Comedy

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Celebrate a year of Project Korova with a new comedy night

29th, October 2011 by

Project Korova are celebrating their first birthday by launching a new monthly comedy night at the Adelphi this weekend. Comedy Mike will launch on Sunday 30 October with Preston born Phil Ellis headlining. Support comes from musical comedian Matt Tiller, Jonny Addy, Danny Sutcliffe and the night’s resident MC Phil Buckley. Founder of Project Korova Sam Buist said: “Our regular monthly night Organised Mike has [...]

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Tringe: Comedy – Phil Buckley

30th, July 2011 by

As Phil Buckley bumbles onto the Adelphi stage, he remarks that in 8 years of standup he’s never really worked out how to begin a show. This indecisiveness and whimsical manner continues through his latest show Love Fool, as he meanders through an hour long set with anecdotes aplenty. The delicate matters of internet dating, nightclubs and er…brain farts are all dealt with by Buckley [...]

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First acts for Tringe Festival announced

17th, March 2011 by

Preston Tringe Festival organisers have announced the first acts to be confirmed for the 2011 festival. Returning from last year’s event is comedian James Christopher, Manchester Comedy Troupe ‘Stand Up’ and storytelling comic Phil Buckley. Magicians Jason Rea and Derek Gustard are also to return for this years festival, held in a number of city centre venues this summer. Tringe organiser Sam Buist said: “As [...]

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Lefty the cow, Preston's very own Twitter celebrity

A cow on Twitter? Pull the udder one!

1st, March 2011 by

Stephen Fry may have milked social networking site Twitter for all it’s worth, but now he has competition. Lefty the cow, from Old Holly Farm, Garstang, has taken the tweeting world by storm after farmer Ian Pye, 38, set up the account at the end of last year. “It’s a bit of fun marketing basically but it’s about the dairy industry,” he said. Mr Pye, who [...]

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New Preston Tringe venues announced

23rd, February 2011 by

Preston Tringe Festival organisers have announced that two new venues have been confirmed for this year’s festival. The Frog & Bucket comedy club and the Prescap Arts & Media Centre on Fox Street have been added to other city centre venues including The Adelphi, The Black Horse, The Continental and The Angel pubs. The Arts & Media Centre, which also houses community radio station Preston [...]

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Circus of Horrors returns home

3rd, February 2011 by

Preston has produced its fair share of performers, from Corrie stars to wrestlers. But few are as ghoulish as Circus of Horrors ringmaster Doctor Haze, whose latest macabre spectacle returned to his home city on Sunday. Haze founded the Circus 15 years ago and the troupe has since toured major venues and festivals throughout Europe, South America and Asia. But, for Haze, nowhere rivals the city where he [...]

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Jason Cook at the Frog & Bucket – Win tickets

8th, November 2010 by

After a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer, award winning and critically acclaimed comic Jason Cook brings his brand new show The End (Part 1) to Preston on Sunday 14th November. Jason faced his own death recently which kick started him into making his own life better. Apparently he’s high maintenance and has set about changing that. ”Last Christmas I thought I was having a [...]

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Three things to do this weekend

5th, November 2010 by

Here’s another roundup of activities to do this weekend. As ever, if you know of anything that should be included in next week’s roundup, get in touch at contactus@blogpreston.co.uk. 1. Phantom of the Opera – Tomorrow The Continental host Lon Chaney’s 1925 masterpiece on their 14ft high definition cinema screen. There’s also a specially created new soundtrack performed live by cult band The Laze. This show recently [...]

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Upcoming gigs in Preston

15th, October 2010 by

A variety of reasonably big names hit Preston throughout the rest of this month, but quantity is far and few between. Today, Saturday 16 sees the launch of Preston new indie clubnight, ‘Crash in’ @ 53 Degrees.

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Another night of comedy at 53degrees

11th, October 2010 by

Stand and Deliver was back on Friday night with another delicious cocktail of hilarious comedians. First up Welsh compare Ellis James who had a full fountain of knowledge on Preston but later confessed he had memorised Wikipedia before the show.

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