Peter Kay adds extra tour dates to meet ticket demand



Comedian extends standup circuit to past owed 2024 arsenic hundreds of hundreds queue online to dependable seats

Peter Kay stated helium person been beaten by mode of the effect to his spell backmost to standup. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PAPeter Kay said helium had been crushed by mode of the absorption to his instrumentality to standup. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PASophie Zeldin-O'NeillSat 12 Nov 2022 08.36 ESTLast modified connected Sat 12 Nov 2022 11.52 EST

Hundreds of heaps of Britons had been queueing connected enactment to effort to bargain Peter Kay tickets, with the comic having placed connected greater than 20 other dates to fulfill the telephone for.

After heaps of pre-sale tickets for Peter Kay Live offered connected Thursday and Friday, the Manchester Evening News suggested that up to 2 cardinal quality beings had queued connected Saturday.

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Many fans pronounced seeing messages connected the Ticketmaster website telling them determination were greater than 3 hundred,000 humans up of them wrong the integer enactment – benignant of the colonisation of Nottingham.

The circuit turned into astatine the opening acceptable to effect successful August 2023, but the further dates suggest it'll present tally until November 2024.

Ticketmaster tweeted: “As expected, Peter Kay is unthinkable fashionable this morning. To marque it arsenic truthful arsenic feasible, we person enactment each of america successful a queue. Be diligent and don’t refresh oregon you’ll suffer your region.”

A wide assortment of greater dates had been added to the circuit aft “extraordinary” request near galore fanatics incapable to entree apps and web sites providing pre-sale tickets. These protected caller shows successful Birmingham, 4 successful London and six successful Manchester.

Channel 5 News big Dan Walker go among the ones wrong the queue, tweeting: “Trying to get Peter Kay tickets is similar trying to get an assignment connected the GP! ‘Please support … determination are presently a 100 and seventy,000 humans successful beforehand of you wrong the queue’.”

Fellow comic Jason Manford joked: “Phew fortunate capable to get 2x Peter Kay tickets. For merchantability 2x Peter Kay tickets, £3500 each ono.”

Shortly earlier 11am, the Liverpool Echo said that each 1 tickets for the city’s M&S Bank arena person been bought out.

Some summons resale websites, on with Viagogo, had seats to beryllium had for arsenic a large woody arsenic £1,000, with galore quality beings calling for other to beryllium accomplished to forestall touts and to manipulate the fig of purchases.

Others mentioned that the web leafage had crashed owed to the excessive demand.

Kay’s comeback from a 5-yr hiatus was introduced astatine immoderate constituent of an advertisement break successful the bid merchandise of ITV’s I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! Throughout which Kay became seen sporting a rolled-up carpet into a house.

The advertisement concluded with the fanatics asking Kay whether helium had successful the extremity sold his ma a bungalow – a transportation with the comic’s erstwhile Mum Wants a Bungalow tour. Kay spoke backmost that helium had, and that his parent present wanted a caller carpet to determination successful it.

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Kay appeared connected Zoe Ball’s BBC Radio 2 meal show connected Wednesday and stated helium were “beaten”via the absorption to his return, adjacent earlier than his tickets had gone connected sale.

Announcing his caller dates, the forty nine-yr-old from Bolton said: “It’s bully to get backmost to what I emotion doing excellent, standup comedy, and if there’s ever a clip radical privation a laughter it’s now.”
After efficaciously securing his tickets for a day successful London consequent summertime season, drama instrumentality Ben Andrews, from London, stated: “The accent became connected to get tickets – particularly arsenic I’m joined to a northerner.

“I became successful the virtual waiting country from 9.45am, and without hold had 50k humans beforehand of me. With 20k potential, I needed to transverse my hands.”

His wife, Sarah Farrell, from Manchester, delivered: “To springiness america a amended chance, I joined the queue too, nevertheless I did truthful overdue, panicked, and ended up queueing for 2024. At 1 origin determination person been a 4th of 1,000,000 radical beforehand of maine truthful I simply went and enactment the kettle on.”

As decently arsenic travelling the United Kingdom, Kay becomes the archetypal comedian to beryllium fixed his ain residency astatine the O2 Arena successful London. He volition perform determination erstwhile a month betwixt December 2022 and November 2023.

In 2010, Kay executed a spot wrong the Guinness Book of World Records for the astir important promoting standup circuit of each time, playing to greater than 1.2 cardinal humans.

He were due to the fact that of transverse connected the roadworthy successful 2017, nevertheless cancelled those shows due to the fact that of “unexpected ain household instances”.