Stewart Lee talks to Iain Sinclair about 'The Last London'
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Iain Sinclair has been writing about London for most of his adult life, and if any of us can even begin to understand this peculiar sort of city that we sort of call a sort of home, then it's with Sinclair that we begin. The Last London (Oneworld) is the culmination of Iain's London project, although 'project' is far too determined a word to describe a body of work so many-layered, so prodigiously polyvalent. At our event at St. George's, Bloomsbury, he talked about the book and the city with comedian, writer and film director Stewart Lee, another Londoner from elsewhere.
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Iain Sinclair is such an original thinker: calls being burgled a 'dialogue'.
@v00n2000
2 жыл бұрын
I have entered into three such dialogues, on the receiving end, in the last 30 years.
Superb chat - a pleasure to watch
Two very interesting people. Thoroughly enjoyed this. Stewart is a great interviewer, we need more of these types of intelligent interviews.
@george474747
4 жыл бұрын
He could easily be this generation's Melvyn Bragg on the side if he wanted.
This was absolutely fantastic. Growing up in London has been ever so strange, and people like Iain and Stewart I have found so meaningful in defining some the changes I see around me.
This is so London centric.
Great combination.
This is just impressive 😊🏴☠️
Why have I only just found out you have a youtube channel?
Stewart's laugh always surprises me.
whos the writer he talks about in the end?
@Johnconno
4 жыл бұрын
Samuel Beckett.
@thenumbdave
2 жыл бұрын
Jarrett Kobek
"moral obligation to live out your own fiction"- this is something all skateboarder/skateboard photographers are familiar with, which is if you take a series of photos of an skater doing something, all but one of which weren't makes, it's usually understood that you will use any one of the photos that looks the best, whether or not it was the actual land. On top of that, if none of the photos are makes, but you promise to return and land it at a later date, possibly with accompanying video evidence, then all is good.
@TheXitone
6 жыл бұрын
true...
@happywednesday6741
2 жыл бұрын
You can't use a photo if you didnt land the trick! 😂
@chutzpahclang5485
2 жыл бұрын
@@happywednesday6741 I know?
@happywednesday6741
2 жыл бұрын
@@chutzpahclang5485 glad you know, clang.
@chutzpahclang5485
2 жыл бұрын
@@happywednesday6741 my point was that of the photo doesn’t have to be THE land
The killers are the bicycles - Ha! Iain Sinclair, you should go to Ljubljana! Deadly!
@42:56 - "perhaps they should meet Conan" ...Jesus, the speed of Stewart's brain!
Jeff Bezos and Grant Shapps have let themselves go.
@craigmcg6403
2 жыл бұрын
And Darren Clarke
Stewart Lee let your self go and co-write a script for a film that is a screenplay of a short story by Jorge Lui Borges to be directed by Charlie Kaufman, based on a true story. Please, thanks.
@trevorbarre5616
2 жыл бұрын
Please don't.
Clearly, Peru has let itself go.
put these two together at a desk for ever and let them just go on r
Fascinating interview, ruined by appalling sound quality. Why couldn't the maker have sourced the audio from the mikes rather than the camera position?
@michaelgove9349
2 жыл бұрын
The audio's fine from where I'm sitting, and I do music production for a living. Plus the close mics would pick up less of that fantastic Hawksmoor reverb...
@v00n2000
2 жыл бұрын
@@michaelgove9349 that's interesting, it now sounds perfectly clear. Must have been a problem with my sound card at the time. Thanks!
Yes I nearly got knocked in to the canal by a a Lycra nut
@stevewynnearts
6 жыл бұрын
During a quiet stroll with my rubbish artist friend.almost.
John Travolta from Grease has let himself go.
With apologies to the young Vargas Llosa, at what moment did Iain Sinclair notice that Perú was fucked?
Rick from the Young Ones has let himself go
blimey! Stewart Lee has really let himself go!
who is ian sinclair?
Craig Charles has let himself go
Priti Patel and the starboard aft torpedo tube from the retired British submarine _HMS Warspite_ have both let themselves go.
Aaaaahhhh... London. (Toilet flushes.)
Has London ever been anything other than a hostile place to live.. I lived there for many years and left to regane some sanity. And it's only ever going to get worse...
you mean, 'The Last of London'....
k d lang has let himself go
A 'right on' red brick sociology lecturer has let himself go.
@Littlehickish
6 жыл бұрын
Woody Hutton I knew I’d find u here
Andrew Kotting is my favorite person on earth!!
Born Slippy Effect
Please reply to Glinner Stewart Lee! We’re all waiting.
Lee is such a sycophant. Whether it's Evan Parker, Mark E. Smith or Sinclair, he's basically showing how big his record collection is. Draw your own conclusions.
@thetragicyouth
2 жыл бұрын
(yawns)
@trevorbarre5616
2 жыл бұрын
@@thetragicyouth Exactly.
@harveybarrett4859
2 жыл бұрын
@@trevorbarre5616 You've got behind the wizard's curtain.
@ciarono1093
2 жыл бұрын
God forbid
@michaelgove9349
2 жыл бұрын
Surely a person devoted entirely to showing off his record collection is a discophant? *I'm just sayin.*
God , pretention is always the technique of utter direness and boredom.......The London of these privilidged total lacking in character middle classes will never do justice of the true interesting London... Sadly , these PC brigade who were always intimidated and excluded from the true gems of London have regardless if their pseudo intellect been responsible for the death and true quality of our beloved capital.....RIP....
@connormay896
2 жыл бұрын
Christ will you just shut up
@michaelgove9349
2 жыл бұрын
Just think - there's a universe in which what you're saying makes a modicum of sense.
@kelzuya
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelgove9349 It's incredible isn't it? I've read it a few times and I haven't a clue what he means to say.