First stand-up show in four years

Tickets have just gone on general sale for Daniel Kitson’s new stand-up show in Manchester.

Something  Other Than Everything is being staged at the Royal Exchange from August 31 to September 9. It is his first stand-up show in four years.

The blurb for the show makes an analogy between Kitson’s understanding of the world and a broken espresso machine he dismantled to try to get working – only for it to end up a pile of components he no longer recognises as a once-functional machine.

It  adds: ‘ Marooned in the middle of a circle of microphones, speakers, lights and people he will attempt to not simply dismantle and rebuild his own ideas about compassion, isolation, solidarity and progress but in doing so momentarily alter the function of language and invent a new form of stand-up comedy.’

Tickets for the Manchester run are available here – having previously been available on ‘pre-sale’ to members of his mailing lsit.

Last week, Kitson put out a desperate plea to London fans to buy more tickets to the run at the Roundhouse, after selling just one ticket on Monday.

In an email to fans, he pointed out: ‘There’s ten thousand still available –  at that rate, it will take me over twenty seven years to sell out. Oh. My. Sweet. Christ.’

‘By which I mean, tickets are selling fast guys, but there some seats still available so get in there before you miss out…’

It will be at the 1,700-capacity Roundhouse in Camden from July 12 to 29, with nightly shows at 9pm and a 2.30pm matinee on Sundays. 

Published: 15 May 2017