Stewart Lee, Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury – review - February 2018 Shropshire Star - By Harry Leather - February 22nd, 2018

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 & Stewart Lee: Bristol Fashion – Album Review - February 2018 Louder Than War - By Ged Babey - February 6th, 2018

‘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…

Review of How I Escaped My Certain Fate and Content Provider by Stewart Lee - February 2018 Albion Magazine - By Neil Jackson - February 5th, 2018

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…

Review of How I Escaped My Certain Fate and Content Provider by Stewart Lee - February 2018 Albion Magazine - By Neil Jackson - February 5th, 2018

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…

Review: Winchester Theatre Royal - October 2017 Daily Echo - October 23rd, 2017

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…

Content Provider at Royal & Derngate, Northampton - October 2017 Northampton Chronicle & Echo - By Anna Brosnan - October 13th, 2017

To be a Stewart Lee fan is to accept that banal jokes about marriage/family life/ other aspects of the everyday are simply not going to happen. Instead, viewers are mentally transported to a comedic plain in which there is no secure footing, where apparently familiar subjects are turned on their heads and even the audience’s…