhile, I Arrogantly Recommend

1) David Grubbs – Cafe Oto, London – Sat 11th Aug. Cage-ian Americana minimalist

2) Sun Ra’s Arkestra – Union Chapel, London – Thurs 16th Aug. Space-jazz veterans in massive ensemble.

3) Stiff Little Fingers. Still buoyant N Irish punks.

3rd Aug – Cheese and Grain, Froome
24th Aug – Academy Dublin
25th Aug – Custom House S1, Belfast

4) Bridget Christie – What Now? (New stand-up show)

SEPTEMBER 2018

Friday 7th – WHAT NOW? – Tobacco Factory, BRISTOL – 8pm – 0117 902 0344 – TICKETS
Saturday 8th – WHAT NOW? – Tobacco Factory, BRISTOL – 8pm – 0117 902 0344 – TICKETS
Thursday 13th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Thursday 20th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Friday 21st – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Saturday 22nd – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS

OCTOBER 2018

Friday 5th – WHAT NOW? – Theatre Royal, WINCHESTER – 8pm – 01962 840 440 – TICKETS
Saturday 6th – WHAT NOW? – Corn Exchange, EXETER – 7.30pm – 01392 665938 – TICKETS
Tuesday 9th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Wednesday 10th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Thursday 11th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Friday 12th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS

NOVEMBER 2018

Thursday 1st – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Friday 2nd – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Saturday 3rd – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Tuesday 6th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Wednesday 7th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Thursday 8th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Friday 9th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Saturday 10th – WHAT NOW? – Leicester Square Theatre, LONDON – 7pm – 020 7734 2222 – TICKETS
Saturday 24th – WHAT NOW? – Nuffield Theatre (NST City), SOUTHAMPTON – 7.30pm – 023 8067 1771 – TICKETS
Tuesday 27th – WHAT NOW? – The Junction, CAMBRIDGE – 8pm – 01223 511 511 – TICKETS

DECEMBER 2018

Monday 3rd – WHAT NOW? – Playhouse, NORWICH – 8pm – 01603 598598 – TICKETS
Tuesday 4th – WHAT NOW? – Playhouse, NORWICH – 8pm – 01603 598598 – TICKETS

EDIN FRINGE FEST

I am not in the Edinburgh Fringe this year but if I was I would remind you to prioritise looking beyond the Big 4 at Free Fringe, Stand, Summerhall etc, and I would see the following 32 shows this August.

ATHENA KUGBLENU – New stand-up. U’belly, Bristo Sq. 1st – 26th. 5.30pm
BEANS ON TOAST – Scatalogical satirist songsmith. Voodoo Room 14th-26th
BLUESWATER PRESENTS BLUES – Surgeon’s Hall 3rd – 25th
BLUESWATER PRESENTS QUEENS OF THE BLUES – Surgeons Hall 3rd-25th
BLUESWATER PRESENTS SMITTEN – See this trio! Jazz Bar, 3rd, 20th, 21st.
CARMEN FUNEARE – Unmissable devised spectacular. EICC. 16th – 19th. 9.30
DAVID KAY – Surreal Scottish s-up. Stand 3rd – 12th. 6.30pm
DAVID O’DOHERTY – Low energy whimsy. Assembly George Sq. 1st – 27th.
DRENCHED* – Folkloric comedy drama. Pleasance Ctyrd 3pm 1st – 27th
DYLAN MORAN – Wobbly literary s-up. Stand. 14th – 26th.
ELEANOR TIERNAN – Ace Irish s-up. Banshee Labyrinth. 4th – 26th 1.40pm
GAMES – Henry Naylor play on far right. Gilded Ballon. 2nd – 27th. 4.30pm
GOBLIN – Italian prog s/track specialists. Summerhall 5th, 6th. 5.20 & 8.30
JO CAULFIELD – Dependably caustic veteran. Stand 3rd-26th. 7.40pm
KEN – Terry Johnson on Ken Campbell. Pleasance Dome. 1st – 27th. 3.20pm
LEWIS SCHAFFER – Miserable US s-up. Laughing Horse. 2nd – 26th 8.30pm
LLOYD LANGFORD – Welsh weirdo s-up. Banshee Labyrinth. 4th – 26th. 10pm
LOVE ON BLUE CANVAS 1890 – New drama. Space. 20th – 25th. 7.05pm
NISH KUMAR – TV satirist. Monkey Barrel. 2nd – 26th 4.30pm
PAUL CURRIE – Irish surrealist clown. Heroes@Hive. 3rd – 27th. 8.40pm
PAUL FOOT – Slithery absurdist s/up. U’belly, Cowgate. 2nd – 26th. 7pm
PAUL SINHA – Smart political s-up. Stand 1st – 26th 4.55pm
PHIL KAY – Improvisational Scotts s-up. Heroes@Boteco 2nd-12th 4pm
PUSSY RIOT – Putin bating Russian punks. Summerhall 10th – 19th. 7pm
MICHAEL ROTHER – Krautrock veteran of Neu fame. Summerhall 12th
SACRED PAWS – Afro-rock flavoured indie band. Summerhall 24th.
SATANIC RITES OF ROBIN INCE – Horror s/up. Stand 14th-26th. 7.35pm
SEYMOUR MACE – Outsider s/up. Stand 2nd – 26th 1.30pm
SIMON MUNNERY – The comedians’ comedian. Stand 3rd – 26th. 3.20pm
SPOON CARVING WORKSHOP – White Stuff. 8th, 12th 1.30pm
TONY LAW – Canadian surrealist s/up. Monkey Barrel. 2nd – 26th. 3pm
TREVOR LOCK – Psychedelic s-up. Bannermans. 4th – 26th. 3pm

*Daniel Drench. West Cornwall’s most prolific and unstable storyteller, presents a bewildering and potentially moving interpretation of the classic Cornish folk tale ‘The Mermaid of Zennor’.

Drenched is a one man comedy-theatre piece, challenging the form of a traditional solo performance with a combination of storytelling, character comedy and physical theatre. 1-27 August – Pleasance Courtyard @ 3pm