To be the flip side of the band's next single

Stewart Lee is to release another song – after having the bestselling download of New Year’s week.

The comedian has recorded a cover version of the Nightingales 1982 track Use Your Loaf, which will be the B-side of the Birmingham rockers’ next single, Ten Bob Each Way.

Lee originally recorded the song with musician Nick Pynn for a mooted Nightingales tribute album.

The comic has been a long-term fan of the band and its lead singer Robert Lloyd, supporting them on tour and making King Rocker, a film about their cult status, always on the fringes of mainstream success. It aired on Sky Arts last month after coronanavirus scuppered a planned cinema release.

Ten Bob Each Way is the Nightingales’ first recording since the Four Against Fate album, their 11th studio album, last May, and is a nod to Lloyd's other career as a horse-racing pundit.

The 7in single is due to be released on April 16 on Fire Records and King Rocker Records.

Meanwhile, Comin’ Over Here, the track Lee recorded with Asian Dub Foundation, has just been released as a physical 12in single, too.

The song was based on Lee’s stand-up routine mocking anti-immigration comments made by UKIP’s ‘Paul Nuttalls’ and others.

A campaign to get it to No1 on Brexit Day, January 1, had mixed success: it sold more downloads than any other track that week but the way the charts are compiled, taking into account radio play and streaming, conspired to keep it out of the official top 100.

In the newsletter he sends to fans, Lee wrote ‘I can’t believe how well the ADF’s made this work. I was their mere tool.’

The new four-track EP features four different remixes of the song and is avialble from X-Ray Productions.

Lee is currently rescheduling his Snowflake/Tornado stand-up tour, due to be taking place this spring and summer, for early 2022.

Published: 31 Mar 2021