Standing behind a clear perspex podium, sporting some fresh facial hair and holding one of the most battered-looking gee-tars in the business, lo-fi 'anti-folk' hero Jeffrey Lewis apologised to a packed crowd in the Latitude Festival's Poetry Arena for the last-minute cancellation of  his eagerly-awaited lecture on the seminal comic-book, Watchmen.  It was scheduled to take place earlier that day and - after providing a grim, poignant and sometimes harrowing account of why he couldn't make it - Lewis offered to make up for his regrettable no-show by doing something rather special after the gig: He'd sit under a tree [...]

Here's the wonderful Jeffrey Lewis performing at the Latitude Festival's Poetry Arena in the wee small hours of 19th July 2009. Review to follow. Low-Budget Detective Film: Whistle Past The Graveyard: Birthday Party Song: There's more where this came from.