After more than 100 dates on the road in 2016 with his last show and a similarly epic effort with his previous tour, Mark Watson is amazed to find there are still some areas of the country he has not visited much and some towns that have been neglected altogether. It's hard to be everywhere at once, so for Watson’s new tour, MW, he has narrowed it down to a sensible plan. He will only visit places beginning with M or W, his initials.
A few of these will be favourite old haunts like Winchester or Manchester, but quite a few of them are the result of Googling and some are so remote that he won't know they definitely exist until we get there. Also, some aren't actually towns so much as trains (from Marylebone to Wycombe), or ferries (across the Mersey), or a helicopter museum (in the double-point-scoring Middle Wallop).
The material will be a mixture of the classic and the never-before-seen. And in some cases a fair bit of it will be about being on a train.
Mark Watson has regularly appeared on BBC 2’s Never Mind The Buzzcocks, and Mock the Week, BBC 1’s Would I Lie To You and Have I Got News For You and Dave’s Argumental. He has performed stand-up on BBC1’s Live At The Apollo, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and Channel 4’s Comedy Gala and was the star of Dave TV’s Road to Rio, as well as the host of BBC4’s We Need Answers.
Watson was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2005 Perrier Awards before being awarded the 2006 if.comedy Panel Prize for performing one of his now legendary marathon stand-up shows. He took home the Time Out Critics Choice Award in 2006 and has been nominated for a Barry Award from the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
On top of being a comedy star Mark has written a number of novels; The Place That Didn’t Exist, Hotel Alpha, Bullet Points, A Light-hearted Look At Murder, Eleven, The Knot and graphic novel Dan and Sam which has been optioned as a feature film. Following his efforts to halve his carbon footprint, he also wrote the book Crap At The Environment.
Tickets on pre-sale with See Tickets on Friday 17th February at 10am:
http://markwatson.seetickets.com/?pre=markwatson
General release on Monday 20th February at 10am:http://www.markwatsonthecomedian.com/
