Alan Davies announces his first tour in a decade
Think Ahead comes as he releases the next volume of his memoirs
Alan Davies is to tour the UK for the first time in a decade.
The QI regular and Jonathan Creek star will be hitting the road this autumn with his new stand-up show, Think Ahead. He said: ‘I can’t wait to visit all the towns I haven’t seen for years, bringing ten years of jokes in one handy package.’
The description of the show says that 58-year-old Davies ‘thinks he’s Marty McFly but he’s older than Doc Brown. He spends more time in the pharmacy than the gym. He needs to get his blood pressure down and somehow his manhood up. Subject to relentless eye rolls from his kids. What is he? A late middle-aged stand-up on tour for the first time in a decade’.
Davies’ last tour, Little Victories, ran for 18 months from April 2014 to November 2015.
Since then he published the acclaimed memoir Just Ignore Him in 2020, which told of the death of his mother and the childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father.
A follow-up, White Male Stand-Up, which covers the ups and downs of his work in the UK's burgeoning comedy circuit in the 1980s and 1990s, is due out in September, just before his new live tour starts.
Publishers Monoray say: ‘It’s the story of how he threw himself into the joyous and idealistic world of stand-up comedy, leading to a television career, but how echoes from the past, and the thought that everyone might prefer it if he disappeared, saw him repeatedly dismantle everything around him.
‘With a cast of well-known comedians, actors, agents and producers, Alan awkwardly navigates his life from the camaraderie of the comedy circuit via life-changing fame as TV's Jonathan Creek, to the unwelcome realisation that most people know him from a bank advert and think he's had a perm.
‘Written thoughtfully and with brutal honesty, it's a story of uplifting highs and painful lows, of success and excess, and the dangers of both. How Alan Davies survived it - and very nearly didn't - is the compelling story of White Male Stand Up’
So far, 28 dates have so far been announced for Think Ahead, starting at Anvil Arts Centre in Basingstoke on September 19. Tickets go on sale at 10am tomorrow.
Published: 28 Jan 2025
