“Ghastly, puritanical, po-faced, sanctimonious, finger-wagging, Woke-Witchfinder-in-Chief” Toby Young, Twitter

“Sphincter-poppingly angry, totally unamusing and uninsightful, and painfully, excruciatingly right-on. A bitter, politically correct member of the Remain-voting liberal elite. The type of comedy which is not designed to provoke laughter so much as solemn head-nodding and applause at the politically correct sentiment.” James Delingpole, Steve Bannon’s Breitbart News

““I seem to have been radicalised into a one man crusade against Stewart Lee and his fans. This will probably occupy the rest of my life but mark my words the man will die and I will try to be the one that ends his life.” Corbyngrad Mayor @SyedforLondon, Twitter

Dear Covidians

I hope you are all well and have not suffered any loss.

One day we will be laughing again in some rooms. I cannot embrace you all.

Your pal

Stew Art Lee

1) LIVE SHOWS UPDATE

All outstanding SNOWFLAKE / TORNADO dates have or are being rescheduled. Any updates will be added to the LIVE DATES page of the website as soon as they’re confirmed.

Here is an updated list of those that are confirmed and on-sale, although most are sold out anyway.
There are some new dates too, and there are sure to be some returns due to fear. The Bristol date this time is The Hippodrome, as the lovely Colston Hall is closed for refurb and rename. T
he Hippodrome is an ATG theatre. ATG tickets often end up on dodgy resale websites so please don’t pay over the odds. We must thwart the criminal touts that the Tory Sajid Javid calls “legitimate entrepreneurs” who only annoy “the chattering middle classes”. Buying a ticket from a secondary ticketing site is worse than driving to Durham during lockdown.

2) ON-LINE INDETERMINACY

On Saturday 11^th July at 6pm Steve Beresford, Tania Chen and I are doing John Cage’s Indeterminacy on-line, somehow triangulating between New York, West London and Hackney. This shit never gets old! Here’s the link…

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/john-cage-indeterminacy-stewart-lee-tania-caroline-chen-steve-beresford-tickets-111829769852

INDETERMINACY, John Cage’s ground-breaking indeterminate composition, will be performed Live from New York & London by Stewart Lee, Tania Caroline Chen and Steve Beresford. This performance will be true to the original recording where John Cage and David Tudor were performing at the same time but in separate spaces.

“Profoundly moving and funny, often at the same time”- the Guardian

THIS IS A DONATION EVENT: 5-10 dollars/sterling to Paypal.Me/TaniaBabe

We will be streaming on Facebook, Zoom & YouTube…there will be a limit to the number of viewers on Zoom so you can also watch us live on You Tube.

ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/79303266780?pwd=TTZRdW5EaDg4cUNzWmw1dVpVclEzQT09

MEETING ID: 793 0326 6780

YOU TUBE CHANNEL: Tania Caroline Chen

3) KING ROCKER SHEFFIELD

Our documentary KING ROCKER has been selected for the Sheffield Documentary Festival in Oct/Nov this year.
There is also loads of other great news about it that I can’t share yet. Everybody worked so hard on this, and mainly for nothing, so I am so glad it appears to be being so well received by those who have seen it.

https://sheffdocfest.com/films/7007

Comedian Stewart Lee and director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye) investigate a missing piece of punk history. Robert Lloyd, best known for fronting cult bands The Prefects and The Nightingales, has survived under the radar for over four decades. Anti-rockumentary King Rocker weaves the story of Birmingham’s undervalued underdog autodidact into that of the city’s forgotten public sculpture of King Kong, eschewing the celebrity interview and archive-raid approach for a free-associating bricolage of Indian food, bewildered chefs, vegetable gardening, prescription medicines, pop stardom and pop art.

Available to watch in the cinema or Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects in the Autumn.

4) STOKE NEWINGTON ISOLATION UNIT

I appear with Stoke Newington Isolation Unit on Isolation, an experimental music album assembled by Mark Jenkins during lockdown to raise money for Age UK, which includes actual people from Tangerine Dream and Neuronium.

https://www.cd-services.com/product_info.aspx?id=17272&qry=&key=&genre=148&pi=0

2) MUSIC FROM SHOWS

PEOPLE KEEP ASKING ME AFTER GIGS; “WHAT IS THAT BIT OF MUSIC FROM ‘CONTENT PROVIDER’ OR ‘SNOWFLAKE/TORNADO’?“. So, here goes…

CONTENT PROVIDER

PRE-SHOW Was mainly tracks from Bounce (2016) by The Beat, and Black Bombers (2016) by Black Bombers
WALK ON – Blueswater – Stew’s Blues.
INTERVAL
Yarasa Adam – Toz Hasat – DOWNLOAD CONTENT PROVIDER MUSIC HERE.
Kol Basti – Baris Manco (2023, 1975),
Turku – Erkin Koray (Elektronik Turkuler, 1974),
Mindtrain – Yoko One (Fly, 1971)
END OF SHOW – Fur Seelenbinder – Kosmicher Laufer (Secret Music Of The Easdt Germna Olympic Program 1972-83)

SNOWFLAKE / TORNADO

PRE-SHOW – Oh Yeah – Can (Tago Mago, 1971), Halleluhwah – Can (Tago Mago, 1971), Pinch – Can (Ege Bamyasi, 1972), If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up – Betty Davis (Betty Davis, 1973)
TORNADO WALK ON – Blueswater – Stew’s Blues. – DOWNLOAD CONTENT PROVIDER MUSIC HERE.
INTERVAL – Auto Chip 2014 – 2016 – The Fall (Sub Lingual Tablet, 2014), Auto (2024) Chip Replace Live – The Fall (Live Uurop VIII- XII, 2014), Fibre Book Troll – The Fall (Sub Lingual Tablet, 2014)
SNOWFLAKE WALK ON – Home – Fixed Horizon (Nothing Beyond, 2019)
WALK-OUT – Stiff Little Fingers – My Dark Places (No Going Back, 2014), Dave Graney – Ultrakeef (Zippa DeeDoo, 2019)

I arrogantly recommend…. The following recent home-consumables

FILMS

The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles)

Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov)

The Color Out Of Space (Richard Stanley)

Bait (Mark Jenkin)

Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)

Edith Walks (Andrew Kotting)

Days of The Bagnold Summer (Simon Bird)

NEW MUSIC

The Nightingales – Four Against Fate

Rich Hopkins & Luminarios – Live At El Lokal

The Dream Syndicate – Universe Inside

Wild Billy Childish – Kings Of The Medway Delta

Garcia Peoples – Nublu NYC 2019

Bob Dylan – Murder Most Foul

Windy & Carl – Allegiance & Conviction

The Frees – Live From The End Of The Earth

Alan Wilkinson & Douglas Benford – Appointed Views

Guided By Voices – Mirrored Aztec

The Heartwood Institute – Tomorrow’s People

John Edwards – Just Another Day At Home

Adam Bohman & Douglas Benford – Ad Hoc & Words

Laura Cannell – The Earth With Her Crowns

Jack Sharp – Good Times Older

The Frees – Live To Air

The Frees – Lips That Bite

Fixed Horizon – Jungle

Jon Free – Spiralling

Richard Skelton – Border Ballads

Howe Gelb – Cocoon

The Primevals – Second Nature

Richard Youngs – Vistas

Darren Hayman – Home Time

Richard Youngs – Four Verses

V/A – Seito In The Beginning Woman Was The Sun

Lucinda Williams – Good Souls & Better Angels

Bob Dylan – Rough & Rowdy Ways

REISSUED OLD MUSIC

Tim Buckley – Live At The Electric (1968)

John Lee Hooker – Black Night Is Falling (1977)

The Heads – Reverberations Vol 1 (2005)

Barnabus – Beginning To Unwind (1971)

Miracle Legion – 4.20 Live At The Boot (2017)

V/A – Brown Acid The Tenth Trip (1969-74)

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Live At Woodstock (1969)

John Lee Hooker – Documenting The Sensation (1948-52)

NEW TV

The Kominsky Method S2 (Netflix)

The Mandalorian S1 (Disney)

Endeavour S7(ITV)

Ozark S3 (Netflix)

Unorthodox (Netflix)

Mash Report’s Uncle Provocateur sketch (BBC2)

Normal People (BBC3)

Chernobyl (Netflix)

Mindhunter (Netflix)

PODCASTS DADDI-0!

These Weird Isles – https://soundcloud.com/user-677483473

Pope Longergan Plimpin’ & Lompin’ – https://anchor.fm/pope-lonergan/episodes/Bangin-on-About-Elderly-Care-edhkpq

Ian McPherson’s Hardly A Fit Subject For Levity – https://soundcloud.com/user-763139918