LONDON LIFES 4 – EDWARD SMITH - February 2007 What's On In London - By Stewart Lee - February 13th, 2007

Edward Smith is a snowman, based in Kings Cross. Due to increasingly mild weather, he has seen little active snowman service in the last decade. Having been assembled by a gang of children on a piece of wast eground off Pentonville Road during last week’s heavy snowfall, Edward is looking forward to seeing how the…

LONDON LIFES 3 – STAN ANDREWS - February 2007 What's On In London - By Stewart Lee - February 7th, 2007

Stan Andrews stands on Oxford Street holding a placard saying Golf Sale, and has done since 1989. ‘Golf Sale’. That’s me. Perhaps you’ve seen me. My pitch is at the corner of Oxford Street and Rathbone place, just by the Waterstone’s. I’ve stood there for the best part of two decades now, from ten till…

Ted Chippington - February 2007 The Guardian Guide - February 4th, 2007

As a comedian and F-list celebrity I am occassionally asked to appear as a talking head on TV shows called the ‘Greatest Stand-Up Comedians of All Time’. But most the people I want to discuss – Simon Munnery, Kevin MacAleer, and Ted Chippington for example, – are deemed inadmissable by the producers, who want to…

Sleeve notes for the re-issue of The Trees’ “On The Shore” - February 2007 Sleevenotes - February 1st, 2007

If you are about to listen to On The Shore for the first time, then you are to be envied. In an era of mass communication and commercial misappropriation, there are few genuinely lost treasures left to be discovered. But On The Shore, the second and final album from the English folk rock band Trees,…

Richard Youngs – May – Jagjaguwar - February 2007 Mojo Magazine - February 1st, 2007

Richard Youngs is a forty year old librarian, transplanted from a childhood in Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire to Glasgow, from where he maintains musical connections with an international network of similarly independent, but musically disparate, cult figures. The first Richard Youngs album I ever heard was Making Paper. It was released in February 2001 on the…

Arthur Machen - February 2007 Rejected Piece - February 1st, 2007

The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction pictures Albert Camus smoking a cigarette on the cover, and struggles to define its terms. A cult writer should have died, ideally in mysterious circumstances, leaving behind one seminal work and a whiff of wasted potential. The obscure Welsh mystic Arthur Machen, (1863-1947) almost qualifies as a cult, but…