Tim Minchin doubles his 2019 tour

18 new dates added for Back

Tim Minchin has added 18 more dates to his 2019 Back tour, his first in the UK in eight years.

The new dates more than double his schedule and include a night at the London Palladium and five nights at the Hammersmith Eventim Apollo.

It kicks off in Ipswich on October 15 next year, before visiting Oxford, Sheffield, Nottingham, Manchester, Plymouth, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Liverpool, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Brighton and Southend

Tickets will go on general sale at 10am tomorrow, with a 24-hour advance window today for fans who had registered with Ticketmaster in advance.

Billed as ‘old songs, new songs, f*** you songs’, the Back tour will be the first dates since his national arena tour with an orchestra in 2010-2011.

Minchin recently starred in the ABC comedy series Squinters in Australia and will appear as Friar Tuck in the new Hollywood version of Robin Hood, which hits cinemas in November. Next year, he will also star in Upright, a new eight-part drama series, which he will co-write, about a man taking a piano across the Australian outback.

Last year, DreamWorks pulled the plug on Minchin’s animated musical Larrikins, which he had been developing for four years.

Here are the dates - all for 2019.

October 15-16: Ipswich Regent Theatre
October 17-19: Oxford New Theatre
October 22: Sheffield City Hall
October 23-24: Nottingham Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall
October 25-26: Manchester O2 Apollo
October 29-30: Cardiff St David’s Hall
October 31 and November 1: Liverpool Empire
November 2: Portsmouth Guildhall
November 5-6: Plymouth Pavilions
November 7-8 and 12-14: Hammersmith Eventim Apollo
November 9: London Palladium
November 15-16: Birmingham Hippodrome
November 19-20: Edinburgh Playhouse
November 21: Sage Gateshead
November 22: Glasgow Armadillo
November 26-27: Brighton Dome
November 28-30: Southend Cliffs Pavilion