The planets have aligned. Then those planets checked the diary and aligned again. And possibly realigned just to be sure.

We’re already over the moon (wrong celestial body,but go with it) to be welcoming Sleaford Mods and Stewart Lee to Deer Shed this summer. But the icing on the iced icing on the already generously iced cake? They’ve kindly agreed to sit down together for one of their in-conversation events — continuing the run of talks that’s been packing out rooms up and down the UK earlier this year.

There is, as you might imagine, plenty to go at.

The state of things. The state of us. How two blokes with a laptop and a mic became — whisper it — one of the most significant UK bands since the sampler first blinked into life. (Don’t get us started. Or do. We’ve got the tent booked.)

Because it’s the persistence. The stage show. The glorious refusal to mellow. The politics. The writing. The fact that you can pen a track about TCR — yes, Total Control Racing — and still land like a dispatch from the cultural frontline. (Some of us were Matchbox Race and Chase kids. We contain multitudes.)

And opposite them? Stuart Lee. A legend with a scalpel for a mind and the patience to use it. Expect detours. Expect precision. Expect at least one moment where you’re not sure whether to laugh, applaud, or quietly reconsider your entire worldview.

It’s a meeting of singular voices, talking about… who knows. Culture, class, ageing disgracefully, toy car nostalgia, the end of the world as we know it.

It will be sharp. It will be funny. It will be, in the best possible way, a bit lush.

We’ll do our very best to squeeze you all into the Lit Tent for this one. Arrive curious. Arrive early.