Saw the Soft Machine there a month or two ago they're one of my fave groups I found out the other day that Elton John named himself after the Soft Machine's original sax player, Elton Dean... little bit of trivia for ya
Hi tomplus, Good to see TMWRNJ get mentioned in your introduction, that's proper old skool! Have you seen any of Richard Herring and Stewart Lee's solo stuff they've done since then? There are a couple of really good Stewart Lee DVDs of his stand-up stuff, and some of Herring's one man Edinburgh shows are being put out this year too. Did you see Jerry Springer: The Opera?
lithium, I haven't as it goes, I've seen a few recent Stuart Lee things on youtube, nothing of Herring. Haven't seen the opera either :/ I was a bit wary to be honest... how is it? what a pair though.... the comedy from that time in the UK was pretty good. I don't suppose you ever came across Comedy Nation that used to be on BBC2 late at nighty on the weekend? that ones a bit more obscure. It was a funny as f**k sketch show, loadsa people who are quite well known now did bits on it... Like Sacha Baron Cohen, he was doing Borat years ago on that. It was around the same kinda time as TMWRNJ... I can't really get into the modern UK stuff like Mighty Boosh... it's so pseudo-random and just really boring to be frank... Bring back 90s comedy! that jimmy carr too, i hate him. eurgh
Oh it's fantastic, I really think it's one of my favourite things Stewart Lee has done. I maintain that the real quality of it is in Lee's linguistic virtuosity, it's just incredibly subtle and clever. I think a lot of people don't see past the shock tactics, media satire and swearing - all great reasons to like something, but what always appealed to me about Lee and Herring was the way they play around with language in a really original way. That's something that you notice in Lee's standup especially. Just got hold of some DVDs of Richard Herring's Edinburgh shows Uh. Question. What is your best memory of milk or dairy products generally?
