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Bill Bailey announces arena tour (www.chortle.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by i_am_not_a_robot to c/britishcomedy

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Bill Bailey has announced a new arena tour entitled Thoughtifier.

The comic will be playing 20 dates in early 2025, kicking off in Dublin on February 9.

Promoters Phil McIntyre Live define Thoughtifier as ‘an intriguing device that can amplify the thoughts of a curious mind using music, channelled through a human instrument, known as Bill Bailey’.

And the promotional blurb reads: At a point in our evolution when it seems as if we’re sleepwalking into a world where humans might be redundant, and much of what we do can be done better and more efficiently by machines, what better time to celebrate our own flawed humanity.

‘And who better a guide to lead us than Bill… To take us on a jaunt through the error-strewn, distracted, crumb-festooned, sometimes magnificent history of human thought and how it might help us survive in this brave new world.

‘A magical, musical mystery tour of the human mind, along with some other pressing matters about whales, biophilia, unrequited love and other thoughts. Amplified with music.’

Bailey will be on The Graham Norton Show on Friday week (October 6) to promote the tour.

The 58-year-old comic – whose previous show En Route to Normal came in early 2022. will be launching Thoughtifier with a New Zealand tour in November.

Tickets for the UK arenas go on sale at 9am on Friday.

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[–] Emperor 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's playing near me close to my birthday. As a Bill Bailey lookalike, I feel this is some kind of challenge.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you could invade the stage?

[–] Emperor 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am just planning on sitting quietly in the audience and making people wonder if this is some Derren Brown level of trickery that allows Bailey to be on stage and in the audience.

[–] fakeman_pretendname 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have any friends who also slightly look like Bill Bailey?

One bloke at a Bill Bailey gig who looks a bit like Bill Bailey, well, he's just a long-haired bald chap in the audience.

Three blokes who all look a bit like Bill Bailey, sat in a row together at a Bill Bailey gig, would surely be noticeable enough to be mentioned.

[–] Emperor 2 points 1 year ago

I don't and I haven't seen any other Bill Bailey lookalikes but perhaps I should try and seek some out for the comedy potential.

Then again, I may turn up and find that a good segment of the audience are aging, beardy baldies and this is so common it isn't worthy of comment.

[–] wildeaboutoskar 2 points 1 year ago

As glad as I am to see him be successful (especially given he's from my neck of the woods), arenas means I'm unlikely to ever see him live which is a shame. I don't like the atmosphere of a venue that big personally.

Bet it will be great though!