Tom Lennon • Freelance Writer: comedy and pop culture

Freelance writer specializing in comedy and the geekier end of the pop culture spectrum.

Latest Stuff

More Julian Cope…

Quite looking forward to seeing St Julian at Latitude in July. I like him loads, have never seen him live and over the years have heard great things about his gigs. In the meantime, I've got this to look forward to:The Birmingham Town Hall website says this about it:Cope will present one of his infamous lectures, based on his years of study of the occult, mythology and Britain’s pre-history. Followed by a screening of cult film Haxan (1922 dir: Benjamin Christensen)-an other worldly vision of grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, baby sacrifices and satanic Sabbath, with a live soundtrack by [...]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Birmingham Carling Academy, 5th May 2008

There's cool, there's uber-cool and then there's Nick Cave. Australia's finest export - the Black Crow King himself - was on particularly fine form as he performed in front of a sell-out crowd at the apparently soon-to-be demolished Academy on Monday night.He certainly looked the part. Dressed in a black, open-top silk shirt and sporting a horseshoe moustache, he put one in mind of a Latin American Revolutionary Hero with Goth-inclinations. For over two hours' he had the audience eating out of his hand. Granted, this may have something to do with the fact that few rock stars have fans [...]

O Brother, Why Art Thou?

The following is a transcript of a text message exchange that took place yesterday between me and my younger brother, Rob (AKA Brother Younger):ME: Julian Cope is playing at Latitude... :)ROB: Great! Who's Julian Cope?ME: Philistine!ROB: I'm not sure who they are, eitherME: You're saying you haven't heard of Phil S. Stein?ROB: Any relation to Phyllis Stein?That's how things are between Rob and me.

Invincible

Okay, let's start this with off a pair of disclaimers. Firstly, due to time constraints I'm going to have to knock this out in a bit of a rush. If it appears at all disjointed, misspelt and badly structured it's possibly due to the excuse that I'm working against the clock. Secondly, although I'm writing about the film Iron Man (which I went to see yesterday), I do so not only as a card-carrying cinephile but as someone who has also spent just over three decades as an unrepentant comics fanboy. So, having said all that, I'd just like to [...]

Previous 757677 Next