Bill Bailey Announces Autumn UK Dates For New Show ''Dandelion Mind' & Tickets
Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Written by Jon Stickler
Troll-shaped comedian and musician Bill Bailey has announced he is taking his Dandelion Mind show on the road later this year, announcing a string of UK arena dates for Autumn 2011.
The British Comedy Award winner has earned his success with terrific stand-up shows as well as starring in cult comedy series ‘Black Books’ and of course a team captain on popular TV music quiz show ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’. With a number of successful tours notched up, including his ‘Bewilderness’ performance at the Westbeth Theatre in New York, Bill Bailey is one of the most popular comedians in the world today. His shows have been described as “wonderfully enjoyable … like driving a Rolls-Royce off-road”.
Featuring Bill’s trademark musical interludes, observations and stories of the road, Dandelion Mind will be based loosely on the theme of doubt (or will it?), as we follow Bill from his real-life saga of being trapped by the ash cloud, to his barely contained rants about celebrity, TV, creationism and Michael Winner. He demonstrates new instruments, both ancient and modern, he sings an internet love song, a lament about punk heroes, Iranian hip-hop, and plays a mean folk-bouzouki.
Thomas the Doubter gets a new look, and Darwin’s curious obsessions and the myth of intelligent design are all worked over in Bailey’s own surreal style. He revisits the music of his youth, with a brand-new French Disco re-working of Gary Numan’s hit, 'Cars', played in his own inimitable way, and maybe some Wurzels-based remixes of classic German techno. Just your normal Bill Bailey gig, then.
Bill Bailey will play the following UK dates:
Birmingham LG Arena - 1st November 2011
Metro Radio Arena Newcastle - 2nd November 2011
Sheffield Arena - 4th November 2011
Liverpool Echo Arena - 14th November 2011
Edinburgh Playhouse - 16th November 2011
AECC, Aberdeen - Fri 18th November 2011
Manchester MEN - 22nd November 2011
Nottingham Arena - 24th November 2011
Glasgow Armadillo - 26th November 2011
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