'There will even be a piano and a bit of singing'

Mark Steel has announced a short autumn tour of his new stand-up show.

Sixteen dates have initially been announced for An Evening and A Little Bit Of A Morning With Mark Steel, kicking off at the Garrick Playhouse in Altrincham on September 1.

 It will cover the joys and frustrations of modern life, as well as reprising the story of being brought up in a working-class street in Kent, to discover his natural father was a millionaire backgammon player who was friends with Lord Lucan.

Steel said: 'I’ve come to terms with the fact I’m a heap of contradictions, trying to stay young while being unable to log into any website. Trying to be respectable and mainstream (in this show there will even be a piano and a bit of singing), until I can’t help breaking into a steaming rant that would get me locked away somewhere secure if it wasn’t on a stage.

‘And this is stand-up, so whatever has happened in the room, in the town or in the world that day will almost certainly be in the show. So, I’ll try to keep it to a decent length, but it could so easily end up as an evening and part of the next day.;

The comic’s programme Mark Steel’s In Town returns to Radio 4 next month, with a raft of new recording locations including Paris, where he performed in French.

His tour announcement comes a week after his partner, Shaparak Khorshandi, announced she would no longer be going on the road  – cancelling some dates in the process – to spend more time with her family.

 Mark Steel tour dates

Published: 11 Jul 2022