The show is a compendium of travellers’ tales and the general shenanigans of twenty years as a travelling comedian.  With musical virtuosity, surreal tangents and trademark intelligence, Bill Bailey tackles politics, philosophy and the pursuit of happiness.  Plus, he fashions a symphony from a ringtone, tells the real story of Old MacDonald and re-imagines the Stars and Stripes.  Two decades of touring larks from a comic described by The Telegraph as “the brainiest comic of his generation.”

 

 

British Comedy Award winner,  Bill Bailey has enjoyed success on the live stage for many years.  In 2001 he took his show Bewilderness to New York for an eight week run at the Westbeth Theatre.  The New York Times wrote of him, “Bill is an unalloyed pleasure, a treat for the funny bone, the brain and the ear”  and The Telegraph pronounced him “a hobbit with a wicked sense of humour”.   In 2004 he performed his show Part Troll at over fifty venues around the UK, culminating in an extended run at London’s Wyndhams Theatre.  In 2007 he embarked on a s old-out UK arena tour with his  audio-visual, comedic extravaganza, Tinselworm .  He took the show down under during the summer of 2008, touring Australia and New Zealand, before returning to London in December 2008 for a ten week run of the show at The Gielgud Theatre. 

 

 

The summer of 2009 saw Bill tour the UK once again with his live show, Bill Bailey Live.   Later that same year, f ollowing his performances at London’s Royal Albert Hall and the resulting critically acclaimed BBC2 television broadcast, Bill enjoyed a very successful UK tour of his musical comedy extravaganza, Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra.  Performing alongside some of the UK’s finest orchestras, the show provided fans with the opportunity to see Bill’s surreal comic and musical imagination at its best and was d escribed by The Telegraph as “a glorious achievement,” The Guardian as “sublime hilarity” and Stephen Fry as “wonderfully enjoyable… like driving a Rolls-Royce off-road.”

 

In 2010 Bill Bailey toured the Scottish Highlands with his live show, Dandelion Mind, where he enjoyed performing to small intimate crowds.  Bill then went from playing at some of his smallest gigs to one of his biggest, performing a huge open air homecoming gig at Bristol’s Ashton Gate Stadium in June of that year.  This was followed by an international tour of Dandelion Mind across Australia and New Zealand.

 

Bill proceeded to take the show into London’s West End where it was described by The Times as “a consistently inventive mix of sociopolitics, art history, anthropology and astrophysics, it may well be his best show yet!”  At the end of 2011, Bill took Dandelion Mind (Gently Modified) out to the masses with a full tour of the UK.   Bill followed Dandelion Mind with yet another hit show, Qualmpeddler, with which he toured Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Latvia, Estonia, The Netherlands and of course the UK, where he wrapped the tour with a massive gig at London’s Wembley Arena.