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Rock’s Back Pages Ep 83 - September 2020 September 14th, 2020
In this week’s episode, we invite cult meta-comedian and out-there-music connoisseur Stewart Lee to discuss the new documentary he’s made about Prefects/Nightingales legend Robert Lloyd. Stewart also pitches in on RBP’s new audio interview, a 1991 conversation ‘twixt the late Andy Gill and everyone’s favourite choirboy-voiced Commie Robert Wyatt. In addition we consider the week’s…
FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee – SEP 2020 0000AC - August 2020 August 31st, 2020
“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…
King Rocker officially selected for Sheffield Doc Fest - June 2020 June 8th, 2020
VIEW ON YOUTUBE A film about Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales 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,…
FROM THE METRO-LIB-ELITE DESK OF Stewart Lee – June 2019 - June 2019 June 4th, 2019
“In contrast with (my) generation, which had spent most of its time online learning to code so that it could add crude butterfly animations to the backgrounds of its weblogs, the generation immediately following had spent most of its time online making incredibly bigoted jokes in order to laugh at the idiots who were stupid…