© Endemol Shine UK Frankie Boyle announces 2023 tour
Lap Of Shame to play 52 venues
Frankie Boyle has announced a major new tour for 2023.
The Glaswegian will be playing at least 52 dates with his Lap Of Shame show, kicking off at Newcastle’s Tyne Theatre and Opera House on February 27.
It comes despite the comic saying that he was tiring of life on the road, and last night he tweeted: ‘I’m doing a tour. I really don’t want to but my family need a break.’
Promotional blurb for the new show says: ‘Buy a ticket, because by the time he arrives, the currency will be worthless and you and your neighbours part of a struggling militia that could probably use a few laughs.’
Lap Of Shame debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe this year and Boyle has been doing a number of work-in-progress gigs in Glasgow and London working up material for the tour and his BBC Two show New World Order, which is currently in its sixth series.
Boyle also published his first novel, Meantime, this summer (review) and at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August said: ‘I would much rather, if I could, segue into writing novels and just stay in the house and not travel so much. I would happily do that if I could.’
Tickets for the new tour go on sale at 10am on Friday.
» Frankie Boyle tour dates and ticket links.
The news comes as British-Kurdish stand up Kae Kurd also announces a 2023 tour entitled Kurd Immunity, and Internet hit Troy Hawke extends his Sigmund Troy’d show into next year.
Published: 2 Nov 2022
