Multi award-winning AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD is to embark on a spring 2009 tour - making over 65,000 tickets available across 32-dates in the UK & Ireland. Following the critical success of hit primetime ITV1 shows Al Murray’s Happy Hour and a second Audience With, Al Murray - The Pub Landlord’s Beautiful British Tour sees the comic visit some of the nation’s best known venues from 22nd February 2009.
This will be THE GUV’s fourth national outing, with all three previous sell-out tours extended due to demand.
This announcement comes hot on the heels of a critically acclaimed second series of THE PUB LANDLORD’S British Comedy Award-winning primetime ITV1 chat show Al Murray’s Happy Hour (originally a series of 10 shows, the run was extended midway through to 13 by ITV). A prolific year has also seen AL: record his fourth live DVD at the London Palladium, selling over 190,000 copies; host a second Audience With, joining an elite club as one of only four comedians to have done this in the format’s 27 year history; and publish the Richard & Judy Book Club Award-winning The Pub Landlord’s Book of British Common Sense, a Sunday Times bestseller and the highest selling humour book by any comedian during 2007.
A full list of dates is below.
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What the press has said recently about Al Murray, The Pub Landlord:
“The most consistently exciting live comedian in the land for years.”
Dominic Maxwell, The Times
“Actually deserves the tag genius.”
Ally Ross, The Sun
“No other comedian working on the live circuit in Britain today offers such a cast-iron guarantee of start-to-finish mirth. Murray is as quick-witted as his character is small-minded.”
Dominic Cavendish, The Daily Telegraph
For more information, please contact Jo Cross or Dan Lloyd at Avalon on: 020 7598 7222 or joc@avalonuk.com / danl@avalonuk.com
TOUR DATES
February
Sunday 22nd - LIVERPOOL Empire - 0844 847 2525
Monday 23rd - NOTTINGHAM Royal Concert Hall - 0115 989 5555
Tuesday 24th - BRADFORD St George’s Hall - 0127 443 2000
Thursday 26th - LEICESTER De Montfort Hall - 0116 233 3111
Friday 27th - BLACKBURN King George’s Hall - 0844 847 1664
Saturday 28th - MANCHESTER Apollo - 0870 401 8000
March
Sunday 1st - SUNDERLAND Empire - 0844 847 2499
Wednesday 4th - CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange - 01223 357 851
Thursday 5th - CARDIFF St David’s Hall - 029 2087 8444
Friday 6th - PLYMOUTH Pavilions - 0845 146 1460
Saturday 7th - BOURNEMOUTH The Pavilion - 0844 576 3000
Sunday 8th - BRISTOL Hippodrome - 0844 847 2325
Wednesday 11th - ABERDEEN His Majesty’s Theatre - 01224 641 122
Thursday 12th - HARROGATE International Centre - 0845 130 8840
Friday 13th - PORTSMOUTH The Guildhall - 023 9282 4355
Saturday 14th - BRIGHTON Dome - 01273 709 709
Wednesday 18th - HULL City Hall - 0148 222 6655
Thursday 19th - NEWCASTLE City Hall - 0191 261 2606
Friday 20th - SHEFFIELD City Hall - 0114 2789 789
Saturday 21st - EASTBOURNE Congress Theatre - 01323 412 000
Sunday 22nd - OXFORD The New Theatre - 0844 847 1585
Wednesday 25th - LLANDUDNO Venue Cymru - 01492 872 000
Thursday 26th - DUBLIN The National Stadium - 00 353 818 300 207
Friday 27th - BELFAST Waterfront Hall - 028 9033 4455
April
Thursday 2nd - SOUTHPORT Floral Hall - 0870 4000 684
Friday 3rd - PRESTON Guildhall - 0845 344 2012
Saturday 4th - EDINBURGH Festival Theatre - 0131 529 6000
Sunday 5th - STOKE-ON-TRENT Regent Theatre - 0870 060 6649
Monday 6th - CARLISLE The Sands Centre - 01228 625 222
Wednesday 8th - JERSEY Fort Regent - 01534 449 827
Tuesday 14th - BIRMINGHAM NIA - 0871 945 6000
Friday 17th - GLASGOW SECC - 0870 040 4000
AVALON PROMOTIONS
Avalon Promotions Limited is best known for its presentation of live comedy. The last year has seen FRANK SKINNER, JENNY ECLAIR, LEE MACK, RUSSELL HOWARD, RICHARD HERRING, Edinburgh and Beyond, and Grumpy Old Women Live on sell-out tours around the UK, with Grumpy Old Women Live also embarking on a hugely successful tour of Australia.
Avalon also produced and promoted Jerry Springer - The Opera at the National Theatre, at the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End and on national tour. Among many others, Avalon Promotions has staged: HARRY HILL at the Palace and Dominion Theatres in London; Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure at the Sydney Opera House, the Edinburgh Festival, on UK tour and at the Village Theatre, New York (nominated for Drama Desk Award 2004); AL MURRAY’s West End runs of My Gaff My Rules, A Glass of White Wine For the Lady (twice nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment) and …And Another Thing; Richard Herring’s Christ on a Bike, ménage à un at the Arts Theatre London; Are You Dave Gorman? at the Westbeth Theatre, New York (nominated for Drama Desk Award and winner of Time Out’s Best Comedy 2001); Baddiel & Skinner Unplanned at the Shaftesbury Theatre London; Frank Skinner Live at the London Palladium; and Grumpy Old Women Live at the Lyric Theatre. In 1993 Avalon Promotions presented NEWMAN & BADDIEL to a sold-out audience of 12,000 in the first comedy show ever to be staged at Wembley Arena. This was followed by FRANK SKINNER performing to a record-breaking audience of 6,000 at the Battersea Power Station.
