After missing two of Stewart Lee’s previous Bristol dates there was no amount of wild weather savage enough to keep me from my seat at the Colston Hall. A long time fan of Lee’s unique style, I was willing to battle the ‘red weather warning’, walk for miles avoiding knee-high snow drifts, and ride home…
Politics, 80s music and the history of bondage all featured in the Wellington-born comic’s Content Provider show at Theatre Severn last night. After nearly three decades in comedy, Lee has built a strong regular following and almost all of the Shrewsbury crowd were laughing throughout. Despite being sold out the theatre was not quite full…
‘capri-batterie is an Exeter-based experimental artcore trio, specialising in industrial jazz and avant-garde sonorities. Stewart Lee spent an hour in a Bristol studio last October improvising words to their spontaneous sounds. These are the unfiltered results’. Is Avante-Garde Jazz combined with Comedy and Psychogeography the ‘new rock’n’roll’ asks Ged Babey. Don’t be such a tool…
Dusty function rooms and faded TV stars in English seaside towns felt abruptly moribund when, in 1993, The Mary Whitehouse Experience (a comedy revue featuring Robert Newman, David Baddiel, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis) sold out 12,000 seats at Wembley Arena [NOTE; This is the author’s error. Newman & Baddiel did this as a double…
Dusty function rooms and faded TV stars in English seaside towns felt abruptly moribund when, in 1993, The Mary Whitehouse Experience (a comedy revue featuring Robert Newman, David Baddiel, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis) sold out 12,000 seats at Wembley Arena [NOTE; This is the author’s error. Newman & Baddiel did this as a double…
Few comedians would get away with breaking down a joke in the middle of their set to tell the audience that they laughed at the wrong time. Then again, few comedians have a relationship with the audience like Stewart Lee has. Bringing his latest show Content Provider to a packed-out Winchester Theatre Royal, Lee proclaimed…