Stewart Lee gives his characteristically honest takes on the performers who chose to play the Riyadh Comedy festival in Saudi Arabia, why he’s not into the Oasis reunion despite liking their work, why the current state of Marvel is in direct opposition to what the brand once stood for, why Star Trek is superior to…
IRISH ANNOUNCEMENT Stewart Lee will tour to Dublin, Drogheda, Derry, Wexford, Cork, and Waterford in June 2026, his first tour to Ireland in 14 years. June 2026 Monday 1st June 2026 – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin – TICKETS Tuesday 2nd June 2026 – Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin – TICKETS Wednesday 3rd June 2026 – The…
It was “the most glorious, bravest, the most splendid music”, says British folk singer Shirley Collins of her time collecting folk songs at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in the 1950s. “It was all recorded out in the open, so there was a wonderful echo there.” Collins, the one-time leading light of the postwar British folk…
Shirley Collins didn’t think much of Bob Dylan when she first saw him play at the Troubadour in London. He was an American, singing American songs, badly. Worse, he wasn’t wearing a Stetson, which might have helped to set pulses racing. “We didn’t know what to make of him,” she tells Stewart Lee in his…