Tour & Solo Shows

Wednesday 18th November 2026
7.30pm
Canalhouse - Main Stage

Following two hit UK tours, Biggest Award in Comedy nominee and resident (junior) Doctor Michael Akadiri prescribes X (insert town or city here) with a potent dose of his latest offering, Don’t Call Me Uncle!

Multi-award-winning comedian Michael is proud to wear many hats: doctor, husband & father. Evidently, that list does not include uncle. Yet, despite only being in his early 30s, “the supremely talented and likeable” (Metro) doctor, for the first time ever, was recently called uncle in public (a term usually reserved for elders!). This has sent him spiralling!

Join the ”‘hugely entertaining” (Chortle) Akadiri as he fights this lurid allegation, contemplates the difference between perception and reality all whilst keeping the laughs flowing with his trademark “sharp-wit” (Chortle) &; “politically punchy” (Guardian) anecdotes.

As seen on Comedy Central LIVE, ITVs Stand Up Sketch & Channel 4’s Stand Up to Cancer.

As heard on Capital Xtra’s Breakfast Show, LBC & BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends Tour support for Jason Manford.

Winner - Komedia New Comedy Award

Winner - Comedian of Medicine Award, Haags Comedy Festival

NextUp Biggest Award in Comedy nominee

EXTRA DATE: 18th November: Full Info and Tickets

Sunday 31st January 2027
7pm
Canalhouse - Main Stage

Once upon a time, Hayley Ellis was in a girlband. She had it all, a fringe full of inset hairspray, a lace glove and a dream. It was the 90s and she was sure her band was going to be the next big thing. Fast forward some years later, the fringe has flopped and the only gloves she wears is an oven mitt. But what if she’d made it? Who would she be today? A well-adjusted mum who invested wisely and does the school run? A wellness guru flogging labia flavoured incense sticks? Or a washed-up has been calling the paps every time she goes to the Tesco just so she can scream “Why won’t you people let me live my life!?”

Join ex-popstar Hayley for an hour of joyous retrospection on body image, Smash Hits

magazine and an indoor skydiving debacle that’ll convince you some dreams are better left in the past. An hour of so-tragic-it’s-funny nostalgia, from your favourite no-singing, no-dancing funny girl.

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Sunday 7th February
7pm
Canalhouse - Main Stage

What if one of the most ordinary places in Britain has a surprisingly extraordinary history? Join comedian Tom Wrigglesworth for an inappropriately deep investigation into the evolution of the humble hand drier, or as he likes to call it, ‘the hearth of the public washroom’. 

Expect engineering revolutions, social etiquette theory, and utter nonsense courtesy of one of the finest and most original comics in the UK.   

It’s a show about loos… but it’s really about us.

Sony Award and Rose D’Or winner, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Chortle & Time Out Award winner and as seen / heard on Radio 4 and BBC 2.

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Canalhouse
Wednesday 3rd March 2027

There are few better ways to spend an hour than seeing Could Well Be In.”
★★★★ EdFestMag.com
Eric Rushton is back on tour with a brand-new stand-up hour about family through a
life time of dating, depression and darts.
(ISH) Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee- Best Show 2025 & 2026
WINNER Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award.
WINNER Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year.
“No wonder it sold out. A thinking man’s comedian with a gift for subverting standard
tropes hilariously” ★★★★1/2 One4Review
“Could Well Be In has sad bits and happy bits and Rushton tackles both in superb
style. He's a fantastic storyteller and I think he's hit the bullseye this time.” ★★★★
Beyond the Joke
“With his deadpan delivery and finely wrought gags, he commands the audience and
delivers a lot of laughs” ★★★★ TheArtsDesk.com
“A master craftsman” ★★★★ Scotsman
★★★★ The Skinny
★★★★ The List
★★★★ Fest
★★★★ Clownster
★★★★ On the Mic

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Wednesday 18th March 2027
8pm
Canalhouse - Main Stage

Giraffes. VHS porn. Ketamine-infused breast milk. Acclaimed stand-up Kemah Bob (The Guardian's 10 Best Comedy Shows of 2024) returns with her much anticipated second show.

Love Child is an intimate yet rowdy, personal yet electric, high-energy stand-up show from the “chest-achingly funny” (★★★★ Skinny) Kemah Bob. Join her on a hilariously unhinged tour through what it’s like to be a woman with your dad’s lips, a chaotic childhood with questionable parenting, the very real science of epigenetic baggage, and her attempts at navigating the relentless pressure to be a Good Grown Up™. 

ISH Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee 2024. 

As seen on QI, Richard Osman's House of Games, Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club, Comedy Central Live, Don't Hate The Playaz and Guessable. As heard on the Off Menu podcast.

Directed by Alison Spittle.

'A delight to witness on stage' ★★★★ Fest

'Kemah's presence is captivating' ★★★★ DIVA Magazine

★★★★ Guardian

★★★★ List

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Taskmaster Champion, Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer Nominee and retired sugar daughter Sophie Duker is back with a brand-new 2027 stand-up tour, ‘Hot Beef Injection’. 

In her latest hour, Sophie dares to get both sexy and political, reflecting on hypermasculinity, heavy-handed handymen and that old-chestnut Would You Rather: 'Man or Bear?’. 

 Hot Beef Injection reckons with the primal fear driving Duker’s distrust of heterosexual he/hims, and out of a challenging comedy club encounter a new question emerges: what would she say if she spoke to men, instead of shutting them out? 

“Obscenely good… Charisma to burn” Rolling Stone 

“extremely funny” ★★★★ The Scotsman 

“she is clearly going places” ★★★★ Evening Standard 

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Tuesday 20th April 2027
7.30pm
Canalhouse - Main Stage

This show is a story about a time when Rob Auton had a job as an estate agent on the planet Jupiter. It is fiction. Following the success of his sell-out 2025-26 nationwide tour, multi-award-winning writer, performer, podcaster and actor Rob Auton is returning to stages across the UK in 2027 with his thirteenth hour JUPITER.

On screen Rob has appeared opposite Danny Dyer in Marching Powder, in Channel 4's hit comedy The Change, and in BBC's Starstruck, with further credits including Miracle Workers(TBS),The End of the F**ing World(Netflix/Channel 4),The Russell Howard Hour(Sky),Cold Feet(ITV) and RandomActs(Channel 4). His viral stand-up appearance on Stand-Up Central with Rob Delaney(Comedy Central)Alongside his screen work, Rob is a two-time British Podcast Awards Gold winner for The Rob Auton Daily Podcast.

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Wednesday 21st April 2027
7.30pm
Canalhouse - Main Stage

This show is a story about a time when Rob Auton had a job as an estate agent on the planet Jupiter. It is fiction. Following the success of his sell-out 2025-26 nationwide tour, multi-award-winning writer, performer, podcaster and actor Rob Auton is returning to stages across the UK in 2027 with his thirteenth hour JUPITER.

On screen Rob has appeared opposite Danny Dyer in Marching Powder, in Channel 4's hit comedy The Change, and in BBC's Starstruck, with further credits including Miracle Workers(TBS),The End of the F**ing World(Netflix/Channel 4),The Russell Howard Hour(Sky),Cold Feet(ITV) and RandomActs(Channel 4). His viral stand-up appearance on Stand-Up Central with Rob Delaney(Comedy Central)Alongside his screen work, Rob is a two-time British Podcast Awards Gold winner for The Rob Auton Daily Podcast.

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Canalhouse
Thursday 22nd April 2027*

Fresh from starring in the latest series of Taskmaster, AniaMagliano (Live At The Apollo, Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show Nominee) brings a brand-new show full of jokes, confessions, and occasionally unhinged observations to venues nationwide. From the quirks of her own body to the legend that is Eve (yes, from Adam and), to her newly discovered boundaries, Peach Fuzz is Ania at her most relatable–and most funny. Ania has opened for Ed Gamble, Marc Maron and Catherine Cohen, and writes for Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Chicken Shop Date . Her choices on the Off Menu podcast are widely regarded as the worst of all time.

'A gift for observational comedy and weaving beautifully crafted routines' ★★★★★ The Telegraph

'Will have you crying with laughter' ★★★★The Guardian

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*This is the rescheduled date. Originally 18th Oct 2026.

Canalhouse
Tuesday 5th October 2027

Following a hugely successful international tour, culminating in a sold-out Royal Theater Carré in Amsterdam, Micky’s back on the road with a brand new show that asks: How do you make sense of a world that keeps getting worse, when your own life keeps getting better?

Micky Overman is an award-nominated comedian, whose previous shows have received critical acclaim. With over 325,000 followers, tens of millions of views online, and appearances on ITV2, Channel 4, and LUBACH, Micky has rapidly built a reputation as one of the sharpest and funniest voices working in comedy (both in Britain and beyond).

Join her for an evening of spot-on observations, hilarious stories and hopefully a nugget of wisdom or two*

*wisdom not guaranteed

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Canalhouse
Wednesday 6th October 2027

Patrick Spicer is back on the road. Following a debut tour that sold out 30 dates across 14 countries (with an additional 40-date extension and three shows at London's Leicester Square Theatre added to meet demand), Patrick returns with his second international tour.


With 350,000 followers, 100 million views, and appearances on BBC One and Channel 4, he's rapidly built a reputation for quick wit, effortless audience interaction, and hilarious true stories. Expect a night that blends the comical with the candid, and improvised moments with the crowd that will only ever happen once.

“One of the UK’s most exciting comedians” - Shortlist

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Canalhouse - Main Stage
Thursday 11th November 2027

Tom once was a young man, living in a historical palace and life was simple. Now he’s middle aged, living alone and the world has changed. The time of the straight, white, privileged male is over and those bridges he said he would cross eventually are suddenly right in front of him.

In this, his 5th international tour, the star of Netflix and comedy central, is more opinionated than ever.
“Clever, passionate, soulful”THE NEW EUROPEAN ✭✭✭✭✭
Get a ticket today. Tomorrow may well be too late. A Star is Born” ONE 4 REVIEW ✭✭✭✭✭
“A twisted view of the world” THE SUNDAY EXPRESS ✭✭✭✭✭
“A crafty idiot” THE DAILY MAIL ✭✭✭✭
“A stand-up that oozes class” METRO ✭✭✭✭

“This unexpected tour de force warrants a 21-gun salute” THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ✭✭✭✭

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Canalhouse
Sunday 14th Novemebr 2027

Multi-award-winning comedian, presenter, and viral sensation, Matt Richardson has always been told, "Bit much mate."A bit too loud, a bit too honest, and a bit TMI. What can he say? It's just in his nature, and this is where he does it best: live, on stage, no filter.

Expect a non-stop, high-octane show filled with his signature "hilarious and charming" (The Mirror) stand-up, with the same unapologetic vibe that's landed him many TV appearances and over 100 million views online. Whether you know him from the telly, from his "Another Good Question" series on TikTok, or you're coming in completely fresh, ‘Bit Much Mate’ is honest, chaotic, hilarious, and very Matt.

As seen on Nevermind The Buzzcocks, Love Island Aftersun, Drunk History… and who can forget Celebrity Coach Trip.

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