Is it time for All Tomorrow’s Parties to call it quits? - May 2016 The Independent - By David Pollock - May 5th, 2016

When one of the people who helped give your festival its name is annoyed with you, does that mean it’s time to call it quits? The latest in a line of troubles for the beleaguered holiday camp weekender All Tomorrow’s Parties came in the lead-up to mid-April’s Stewart Lee-curated festival at Pontins in Prestatyn and…

Stewart Lee ATP 2.0, Prestatyn, April 15-17 2016 - April 2016 Soundblab - By Ian Fraser - April 28th, 2016

…And so the ATP Circus limps into town, having been shot from both sides in a month in which rumours of the demise of both their April weekenders had been dangerously rife, inflicting a further huge dent in ATP’s already battered reputation. So are we out of the woods yet, then? Are we fuck… News…

John Cage’s Indeterminacy at Cafe Oto - April 2016 London Jazz News - By AJ Dehany - April 27th, 2016

John Cage’s Indeterminacy (1959) is published as ninety story cards to be read out loud in a random order. By turns thoughtful and banal, funny and sad, the cards form an unconnected batch of anecdotes and digressions, parables and paradoxes, with a lot about Buddhism and mushroom husbandry. Cage is famed for generating music using…

Radio Review: Late Junction – 22 April 2016 - April 2016 The Lady - By Louis Barfe - April 22nd, 2016

Since it is a television programme, I haven’t been able to mention the latest series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle on BBC2, which has been required viewing as ever. Anyone who can get several minutes of breathless laughter out of me just by miming Rod Liddle eating a dry poppadom must be very funny indeed.…

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, Series 4 - April 2016 Moody Comedy - April 21st, 2016

With every new series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, I find myself not wanting to watch for fear of those who may judge but then almost immediately concluding that I do not care. Yes, Lee is a spiteful comic, but he is also incredibly astute. One can’t help but admire his craft, even if you…

Stewart Lee’s All Tomorrow’s Parties review – the indie connoisseur’s festival - April 2016 The Guardian - By JR Moores - April 21st, 2016

Once the alternative music fan’s holiday camp-based festival of choice, All Tomorrow’s Parties has had a troubled recent history. The promoter’s business practices recently went from being the target of indie messageboarders’ ire to attracting the disapproving attention of Private Eye. The regularly liquidated and resurrected company has cancelled and relocated events at a moment’s…