A fire broke out yesterday night (Friday 16th August) in Just the Tonic’s Nucleus building during comedian Connor Burn’s sell-out show ‘1994’.

Fortunately, the fire was caught very early that was found in one of the venue’s bathrooms and extinguished before any major damage was done.  All members of the public were quickly and safely evacuated.  The security men had managed to extinguish the fire before the fire brigade arrived.

A replacement show has been arranged for 11pm on Saturday 17th August with ticket holders to the abandoned event given priority.

Any returned tickets will be available to the public from 4pm.

Connor Burns said: “I was gutted to lose my sold-out Friday night show which for the 3 minutes I was on stage was the funniest crowd a comedian could possibly want to have. Happily, everyone is ok and even better - I can add another show on Saturday 17th (today!) right after my evening one, so hopefully most of the folks who missed out on Friday might be able to come along. I’d say there’ll be fireworks to celebrate but, well…. You know…. Hope to see you all back there. And if you can’t make it along, maybe on my tour later this year.”

Burns also posted his thoughts on Instagram - see picture.

Darrell Martin, director of Just the Tonic said “What idiot goes into a toilet and has a sneaky fag and then puts it out in the tissue filled bin in the cubicle… anyway… luckily no one was harmed, and not too much damage was done. I’m just so pleased it was dealt with so quickly by the team, especially the quick thinking of our venue manager Alice. I’d also like to thank other show producers for moving things around so we can offer Connor another slot because it’s such a good show and we don’t want disappointed people.”

The replacement show will be tonight, August 17 at 11pm.  

Connor Burns at at Just the Tonic NUCLEUS, ATOMIC until August 25. Tickets here.