“Tributes to artists often end up being more about the person writing them, but MES provided me with an alternative education, looping me into Camus, and Arthur Machen, and William Blake, and Can, and dub and old garage punk and rock’n’roll. I saw the Fall 52 times and without MES my life would have been utterly different and nowhere near as much fun. What on earth are we all going to do with ourselves now?”
Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee talks to Alan Moore about writing his book, Content Provider (full interview)
The Rap Singers
on ‘Mock the Week’
“Mock the strong!’, that’s what I say. Have a bit of ambition. It’s what raises us above dogs.”
Remember records?
“A record was like a massive flat MP3….and there was almost no information on it at all….it was very impractical…it could break or warp in the heat…get scratched….
But it was better than your life.”