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Manchester’s huge Castlefield Bowl comedy festival returns this September, featuring Ted Lasso’s Nick Mohammed, ventriloquist Nina Conti & stand-up legend Jack Dee
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (166+ words) The comedy festival, which first came to Manchester in 2022, welcomes over 10,000 comedy lovers each year from the city and beyond. The team first arrived in Castlefield Bowl in 2022 with a series of sell-out shows starring James Acaster, Aisling Bea, Josh…...
Pioneering 1990s Manchester festival Queer Up North is back with a citywide archive project & autumn schedule
3+ week, 4+ day ago (347+ words) The trailblazing story of Queer Up North (QUN)—one of the UK and Europe’s most influential LGBTQ+ arts festivals—is being brought back into the spotlight to inspire a new generation. Running across Manchester’s venues, clubs, and streets from 1992 to…...
A fabulous new drag & comedy show about the making of Paul O’Grady’s Lily Savage is coming to Salford next year, starring 'Drag Race UK' winner Danny Beard
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (422+ words) SAVAGE combines razor-sharp wit, unexpected tenderness, and plenty of peroxide, in an intimate portrait of a singular talent and the world that made him. Inspired by the life of the late, great Paul O’Grady, and created with his blessing, SAVAGE…...
This 'world-famous' Manchester comedy club that hosted Peter Kay & John Cooper Clarke is set to close - here’s what’s replacing it
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (346+ words) A ‘world-famous’ comedy club in the Manchester district of Harpurhey is set to be demolished and transformed into a health centre. The Embassy Club on Rochdale Road was first opened in 1959 by controversial comic Bernard Manning, best known for his…...