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The Jazz Cellar Tape - October 2018 October 30th, 2018
This is a 27 min poor quality, but historically important, documentation of Stewart Lee’s first recorded set. In order to give some gravitas to the cd, we’ve packaged it in a little gatefold sleeve which includes a newspaper review of the gig. Also in the package is a poster which features a picture of Stew…
Stewart Lee: The Jazz Cellar Tape - September 2011 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - September 5th, 2011
‘You know those amazing occasions where a significant band’s finally unearthed first demo tape is revealed as better than anything else they ever recorded?’ go the sleeve notes to Stewart Lee’s newly-released Jazz Cellar Tape from 1989. ‘Well, this CD is not like that.’ True, but this small bit of comedy history is a fascinating…
Badly Mapped World – Clever Anecdotery Gets Lost ★★ - August 2000 The List - By Mark Robertson - August 17th, 2000
The phrase ‘you can’t fault them for trying’ is sadly inapplicable for Stewart Lee. Once a roaring, venom-spitting demon whose cynical world view was something to behold, he seems a lacklistre shadow of his former self. His new show sees him meander the planet with a clutch of apologetic anecdotes which are delivered with the…
PREVIEW: Badly Mapped World - August 2000 The List - By Ross Holloway - August 3rd, 2000
Never one for eschewing the big topics, Stewart Lee’s fourteenth festival show on the trot covers pretty much the whole damn shooting match. Badly Mapped World is a strange travelogue packed with studied and beguiling humour. Behind a self-depricating manner lurks honed comic intelligence that sneaks up behind you rather than hitting you squarely in…