Spent quite a lot of time recently with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, not physically, although I have met both of them and they both very pleasant.* With their work, both their new books, “How I escaped my certain fate” and “How not to grow up”. AIOTM and Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, and old episodes of Fist of Fun. I'm even more convinced now they are working one of the most complex double acts of all time. I know they haven't actually worked together for over ten years. But each ones current work – although sometimes seemingly at polar opposites of the comedy spectrum, is informed and affected by the work of the other. And... We seem to be in a bit of a period of looking back, there is a new facebook page for our old band Shoot!, being looked after by drum and guitar god Gary Smith. I'm a big fan of looking back, not to sit there weeping, but to check out the good ideas and the mistakes. In most cases so I can do them all again. And again. “I'm like a shark me, need to keep moving forwards” only seems to be muttered by scary looking blokes with lots of cheap gold jewelry in even worse looking pubs. You know it will end in tears, and blood.
Bollnas Wolverines have a facebook page as well now. I had another listen to #2 this morning and it is rather good, we must get round to finishing it. Or I might suggest to Neil G we just put it out into the aether as it is and call it “Unfinished”. “Unfinished”, “Abandoned”. I knew I'd get it all to tie together...
* That's a bit disingenuous, considering Lee and Herring's styles of humor these days – I've met them both; one dissected me with his scalpel like wit, and the other bummed me with a chair leg.
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