Walking around outside, looking at things, crushing my enemies and seeing them driven before me and hearing the lamentations of their women.
Music
Dust Harvest, Derek Bailey, of Hackney and Barcelona, Iva Bittova, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, The Fall, Giant Sand, Howe Gelb, and Tucson music, Guided By Voices, Scott Walker, Billy Jenkins, Evan Parker, Eleventh Dream Day, Yo La Tengo, and Paisley Underground (Rain Parade, Dream Syndicate, Long Ryders and that kind of stuff). Old reggae, old blues, trad British folk music (Martin Carthy, Dick Gaughan, Bert Jansch, old Fairport Convention, Trees, etc) and psychy-folk rock, the C86 bands of my youth, 60's psyche and garage, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Television, Quicksilver Messenger Service, punky power-pop, Posies, Plimsouls, free improvised jazz things, country rock, The Byrds, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo. Dave Graney, The Go-Betweens, Nick Cave, The Beasts of Bourbon, and all grizzled Australians.
Movies
Culloden, London, Robinson In Space, La Cabina, Spinal Tap, Seven Samurai, Paris Texas, Hal Hartley, Italian Westerns, Django, Once Upon A Time In The West, Laurel and Hardy, The Edge Of The World, Gallivant, Shane Meadows, Dead Man's Shoes, Round Midnight, Shawshank Redemption, Last Resort, My Summer Of Love, Bombon El Perro, P Almodovar, The Story Of The Weeping Camel, Whistle And I'll Come To You, D Argento, Suspiria, Herzog's Loch Ness, Grizzly Man, Wicker Man, Local Hero, Dogma films, Festen, The Idiots.
Television
Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, The Sopranos, 6 Feet Under, Children Of The Stones, history doc's, Brass Eye, Nathan Barley, Star Trek TNG, Paxman, OGWT, D Attenborough.
Books
William Blake, Arthur Machen, Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence, Dan Rhodes, Ray Bradbury, Julian Cope, Eric Linklater, Neil M Gunn, Stan Lee, Phillip Larkin, Alasdair Gray, William Golding, Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alan Moore, David Jones, Peter Ackroyd, Daredevil comics, Frank Waters, Steve Aylett, Robert E Howard, Beowulf.
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Below is 41st Best Stand-up Ever dvd. The feature show was captured in extreme close-up at The Stand comedy club in Glasgow last April. In addition to this 75 minute show, extras on the DVD include a 45 minute interview conducted by Johnny Vegas, and a live performance at a conference of Entomologists.
You can get it online from Amazon and most good DVD retailers now… Or you can pick it up instore from HMV, Zavvi, etc.
Shows:
1987 - 1st Edinburgh Fringe shows.
1988 - 1st stand-up gigs.
1989 - 1st London gigs.
1990 - Hackney Empire New Act Of The Year, start of ongoing stand-up career... as of 2006 19 Edinburgh Festivals, 3 Montreals, 2 Melbournes, 2 Adelaides, 1 Kilkenny, 2 Leicesters etc etc.
1991 - Write for On The Hour, BBC Radio 4, and Spitting Image, ITV.
1992 - Write and appear in Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World, with Richard Herring, BBC Radio 4.
1994 - Write and appear in Fist of Fun, BBC Radio 1, with Richard Herring, which transfers for two TV series, BBC2, 1995, 96.
1995 and following, appear in Simon Munnery's Club Zarathustra, Edinburgh. Start writing music stuff for Sunday Times.
1996 - Failed Club Z pilot for C4.
1997-98 This Morning With Richard Not Judy, BBC2, and script editing for Harry Hill, Al Murray.
1999 - Direct Mighty Boosh in Edinburgh.
2000 - direct Simon Munnery's Attention Scum for BBC2.
2001 - Start contributing to and directing Richard Thomas' Jerry Springer The Opera. Novel The Perfect Fool published.
2002 - Pea Green Boat at Traverse, Edinburgh, and BAC, and on radio 4.
2003 - JSTO at National Theatre. Olivier awards etc.
2004 - Stand-Up Comedian at Ed Frin.
2005 - Stand-Up Comedian @ Melbourne, Auckland. 90's Comedian at Ed Frin. Stand-up DVD Stand-up Comedian released.
2006 - direct Talk Radio in Edinburgh, 90's Comedian @ Montreal. 90's Comedian DVD through GoFasterStripe.
2007 - What Would Judas Do?, monologe at Bush Thetare. INTERIORS with Johnny Vegas @ M'cr Festival. New s-up show '41st Best Stand-Up Ever' and play Johnson And Boswell Late But Live @ Ed Fringe.
2008 - Work in progress stand-up show SCRAMBLED EGG, and wrote ELIZABETH AND RALEIGH - LATE BUT LIVE for Edinburgh 2008. DVD released of 41st Best Stand Up Ever.
2009 - BBC2 series Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
DVD 90'S COMEDIAN, AND PEA GREEN BOAT AUDIO CD, AVAILABLE AT WWW.GOFASTERSTRIPE.COM £10
DVD 41ST BEST STAND-UP EVER AVAILABLE JULY 28TH 2008, SHOPS, AMAZON ETC
Who I'd like to meet: Your results: You are Spider-Man
Spider-Man
100%
Iron Man
75%
Green Lantern
70%
Robin
60%
The Flash
55%
Catwoman
55%
Hulk
50%
Superman
40%
Batman
20%
Supergirl
20%
Wonder Woman
20%
You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.
Hi Thought you might be interested in my new show. Lost not Found: Abscission A series of interventions and interactive art projects by Heather Tweed. Edinburgh EH1 7th - 31st August 2009 12am - 12am Free Please visit my new website for more details. Cheers Heather
Hey Stuart, your Comedy Vehicle was awesome, any plans to do more? Just commented Richard Herring to ask if it was possible to get hold of episodes of Fist of Fun etc that you guys did, how about it? I'm a newbie at the fringe this year!
I'm based in LA. I thought of you when I went to SF last week and found that record shop on Haight St. Do you remember the Schrams? You got me heavily into them.
my new weekly 1 hour "radio timperley" show starts this sunday 14th june at 7pm uk time (2pm nyc etc) on - www.manchesterradioonline.com (or on a crystal am radio set in the timperley area)
best regards frank sidebottom
p.s. if you want to be on it !!! see the "latest news" on www.franksworld.co.uk or my latest blog on www.myspace.com/franksidebottom
Russell Brand spelled your name wrong in his book, "Stuart".
Reading your book "A Perfect Fool" at the moment, it's brilliant - the first book to make me feel physically sick (pig sperm bit) since "Glamorama" when I was twelve.
WOW!! The No Sweat benefit gig sold out 6 weeks in advance! Thank you so much for supporting us in this way. Can't wait for the 9th July. Let us know your demands and we'll do our best to comply. A small army of children to make your stage costume is obviously out of the question. Sorry about that. No Sweat!
Stew - the man at MySpace has told me that you have disclosed your full name to them - why Stew, why! Now you're going to get all the waiths & strays finding you. Rather than looking up "Stewart Lee" they're going to look up "Stewart Lee" instead; and finding you! They may seem quite similar searches but "Stewart Lee" is surely going to attract the "Stewart Lee" newcommer BBC viewers; whereas "Stewart Lee" is the staple search for us die-hard FOF and TMWRNJ viewers who also know your stuff from Go Faster Stripe. I know "Stewart Lee" is your name (a bit like Ang Lee - or something - is his, apparently) but couldn't you have just kept it to "Stewart Lee" on here, just for us? Or maybe you could just totally swap your name altogether; somethig like "Stewart Lee" perhaps (so long as you tell us first, so we'll know) - then that will keep out all the naysayers who may have been looking for "Stewart Lee" just to give you religious kick-ins? Just a thought though - don't act on it if you don't want to Stew - but think about the consequences if you don't, please.
A Scotch fan here - enjoyed the Beeb series and hope you get another. However, thought you might be interested in this blog I stumbled across which has some very rare folk to download: http://time-has-told-me.blogspot.com/
Nooooo. I didn't see any tickets on sale for the Brighton gig. Sold out now. Hmmpf. That's your fault for being so bloody funny on tv.
I can't get Perfect Fool either. I tried the local library and it's been stolen!! Probably a conspiracy to make sure we don't read it for free. Are library books the illegal downloads of-when-I-were-a-lad? If I copied books out by hand and didn't own the originals, would I get done for piracy?
Stuck in a post-Sorefingers depression? Frustrated Obama didn't solved two wars and a credit crunch in his first 100 days? Summer almost here and the word "cellulite" frustratingly stuck on your mind?
Then fear not! The Coal Porters are back from Colorado USA where they recorded their next album and are ready to take on the post-Sorefingers blues for you and your fine family. On Saturday May 16, this very Saturday, they play bluegrass the way God intended it to be played by social malcontents at The Green Note in fashionable Camden Town, north London, at 106 Parkway, London NW1 7AN.
The Green Note is a quaint little bistro with EXCELLENT food and a vast array of brain-numbing beverages.
Only three minutes walk from Camden tube the Coal Porters are onstage at 8pm and again for a second show at 10pm. The house is cleared after the first Coal Porters performance so there are actually two concerts this evening...allowing the hard-working punter two complete chances to see media figure Sid Griffin, banjo virtuoso Dick Smith, real live Scotsman (and ex-standup comic) Neil Robert Herd, bassist Jonny Bridgwood and fiddle virtuoso Carly Frey in action!
16/05/2009 20:00atThe Green Note 106 Parkway, London, London and South East NW1 7AN Cost: Just 3 minutes walk from Camden Town tube. Tel: 020 7485 9899
Hi Stew, Great show last night at Bloomsbury UCL-I laughed my socks off! Nice guitar playing-hope you find a higher chair at the next show! Cheers......
here stewart, your stand up is very good, thank you for the political correctness routine, it's brilliant. i hope someday my comedy will be as insightful and clever as it is.
What a VERY clever and funny man you are! By far the best I have seen pretty much ever. There is only one other (Hicks-R.I.P.) that I like as much. Thank you for your brilliance, and giving me laughs (sometimes when I don't even feel like laughing)!!! :) YOU RULE! Sarah
Hey Stew, big fan from Australia. Absolutely love your stand up and think you should be in the top 5 greatest comedians of all time and not the top 50. Any plans to do a tour in Australia? Wishful thinking I know, but I think you'd get a great response here.
