Comedy at The Caird Hall 2013
Micky Flanagan – ‘Back In The Game’ tour

Caird Hall 8^th April 2013

Micky Flanagan – one of British comedy’s biggest stars – will travel the length and breadth of the UK & Ireland for what will be the most anticipated comedy tour of 2013, taking in 57 shows on the way.

Starting next February and finishing up at London HMV Hammersmith Apollo on Friday 24^th & Saturday 25^th May 2013, the ‘Back In The Game’ tour follows on from the huge critical and commercial success of last year’s ‘Out Out’ tour where over 200,000 tickets were sold and all 150 dates a sell out.

The DVD – ‘Micky Flanagan Live: The Out Out Tour’ – has been the number 1 selling stand up DVD in 2012 with his show stealing performances on the small screen earning him a prestigious British Comedy Award nomination and The Sun’s Comedian Of The Year Award.

Micky has appeared on The Royal Variety Performance, Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats – amongst others – and next year will cement his reputation as one of the superstars of British Stand Up.

Tickets available from from Dundee City Box Office Tel 01382 434940, www.dundeebox.co.uk and www.mickyflanagan.com/

Deacon Blue Announce Scottish Tour
Band celebrate 25 years of ‘Raintown’

Thursday 4^th October @ 7.00pm

One of Scotland's best loved acts is set to return for a string of shows which will see them mark 25 years since the release of their debut album ‘Raintown’.

With their name being inspired by a Steely Dan song and their music influenced by the artfulness of Bruce Springsteen channelled through a distinctly Scottish upbringing, Deacon Blue have proved themselves to be one of the most successful acts ever to have emerged from Glasgow.

Success did not come overnight. A commitment to live performance – never being afraid to have fun onstage – has been the key to the band’s success. The band has enjoyed five top five albums and 18 top 40 singles. 25 years since the release of their debut album, Deacon Blue's enduring success can be measured by six million album sales and an almost peerless live reputation.

Upon its initial release, Raintown was met with great critical success but little commercial. But when the album was re-released a tour and a year later, it spent 77 weeks on the UK chart. The first single from 1989’s When The World Knows Your Name, Real Gone Kid, was nominated at the Brit Awards for Best Single. When the album was released it entered the chart at number one, displacing a certain American singer by the name of Madonna and her album Like a Prayer.

2012 is set to be a very promising year, as Deacon Blue celebrate their 25th anniversary they reunite to work on original material for a new studio album, set for release in September alongside a re-release campaign of their entire catalogue.

Tickets available from from Dundee City Box Office Tel 01382 434940, www.dundeebox.co.uk and www.gigsinscotland.com or by calling 08444 999 990

A Wild Life:
An Audience with Steve Backshall

Monday 2^nd July @ 2.30pm & 7.30pm

The enormously popular award winning television adventurer Steve Backshall talks about his expeditions, encounters with wild wonders, the mysteries of the natural world, his new fiction novel 'Tiger Wars', and last book 'Looking for Adventure'. The event will feature film clips of the animals that have inspired him and there will be an opportunity for audience Q & A's.

"Natural history's next big star……the next David Attenborough" Sunday Express

This event will be an illustrated talk and will not feature any live animals on stage. Best suited for adults and families and children of 8 years and over. There will be an opportunity to purchase signed copies of the books.

www.stevebackshall.com

Tickets on sale Friday 30 March 2012 from 9.00am.

The Global Phenomenen Calendar Girls
is Coming to the Caird Hall Dundee…

Tickets on Sale Friday 2^nd March from 9.00am

Since opening at the Chichester Festival Theatre in September 2008, Calendar Girls has been an unprecedented success playing over 100 sell out weeks at theatres across the country as well as a triumphant run in London’s West End. Calendar Girls has become the most successful play to ever tour the UK and has grossed more at the box office than the smash hit film with ticket sales in excess of £25 million. Now, Calendar Girls is coming to the Caird Hall for one week only from Tuesday 27 November 2012.

Calendar Girls stars Lesley Joseph, Kacey Ainsworth, Camilla Dallerup, Helen Fraser, Sue Holderness, Deena Payne, Kathryn Rooney and Ruth Madoc with Kevin Sacre as Lawrence the photographer.

A group of ordinary women, members of a very ordinary Yorkshire WI, spark a global phenomenon by persuading one another to pose for a charity calendar with a difference! As interest snowballs, the Calendar Girls find themselves revealing more than they’d ever planned…

Lesley Joseph shot to fame as Dorien Green, the neighbour from hell, in the BBC’s comedy Birds of Feather. She appeared in over 100 episodes filmed over a period of nine years. The show, and her character, become a national institution, watched at its height by over 20 million people.

Kacey Ainsworth played Little Mo in Eastenders for over six years before leaving the soap in 2006 after the birth of her first child. She returned to acting in 2009, to star in the West End production of Carrie’s War.

Su Holderness is best known as Marlene Boyce in the BBC’s hugely popular Only Fools and Horses as well as the spin off series The Green Green Grass. On stage, Su’s credits include Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking and How the Other Half Loves.

Deena Payne is probably best known as Viv Hope in Emmerdale, a role she’s played for eighteen years making her the longest serving female cast member on the programme.

Camiila Dallerup, one of the Strictly Come Dancing professionals, makes her acting debut as the beautician Elaine.

Kathryn Rooney returns to Calendar Girls having starred in the West End production. Her other credits include Rebecca with Nigel Havers, Buddy and Beauty and the Beast. During a long and distinguished career.

Helen Fraser has appeared in theatres up and down the country and made countless television appearances. Most recently, she played the formidable prison officer Sylvia ‘Bodybag’ Holamby in Bad Girls.

Ruth Madoc, best known as Gladys Pugh in Hi-De-Hi has more recently been seen on our screens as Dafydd’s mother in Little Britain.

Kevin Sacre, who plays Lawrence the photography, joins Calendar Girls from Hollyoaks in which he plays the slightly disturbed Jake Dean. Kevin says he is thrilled to be joining Calendar Girls and touring with his wife, Camillla Dallerup!

Susan Bovell, Robert Gill and Bruce McGregor complete the cast.

Tim Firth has adapted the screenplay of his smash hit Miramax film for the stage. The film was released in 2003 and was an instant hit at the box office, becoming the number one grossing film in the UK on its release. Tim’s other credits include the films Blackball and Kinky Boots and the award winning Preston Front for the BBC. His theatre credits include the plays Neville’s Island, The Safari Party, The Flint Street Nativity and the Olivier Award winning musical Our House.

Calendar Girls is directed by Jack Ryder with set design by Robert Jones, lighting by Tim Lutkin, costumes by Jack Galloway and music by Steve Parry. Calendar Girls is produced by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers.

Photograph by John Swannell

It’s Phenomenal! Yet another Comedian announced for the autumn
Live Nation & MHA Presents

Stewart Francis: ‘Outstanding In His Field’

Wednesday 31^st October 2012

The star of ‘Mock The Week’, ‘Michael McIntyre’s Roadshow’ and ‘Live at The Apollo’, embarks on a brand new tour with a fantastic and hilarious new show!

“A brilliant comic brain… this stand-up cracks some of the best one liners I’ve ever heard”. Guardian

“Perfectly crafted gags”. Sunday Times

www.stewartfrancis.com

Tickets on sale Friday 24^th February from 9.00am.

Just Announced!!
Comedy Store Management & 4DVD proudly present Rhod Gilbert

2012 Tour – Brand New Live Show

The Man With The Flaming Battenberg Tattoo…

Friday 31^st August 2012

Following several sell-out UK tours and best-selling stand-up DVDs, multi-award winning welsh wonder Rhod Gilbert is back on the road with a brand new live show. A regular on Live at The Apollo and with his own BBC One show Ask Rhod Gilbert, he’s one of the world’s hottest comedians.

His stand-up rants on life's minor irritations are legendary, but this year, he's a more mellow fellow altogether. He's now so laid-back he even let someone tattoo a Battenberg on him.

Will the new, chilled-out Rhod get his girl and live happily ever after, or will it be microwaved baked potato for one again?

Could it be the Mr Angry of comedy as you’ve never seen him before?

Tickets on General Sale 9.00am Wednesday 22 February 2012

“Without doubt one of the best comedians anywhere in the world” – Time Out
“In comic terms he looks indomitable” – Guardian
“Comedy manna from heaven” – Independent
“A joy to behold” – Times
“Exhilarating, passionate and sparklingly funny” – Chortle

Dalai Lama – Dundee Caird Hall

Friday 22nd June 2012 ‘Sold Out’

Tickets for His Holiness The Dalai Lama's eagerly anticipated first appearance in Dundee will go on sale next week.

His Holiness will deliver the University of Dundee's Margaret Harris Lecture on Religion when he makes a historic visit to the city as part of a UK tour on Friday, June 22^nd. The event takes place at the Caird Hall at 1.45pm on that date.

The talk, entitled ‘Education of The Heart’, takes place during the University's Graduation Week celebrations. Tickets for the lecture, costing £25, £15 and £10 (concessions available), will be on sale at Dundee City Box Office, City Square, from Wednesday, 1st February.

The talk will focus on a message that His Holiness has been communicating for many years. Although the West has been immensely successful in respect to what he refers to as education of the brain, he has a very keen interest in also highlighting the need for a balanced approach which includes an education of the heart by cultivating love and compassion.

Alfie Boe returns to Dundee
Dundee Caird Hall

Wednesday 11^th July 2012

Superstar Opera Singer and the nation’s favourite tenor Alfie Boe returns to the Caird Hall in Concert on Wednesday 11^th July 2012. 2011 has been a landmark year for Alfie Boe with his "Bring Him Home" Top 10 Gold Album and the sell-out tour along with his stunning performance in the "The Last Night of the Proms Scotland" at the Caird Hall in September 2011.

Tickets are selling fast, book now at Dundee City Box Office, Tel – 01382 434940, online www.dundeebox.co.uk

Kevin Bridges – ‘The Story Continues…’

Due to the phenomenal demand for tickets for comedian Kevin Bridges the Promoter Off the Kerb have announced another date – Sunday 18^th November 2012.

1) Friday 21st September 2012 Sold Out
2) Saturday 22nd September 2012 Sold Out
3) Saturday 17th November Sold Out
4) Sunday 18th November Tickets on sale NOW!!

Kevin Bridges returns to the road in the Autumn of 2012 with a brand new show called the ‘The Story Continues…’ which follows up the huge success of his sell-out UK and Ireland tour of 2010. Having made his debut on BBC 1’s ‘Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow’ in 2009 he has now gone onto host the Bafta nominated ‘Live At The Apollo’ and Channel 4’s ‘Stand-Up For The Week’.

Frankie Boyle – The Last Days of Sodom – Dundee Caird Hall
New date Just Announced Friday 14^th September 2012. Tickets on Sale Now!!

Saturday 15^th September 2012 SOLD OUT!!

Frankie Boyle has been pilloried, misrepresented and demonised. And for what? For Telling It Like It Is. Now he will attempt a final tour, to heal Britain’s fools. To support its rioters. To offer the inchoate laughter of despair to a culture in freefall. These are The Last Days of Sodom.

Jimmy Carr – Gagging Order

Friday 29^th June 2012 – Dundee Caird Hall

He’s Back with a brand new Show, brand new jokes………same old Jimmy!!

“Gagging Order” promises to be an hilarious night out…let’s see shall we.

Everybody’s welcome. Just leave your conscience, sense of common decency and moral compass at home and come on out for a laugh.

Jimmy has sold over a million DVDs & hosted countless TV shows but live comedy is what he does best, come and see for yourself.

Tickets on sale Friday 4^th November 2011 from 10.00am at Dundee City Box Office Tel 01382 434940 and online @ www.dundeebox.co.uk