Update: 30/11: Extra date added at London's Eventim Apollo on Thursday 7 June 2018. Tickets for the new show go on sale at 10am on Monday 4 December, priced £27.50. Link below.
Bill Bailey is to head out on a new tour in 2018. Larks in Transit will start in Coventry on 29 January before culminating at Peterborough Arena on 9 June.
In the new show Bailey tackles politics, philosophy and the pursuit of happiness. Plus, he fashions a symphony from a ringtone, tells the real story of Old McDonald and re-imagines the Stars and Stripes. The show celbrates two decades of touring larks from a comic described by The Telegraph as “the brainiest comic of his generation.”
British Comedy Award winner, Bill Bailey has enjoyed success on the live stage for many years. In 2001 he took his show Bewilderness to New York for an eight week run at the Westbeth Theatre. The New York Times wrote of him, “Bill is an unalloyed pleasure, a treat for the funny bone, the brain and the ear” and The Telegraph pronounced him “a hobbit with a wicked sense of humour”. In 2004 he performed his show Part Troll at over fifty venues around the UK, culminating in an extended run at London’s Wyndhams Theatre. In 2007 he embarked on a sold-out UK arena tour with his audio-visual, comedic extravaganza, Tinselworm. He took the show down under during the summer of 2008, touring Australia and New Zealand, before returning to London in December 2008 for a ten week run of the show at The Gielgud Theatre.
The summer of 2009 saw Bill tour the UK once again with his live show, Bill Bailey Live. Later that same year, following his performances at London’s Royal Albert Hall and the resulting critically acclaimed BBC2 television broadcast, Bill enjoyed a very successful UK tour of his musical comedy extravaganza, Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra. Performing alongside some of the UK’s finest orchestras, the show provided fans with the opportunity to see Bill’s surreal comic and musical imagination at its best and was described by The Telegraph as “a glorious achievement,” The Guardian as “sublime hilarity” and Stephen Fry as “wonderfully enjoyable… like driving a Rolls-Royce off-road.”
This summer, in memory of his mother who he lost to bowel cancer in 2005, Bill will be walking The Ridgeway Walk in support of Stand Up To Cancer, a charity very close to Bill’s heart. Joined by a number of his closest pals, Bill will be trekking the 100-mile route from Bedfordshire to Wiltshire over six days at the end of June.
All shows start at 8pm
All tickets are £27.50 (plus venue administration fees)
PRE-SALE WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2017
TICKETS ON GENERAL SALE FRIDAY 12 MAY 2017
Tickets available via www.TicketMaster.co.uk and 0844 844 0444
Full information also available at www.BillBailey.co.uk
