Stewart’s looking well. He’s not let himself go.

Thank God the Daniel Stern reference was made, I was aching for it like a violent sneeze.

I remember as a teenager i around 1967/8 asking at the Co-Op record store in Bolton for the ‘Incredible String Band, 5000 spirits or layers of the onion’ to be met with, ‘Yer what?’ But it turned out they had it! Amazing

I love Stewart and I loved the Fall...great watch...

This is brilliant! My Mum had a row with the man behind the counter @ Our Price in Worthing circa 1988 when she went in to buy me a copy of the 1st Fugazi EP. Hairy man behind counter tried to sell her the Marillion album also called 'Fugazi'.... she insisted he was wrong and refused to budge, found the EP/LP and purchased it for me. Bless her!

I remember hiring LPs from my local library. And have the same memories of my parents gramaphone.

Brilliant!

I love Stewart Lee's stories of the Fall

Fabulous chat 😊🏴‍☠️

Stewart Lee is THE best stand up comedian in the world imho (and has been for a good 15 years at least) . The fact he works with and hangs out with Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci ,when possible, just adds weight to my own trust in his real reasons for doing what he does. Btw this is an excellent podcast.

A fantastic show. Bravo. To namecheck; The Seeds, West Coast Pop Experimental Band & Jason Crest in one show!

Stewart Lee brilliant as always … and Dave not trying to hard. Perfection.

i absolutely love it when someone 'famous' is just having a conversation and finds something so funny they just let rip, without any shame or self-checking. love his description of 'furious with silent, incandescent rage' - should be in the OED under 'seethe/seething'

Very entertaining. Very revealing, very enjoyable, very good 👍

Best Stewart Lee interview ever! Brilliantly entertaining podcast.

Lying with my dad with our heads under his Grundig radiogram listening to the Stereo Action Orchestra aged about 10 - good times 👍

Stewart Lee's shows on 6Music were absolutely spot on, as is his memory and impression of the two Bill's in 'Plastic Passion / Minus Zero'. That's exactly how it was in there!

Stewart Lee is great. The last time I saw The Fall I just stood there gazing at the gorgeous Elena XXXXX No Encore, no goodbyes, typical Fall!!!!!

the Big boy Pete theory was that all his obscure Psychedelic stuff was actually recorded in the late 80's and passed off as lost 60's acetates

Stewart Lee is awesome. That version of Moon In June is also what got me into Soft Machine though admittedly not from that broadcast.

I remember walking around the countless record shops that used to exist in Croydon and asking "Do you have 'Keep Yourself Alive' by Queen' after hearing it on Kenny Everett's Saturday show and receiving the relentless reply of 'By WHO??'

Brashes - Frankston, Victoria; Australia (circa. 1990) Buying a CD of 'Never Mind The Bollocks' by The Sex Pistols. I took the cover to the counter where the blonde dolly bird shop assistant attempted to find the disc among the stacks behind the counter. She fumbled about for some minutes before appealing to the manager for help: "Hey, Greg - I can't find The Bollocks?". Oh, brother...

I worked for HMV 1990-92 / 2002-2008, and the best thing I've still heard is "Do you sell CDs..?". It was always fun when someone came in to ask a question, and when you gave them the (correct) answer, they told you "No no no thats not it..." But being serious pop-pickers - we got REALLY good at disseminating the mishears like The Loneliest Monk. And of course in 1990-92 we were all, without exception (even the Bevis Frond fan) walking encyclopedias, we had to be. Whereas now (like politicians) working in a mainstream music shop is just a career choice, no actual meaning.

Aah, the early-mid 70s … my Dad had a wooden-trimmed ‘hi-fi’ music centre, made by ‘Garrard’ I believe, with a ‘smoked’ plastic lid, which we weren’t really allowed to use. Mum had long since mothballed her Dansette record player, Fats Domino, Carl Perkins & Little Richard 78s, etc. and Duke Ellington albums, to bring up 3 boys. Dad only had two albums worth mentioning - ‘Sound of Tijuana Brass’ & ‘Great Western Music Themes’. He wasn’t one for music. I blew up his music centre with ‘Foxtrot’ by Genesis, my first purchase. He wasn’t best pleased. He forbade me play my second purchase, Sabbath’s ‘Vol 4’ I think. Wanker.😉😅✌️

Good to see Jason Crest getting a mention

I love Stewart Lee so much. Same age, same references, same attitude...he was strangely late in getting into records though, how bizarre!! Anyway 'I'm digging the Neu! teeshirt. :)

Always fascinating to listen to Stewart Lee. Always reassuring to hear about the complexities of other people's attempts to create order in their lives (musical filing systems).

I remember having a book called "The Acid Trip" that was my bible for record collecting pych in the 80's. I remember going taking a special trip over to Birmingham because I heard they had a copy of the first 13th Floor Elevators record when it got re-issued in the mid 80s

This is the best thing I've listened to in such a long time. Proper fabulous. Thank you :-)

Whilst working in a record store I was asked if we had anything by Keith Christmas, I said no so the customer they said " do you have anything by somebody called Keith?".

I bloody love Stewart Lee❣️❣️❣️

As someone who's gonna be fifty next year, this is a fucking goldmine. I bought my first LP with money from a couple of birthday postal orders, at the age of nine or ten. Coincidentally it was Absolutely by Madness and I picked it up in the original Virgin in Liverpool on the same day that I got a pair of Adidas Kick from Jack Sharp's. The LP lasted longer than the trainees, as both tongues fell out after a summer of footy and sweaty feet.

He's just a big kid. Great guy.

In 2004 I went into Virgin Records, as was, in Sheffield, and asked for La Maison De Mon Reve by Cocorosie...The little berk behind the counter turned his nose up, saying "It's not the sort of thing we would have".......

I loved his trousers falling down story. It's on his video.

I tell my son how when i started work i was chuffed that i could by a new album (7-14) new sngs a week and whatever u could recrd of radio 1 peel / evening sessions

Great stuff. I hadn't heard of that book, Voyage Around My Room, so will investigate further. Trouble with stuff is it can end up too much and time to listen, read, watch etc is always running out, of course. That said, I still think it's worthwhile to archive and appreciate what you like, as best you can while you can, and perhaps think others might. I suspect general scarcity of stuff whilst a teenager (on pocket money / paper rounds) leads to varying degrees of hoarding when you can afford those things you previously "missed".

Don’t think the world was ready for a naked Norman Wisdom.

Really enjoyed this. Thanks.

That was really enjoyable, thank you! It was lovely to hear Stew talk about The Fall, Brum and The Nighingales.

Yet another great show!

Seen Stew a few times, as he appeals to what I am pleased to call my sense of humour. Love his description of comedy being like John Coltrane’s music, where various strands are eventually pulled together. In Stew’s act, that’s normally at the point he pauses and then says “Now…” which slays me every time. Unlike me, as a kid he sounded far too cool for school: although, like him (as if to illustrate my point) I did once have one of those Geoff Love albums of Sci-Fi covers.

Nice to hear Minus Zero/Stand Out Records getting a mention. I loved that place. The first time I went in there I did what I have to hope a lot of people did and tried to buy a CD from one shop at the counter of the other one. I think I actually miss being made to feel like an idiot in a record shop.

I used to dream of just being able to go into a record shop and buy what you'd heard and wanted. I live in the southern most part of Africa, and being a fan of Nick Cave, Bauhas, etc it wasn't easy to get hold of anything. The S African John Peel, Barney Simon, used to have 2 shows a week on the radion and he was the only person playing that sort of thing. I just thought that it wouldn't be a problem in the UK, until I heard a similar story from him reagrds needing to go to the bigger towns to find music.

Stewart is a great,great guy.Cool as well.Love this episode,glad i didn"t skip it.

I think he may have been referring to Ernie Ball guitar strings. Acid green regular slinky’s etc.

Excellent interview.

Great to see Stewart Lee, but even better to have Uncles David and Marks musings on KZfaq. I miss Word Magazine and Whistle Test.

Very enjoyable, thank you, gx

Great show

Interesting to hear the Mercury Rev 'Piano' story. Memory serves that The Rev's David Baker and Grasshopper were taking heavy tools to a poor Piano as an intro to their set. I know this for sure, because at the same time at the Clapham Grand Bar, I was nervously buying a very gracious Michael Gira from Swans a beer. We both turned round simultaneously to see this spectacle unfold in a genuine WTF moment.

Why don't the BBC give Stewart Lee his own show on BBC Radio Six and make him the New John Peel

This was highly interesting and very funny...😂

Lovely stuff

Gotta love Stu.

Agree about the later version of The Fall - a stonking line up.

Lovely to see you guys again. I had to google you for the names!! Brilliant program and fantastic to hear an intelligent thought provoking, and humorous conversation. I love the Fall too. I went to school with Spencer Birtwhistle who drummed in the Fall. Good luck Spencer.

this was great!!

This is wonderful

Excellent video. Really enjoyed that. Can relate to being a NWOBHM fan in 1981 :-D

sTILL HANDSOME THE WHISTLERS ARE ,,LOVE THE PODCAST ,,NICE TO SEE SANTA READY TO ROCK TOO ,,LOV TO STEWART

Great stuff 😁👍

I fear the moment I hear Stewart Lee has overdosed on all the cheeses will hit me as hard as John Peel's demise did.

that was great!

Number 2: you can leave a comment here. I just discovered this channel (I assume KZfaq's recommended it to me because I watch so many Stewart Lee clips on the platform) but you guys are great and exactly the kind of conversation I want to listen in on. Subscribed, and looking forward to hearing more. (Also, this episode answered a question my son and I have been debating, which is whether Lee's story about orienteering with Napalm Death is true or just a surreal bit, and I'm glad to announce I won the bet.)

Blimey. Vinyl bonding brotherhood !

I know Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa but Mark E Smith… I shall indeed have a listen!

I find that alphabetical cataloguing works much better than any other system as my taste is eclectic and I can go from genre to genre with no relation to each artists as I go. I throw a dice and count along from the last record I played. I have a more specific system to include different sections and rows of my collection. It's a great game too! Blessings All!

99th comment. I used to have that Spiderman comic, Johnny Romita Jr I think, who took over the pencils after Ditko's tenure on the comic ended. I lived at a place where the Incredible String Band lived too, a place in the Highlands, in the countryside, where a guy I knew lived, a playwright, who also had known Syd Barrett back in those days when Barrett was still vaguely attached to Floyd but fading out of it, turning up late for gigs, with a chair, sitting down and playing his own tunes while the rest of them were doing their gig. Small tiny world. Edit: Oh. I thought the Nightingale's kazoo was going to be a joke i.e. a metaphor for someone who has the ability to produce beautiful songs, something the nightingale is synonymous with in folklore, but deliberately plays something grating, something the kazoo is also synonymous with in terms of its rasping and comically stupid sound, as if to obscure their brilliance. Like Leonardo's little known nursery school crayon pictures and powder paint and glued-on macaroni works. Edit: Oh weird. I was the live action painter at a gig in Paris that a bunch of Liverpool bands played at, including the Boo Radleys. And I know one of the artists who did a lot of work for The Cramps. What is going on?! And that story about Chuck berry's autograph? I did the same with a 1990's letter from Chris Ware that is my only proof that the great artist offered to help me get a comic art gig with Fantagraphics. I put it somewhere "safe" and I have never seen it since. Re: his Liverpool bands collection, I bet he doesn't have The Pit Stop Jamming band in there aka The Wankers of The Apocalypse. And yes, further proof of the small world theory, I also know a guy Julian Cope used to work with, and that guy bought one of my art pieces in 1999. One thing Stewart Lee doesn't know about me is that once, I started an argument about whether I was in fact Stewart Lee, when I made a comment reviewing a video of one of his stage shows on Amazon. Someone commented suspecting I might be Stewart Lee because of how I had written the review and the fact it was under a pseudonym. What swayed it toward people not believing I was Stewart Lee was that someone noticed I used the wrong word in the context it was in and wrote 'practise' instead of 'practice' adding that Stewart Lee would never have made such a mistake. I also donated money to a donkey sanctuary out of guilt at illegally streaming a full length video of one of Stewart Lee's stage shows. None of this is egotistical because no one knows who wrote it.

I remember going into Tower Records in Kingston Upon Thames and asked if they could order a Hollywood Brats CD. Was told No it was no long available, and they didn't have it in stock. Then, I walked across the road to an small indie record shop and told 'Sure, should be in by Wednesday'

Had to pause and rewind as laughing too much. Oh man, that filing system... 🤔 (Maybe all of us with vinyl habits need to do some Swedish Death Cleaning??)

Genuinely overheard of two schoolgirls flicking records side by side in The Music Room in Tonbridge circa 1976: " Cor, look Sharon, Paul McCartney was in anuvver band before Wings."

Fabulous

That summer I spent a week with Alison Moyett calling her and her mate Blodwyn and Blodwyn while Madness rehearsed for TOTP in the village hall.

I Just bought my tickets for the 22nd of May .

Met mark doing Terrazzo on somebodies path . he was a nice bloke and as interested in my work as i was about his journalism

13:01 JMFC Stewart Lee's got original Napalm Death demo tapes!!!

Once I learned that Stewart Lee organised his music in a completely 'effed-up I hated AND loved him more.

I never imagined I'd hear Twenty One Pilots pass Stewart's lips

Music Junction in Mell Square was it Stewart Lee?

My friend's Gran wanted to get him the new record by "Maltloaf" for his birthday. The guy in the shop told her there is no such band.

Look at them in their man caves. Tush. Loved it.

Real treat and he likes soft machine

October 14, North Carolina, I had to seek out the Alan Bennett review of Stewart Lee's stand up, then becoming engrossed in the rest of the article. It's always raining in Yorkshire this time of year. I think back to 1066 and how Harold lost his bottle at Hastings and thus ushered in the new aristocracy that has plagued this country ever since. Bacon and eggs for us, beef and mutton for them.

Agree about missing seeing them - a few beers before and then Mark E. Smith shouting abuse at me.

Wasn't it Robert Crumb who designed the 70's ''Stoned Again' poster? I saw Stuart in Nottingham the week before lockdown, he's hilariously different from any other stand up in the UK, and the Buster Keaton sight gag at the end of the set is wonderful. Great episode guys.

You had to go to Diskery…Ernie Ball …He’s become a scene from High Fidelity

how do you keep all of that vinyl clean?

I wonder if Stew ever heard the rappers on the Top of the Pops?

The guitar strings packaging art was for Ernie Balls, wasn't it?

There's a band from California called The Loneliest Monk

so what section is Bachdenkel in Stew? Maybe they haven't been sectioned...

Good to see Stewart has let Dave Letterman's beard go

Stew's shaved the beard, cut the hair and looks back on it

I think he's referring to Ernie Ball guitar strings

35:20 I wonder if that is where the germ of the idea for the "Norman Wisdom On Acid" on TMWRNJ (that's what all the cool kids call it anyway) came from.....

Mark Stewarts looking well

This is muy divertido.

No Elephants This Side of Watford Gap by Exhibit A on Irrelevant Wombat Records anybody?

27:17 you can't tell me that's not in case Richard is watching