The comic creation Stewart Lee took a brief pause as the real-life Stewart Lee came forward to thank us for coming out to watch his rejigged Snowflake/Tornado show, after its enforced mothballing due to the pandemic. The man who has (by his own admission) been left bald, grey, fat, deaf, and with high blood pressure…
Stewart Lee is bound to go down in comedy history as one of the best stand-ups of all time. By turns satirical, political, teasing and surreal, his sets are a heady mix. His latest tour Snowflake/Tornado, put on Covid hold for two years, resumes and is in Salford 25-29 January, Wakefield 9 March and Buxton…
This tremendous edition features the “41st best stand-up ever” looking back at early ‘80s Peel shows, the powerful influence of Ted Chippington, “12 seconds of studio dialogue on a Jason Crest acetate”, the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, how Robin Askwith, Barbara Windsor and Julian Cope became entangled, what happens when your trousers fall…
A Rock Snobbery Special plus 50 years of the Old Grey Whistle Test …where we consider the brave new world in which Rick Astley plays the Smiths, a documentary explores the reasons people detest Kenny G and Rolling Stone rather self-consciously revise their list of the Best 500 Songs Of All Time (should they declare…