Brigitte Aphrodite kicks a glittery platformed heel through the cosy convention of generic job titles by needing at least half a dozen words to describe what she does. Punk feminist showgirl poet singer comedian... maybe... ish.
I think I know what...
The first thing you notice about Jane Hawking is that she talks dead posh, writes Ted Sullivan.
The first wife of the famous Stephen and author of Travelling to Infinity which inspired the smash hit movie about their lives 'The Theory...
If I start out with a header like 'The best thing I've ever seen at the theatre' I know I'm being misleading straight away.
It's a woolly statement: who knows what I've seen at the theatre? And do I mean...
The press tent at a music festival is an interesting place to be. It is an oasis of calm of sorts, albeit one where there is a lot of work going on.
At Camp Bestival it was decked out like a...
While we were buying our ice cream and Pick N Mix to take into Batman: The Dark Knight Rises the queue was alive with chatter about the shootings in America two days before.
A gunman in a gas mask burst...
Stewart Lee performed in Northampton at the start of the month. He is the current best British comedian, as voted for in the British Comedy Awards.
But what does this mean?
He’s the champion comedian, the high overlord of British comedy,...
JOSIE Long is stepping up. The material she is touring with now is political, she's speaking out against the cuts and talking about her activism. She started out apologising for it to the audience in the Nook Cafe at...
My eldest son said I should read it, my other half said I should read it, Steven Spielberg seemed to be suggesting I should read it, so I read Warhorse. It's all right you know. It's a ripping yarn...
NOT everyone could have got away with writing something like Stewart Lee's book How I Escaped My Certain Fate. It's an interesting commentary on a comedian getting his mojo back after a period of career turmoil. It takes us from...
This is the second book by David Mitchell that I have read and loved, the first being Cloud Atlas. Black Swan Green is a coming of age story set in an English community, halfway between town and countryside, at...
