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Micky Flanagan adds more dates to his ‘If Ever We Needed It…’ tour

Comedian Micky Flanagan has added even more dates to his record-breaking ‘If We Ever Needed It…’ tour.

Following the success of his arena shows, Flanagan is set to bring his unparalleled humour to the more intimate setting of Theatres across the U.K. Tickets go on general sale Saturday 6 th  April at 10am via  LiveNation.co.uk .   The transition from arenas to theatres promises an even more intimate experience, with fans getting to see the comedian up close and personal. With his trademark cockney charm and infectious energy, Flanagan is sure to leave audiences rolling in the aisles as he discusses life since turning 60, growing older and reflecting on the changes in the world around him, as well as poking fun at his observations on life – it’s definitely for over 16s   Micky Flanagan’s theatre shows will showcase his signature wit, storytelling prowess, and unmatched stage presence.

The newly added theatre dates for 2024 are:   Friday 19 April – Canterbury, The Marlowe             Friday 26 April – Reading, The Hexagon Thursday 2 May – Newcastle, O2 City Hall Thursday 16 May – Ipswich, Regent Theatre Friday 24 May – Oxford, New Theatre Saturday 25 May – Oxford, New Theatre                    Friday 31 May – Plymouth, Pavilions Saturday 1 June – Plymouth, Pavilions   Tickets go on general sale Saturday 6 th  April at 10am via  LiveNation.co.uk

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Micky Flanagan announces new tour dates

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• Micky Flanagan is embarking on a major new tour
• The first dates for If Ever We Needed It... have been announced today
• Tickets go on sale on Saturday 25th February

Micky Flanagan is going back on tour this year with new show If Ever We Needed It... .

Tickets go on sale next Saturday, 25th February, at 10am, and a first batch of eight dates have been announced today. They will be available to purchase through Ticketmaster .

Promoters tease: "The show covers Micky turning 60 - who'd have thought it? - as well as having sex with your glasses on, his school alumni and his ballbag. It's fair to say it's for over-16s."

Wednesday 15th March - Bournemouth, International Centre Friday 24th March - Dublin, 3Arena Thursday 30th March - Birmingham, Utilita Arena Thursday 13 April - Glasgow, OVO Hydro Thursday 20th April - Leeds, First Direct Arena Thursday 11th May - London, The O2 Friday 12th May - London, The O2 Saturday 13th May - London, The O2

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Going out-out again: Micky Flanagan’s irresistibly unreconstructed comedy comeback

After several years away, the cheeky cockney comic is doubling down on his good-old-days brand – but despite his geezerish nostalgia he’s no anti-woke crusader

M icky Flanagan was worried, he says, that audiences might have moved on. Fair enough: it has been half a decade since he last graced the nation’s stages, when the man who defined the difference between going “out” and “ out out ” was arguably the UK’s most popular comedian . But time waits for no standup, least of all when the intervening period has seen him hit 60, and seen the context change in which old-school, cheeky chappy comedy might be delivered.

And yet, his worries are without substance, if the opening night of his Hammersmith run was any gauge. These were the last warm-up gigs before Flanagan’s tour proper starts next week, and they found the east Londoner in evergreen form, and rapturously received by a crowd that still adores him. Watching it, one could believe the market may even be growing for Flanagan’s brand of comedy, which looks at poncy modernity with the sceptical eye of one who grew up poor and without sentimentality in the middle of the previous century. These are confusing times, and there’s something reassuring about the solid certainties from a simpler age that Flanagan brings – or at least there is when delivered with Flanagan’s fundamental unseriousness and sense of fun.

The new show, If Ever We Needed It, seems even older-school than I’d expect from the comic, whose best material is smarter and more slippery than the geezer stylings suggest. But this is back-to-basics Mick, with lots of material on ’er indoors, the sitcom On the Buses , no less, and the idiocy of much modern living. The “smart meter” is contrasted with Flanagan’s dad’s no-nonsense method of dodging energy payments in the 1960s. Rimming is expertly mined for every shovelful of its obvious comic value, much as pegging was when last Flanagan took to the stage. Part of the fun of this routine is the contrast our host draws with the days of his youth, when a blowjob seemed like the most exotic of innovations.

If this all sounds blokey, well, that’s part of Flanagan’s appeal. Not for him any modern sheepishness about masculinity: that’s not what they taught you, I imagine, at Billingsgate fish market, where young Micky plied his trade. Flanagan doesn’t pretend to be anything he’s not, whether that’s an enfeebled husband mouthing swearwords behind his wife’s back, or a domestic busybody laminating the bin rota and hunting down the right items to fit the right tins. That authenticity is his ally as a comic – but equally, the refusal to rein himself in can lead to missteps. A routine tonight envying “the Arabian man”, not least for the supposed docility of his womanfolk, is a bit too 1960s for comfort.

Does this – and Flanagan’s other material on the so-called culture wars – mean we should bracket comeback-era Micky alongside Gervais and co, as another middle-aged megastar flaunting his anti-woke credentials ? Not really. Flanagan lacks the ego to set himself up as a crusader for free speech, or anything else. Nor is he in the business of upsetting anyone: his detour into trans competitors in women’s swimming (“I was straight on the Ladbrokes app”) gracefully swerves wider debates about gender. And while some might take umbrage at routines waxing nostalgic about heavy breathers (so much more innocent, argues our host, than the sexual behaviours of our own era), Flanagan’s treatment is irresistibly comical and cynicism-free.

He’s breaking no new ground then, with this return after half a decade away. But Flanagan occupies his existing terrain with great authority, lightly worn. Performed this well, there’ll always be an audience for the unreconstructed comedy of marital grouches and hair-raising sex, “remember the good old days” and dismay at modernity. Far from moving on, audiences will likely flock back to Flanagan by the thousand.

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It will mark the comic's return to big-arena shows after a six-year absence.

Fans of Micky Flanagan are poised to snap up tickets for his latest tour titled If Ever We Needed It .

The last time the comedian took a big show on the road was in 2017 with his An’ Another Fing Tour , playing to more than 600,000 people across the UK and Ireland.

Here is what we know about the forthcoming tour and how to get tickets.

What can we expect from the new show?

According to the publicity, the over-16s show will cover – among other things – Flanagan turning 60, having sex with your glasses on and his high school alumni.

It continues: “He’s the man who gave Britain the ‘Out Out’ phrase, which was used by Piccadilly Circus tube to put a smile on commuters’ faces as we came out out of lockdown and went on to be used by TfL to encourage people back into theatres, restaurants and clubs. Micky cut his comedy teeth at these clubs and it clearly paid off.

“He keeps us laughing through the tough times – and if ever we needed it, it’s now!”

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When is the tour?

The tour starts on 15 March in Bournemouth and takes in Dublin, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds and London.

The tour dates are:

• 15 March 2023: Bournemouth – International Centre (Windsor Hall)
• 24 March 2023: Dublin – 3 Arena
• 30 March 2023: Birmingham – Utilita Arena
• 13 April 2023: Glasgow – Ovo Hydro
• 20 April 2023: Leeds – First Direct Arena
• 11, 12 & 13 May 2023: London – O2 Arena

How can I buy tickets?

Tickets will go on sale at 10am on 25 February. You can buy them via Flanagan’s website here .

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Micky Flanagan announces UK and Ireland comeback tour – here’s how to get tickets

It's the comedian's first tour since 2017

Comedian Micky Flanagan has announced a UK and Ireland comeback tour – you can find details on how to secure tickets below.

Titled If Ever We Needed It , Flanagan’s new live show beings its tour in Bournemouth on March 15, before heading to Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds and then finishing in London on May 13.

Full details of the tour schedule will be released closer to the date tickets go on sale, which will be at 10am on February 25 . In the meantime, fans can subscribe to the mailing list on his website to secure pre-sale tickets.

Hi all, due to impersonations, this is my official twitter. I’m afraid I won't be using it. For the latest news please join my mailing list at https://t.co/fPxqdXeC9a & subscribe to my youtube channel https://t.co/3exZGRQVWb — Micky Flanagan (@MickyF_Official) February 25, 2021

Per the official description, the show “covers Flanagan turning 60, as well as having sex with your glasses on, his high school alumni and his ballbag. It’s fair to say it’s for over-16s.”

It continues: “He’s the man who gave Britain the “Out Out” phrase, which was used by Piccadilly Circus tube to put a smile on commuters’ faces as we came out out of Lockdown and went on to be used by TfL to encourage people back into theatres, restaurants and clubs. Micky cut his comedy teeth at these clubs and it clearly paid off.

“His routines online, including the Perks of Peeping, The Shits Abroad, The Crafty Cockney, The Demise of Fingering, Tomato Sauce and Chicken Children, have been viewed in the hundred millions, and are a huge hit on TikTok. He keeps us laughing through the tough times – and if ever we needed it, it’s now!”

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The new show will follow Flanagan’s run of previously announced warm up gigs in Newcastle later in February, and Manchester and London in early March. The comedian last took a show on the road in 2017 with his An’ Another Fing Tour.

You can find the tour dates for his warm-up shows below:

February 21, 2023 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, O2 City Hall February 22, 2023 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, O2 City Hall March 1, 2023 – Manchester, O2 Apollo March 2, 2023 – Manchester, O2 Apollo Sun March 5, 2023 – London, Eventim Apollo Mon March 6, 2023 – London, Eventim Apollo Tue March 7, 2023 – London, Eventim Apollo

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Dates and venues confirmed for Micky Flanagan’s new tour

Micky’s been double busy writing the new show and it’s already proved a hit with fans, he’s even been doing matinees. 

“#mickyflanagan absolutely brilliant in Southend this afternoon on his warm up show – you’re in for a treat!” “The boy’s as funny as hell and it’s only the warm-up shows #iknowitsanemptystage”  “Just got back from seeing Micky Flanagan pre tour show in Blackpool. Ridiculously funny! If that’s a warm-up, the tour will be hysterical!”

The current run of shows, announced earlier this week , starts in Bournemouth on 15th March and includes Dublin, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds and finishes in London on 13th May. The show covers Micky turning 60 – who’d have thought it? – as well as having sex with your glasses on, his school alumni and his ballbag. It’s fair to say it’s for over-16s.

For updates and access to presale tickets from Wednesday 22nd February, join the mailing list on Micky’s official website . Tickets go on general sale from 10am Saturday 25th February.

He’s the man who gave Britain the “Out Out” phrase, which was used by Piccadilly Circus tube to put a smile on commuters’ faces as we came out of Lockdown and went on to be used by TFL to encourage people back into theatres, restaurants and clubs.  Micky cut his comedy teeth at these clubs and it clearly paid off.

His routines online, including the Perks of Peeping, The Shits Abroad, The Crafty Cockney, The Demise of Fingering, Tomato Sauce and Chicken Children, have been viewed in the hundred millions, and are a huge hit on TikTok. He keeps us laughing through the tough times – and if ever we needed it, it’s now! 

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Micky Flanagan 2023 tour dates:

• Friday 24th March – Dublin – 3Arena
• Thursday 30th March – Birmingham – Utilita Arena
• Thursday 13 April – Glasgow – OVO Hydro
• Thursday 20th April – Leeds – First Direct Arena
• Thursday 11th May – London – The O2
• Friday 12th May – London – The O2
• Saturday 13th May – London – The O2

The full list of tour dates is not yet available. For updates and access to presale tickets from Wednesday 22nd February, join the mailing list on Micky’s official website . Tickets go on general sale from 10am Saturday 25th February.

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Micky Flanagan is back with a brand-new live show ‘If Ever We Needed It…’, he’s been double busy writing and it’s already proved a hit with fans. He’ll bring his live show to The O2 for multiple dates in May and June 2023.

He’s the man who gave Britain the “Out Out” phrase, which was used by Piccadilly Circus tube to put a smile on commuters’ faces as we came out out of Lockdown and went on to be used by TFL to encourage people back into theatres, restaurants and clubs.  Micky cut his comedy teeth at these clubs and it clearly paid off. His routines online, including the Perks of Peeping, The Shits Abroad, The Crafty Cockney, Tomato Sauce and Chicken Children, have been viewed in the hundred millions, and are a huge hit on TikTok. He keeps us laughing through the tough times – and if ever we needed it, it’s now! 

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Micky Flanagan announces 2023 UK tour dates

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The stand-up legend will take over venues in Bournemouth, Birmingham, Glasgow and more this spring as part of his If We Ever Needed It… Tour

British comedian Micky Flanagan has announced a run of 2023 UK tour dates this spring. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Saturday 25 February.

The brand new If We Ever Needed It…Tour will kick off on Wednesday 15 March at Bournemouth's International Centre before heading to the Utilita Arena in Birmingham on Thursday 30 March.

On Thursday 13 April, the Whitechapel native will headline the OVO Hydro in Glasgow before heading to The O2 in London for three consecutive shows on Thursday 11, Friday 12 and Saturday 13 May. See a full list of tour dates and venues below.

The tour will commence after a run of previously-announced at the O2 City Hall in Newcastle and Manchester's O2 Apollo on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 February, Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 March. Limited tickets for these shows are still available.

Micky Flanagan 2023 UK tour dates: Tuesday 21 February – O2 City Hall, Newcastle Wednesday 22 February – O2 City Hall, Newcastle Wednesday 1 March – O2 Apollo, Manchester Thursday 2 March – O2 Apollo, Manchester Wednesday 15 March – Bournemouth International Centre Thursday 30 March – Utilita Arena, Birmingham Thursday 13 April – OVO Hydro, Glasgow Thursday 11 - Saturday 13 May – The O2, London

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Micky Flanagan has added extra dates to his  If Ever We Needed It... Tour .

Due to demand, the London comedian will now double up at Bournemouth International Centre on March 16, Birmingham's Utilita Arena on March 31 and Leeds' First Direct Arena on April 21, the days following his previously announced stops at the venues.

He's also added three more performances at The O2 in London on May 18, 19 and 26, bringing the total number of shows at the venue to six.

The tour will also include a stop at Dublin's 3Arena and the OVO Hydro in Glasgow. Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Saturday (February 25).

The new stand-up show will see Flanagan talking about the issues that arise when turning 60. He will continue to road-test it with previously announced warm-up gigs in Newcastle tonight (February 22), and Manchester and London in March.

Micky Flanagan Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows

Wed February 22 2023 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE O2 City Hall Wed March 01 2023 - MANCHESTER O2 Apollo Thu March 02 2023 - MANCHESTER O2 Apollo Sun March 05 2023 - LONDON Eventim Apollo Mon March 06 2023 - LONDON Eventim Apollo Tue March 07 2023 - LONDON Eventim Apollo Wed March 15 2023 - BOURNEMOUTH BIC Thu March 16 2023 - BOURNEMOUTH BIC Fri March 24 2023 - DUBLIN 3Arena Thu March 30 2023 - BIRMINGHAM Utilita Arena Fri March 31 2023 - BIRMINGHAM Utilita Arena Thu April 13 2023 - GLASGOW OVO Hydro Thu April 20 2023 - LEEDS first direct Arena Fri April 21 2023 - LEEDS first direct Arena Thu May 11 2023 - LONDON O2 Arena Fri May 12 2023 - LONDON O2 Arena Sat May 13 2023 - LONDON O2 Arena Thu May 18 2023 - LONDON O2 Arena Fri May 19 2023 - LONDON O2 Arena Fri May 26 2023 - LONDON O2 Arena

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M ay 10—RADNOR — Dozens of police officers from around the region and country stopped briefly in Radnor this week as they rode bikes and motorcycles to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington.

The ride is part of the Police Unity Tour, an event that dates to 1997 and takes officers on bikes to the nation's capital.

The ride primarily involves police officers riding bikes hundreds of miles to the National Police Memorial. The bike riders are accompanied by police officers on motorcycles and other support personnel.

The brief stop in Radnor allowed the cyclists to take a short rest, with township officials holding a small ceremony at the township administration building.

Speaking at the event in Radnor, Chris Flanagan, Radnor police superintendent, said the Police Unity Tour began in 1997 when Police Officer Patrick Montuore of the Florham Park, N.J., Police Department had an idea to organize a four-day bike ride from New Jersey to Washington to raise public awareness and support for the survivors of those officers who have died in the line of duty.

"The ride is almost 300 miles long. When you say that, I don't think it incorporates the tears and sweat that you guys provide and the tears related to the survivors as they walk into the memorial in D.C.," Flanagan said.

Flanagan said it is not only about honoring the fallen officers but also the families and friends of the officers who have died in service.

"Often, when we see the news, we focus on those who've passed, but I know the survivors are left, and I know that is your mission: to not only honor the fallen but to support those who are left behind and never forgotten," Flannagan said.

Flanagan said Radnor began its motorcycle unit in 2012 and participated in the Unity Tour the following year.

The local officers are part of the Police Unity Tour Chapter IX, consisting of officers from Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. There was also a group of officers from as far away as Puerto Rico.

For this year's ride, three Radnor motorcycle officers joined with one officer on a bike for the four-day ride to Washington.

Radnor officers participating in this year's ride are Brett Greaves, the bike rider, and motorcycle officers Alex Janoski, Nicholas Laffredo and Ken Piree.

"The primary purpose of the Police Unity Tour is to raise awareness of law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty. The secondary purpose is to raise funds for the National Law Enforcement Officer's Memorial and Museum," according to the website for Chapter IX.

This year's ride kicked off on Thursday, with a morning resting point at the Radnor Township Municipal Building before going to Rose Tree Park in Upper Providence Township for lunch and a wreath-laying ceremony. The riders were scheduled to stop at the park's Delaware County Law Enforcement Memorial.

Maggy Myers, president of the Radnor commissioners, said, "It's one thing to read about an event like the Police Unity Tour, but it's completely another to see it in person. It's rather overwhelming and heartwarming to see all of you riding to support those fellow officers who have died in the line of duty and ensure their sacrifices are never forgotten."

Myers added that the township is proud of its officers.

"We're very proud of our Radnor police officers and we're also proud of the service, dedication and sacrifice of all police officers and you make every day. I wish you a safe trip to the National Law Enforcement Memorial," Myers said told the group.

Kathy Riddell, president of chapter IX of the unity tour, presented a charcoal print of Radnor officer Nicholas Laffredo escorting a survivor at the candlelight vigil to their seat. The print was taken from a photograph.

"I want to thank the department for its support," Riddell said. "Not all departments support their motors or their officers participating. So the fact that Radnor does means a lot, and they bring great honor to your department."

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