‘The only time I wanna see ‘big break’ and ‘Stewart Lee’ in the same sentence, will also involve his spinal column’ – Centerist Thug, Twitter

WOKE SO-CALLED ‘COMEDIAN’ T-SHIRT

There has never been a wokier time to own a wokely fabricated Stewart Lee ‘Woke so-called ‘comedian’’ leisure garment.
Woke so-called’ ‘comedian’ ‘Stewart Lee’ says – “As all alt right journalists know, the best way to invalidate a word is to put it in inverted commas.
But if I was Vladimir Putin I’d want my money back! Celebrate the paucity of traditional alt right arguments against woke comedy with this irksome ‘so-called’ comedian shirt, manufactured in the wokest way possible with the wokest materials available.”

Available from this…

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Made on Anthem Organic Tee Shirts who are a UK based ethical tee shirt manufacturer. They cost £20,00 each and will start shipping from 2022. Content Provider facemasks cost £15 each and are in stock and shipping now! Hoodies of Content Provider and All The Cheeses are also in stock and shipping now. They cost £35 each.

2. BASIC LEE

I will be launching a new Stand-up tour, BASIC LEE, in the Summer/Autumn of 2022.
Edinburgh previews (Aug), London (Sept – Dec) and 2023 dates on sale – more touring dates to be added.

LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE

Tues – Sat from Sept 20th to Dec 17th 2022

(EXCEPT Oct 18th – 29th and Nov 11^th)
7pm (4pm performance Saturday 12^th November

After a decade of ground-breaking high concept shows involving overarched interlinked narratives, massive sets and enormous comedy props, Lee enters the post-pandemic era in streamlined solo stand-up mode. One man, one microphone, and one microphone in the wings in case the one on stage breaks. Pure. Simple. Classic. Basic Lee. “The world’s greatest living stand-up comedian.” The Times

There are also new material sets incoming
JULY 10th Brighton Comedy Garden w Andrew Maxwell & Josie Long and more tbc

Monday 18th July 2022 – The Bill Murray, Angel, London – TICKETS

Tuesday 19th July 2022 – The Bill Murray, Angel, London – TICKETS

Wednesday 20th July 2022 – The Bill Murray, Angel, London – TICKETS

LEICESTER SQUARE SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER TICKETS HERE

First touring dates scheduled below – some onsale already.

Monday 23rd January 2023 – Royal & Derngate, Northampton – TICKETS
Tuesday 24th January 2023 – St. David’s Hall, Cardiff – TICKETS
Wednesday 25th January 2023 – St. David’s Hall, Cardiff – TICKETS
Thursday 26th January 2023 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham – TICKETS
Friday 27th January 2023 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham – TICKETS
Monday 30th January 2023 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Tuesday 31st January 2023 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Wednesday 1st February 2023 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Thursday 2nd February 2023 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Friday 3rd February 2023 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Saturday 4th February 2023 – Playhouse, Oxford – TICKETS
Monday 6th February 2023 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham – TICKETS
Tuesday 7th February 2023 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham – TICKETS
Wednesday 8th February 2023 – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham – TICKETS
Thursday 9th February 2023 – DeMontfort Hall, Leicester – TICKETS
Friday 10th February 2023 – DeMontfort Hall, Leicester – TICKETS
Saturday 11th February 2023 – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool – TICKETS
Sunday 12th February 2023 – Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton – TICKETS
Wednesday 22nd February 2023 – Belgrade Theatre, Coventry – TICKETS
Thursday 23rd February 2023 – Belgrade Theatre, Coventry – TICKETS
Friday 24th February 2023 – Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe – TICKETS
Saturday 25th February 2023 – Palace Theatre, Southend On Sea – TICKETS
Sunday 26th February 2023 – Palace Theatre, Southend On Sea – TICKETS
Friday 3rd March 2023 – Theatre Royal, Plymouth – TICKETS
Saturday 4th March 2023 – Theatre Royal, Plymouth – TICKETS
Wednesday 8th March 2023 – Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes – TICKETS
Thursday 9th March 2023 – Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes – TICKETS
Monday 27th March 2023 – The Lowry, Salford Quays – TICKETS
Tuesday 28th March 2023 – The Lowry, Salford Quays – TICKETS
Wednesday 29th March 2023 – The Lowry, Salford Quays – TICKETS
Thursday 30th March 2023 – The Lowry, Salford Quays – TICKETS
Friday 31st March 2023 – The Lowry, Salford Quays – TICKETS
Saturday 1st April 2023 – The Lowry, Salford Quays – TICKETS
Thursday 4th May 2023 – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS
Friday 5th May 2023 – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS
Saturday 6th May 2023 – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford – TICKETS
Friday 26th May 2023 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Saturday 27th May 2023 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Saturday 27th May 2023 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS
Sunday 28th May 2023 – Playhouse, Nottingham – TICKETS

3. EDINBLUR 2022

32nd fringe, 44th, 45th and 46th shows.

Two shows, on sale March 3^rd. A w-i-p at 10 am and a final go on the Snowflake half of Snowflake/Tornado at 1.50pm

Basic Lee (Work In Progress)

32nd fringe, 44th, 45th and 46th shows.

Stand 1, 10am (10.00hrs) – 3^rd – 27^th August (days off 15^th & 16^th Aug)

Early morning work-in-progress towards the 2022/3 stripped-down, mobile, reactive new stand-up show. One man. One mic. And another mic in the wings in case the stage mic goes down.

BASIC LEE (Work In Progress) TICKETS HERE

STEWART LEE: Snowflake

The Stand’s New Town Theatre (Grand Hall), 1.50pm (13.50hrs) – 3^rd – 28 August (days off 15^th & 16^th Aug)

Snowflake. Last chance ever to see the culture-war themed second act of the Snowflake Tornado double bill that toured 2019-2022. The other half, Tornado, played the same venue in pre-pandemic 2019. Satire! Swearing!! Retching!!! And a song!!!!

SNOWFLAKE TICKETS HERE

4. THE SNOWFLAKE TORNADO TV/DVD

This was filmed in York in May and will be on BBC2 in autumn as 2 separate shows.

5. KING ROCKER DVD/SCREENINGS

Our critically acclaimed doc KING ROCKER is available on DVD, and the s/track is out on various formats too.

https://www.firerecords.com/product/king-rocker-ost/

Following the huge recent success of ‘King Rocker’, spotlighting The Nightingales as one of the best bands in Britain, comes the soundtrack and DVD to one of 2021’s break-out films. This special ‘King Rocker’ bookback DVD/CD deluxe package includes the full length feature film with over 90 minutes of extras and unseen footage alongside the soundtrack.

This collector’s edition is beautifully encased with 20 pages of unreleased behind the scenes photos and liner notes from Michael Cumming and Stewart Lee.“Lee tells Lloyd’s story with skill, passion and verve” The Times. Comedian Stewart Lee and director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast Of London) investigate a missing piece of punk history. Robert Lloyd, best known for fronting cult Birmingham bands The Prefects and The Nightingales, has survived under the radar for over four decades. But how, if at all, does Robert want to be remembered?

The 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.

All of the highlights from the film are here, along with rarities which won’t appear on any of the deluxe reissues of the Nightingales’ catalogue, among them 7″ versions of “Use Your Loaf”, the Bob Luman hit “Let’s Think About Living” and “Black Country”, a glam remix of crowd favourite “Thick And Thin” and a version of Christy & Emily’s “Ghost” which rivals the Nightingales’ take on TLC’s “Unpretty” for sheer beauty.

The only act with roots in the punk era that have gone on to make records more captivating, cutting and entertaining today than at any point in their past; 2022 will be a busy year for the Nightingales, with months of live dates planned, a limited edition remix 12″, deluxe reissues of both ‘Hysterics’ and ‘In The Good Old Country Way’, and a hardcover book collecting Robert’s lyrics.“An inspiring comeback story that feels profoundly necessary” The Quietus

I will be hosting a number of screenings of the film this Summer, including at some festivals:

Bluedot (21^st-24^th July https://www.discoverthebluedot.com) w Bjork Sugarbabe, The Mogwais, Spiralized 3, Bionic Radio Workshop, Adam Bufftone, Andrew O’Neil’s History of Metal, Kiri Te Pritchard-Mclanna, Robbie Nince and a Delia Derbyshire Day.

Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham Thurs 28^th July https://macbirmingham.co.uk/event/king-rocker-q-a

Deer Shed (29^th – 31^st July https://www.deershedfestival.com) w Dry Cleaning, Billy NoMates, Treeboy & Arc, and David O’Doherty

6. I ARROGANTLY RECOMMEND SOME 2022 HAPPENINGS/THINGS

Daniel Kitson. The elusive comedy wunderkind has dates a-plenty.
JULY
17th – Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre – Chester;
18th – Midland Arts Centre Outdoor Theatre – Birmingham;
20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd – Windmill Hill City Farm – Bristol;
24th – Regents Park Open Air Theatre – London;
AUGUST 21st –Regents Park Open Air Theatre – London

Andrew & Eden Kotting – Excuse Me Please, Can You Help Me, I’m Terribly Worried My favourite filmmaker and his artist daughter have a new exhibition at New Art Projects, London, June 9^th – July 31st https://newartprojects.com/events/andrew-and-eden-kotting-excuse-me-can-you-help-me-im-terribly-worried/
New Art Projects are delighted to present the first London solo exhibition Andrew and Eden Kötting.

Excuse me, can you help me please? I’m terribly worried brings together their work collaborating in one capacity or another for over 34 years. Questions of authorship can be raised: Who made what? Who instigated what? How did this magical world arrive and from who’s universe? While this uncertainty can be questioned, here it is celebrated and laid open, as ownership and authorship are replaced by a creative partnership, with startling results. Working across a wide variety of media, the artists employ it to stand as a portal that cuts through different cognitive worlds and uses it to break down barriers and lazy definitions between traditional visual and neurological pathways. The exhibition includes drawings, collages, paintings and sculptures that were made before during and after the production of their award-winning film Diseased and Disorderly, which will also be shown. Tell-Tale Heads from the film are let loose through the galleries en route to the Tell-Tale Rooms Virtual Reality Experience which will also inhabit the gallery further breaking down the barriers between the artists and the worlds they have created. This exhibition aims to firmly confront the idea that this kind of collaboration is unequal and instead looks to celebrate diversity within collaboration and to let every voice rise up equally. Here the freedom to create is an open door through which many people can enter in their own way. The exhibition not only gives a platform to the different voices that come to us in singular and complex ways it gives you access to the diverse world people around you inhabit, which are so often overlooked.

“They make art as they breathe, hard and fast and memorable; paintings, postcards, installations, rants, poems and freewheeling film ‘songs’…. Eden ventriloquizes her father to provide the written text for her drawings and paintings that are already replete with meaning…. she provides a commentary and series of foot-notes for the Grand Projects that her father is undertaking…. An agenda or appendix in a different form and much truer or closer to the original sign makings and drawings on the walls of caves….” – Iain Sinclair.
“Andrew Kötting has been making films for a long time. But are his films even films at all? Or are they by-products, documenting other processes, their purpose known only to the artist himself? To me the film Gallivant seemed immediately one of the greatest things any human being had ever made. We spend a lot of time peering over our shoulders at the artists we’ve lost, forgetting that, if we look for them, some of the greatest are amongst us now.” – Stewart Lee.

Andrew and Eden Kötting are part of The Project Art Works collective, who were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2021. As part of their Turner exhibition they showed a constructed space that held a physical and digital archive from over 4,000 works by neurodivergent artists and makers over two decades. The archive embodies a visible trace of people who are often hidden in the world. Andrew and Eden Kötting were the focus of two episodes of Radio 4’s Film Programme in 2021 when they moved from their studio in the Old Town Hastings to their new one on The Ponswood Industrial Estate in St Leonards-on-Sea. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v9c7

Diseased and Disorderly is a film released in 2021 directed by Andrew Kötting in which Neurodivergent artist Eden Kötting, who was born with Joubert Syndrome, takes the viewer on a journey into her reality through her collages, self-portraits, and still-life drawings. It was funded by the BFI and the National Lottery.

THE FALLEN LEAVES Top punk-mod gentlemen entertainers. JUNE 11^th London 100 Club, AUGUST 21^st London Putney Half Moon, SEPT 10^TH London Camden Dublin Castle, 17^th Lewes Con Club

Ben Moor. The storytelling surrealist is out and about in many different iterations.

Tuesday 12^th & Weds 13th July 2022 19.30 PRONOUN TROUBLE

HEN AND CHICKENS THEATRE BAR, HIGHBURY, LONDON N5

An Edinburgh slot for my “lecture” about cartoons, friendship and lectures has yet to be confirmed at time of writing, but if you haven’t seen it, these dates offer you a chance to embrace the offbeat.

Thursday 14th July 2022 19.30 WHO HERE’S LOST?

HEN AND CHICKENS THEATRE BAR, HIGHBURY, LONDON N5

An Edinburgh preview show at this lovely pub theatre.

Friday 15th July 2022 19.30 COMEDY DOUBLE BILL – WASP IN A CARDIGAN & WHO HERE’S LOST?

HEN AND CHICKENS THEATRE BAR, HIGHBURY, LONDON N5

Another Edinburgh preview, this time in a Double Bill with the wonderful Joanna Neary and her fantastic show full of characters, song and dance and delight.

Saturday 16th July 2022 18.30 BOOKTALKBOOKTALKBOOK

HEN AND CHICKENS THEATRE BAR, HIGHBURY, LONDON N5

Described by Stewart Lee as “a book talk that swallows itself in a hall of mirrors full of Russian dolls,” this is also hopefully on its way to the Edinburgh Fringe – more details to follow.

ALASDAIR ROBERTS Scottish troubadour JUNE 25^TH London West Hampstead Arts. JULY 7^th Falmouth Cornish Bank. SEPT 3^rd Cardiff Chapter.

ELIZA CARTHY English folk godhead back in active service JUNE 28^th Leicester Musician. JULY 16^th London Union Chapel. NOV 28^TH Birmningham Glee, 30^th Cardiff Glee. DEC 5^th Cambridge Junction

EARL OKIN The mouth trumpeter runs amok. JULY 16th – The Corner House, 116, Douglas Road, Surbiton, KT6 7SB;

SEPTEMBER 2022
11th – Charity Jazz/Cabaret Show, Norwich Playhouse, 42 – 58 St George’s Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1AB, Booking line: 01603.63000

RICHARD DAWSON & CIRCLE Geordie art-folkster jams with Finnish acid-rockers JULY 6^th London Scala, 7^th Leeds Belgrave, 8^th M’cr Gorilla, 8^th Digbeth Supersonic, 12^th Newcastle Boiler Shop, 14^th Stirling Rabbithole. AUGUST 26^TH Barrow-in-Furness Krankenhaus.

M WARD Giant Sand graduated songwriter and guitarist JULY 1^st M’cr Night & Day, 9^th Nottingham Bodega, 10^th London Jazz Café, 12^th Bristol Thekla, 13^th Leeds Brudenell, 15^th Glasgow Oran Moor

BEVIS FROND One of local show by psyche-rock superstars. JULY 10^th Hastings Crypt

MDC Hardcore punk originators JULY 27^TH Southampton 1865, AUGUST 1^st London New Cross Inn

ACID MOTHERS’ TEMPLE Japanese acid all-fathers OCTOBER 9^th Birmingham Norton’s, 10^th York Crescent, 11^th Glasgow Hug & Pint, 12^th Newcastle Star and Shadow, 13^th Salford White Hotel, 16^th Preston Continental, 19^th Bristol Lanes, 20^th Brighton Komedia, 21^st London Studio 9294

DREAM SYNDICATE Blue collar paisley underground psychedelic explorers in imperial career phase. OCTOBER 18^TH London Lafayette

RECC’D INTERNETS, YOUTUBES AND PODCASTS

Rosie Holt’s Youtube characters *****
Ogmios School of Zen Motoring *****
Limmy’s review of After Life *****
The Exploding Heads
Alasdair Beckett-King’s various things *****
VonViddy (TikTok)
Eleanor Morton – Jack The Ripper (but shot in portrait!?)
Paddy Young – Posh actor in Northern Film
Dan March – British Tourism films
Tom Little
Sooz Kempner as Nadine Dorries on Twitter

12. IN OUR COVID ERA LAMENTATIONS 2022

Sydney Poitier – woke actor (1927)
Magwa – woke Cambodian landmine hunting rat (2013)
Burke Shelley – bass Budgie (1950)
Ronnie Spector – woke Ronette (1943)
Rachel Nagy – Detroit Cobra (1975)
Robin Le Mesurier – Womble (1954)
Andy Ross – Disco Zombie/nice man of Britpop (1956)
Barry Cryer – King Of Comedy (1935)
Norma Waterson – Mighty Folk Matriarch (1939)
John Nolan – man Behind The Magnolia Curtain (1966)
Betty Davis – She Might Get Picked Up! (1944)
Ivan Reitman – He was not afraid of no ghost! (1946)
Mark Lanegan – Screaming Tree rehabilitee (1964)
Bruce Anderson – MX-80 man (1950)
Anna Karen – ‘70s public transport icon (1936)
Sam Lay – Howlin’ Wolf/Butterfield/Dylan drums (1935)
Mikey Chung – Reggae session regular (1950)
Fred Van Hove – Belgian free-jazz stringbender (1937)
Ian McDonald – Crimson saxophonist King (1949)
Gary Brooker – Synesthesiac Hackney musician (1945)
Nicky Tesco – Suburban soundman/comedy fan (1956)
Dallas Good – Sadies guitar slinger (1974)
Philip Jeck – Art Noiseman (1952)
Margaret Curtis – Callanish visionary (1942)
Jordan – punk fashionista (1955)
David McKee – Then the shopkeeper appeared (1935)
Chris Bailey – Lordly protopunk, wit, raconteur (1957)
Gilbert Gottfried – That ‘Too Soon’ guy (1955)
Audrey Henshall – Scottish Neolithic expert (1927)
Eric Chappell – Rising Damp (1933)
Klaus Schultze – Tangerine Joker (1947)
Neal Adams – Woke progressive comics creator (1941)
Judy Henske – Greenwich psych-folkstress (1936)
George Perez – Best Avengers artist ever (1954)
Don Craine – deerstalking Downliner (1945)
Richard Polodor – acid rock engineer (1936)
Gavin Martin – music rag wit (1962)
Fred Ward – Worm Warrior (1942)
Vangelis – Apocalypso-Maestro (1943)
Bob Neuwirth – Gelb/Dylan adjacent beatnik (1939)
Cathal Coughlan – Microdisney Man (1960)
Rick Price – Move bassist (1944)
Ric Parnell – Tap/Rooster drummer & gardener
Alan White – Ono drums (1949)
Ray Liotta – has let himself go (1954)
Ronnie Hawkins – Canadian rock wellspring (1935)
Harrison Birtwistle – When Things Fall Over (1934)
Grachan Moncur – Jazz trombonius (1937)
Ray Hill – anti-Nazi mole (1939)
Paula Rego – pastel radical (1935)
Julee Cruise – Peak voice (1956)
Bruce Kent – God’s peacenik (1929)
Jean-Louis Trintignant – mute spaghetti hero (1930)