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Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit - March 2014 March 5th, 2014
Like Happy Mondays, The Fall, and William Blake, Sleaford Mods are English visionary ranters, seeing the big picture reflected in the toilet bowl. The East Midlands duo’s second album throws Andrew Fearn’s decade dissolving scuffed dance loops and churning post-punk bass under Jason Williamson’s kitchen sink hallucinations, profanity strewn, furiously funny. Reporting from Poundland Britain’s…
‘not the cheeky chappy next door’ - March 2014 The Metro - March 3rd, 2014
Stewart Lee declared he’s ‘not the cheeky chappy next door’ in response to criticism from the likes of fellow comic Lee Mack who accused him of being part of the ‘Oxbridge mafia’. I’m not the cheeky chappy next door,’ declared Stewart Lee helpfully at the top of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle (BBC2), just in case…
TV On Remand: The Funniest Show On TV - March 2014 askmen.com - By Michael Hogan - March 2nd, 2014
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle isn’t your traditional Saturday night TV comedy. There’s no sparkly suits, dazzling white grins or jazz hands here. No smell of the crowd or roar of the greasepaint. Instead, there’s a fat, depressed Todd Carty lookalike (his description, honest) mumbling into a microphone in a working men’s club. This weekend’s comeback…
TV review: Stewart Lee’s guilt trip makes for a brilliantly rude awakening - March 2014 The Independent - By Ellen E Jones - March 2nd, 2014
It’s almost impossible to review Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle (Saturday, BBC2), the meta-stand-up show which has returned for a third series, because Stewart Lee is his own best critic; he’s already done the hard work for us. So, as he put it, this episode was both “weaving magic out of thin air” and “some sort…