Julian Cope – Psychedelic Revolution - March 2012 March 4th, 2012

Cope’s fifteen year reign as Britain’s quirky alterno-pop king lasted until the mid-nineties, bequeathing the stomping hit single World Shut Your Mouth and the acid-breakdown album Fried. Nowadays the shaman-trickster shrouds his instinctive melodic gifts with obnoxious seventies pre-punk filth and eccentric pagan politics. Though the first of its two discs is sluggish in parts,…

Stewart Lee: Carpet Remnant World, Harrogate Theatre - March 2012 ThePublicReviews - By Rosie Revell - March 1st, 2012

Stewart Lee, star of BBC 2’s hit show Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, came to Harrogate last night claiming he had nothing funny to talk about any more. He currently spends his days driving around, looking after his son and watching Scooby Doo cartoons; he says the best inspiration for comedy. However, as the 90 minute…

Review: Stewart Lee, Canterbury - March 2012 The Blog Of Stuart - By Stuart - March 1st, 2012

Last week I dragged the girlfriend along to go watch Stewart Lee’s ‘Carpet Remnant World’ at Canterbury’s new Marlowe Theatre. We didn’t have great tickets; we were in the Upper Circle, one row from the very back. However, thanks to great designing, we could still see the stage brilliantly due to the elevated seats. The…

Carpet Remnant World of Stewart Lee, Cheltenham Town Hall - February 2012 palimpset.org.uk - By ono no komachi - February 27th, 2012

The more I think about our experience on Saturday evening, the more convinced I am of Mr Lee’s qualities as a consummate performer. I am going to try and studiously avoid spoilers in this account, but I hope it’s not too much of a spoiler to say that one of the main themes of the…

Review: Stewart Lee at Cheltenham Town Hall - February 2012 Cheltenham Gazette - By Jayne Bennett - February 27th, 2012

STEWART Lee is one of my comedy heroes. I first knew him as a bloke ‘off the telly’, in parternship with Richard Herring, but since then his comedy vehicle has rolled along and now… well, now he’s just a middle aged man who does nothing but watch Scooby Doo with his four-year-old son and drive…

Evan Parker/Okkyung Lee/Peter Evans – The Bleeding Edge - February 2012 February 26th, 2012

Four days before this trio recorded The Bleeding Edge at St Peter’s Whitstable last May, they played in The Cheltenham Jazz festival’s now abandoned improvisation strand, playfully accommodating the rhythm of a resonant roof leak, as it rang into a downstage bucket. St Peter’s is a favorite venue for free improvisers. Perhaps it’s dry. The…