It's late October, and whilst we may still have Halloween, Bonfire Night, Bodhi Day, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, New Year and Hedgehog Day (2nd of February if you don't have your diary handy), there's something else we're getting excited about. The 7th of February, otherwise known as the start of Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival 2014. Leicester may only be the10th largest city in the country but it boasts the biggest comedy festival in the whole country.
At the 2013 festival Just the Tonic put on some awesome shows, sold thousands of tickets and bagged ourselves a nice award (Best Venue over 200 capacity). But for 2014 we're determined to out-do ourselves, so we've revealed our line up extra early and tickets are available to buy from our website right now. It'd be impossible to list all 80+ shows here in one post but below are some of the gens we have on offer to whet your appetite.
Mark Olver's Dancing About Architecture
Quite simply one of our favourite shows. Mark is an award winning comedian in his own right and is adored on the circuit for his awesome compering and warm-up work for shows like 'Deal or No Deal', 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks', '8 Out of 10 Cats' and many others. Dancing About Architecture is a chat show for comedians about comedy. Interesting and hilarious in equal measure, every show is unique and boasts some of the best guests from the comedy world.
8th, 9th, 15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd Feb - Just the Tonic Leicester
Brett Goldstein Strikes Back (Work in Progress)
It might be a bit presumptuous of us to be getting excited about this already but Brett bagged the award for Best New Show at the DLCF 2013 awards ceremony. He's also a very nice man who we loved meeting last time. His show will be in our new venue at the Regent Club on Regent Road.
21st Feb - Just the Tonic @ The Regent's Club
John Cooper Clarke
Britain’s best loved and most important performance poet is back with us by popular demand. He completely sold out our venue at the 2013 festival with people begging us to release more tickets. Biting, satirical and very funny, this show will sell out so please book early to avoid disappointment.
10th Feb - Just the Tonic Leicester
Phil Nichol Late Night Electric Watermelon
We love Phil Nichol. We work with hundreds of comedians and he is one of the funniest, friendliest, most entertaining we've ever met. This show is an album of 19 comedy songs he's written in the last decade. From the mind that brought you 'The Only Gay Eskimo' and 'Panda's Must Die', this show will be awesome.
13th Feb - Just the Tonic @ The Regent's Club
So there's just a taster, a morsel, a canape in the banquet of comedy we have in store for you. There's still plenty more highlights to come which will feature on this blog in the coming months plus full line-ups for some of our compilation shows such as the sell-out Midnight Shows.
Keep laughing.
JTT
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