Comedy: welcome in 2015

Tired out? Stay holed up at home and start planning your highlights for the year ahead

Happy New Year! Doesn’t that duvet feel rather grand wrapped around you after all of those Christmas parties, New Year’s shindigs and general cavorting of the last month? It’s at this time of year that the chill can creep in and a reticence to leave the immediate space next to the radiator creeps in. I won’t argue with that. What I will suggest, however, is that you take this time to pre-book a few choice shows coming up in the year ahead – giving you humorous and fun-filled stepping stones to look forward to, and making sure you’ve already got tickets to those must-see beauties.

First up, the biggies – check out a couple of shows at the Brighton Centre. That’ll be Michael McIntyre’s three dates in August and then the ever-marvellous Bill Bailey way off in December. It may seem a while away, but just as quickly as 2014 raced through itself, so will 2015 – and with tickets to these extravaganzas to look forward to, January Blues won’t last long at all.

Brighton Dome has treats starting sooner though, if you can’t wait, with Ross Noble setting up surreal shop on 31 January and 1 February in the Concert Hall, hotly followed by Josie Long at the Corn Exchange on 19 February, and then further treats from Stewart Lee on 27– 28 February. The rest of the year is looking pretty good too, with offerings from Jimmy Carr, Dylan Moran, Paul Merton’s Impro Chums, Reginald D Hunter, Alan Carr, Stewart Francis and Kevin Bridges.

And then there’s The Old Market and Komedia, not to mention various other smaller gigs with surprisingly big names worth rooting out. Keep your eye out for them throughout the year, but in the spirit of pre-booking I’d recommend Simon Munnery and Austentatious at The Old Market, and Lloyd Langford and Richard Herring at Komedia.

Give yourself a pick-me-up, a treat to look forward to, and choose one to suit your pocket. You might find that the tenner you got for Christmas from Auntie Maud is just the thing to book up a treat to lift your spirits out of the January doldrums. Tickets go fast, so don’t be the one scrambling around for returns on the day and get organised. What a lovely way to start your year. And it’ll certainly guarantee a brighter 2015.

www.brightoncentre.co.uk
brightondome.org
theoldmarket.com
www.komedia.co.uk/brighton

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