1) KING ROCKER CINEMA TOUR

Our labour of love Nightingales rockumentary King Rocker really landed. I arrogantly think it knocks most rockumentaries into a cocked hat and will cheer you up no end in the awful times.
“I loved every minute” – Ben Dowell, The Times
**** Financial Times
**** Chortle
“One of the best music documentaries of all time” – The Quietus
“The new gold standard for rockumentaries” – The Scotsman

You can now watch it, ad-free, on NOW TV if you have that here.

The film receives its hometown premier in Birmingham, as the King Rocker Christmas Special at the Midland Arts center on Sat 18th December, preceeded by a Q&A with me and dir Michael Cumming, and followed by a performance by the Nightingales.
https://macbirmingham.co.uk/event/king-rocker-q-a

There are also these further screenings, where Michael and I will do a Q&A afterwards.

NOV 9th London Broadgate Everyman https://www.everymancinema.com/film-info/king-rocker-live-qa
NOV 10TH Bristol Everyman https://www.everymancinema.com/film-info/king-rocker-live-qa
NOV 11th Liverpool Everyman https://www.everymancinema.com/film-info/king-rocker-live-qa
NOV 18TH Leeds Everyman https://www.everymancinema.com/film-info/king-rocker-live-qa
DEC 16TH London Dalston Rio https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=13951901

Here’s one link that takes you to all the events;
https://linktr.ee/kingrocker

2) RED LEICESTER T-SHIRT

Stewart Lee says – “Following hot on the heels of our sell-out CONTENT PROVIDER t-shirt comes this tasteful ALL THE CHEESES design. The front celebrates Stewart’s famous CHEESE joke while the rear print is a delightful tapestry of negative reviews from politicians and their media clients”

Available in two colourways – black t-shirt with liquid silver ink and navy t-shirt with golden yellow (cheese) ink. There is a front print and a back print on each shirt. Available HERE from Noon on Monday 25th Oct.

Stewart Lee said earlier: ‘There are at least 13 t-shirt designs out there based on lines from my stand-up that are nothing to do with me, and a scarf as well, so my hand has been forced into the land of quality endorsed garments. Here is another icily obtuse t-shirt which announces your fandom only to other adepts, and confuses the weak. It’s available here from Wax Face, who also do t-shirts for Warren Ellis and the Osees, and make models of Iggy Pop’s body and Daniel Clowes’ comic book characters. Buy it for the prematurely aged pseudo-intellectual in your life today! As TV’s James Acaster recently said, “Stewart Lee fans are like Radiohead fans. They have one big thing they like, and because it’s such a connoisseury thing to enjoy they’re like, “I don’t need anything else outside that. And I’m going to tell everyone that if they don’t get it they’re thick.” And they’re the worst kind of fans.” Come to think of it, that might be the next t-shirt!’‘

Tees are all unisex and are made by Bella-Canvas. High quality and 100% eco friendly production and no Sweatshops. Shirts come in all sizes and ship worldwide. Get yours before they sell out.

3) LAURA CANNELL

The avant-folk dronemädchen Laura Cannell has been releasing an ep a month throughout the pandemic.
I wrote and mumbled some words for the latest, August Sounds, also featuring Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies, whose book {below} I done some words for too and that. Available here as cd or dl.
http://www.lauracannell.co.uk

Laura Cannell and Kate Ellis also bring the much delayed live incarnation of their These Feral Lands recording project to London’s King’s Place on Feb 18th 2022.
I wrote words for four of the tracks and will attempt to do something with them on the night.
I thought about where I was conceived, and where I was born, plugged the details I know into the folklore of both regions, and tried not to get in the way of Laura and Kate’s mediaeval trance music steamroller.
https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/contemporary/laura-cannell-with-stewart-lee-kate-ellis-these-feral-lands/

4) LIVE DATES/LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE NEWS

All the SNOWFLAKE TORNADO tour dates outstanding from 2020 will be shifted into 2022, starting in Jan, and below are the ones we know about so far. Local venues will contact you if they haven’t already.
All the warm-up club dates you may have bought tickets for have been slotted in to Nov and Dec, covid willing, and venues will contact ticket holders. Please do not hassle venues about all this. They will contact you. We will get there!
I am planning on re-writing the SNOWFLAKE half of SNOWFLAKE TORNADO to reflect our drastically altered world and will make as good a recording as possible of the abandoned original SNOWFLAKE available at some point. It’s all bacon!

January 2022

Tuesday 4th January 2022 – Leicester Square Theatre, London – TICKETS

Wednesday 5th January 2022 – Leicester Square Theatre, London – TICKETS

Thursday 6th January 2022 – Leicester Square Theatre, London – TICKETS

Friday 7th January 2022 – Leicester Square Theatre, London – TICKETS

Saturday 8th January 2022 – Leicester Square Theatre, London – TICKETS

Monday 10th January 2022 – Leicester Square Theatre, London – TICKETS

Tuesday 11th January 2022 – Leicester Square Theatre, London – TICKETS

Wednesday 12th January 2022 – Leicester Square Theatre, London – TICKETS

Thursday 13th January 2022 – Leicester Square Theatre, London – TICKETS

Saturday 15th January 2022 – Theatre Royal, Norwich – TICKETS

Monday 17th January 2022 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS

Tuesday 18th January 2022 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS

Wednesday 19th January 2022 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS

Thursday 20th January 2022 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS

Friday 21st January 2022 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS

Saturday 22nd January 2022 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS

Tuesday 25th January 2022 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS

Wednesday 26th January 2022 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS

Thursday 27th January 2022 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS

Friday 28th January 2022 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS

Saturday 29th January 2022 – The Lowry, Salford – TICKETS

Sunday 30th January 2022 – Theatre Royal, Newcastle Upon Tyne – TICKETS

February 2022

Wednesday 2nd February 2022 – St. David’s Hall, Cardiff – TICKETS

Thursday 3rd February 2022 – Rose Theatre, Kingston – TICKETS

Friday 4th February 2022 – Westlands Entertainment Venue, Yeovil – TICKETS

Saturday 5th February 2022 – Westlands Entertainment Venue, Yeovil – TICKETS

Tuesday 8th February 2022 – Town Hall, Cheltenham – TICKETS

Wednesday 9th February 2022 – Town Hall, Cheltenham – TICKETS

Thursday 10th February 2022 – De Montfort Hall, Leicester – TICKETS

Friday 11th February 2022 – Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry – TICKETS

Saturday 12th February 2022 – Festival Theatre, Malvern – TICKETS

Sunday 13th February 2022 – Hippodrome, Birmingham – TICKETS

Friday 25th February 2022 – The Dome, Brighton – TICKETS

Saturday 26th February 2022 – The Dome, Brighton – TICKETS

Sunday 27th February 2022 – The Dome, Brighton – TICKETS

Monday 28th February 2022 – The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury – TICKETS

March 2022

Wednesday 2nd March 2022 – Northcott Theatre, Exeter – TICKETS

Thursday 3rd March 2022 – Northcott Theatre, Exeter – TICKETS

Friday 4th March 2022 – Lighthouse, Poole – TICKETS

Saturday 5th March 2022 – Playhouse, Salisbury – TICKETS

Sunday 6th March 2022 – De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill On Sea – TICKETS

Wednesday 9th March 2022 – Theatre Royal, Wakefield – TICKETS

Thursday 10th March 2022 – Opera House, Buxton – TICKETS

Friday 11th March 2022 – The Courtyard, Hereford – TICKETS

Saturday 12th March 2022 – Grand Theatre, Swansea – TICKETS

Monday 14th March 2022 – King’s Theatre, Glasgow – TICKETS

Tuesday 15th March 2022 – King’s Theatre, Glasgow – TICKETS

Wednesday 16th March 2022 – The Sands Centre, Carlisle – TICKETS

Thursday 17th March 2022 – Royal Hall, Harrogate – TICKETS

Tuesday 22nd March 2022 – Churchill Theatre, Bromley – TICKETS

Wednesday 23rd March 2022 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS

Thursday 24th March 2022 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS

Friday 25th March 2022 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS

Saturday 26th March 2022 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS

Sunday 27th March 2022 – Royal & Derngate, Northampton – TICKETS

Tuesday 29th March 2022 – City Hall, Sheffield – TICKETS

Wednesday 30th March 2022 – Playhouse, Leeds – TICKETS

Thursday 31st March 2022 – Playhouse, Leeds – TICKETS

April 2022

Friday 1st April 2022 – Playhouse, Leeds – TICKETS

Saturday 2nd April 2022 – Storyhouse, Chester – TICKETS

Tuesday 19th April 2022 – Wyvern Theatre, Swindon – TICKETS

Thursday 21st April 2022 – The Hawth, Crawley – TICKETS

Friday 22nd April 2022 – The Hexagon, Reading – TICKETS

Sunday 24th April 2022 – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton – TICKETS

Tuesday 26th April 2022 – Cliffs Pavilion, Southend On Sea – TICKETS

Wednesday 27th April 2022 – The Central Theatre, Chatham – TICKETS

Thursday 28th April 2022 – Derby Theatre, Derby – TICKETS

Friday 29th April 2022 – Lyceum Theatre, Crewe – TICKETS

Saturday 30th April 2022 – Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield – TICKETS

May 2022

Tuesday 3rd May 2022 – Theatre Royal, York – TICKETS

Wednesday 4th May 2022 – Theatre Royal, York – TICKETS

Thursday 5th May 2022 – Theatre Royal, York – TICKETS

Friday 6th May 2022 – St. George’s Hall, Bradford – TICKETS

Saturday 7th May 2022 – Gala Theatre, Durham – TICKETS

Sunday 8th May 2022 – Theatre Royal, Newcastle Upon Tyne – TICKETS

Tuesday 10th May 2022 – Palace Theatre, Watford – TICKETS

Wednesday 11th May 2022 – Palace Theatre, Watford – TICKETS

Thursday 12th May 2022 – Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells

Friday 13th May 2022 – The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS

Saturday 14th May 2022 – The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS

Sunday 15th May 2022 – Theatre Royal, Plymouth – TICKETS

Tuesday 17th May 2022 – Corn Exchange, Cambridge – TICKETS

Wednesday 18th May 2022 – Corn Exchange, Cambridge – TICKETS

Thursday 19th May 2022 – The Baths Hall, Scunthorpe – TICKETS

Saturday 21st May 2022 – New Theatre, Peterborough – TICKETS

Sunday 22nd May 2022 – The Grand, Wolverhampton – TICKETS

Monday 23rd May 2022 – Hippodrome, Bristol – TICKETS

Tuesday 24th May 2022 – Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury – TICKETS

Wednesday 25th May 2022 – The Forum, Bath – TICKETS

Friday 27th May 2022 – Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe – TICKETS

Saturday 28th May 2022 – Winding Wheel, Chesterfield – TICKETS

June 2022

Tuesday 7th June 2022 – Mercury Theatre, Colchester

Wednesday 8th June 2022 – Mercury Theatre, Colchester

Sunday 12th June 2022 – Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple

Friday 17th June 2022 – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool – TICKETS

Saturday 18th June 2022 – Hippodrome, Darlington – TICKETS

Sunday 19th June 2022 – Festival Theatre, Edinburgh – TICKETS

Monday 20th June 2022 – Perth Theatre, Perth – TICKETS

Tuesday 21st June 2022 – Perth Theatre, Perth – TICKETS

Wednesday 22nd June 2022 – Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen – TICKETS

Thursday 23rd June 2022 – Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen – TICKETS

Sunday 26th June 2022 – Theatre Royal, Plymouth – TICKETS

Wednesday 29th June 2022 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS

Thursday 30th June 2022 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS

July 2022

Friday 1st July 2022 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS

Saturday 2nd July 2022 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS

Sunday 3rd July 2022 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS

Sunday 3rd July 2022 – Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London – TICKETS

5) TO VAC OR NOT TO VAC

I would be delighted if, if you are coming to see me, you could do your best to get vaccinated, irrespective of what the gvt or the venue insist upon.
I doubt that my snowflake audience will contain many people who deny the existence of Covid or believe the vaccine is George Soros or Bill Gates trying to put tiny Transformer robots into your blood. But I and my team will be interacting with over 150 000 people on the next leg of the tour, and I would like to minimise our risk, and the risk to my audience, so meet me half way.
I will be selling and signing stuff as usual, I hope, but I won’t be shaking hands to thank you all this time around, and will probably be positioned behind some kind of screen like William Shatner in Airplane 2. Sad.

6) MEDIA GARAGE SALE

My trusted sales partner Media Garage has compacted all my available stand-up dvds into one convenient on-line marketplace, with most available to d/load too.
Remember, if you buy here we will pay tax on these purchases, and help with British schools and hospitals, whereas many major physical media suppliers and streaming services have found ways to avoid declaring their profits, as have NETFLIX, the transphobic bastards. AMERICANS – stop moaning about not being able to see me and visit MEDIA GARAGE! https://www.mediagarageproductions.com/store/

7) PODCASTS AND THAT

To try and promote King Rocker I have been pimping myself about like Priss Fotheringham on every Podcast going, alone or with dir M Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast), saying the same things in the same room in the same clothes to all different people, all of whom were very kind. I don’t know what a podcast is really but I think you go on the internet and click on something.
As my grandfather once said, in 1983, “Do you know, in America, there are shops that only sell Kentucky Fried Chicken?” I enjoyed being on the internet with all these people enormously, but will put some blue water between me and the next wedge.
David Baddiel told me it was good to be on the internet, though. These are available…

8) I Arrogantly Recommend

LIVE EVENTS

Ithell Colquhoun

– Song of Songs The surrealist ascendent’s unseen privately owned works displayed alongside sympathetic contemporary artworks at Union London, Hannover Sq, until Nov 6th

Bridget Christie – Who Am I?

My multi-award winning wife has some dates.
You can book here https://www.bridgetchristie.co.uk/gigs/

Sunday 14th November 2021 Warwick Arts Centre Coventry
Thursday 2nd December 2021 Quarterhouse Folkestone
14th – 18th December Leicester Square Theatre London https://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873620281

Big Joanie

Raucous smart post-punk trio NOVEMBER 4th Brighton Mutations Fest

Emily Young – Carving In Time

The mighty Emily Young – who carves monumental god like figures in the tradition of Blake and Epstein – has an exhibition at a commercial gallery, Tomasso at Marquis House in London, until 12th Nov

Alasdair Roberts

Scottish wyrd folk singer NOVEMBER 13th London Jazz Festival Nick Drake event, 19th Canterbury Gulbenkin

The Nightingales

Birmingham post punk veterans and KING ROCKER stars.
NOVEMBER 1st Sheffield Greystones,
3rd London Lexington,
4th B’ham Hare & Hounds,
5th Bristol Rough Trade,
6th Southsea Wedgewood,
7th Bedford Esquires,
8th London Lexington W BLUE ORCHIDS & TED CHIPPINGTON,
9th Barrow-in-Furness Underground,
10th Glasgow Hugh & Pint,
11th Edinburgh Caves,
12th Middlesbrough Westgarth,
13th Hebden Bridge Trades,
14th Leicester Cookie,
DECEMBER 18th Birmingham MAC w King Rocker film

The Fallen Leaves

Gentlemen mod punks.
NOVEMBER 20TH Brighton Prince Albert.
JANUARY 15TH Acton George & Dragon, 20th 100 Club, London + Downliners’ Sect & Masonics.
FEBRUARY 12th 229 London.
JUNE 11TH 100 Club, London.

Thurston Moore Group

Guitar Guru NOV 2ND London Omeara

Paul Currie

The fantastic Belfast surrealist clown-comedian Paul Currie is doing his new show TEET at Soho Theatre, London, from NOV 3RD – 6TH. I cannot recommend him enough. He is the teets!
https://sohotheatre.com/shows/paul-currie-teet/

The Wolfhounds

Cheesewire indie kitchen sink realists
NOVEMBER 5TH London 229, 19th Middlesbrough Westgarth, 20th Preston Ferret

Martin Carthy

Ageless folk veteran NOV 11th Lewes Con Club, 27th Brighton Toy Museum, DECEMBER 1st Café Oto London

The Chameleons

M’cr post punk visionaries on another victory lap. NOVEMBER 12TH Minehead Shine On.
DECEMBER 14TH Huddersfield Parish, 16th Blackpool Waterloo, 17th/18th M’cr Ritz.
JANUARY 14TH Leicester Academy, 15th Birmingham Institute.
FEBRUARY 1ST Nottingham Rescue Rooms, 5th London Islington Assembly Hall

Archie Shepp

Jazz genius NOV 15th London Barbican

Faust

Krautrock noise veterans NOV 15th London Union Chapel

Yo La Tengo

Melodic/experimental New York survivors
NOV 16th Bristol SWX, 17th Cantebrury Colyer-Fergusson Bldg, 19th London Royal Festival Hall

Sleaford Mods

Angry loud man and quiet electronic man.
NOVEMBER 17th M’cr Academy, 18th Glasgow Barrowlands, 19th Aberdeen Lemon Tree, 21st Dublin Olympia, 24th Newcastle Academy, 25th Liverpool Academy, 26th Oxford Academy, 27th Nottingham Motorpoint, 30th Cardiff Tramshed,
DECEMBER 1st Bristol Academy, 2nd London Printworks, 3rd Brighton Dome

Trash Kit

High-life inflected post-punk NOVEMBER 19th + 20th Newcastle Brave Exhibitions Festival.
Their mums and dads probably owned Paul Simon’s Gracelands.

Len Price 3

Reliably thrilling Breton-bejumpered Mod-Punks NOV 19TH London Water Rats. Good to see them back.

Jackie Oates

Compelling contemporary folk singer NOVEMBER 24th Exeter Phoenix

The Primevals

Glasgow garage rockers, our own Flamin’ Groovies.
NOVEMBER 27TH London Hope & Anchor.

Dry Cleaning

Sing-speak post-punk poets
NOVEMBER 27th Nottingham Motorpoint, 30th Cardiff Tramshed.
DECEMBER 1st Hebden Bridge Trades, 2nd Norwich Arts Centre, 3rd Brighton Dome.
FEBRUARY 14th Liverpool Arts, 15th Dublin Button, 16th Belfast Empire,. 18th Edinburgh Summerhall, 19th Glasgow QMU, 20th Leeds Brudenell, 22nd Birmingham Mill, 23rd Bristol Marble, 25th Manchester Academy 2, 26th Sheffield Leadmill 2, 27th Nottingham Rescue.
MARCH 1st Southsea Wedgewood, 2nd Brighton Concorde 2, 3rd London Forum.
APRIL 1st Manchester 02 Ritz.

Swell Maps

Surviving members and associated acts DECEMBER 3rd + 4th, Café Oto, London

The Fallen Women

Female Fall tribute band w guest vocalists incl me. DECEMBER 5th London Lexington.

The Bohman Brothers

Dada-ish improvisors. DECEMBER 8th Brighton Rose Hill

John Butcher, Mark Sanders, John Edwards

Top free-improvisation trio DEC 8th London Iklecktik

Eliza Carthy

Folk superstar fiddler currently on top form, seen at Laugharne last month DEC 21st London Union Chapel

NEW FILMS

Little Joe (Jessica Hausner) ****
County Lines (Henry Blake) *****
Animal Antics (Patrick Goddard) *****

OLD FILMS

Box Of Moonlight (Tom DeCillo, 1996) *****
Local Hero (Bill Forsyth, 1983) *****
Where Eagles Dare (Brian G Hutton, 1968) *****
The Big Gundown (Sergio Sollima, 1967) *****
The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973) *****
Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977) *****
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)*****
Good Vibrations (Lisa Barros D’sa/Glen Leyburn, 2013)*****
Caliber 9 (Fernado di Leon, 1972) *****
’71 (Yann Demange, 2014) *****
Big Night (Campbell Scott/Stanley Tucci, 1996) *****
Jason & The Argonauts (Don Chaffey, 1963) *****
Goldstone (Ivan Sen, 2016) *****
Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) *****
Avengers Infinity War (Russo Brothers, 2018) ****
Avengers Endgame (Russo Brothers, 2019) ****
In Order of Disappearance (Hans Peter Molland, 2014)*****
Iron Man III (Shane Black, 2013)*****
Pauline A La Plage (Eric Rohmer, 1983) *****
Gone To Earth (Powell/Pressburger, 1950) ****
The Odd Couple (Neil Simon, 1968) *****
Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981) ****
Samurai 1 : Mushashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki, 1954) ****
Cache / Hidden (Michaek Haneke, 2005) *****
Babylon (Franco Rosso, 1980) *****
Summer In February (Christopher Menaul, 2013) ****
Guardians of The Galaxy (James Gunn, 2014) *****
All Tomorrow’s Parties (Jonathan Caouette, 2009) ****
Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1969) *****
Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund, 2015) ****
Lift To The Scaffold (Louise Malle, 1958)*****
Macbeth (Roman Polanski, 1971)*****
Tomb of Ligeia (Roger Corman, 1964) ****
Massacre Time (Lucio Fulci, 1966) ****
Bandidos (Massimo Dallamano, 1967) ****
And God Said To Cain (Antonio Margheriti, 1970) *****
Dead Man’s Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004) *****
Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996) *****
Gallivant (Andrew Kotting, 1996) *****

OLD BOOKS

Rosemary Tonks – Emir (1963)*****
Rosemary Tonks – The Bloater (1968) *****
John Berger/Jean Mohr – A Fortunate Man (1967) *****
Ann Quin – Berg (1964) ****
Sir John Mandeville – The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (1357)****
Sean Bythell – Diary of a Bookseller (2018)
Robert Aickman – The Inner Room (1988)
Virginia Nicholson – Amongst The Bohemians (2003)
Joanna Moorhead – The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington (2017)
Betty May – Tiger Woman (1929)
Val Doonican – My Story, My Life (2009)
Dave Graney – Workshy (2017)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde – R L Stevenson (1985)
Hide & Seek – Dennis Potter (1973)
M R James – Complete Ghost Stories (1904 – 35) *****
Gavin Lambert – The Slide Area (1959)****

NEW BOOKS

Tessa Norton/Bob Stanley – Excavate!
Alan Stafford – Wilson, Keppel & Betty, Too Naked For The Nazis
Peter Oborne – The Assault On Truth
Nesrine Malik – We Need New Stories *****
Sean Bythell – Diary of a Bookseller (2018) *****
Robert Aickman – The Inner Room (1988) *****
Alicia Foster – Nina Hamnett
Charlie Hill – I Don’t Want To Go To The Taj Mahjal
Hill’s economic autobiography is a simplistic list of addresses, dead end jobs, cultural ephemera, and brief assignations, garnished with two or three short paragraphs of barely formed reflection. And yet, in reducing his life to these most basic elements, it manages to be a more profound comment on existence then many more self-consciously analytical efforts. As if to confound Wittgenstein, it appears the unexamined life was worth living after all.
Tracey Thorn – My Rock ‘n’ Roll Friend *****
Will Sergeant – Bunnyman ****
Hotel Art Head – Rhodri Davies & Nikos Veliotos I have written the intro for this new project exploring the interior design aesthetics travelling musicians’ hotel acommodation
https://rhodridavies.bandcamp.com/merch/hotel-art-head-rhodri-davies-nikos-veliotis-art-book

NEW COMICS

Joe Sacco – Paying The Land (2020)

NEW TV

Ghosts S2 (BBC, 2020)
Ghosts – Xmas Special 2020 (BBC, 2020)
The Mandalorian S2 (Disney, 2020) *****
Call My Agent S3 (France 2, 2018)*****
Call My Agent S4 (France 2, 2021) *****
The Trump Show (BBC, 2020-1)*****
Lupin S1 (Netflix, 2021)*****
Wandavision (Marvel, 2021)*****
Stonehenge The Lost Circle Revealed (BBC, 2021) *****
Adam Curtis’ Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (BBC, 2021)*****
Raiders Of The Lost Past With Janina Ramirez (BBC2, 2021) ****
Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing S3 (BBC, 2020) *****
The Falcon & The Winter Soldier (Marvel, 2021) *****
Homeland s8 (Netflix, 2020)*****
Into The Night S1 (Between a Dog & A Wolf, 2020) ****
Unforgotten S4 (ITV, 2021) ****
Inside No 9 S6 (BBC, 2021) *****
Great British Bake Off S11 (C4, 2020) *****
An Evening With Tim Heidecker (Youtube, 2020)
Time (BBC, 2021) *****
Loki (Kate Herron, Marvel, 2021)
Ghosts S3 (BBC, 2021) *****
Alma’s Not Normal (BBC2, 2021)
King Gary S2 (BBC1, 2021)
Great British Bake Off S5 (C4, 2021) *****
Four Hours At The Capitol (BBC, 2021) *****
Blair and Brown, The New Labour Revolution (BBC, 2021) *****

INTERNETS, RADIOS, YOUTUBES AND PODCASTS

Rob Auton’s Daily Podcast
Alasdair Beckett-King on Youtube
Shawn Woods’ Mouse Trap Monday on Youtube
An Evening With Tim Heidecker (Youtube, 2020) ****
Rosie Holt’s Youtube characters
James O’Brien (LBC)
Alexei Sayle’s Imaginary Sandwich Bar S1 (BBC R4, 2016)
Bridget Christie – Mortal (BBCR4)
Gideon Coe (BBC 6Music)
Marc Riley (BBC 6Music)
Eddie Mair (LBC)
Down The Line S1, S2 ( )
Tom Robinson (BBC 6Music)

THEATRE

Under Milk Wood – Dylan Thomas (National) *****
The Pin’s The Comeback (Noel Coward Theatre) ****
This felt like it was from the 1870s, the 1950s and now all at the same time.
It was of a tradition at the same time as exploding it. It reminded me of THE RIGHT Size and it would be great if The Pin could hold the partnership together in the way they didn’t as there’s probably lots to find out about how elastic it can be, and what you can subsume into it.
A Victorian audience would have recognised it as Music Hall and a ’50s audience would have recognised it as Absurdism, which Beckett knew was music hall anyway. Were they even in a theatre, really, them blokes? I hope it tours.
Ben Moor – Who Here’s Lost? (Hen & Chickens) ****

COMEDY

Jo Neary – Wife On Earth (Hen & Chickens) ****
Rob Auton – Time (Soho Theatre) ****
Johnny & The Baptists (Soho Theatre) *****

NEW RECORDS

Lady Leshurr – Quaranqueen
The Primevals – New Trip
Cult Figures – Deritend
Vapour Trails – Celestial Scuzz *****
Robert Pollard – Before Computers (demos)
Kevin March – Last Night
Doug Gillard – Douglas Scott Gillard II
Guided by Voices – Earth Man Blues
Gwenifer Raymond – Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain
Ustad Saami – Pakistan Is For The Peaceful *****
The Blue Orchids – Speed The Day
Dave Graney & The Mistly – Live At Byrds *****
Mainliner – Dual Myths *****
Hawkwind – 50th Anniversary Live
The Amorphous Androgynous w Peter Hammill – We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orcestrea – s/t
Major Murphy – Access
Eleventh Dream Day – Since Grazed
Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
Guided By Voices – Earth Man Blues
Fixed Horizon – Grenouille
Lucinda Williams – Runnin’ Down A Dream
Krallice – Demonic Wealth
Catenary Wires – Birling Gap
Cub Scout Bowling Pins – Heaven Beats Iowa ****
Pat Todd & The Rank Outsiders – There’s Pretty Things in Palookaville ****
Robyn Hitchcock – The Man Upstairs ****
Chris Forsyth – First Flight
Chris Eckerman – Where The Spirit Rests ****
The Scientists – Negativity
David Grubbs & Ryley Walker – Husky Pants ****
Shirley Collins – Heart’s Ease *****
Gary Louris – Jump For Joy *****
Fixed Horizon – Full Circle ****
Trees Speak – Post Human ****
William Loveday Intention – People Think They Know Me *****
Hawkwind – Somnia
The Bevis Frond – Little Eden *****
Pat Todd & The Rank Outsiders – There’s Pretty Things In Palookaville *****
Goat – Headsoup
Adele & The Chandeliers – First Date
Trees Speak – Post Human
Sun Ra Arkestra – Swirling *****
Phil Minton – Woke Up At 8 *****
Rudimentary Peni – The Great War
Lucinda Williams – Southern Soul
Son Volt – Electro Melodies ****
Guided By Voices – It’s Not Them! It Couldn’t Be Them! It Is Them! ****
Billy Childish & CTMF – Where The Purple Iris Grows ****
David Lance Callahan – English Primitive 1 *****
Paul Rooney – Service Industries 1 *****
The Shadracks – From Human Like Forms ****

NEW OLD RECORDS

V/A – Rough Guide To Avant-Garde Japan
Guided by Voices – Live At Irving Plaza (1996)
Damo Suzuki & Echo Ensemble – Live @ Green Door (2013)
Heavenly – A Bout De Heavenly (1989-1996)
Martin Stone – Down But Not Out In Paris and London (1992-2013)
John Russell & Terry Day – Russell & Day (1979?)
Derek Bailey, Trevor Watts & Terry Day – At LTC (1972?)
Sonny Rollins – Rollins In Holland (1967) *****
Robert Pollard – I Sell The Circus (demos) (2015)
The Fall – St Helen’s Technical College (1981) *****
Charles Gayle, John Edwards, Mark Sanders – Seasons Changing (2017) *****
The Misunderstood – Children of The Sun(1965-66) *****
Dexter Gordon – Live In Chateauvallon (1978) *****
The Loft – Ghost Trains & Country Lanes (1984-2015)
And Also The Trees – s/t (1984)
Neil Young – Young Shakespeare (1971)
T2 – It’ll All Work Out In Boomland (1970)
The Outsiders – Count For Something (1976-78)
The Selecter – Too Much Pressure box (1980)
Brown Acid 11 – v/a (1969-73)
Fleur de Lys – Circles (1964-1969)
J Jazz Deep Jazz From Modern Japan vol 3 – V/A (1962-1985)
The Black Keys Present Hill Country Blues – v/a
Brown Acid 12 – v/a (1968-80)
Raw Material – s/t (1970)
Open Road – Windy Day (1971)
Dave Graney, Clare Moore, Georgie Valentino & Malcolm Ross – s/t (2017) ****
Hangman’s Beautiful Daughters – Smashed Full Of Wonder (1987)
The Lipstick Killers – Strange Flash (1976-81)
The Hawks – Obviously 5 Believers (1979-81) ****
v/a – Goitse A Thaisce (1960-2020) *****
v/a – Fire Draw Near (1940-2020) *****

OLD RECORDS

Cocteau Twins – Treasure (1984) ****
Billy Bragg – Life’s A Riot (1983) *****
Billy Bragg – Brewing Up with (1984) *****
The Triffids – Born Sandy Devotional (1986) ****
Siouxsie & The Banshees – A Kiss In The Dreamhouse (1982) ****
Bunny Striker Lee – The Bunny Striker Lee Story (1967-80) ****
V/A – Dub, A Journey Into Bass Culture (1970s) ****
V/A – Dub, Original Bass Culture (1970s) ****
V/A – Dub, More Bass Culture (1970s) ****
Tomorrow’s Gift – Goodbye Future (1973) ****
Jackson C Frank – s/t (1965) ****
V/A – Down Home Blues, Chicago Fine Boogie (1947-1958)****
Maggie Bjorklund – Shaken (2014)****
June Tabor – Airs & Graces (1976) *****
John Martyn – The Very Best Of (1967-1996) *****
The Owl Service – The Garland Sessions (2007) *****
John Lee Hooker – Tantalising With The Blues (1965-70)*****
Furry Lewis, Memphis Willie B, Memphis Slim – Bluesville 3 (1963?) ****
Lightnin’ Hopkins – Prestige Profiles (1960-4) *****
Magic Slim – Live @ Ma Bea’s (1976) ****
Jimmy Dawkins – Come Back Baby (1977) ****
Allman Brothers – At Filmore East (1971) ****
John Fahey – The Yellow Princess (1968) *****
Freedy Johnston – Can You Fly? (1992)****
Julie Doiron – I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day (2009) ****
Tragically Hip – Man Machine Poem (2016) ****
Tragically Hip – We Are The Same (2009) ****
Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) *****
Grant Lee Buffalo – Storm Hymnal (1993-98) ****
Shiva Burlesque – Mercury Blues (1990) ****
Yo La Tengo – President (1989) *****
Yo La Tengo – Fakebook (1990) *****
Yo La Tengo – That Is You La Tengo (1991) ****
Yo La Tengo – May I Sing With Me? (1992) ****
Yo La Tengo – Painful (3 cds) (1993) ****
Tim Buckley – Dream Letter (1968) *****
Those Bastard Souls – Debt & Departure (1999) *****
Wanderlust – Prize (1995) ****
Chain – Towards The Blues (1971) ****
The Schramms – Omnidirectional (2019) ****
Cannonball Adderley – Soul Zodiac (1972)
Fred Anderson – Quintessential Birthday Trio Vol II (2015)
Greg Bendian’s Interzone – Requiem For Jack Kirby (2001)
Nels Cline & Greg Bendian – Interstellar Space Revisited (1999)
The Beat – Bounce (2016)
Nina Simone – To Be Free (1959-1993)
Swervedriver – 99th Dream (1998)
Road – s/t (1972)
Mudhoney – Morning In America (2019)
Necromandus – Orexis of Death (1973)
Julian Cope – Peggy Suicide (1991)
Ultravox – Rage In Eden (1981)
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Tinderbox (1986)
Blues Pills – Live In Paris (2017)
Gram Parsons – Alternate Takes (1973-4)
Mike Westbrook – Mama Chicago (1976)
The Fall – Grotesque (1980)
Truly – Fast Stories From Kid Coma (1995)
Echo & the Bunnymen – Evergreen (1997)
Echo & The Bunnymen – What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (1999)
Blues Pills – Lady In Gold (2016)
Leo Bud Welch – The Angels In Heaven Done Signed My Name (2019)
The Black Keys – Chulahoma (2006)
Nanci Griffith – One Fair Summer Evening (1988)
The Soft Boys – Invisible Hits (1983)
Robyn Hitchcock – Robyn Sings (2003)
Raw Material – s/t (1970)
Don Carlos & Gold – Them Never Know Natty Dread Have Him Credentials (1982)
Henry Junjo Lawes – Volcano Erruption (70s-80s)
Don Carlos – Day To Day Living (1982)
Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee – Full Up (1968-72)
Bunny Lee & Friends – Tape Rolling (1971-4) ****
v/a – Trojan Roots Dancehall Box (’70s, ’80s)
Charlie Chaplin & Papa San – Respect Due (1986?)
Robert Forster – The Evangelist (2008) *****
John Stewart – California Bloodlines (1969) ****
v/a – Trojan Dancehall Box (’70s, ’80s)
Don Carlos – In Dub (1980)
Yabby You – Deeper Roots (’70s, ’80s)
Yabby You – Deeper Roots Part 2 (’70s, ’80s)
Norma Winstone – Edge Of Time (1972) ****
Atlas – Just Playin’ Rhythm & Blues (1967-71)
V/A – Alan Lomax Songbook (1939-76) ****
Shirley Collins – Lodestar (2016) *****
The Go-betweens – Loving Shocks (1989) ****
Red House Painters – Songs For A Blue Guitar (1996) ****
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Mind Control (2013)
The Damned – Music For Pleasure (1977) ****
Skids – Days In Europa (1977)
Big Country – The Crossing (1983) ****
Big Country – Steel Town (1984)
Jon Dee Graham – Escape From Monster Island (1997) ****
The Fall – Live At The Witch Trials (1979) *****
Echo & The Bunnymen – The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon (2018)
Echo & The Buynnymen – Ballyhoo (1980-87) *****
Orange Juice – Rip It Up (1982)
Orange Juice – Texas Fever (1984)
The Stone Roses – s/t (1989) ****
The Screaming Trees – Buzz Factory (1989) ****
Mark Lanegan – The Winding Street (1990) *****
Killdozer – For Ladies Only (1989) ****
Magazine – Real Life (1978) ****
The Stranglers – Peaches (1977-82) *****
Screaming Trees – Uncle Anaesthesia (1991)
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Sunday At Devil Dirt (2008)
The Osiris Club – Blazing World (2014)
UB40 – Signing Off (1980)*****
UB40 – Present Arms (1981) *****
UB40 – Present Arms In Dub (1981) ****
Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007) *****
The Brave Little Abacus – Last Show @ Vic Geary Center (2012) *****
Sarofeen and Smoke – s/t (1970) ****
Blue Cheer – Outsideinside (1968) ****
Conqueroo – From The Vulcan Gas Company (1968) ****
Frank Morgan – City Nights (2004) ****
Peter Brotzmann – Machine Gun (1968) *****
Phil Minton – A Doughnut In One Hand (1998) *****
Chris Von Sneidern – The Wild Horse (2003)
Alexei Sayle – Cak! (1982) ****
Steve Wynn – Here Come The Miracles (2001) ****
Steve Wynn – Static Transmission (2003) ****
Andy Irvine – Old Dog Long Road Vol 1 (1961-2012) ****
Patti Smith – Land (1975-2002) *****

9) WOKE CAUSES – THIS MONTH, GOOD LAW PROJECT, GET OFF MY MED RECORDS, GBNEWS ADVERTISERS

GOOD LAW PROJECT

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It’s evident that the corrupt kleptocracy of Boris Johnson isn’t going to dislodged by Kier Starmer’s PMQ’s however forensic, or by the biased media, or by legal investigations in which the gvt essentially investigate themselves.

However, despite the threats to judiciary in the Queen’s speech, at present the gvt are required to obey the law.
Champagne socialist fox-whacking lawyer Jolyon Maugham’s donation funded Good Law Project seems to be better than the opposition currently at holding the gvt to account, and proving where they have broken the law, so if you can spare a pound crowd fund them, as they do seem to be making an impact.

GBNEWS ADVERTISERS

Stop Funding Hate say – Advertising sales for GB News are reportedly handled by Sky Media.
We’re aware of at least one company who say they were unaware that they were going to appear on GB News and suspended those ads when they found out. If you work for a company that buys programmatic advertising from Sky, it may be worth checking with them to ensure that your ads aren’t placed on GB News.

A huge thanks to the Stop Funding Hate volunteers who have come together to help identify GB News advertisers.
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10) IN OUR COVID ERA LAMENTATIONS

Adam Schlesinger (Fountain of Wayne) (1967)
John Prine (outlaw country singer) (1946)
Henry Grimes (jazz bassist) (1935)
Dave Mountfield (Ornate Johnson) (1970)
Hal Wilner (arranger) (1957)
Tim Brooke-Taylor (Goodie) (1940)
Lee Konitz (jazz saxophonist) (1927)
Matthew Seligman (Soft Boy) (1955)
Millie Small (ska singer) (1946)
Florian Schneider (Kraftwerk robot) (1947)
Bill Rieflin (drummer for hire) (1960)
Hugh McKenna (Tear Gas pianist) (1949)
Steve Weber (Holy Modal Rounder) (1942)
Astrid Kirchherr (photographer) (1938)
Danny Ray Thompson (Sun Ra saxophonist) (1947)
Aubrey Burl (archaeologist) (1926)
Phil May (Pretty Thing) (1944)
The Clacton Fin Whale (circa 2000)
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (artist) (1930)
Doll Tor stone circle (3300 BC)
Kay Carroll (The Fall) (1948)
Bob the Cat (73 bus) (2006)
Alex Taylor (Shop Assistant, in 2005, and no-one knew)
Simon H Fell (jazz bassist) (1959)
Carl Reiner (director) (1922)
Ennio Morricone (architect of sonic dreams) (1928)
Keith Tippett (jazz pianist) (1947)
Jimmy Cobb (jazz drummer) (1929)
Barbara Smoker (Humanist) (1923)
The Nuffield Theatre, Southampton
Tony Elliot (Time Out) (1942)
Judy Dyble (folk singer) (1949)
Peter Green (blues guitarist) (1946)
Emitt Rhodes (power pop auteur) (1950)
Annie Ross (jazz bohemian) (1930)
Joe Ruby (Scooby-Doo) (1933)
Craig Weatherhill (folklorist) (1950)
Don Weller (jazz saxophonist) (1940)
Simeon Coxe (Silver Apple) (1938)
Diana Rigg (Avenger) (1938)
Toots Hibbert (reggae got soul) (1942)
Dele Fadele (carry bag man) (1962)
George Jeffrie (man’s-laughter maker) (1964)
Dave Kusworth (Brum punk Stone) (1960)
Gary Peacock (jazz bassist) (1935)
Doorkins (Southwark Cathedral Cat) (2005?)
Spencer Davis (Brumbeat pioneer) (1939)
Bunny Lee (dubmaster) (1940)
The Cubbington Pear Tree (1770)
Fungie The Dingle Dolphin (1979)
Jill Paton Walsh (humanist novelist) (1937)
Val Warner (poet) (1946)
Guy N Smith (Lord of The Crabs) (1939)
Richard Corben (decadent cartoonist) (1940)
David Johnson (Duke of Soho) (1960)
Leslie West (Mountain man) (1945)

– 2021 –

Katharine Whitehorn (bedsitter cook) (1928)
Katharine Whitehorn (bedsitter cook) (1928)
Celia Drummond Ford (voice of Trees) (1950)
The Happy Man Tree (Stoke Newington Tree) (1870)
John Russell (guitar guru) (1954)
Marcel Uderzo (Asterisk artist) (1933)
Tom Stevens (Long Ryder and Magus) (1956)
Dougie Anderson (Coda’s Edinburgh record dealer (1952)
Captain Tom (Covid Walkman) (1920)
Rynagh O’Grady (Ted’s Mary) (1954)
Mary Wilson (Supreme) (1944)
Chick Corea (Miles’ tinkler) (1941)
Iain Pattinson (You wanted to see me Prime Minister?) (1951)
U-Roy (Toastmaster) (1942)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (bookstore beat) (1921)
Wink O’Bannon (Eleventh Dream Day) (1956)
Bunny Wailer (Wailer) (1947)
Doug Parkinson (Oz vocal celeb) (1946)
Milford Graves (temporal explorer) (1941)
Johnny Rogan (Byrds’ Boswell) (1953)
Jessica Walter (Play Misty For Me) (1941)
Bertrand Tavernier (Round Midnight) (1941)
Anita Lane (Oz punk chanteuse) (1958)
Barbara Ess (Theoretical Girl) (1944)
Michael Collins (Apollo 11) (1930)
Mohammed Ag Itale (Tinariwen) (1960)
Monte Hellman (Two Lane Blacktop) (1929)
Sonny Simmons (jazz hobo) (1933)
Charles Grodin (The American Tim Key) (1935)
Franco Battiato (Italian Fetus) (1945)
Yoshi Wada (bagpipe minimalist) (1943)
Ned Beatty (squealing piggy) (1937)
Davey Datblygu (Davey Datblygu) (1964)
S Clay Wilson (Captain Pissgums) (1941)
Peter Zinovieff (sonic pioneer) (1933)
Richard Donner (kebab pioneer) (1930)
Alix Dobkin (feminist folksinger) (1940)
Patrick Sky (native American folksinger) (1940)
Tom O’Connor (raconteur) (1939)
Dusty Hill (ZZ Top) (1949)
Bob Sergeant (digital Beat producer) (194?)
Byron Berline (Byrds fiddler) (1944)
John Lawton (friend of Lucifer) (1947)
Una Stubbs (wooden woman) (1937)
Nanci Griffith (C&W poet) (1953)
Sean Lock (excrement genitals) (1963)
Brian Travers (UB40 blowhard) (1959)
Lee Scratch Perry (The Super Ape) (1936)
Michael Chapman (English primitive) (1941)
Norm Macdonald (acceptable face of US stand-up) (1959)
Tony Selby (Get Some In!) (1938)
Tom T Hall (Harper Valley songsmith) (1936)
Powell St John (Psychedelic Texan) (1940)
The White Stag of Bootle (2010?)
John Rossall (The Last Glam In Town) ()
Pat Fish (A Southern Mark Smith) (1957)
Jim Pembroke (psychedelic Anglo-Fin) (1946)
Rick Jones (Fingerbob Meal Ticket) (1937)
Alan Hawkshaw (Sausage on fork composer) (1937)
Takashi Mizutani (Les Rallizes dude) (1948)

I’m going to end on a note about Tony Selby, as these days not posting anything on Social Media, due to not actually being on social media, can be taken as callous indifference, and there tends to be a rush to comment in the light of any loss.
Condolences to his family and friends. I once had to stay at my friend Nigel Short’s house one night when my Mum was working.
His brother made me eat a maggot. We watched Tony Selby on TV in ‘Get Some In!’ and it seemed really funny.