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Slow Comedy - April 2011 The Financial Times - By Stewart Lee - April 10th, 2011

I am a stand-up comedian. Or at least I thought I was. A few years ago, I received an unsolicited e-mail asking me if I was interested in “submitting content”. I was confused. The sender explained that I was a “content provider”. Did I want to provide content? Eventually it transpired that the content-seeker wanted…

The Smiths – I Know Its Over - April 2011 Mojo Magazine - By Stewart Lee - April 1st, 2011

I Know It’s Over is The Queen Is Dead’s first pause for breath. As usual, Morrissey’s mordant wit is mistaken, historically, for unmitigated misery. “Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head.” What an opening line! Remember all those classic blues and folk songs that billow forth from the point of view of…

Comics - December 2010 Clint Magazine - By Stewart Lee - December 1st, 2010

Sometime around 1973 or 74, when I was five or six years old, I was spinning the lower rungs of a rack of soft porn and True Detective magazines in a newsagents on the Stratford Road just outside Birmingham and an issue of Captain Marvel jumped out, the first real comic book I ever read.…

The Countryside - December 2010 Best Western Hotel Magazine - By Stewart Lee - December 1st, 2010

Cheap Channel 4 Television lifestyle shows espouse the benefits of leaving the stinky city, with its failing schools and stabby schoolchildren, and moving to the countryside, a bucolic idyll where everyone is happy and you can catch and eat your own hedgehogs. And I love the countryside. Two or three weekends a year I still…

Giant Sand - November 2010 The Sunday Times - November 19th, 2010

Howe Gelb, leader of the Tucson, Arizona group Giant Sand, started mixing country music, then still unacceptable in polite society, with punk, jazz, and noise thirty years ago. Today, Howe tours the world without troubling the charts, and is feted by collaborators and fans from PJ Harvey to the Spanish flamenco musicians with whom he…

THE SUPER MOBY DICK OF SPACE - November 2010 Dodgem Logic - November 1st, 2010

Next time you read a thoughtful article in a broadsheet newspaper about how ‘graphic novels’ are now serious literature, take a look at the American comic books of the fifties and sixties and remind yourself how far we, as a civilization, have come. Pitiful four-colour daubs picture infantile, underwear clad simpletons, barely capable of reasoned…

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