Saturday 18th January - Live Comedy

ANDREW BIRD - Andrew has been tour support for Rhod Gilbert, Rob Brydon and Michael McIntyre at venues including Wembley and the O2. His writing work includes Jon Richardson’s Ultimate Worrier (Dave), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4) and Lee Mack’s Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (Sky).

PAM FORD - A Birmingham Born woman with strong Aussie accent, this former Pub landlady turned comedian, soon out grew her small Kent village pub to perform her unique comedy set in comedy clubs and Theatre's all  over the UK and Europe. A regular at the Edinburgh fringe festival. with her one woman shows typically telling her honest and hilarious accounts of events in her life.

FRANKIE MONROE - Joe Kent-Walters is a multi-award winning comedian and actor from Huddersfield. He has been delighting audiences up and down the country with his idiosyncratic style of outrageous character comedy, most notably with his comic creation Frankie Monroe.
His “mesmerising and unpredictable presence” (Chortle) performing as Frankie saw him win the 2023 BBC New Comedy Award after a “barn storming” (Ibid) set at Glasgow’s Kings Theatre Joe is now in development with the BBC and is one of Jiksaw’s 2024 ‘Faces of Comedy.’
Joe’s debut solo show (as yet untitled) has already played to sell out crowds in London, Leeds, Manchester and Hull where the crowd “deservedly gave the act a standing ovation” 

MC TONY BURGESS - Tony Burgess is an award-winning stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in Manchester:
With his instantly engaging stage persona, Tony Burgess weaves carefully crafted gags into sometimes surreal stories about northern family life, which for over 20 years has proved a hit with the crowds on the UK comedy circuit.    
“great, well crafted gags” The Guardian 
“kitchen sink surrealism” The Big Issue  
A successful writer, Tony has written sitcoms for BBC 1 and Radio 4; his plays have been staged at The Royal Exchange Studio Theatre in Manchester and he’s written jokes for many big-name comedians such as Steve Coogan and John Bishop. Tony also managed to get a credit on Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the were-rabbit, so his kids now believe that he’s got a proper job. 

*ACTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE