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THOUGHTIFIER TOUR
A magical, musical mystery tour of the human mind, along with some other pressing matters about whales, biophilia and unrequited love. Amplified With Music. Welcome to Thoughtifier!
UK tickets can be purchased through ticketmaster or all tickets are available using the individual venue ticket links below.
EUROPE DATES
April
Mon 1 April 2024 Barcelona, ES | Teatre Victoria TICKETS
Tue 2 April 2024 Warsaw, PL | Progresja TICKETS
Wed 3 April 2024 Stockholm, SE | Cirkus TICKETS
Fri 5 April 2024 Gothenburg, SE | Concert Hall TICKETS
Sun 7 April 2024 Nicosia, CY | Muncipal Theatre TICKETS
Mon 8 April 2024 Athens, GR | Pallas theatre TICKETS
Tue 9 April 2024 Munich, DE | Kongresshalle TICKETS
Wed 10 April 2024 Hamburg, DE | Laeizehalle TICKETS
Thu 11 April 2024 Berlin, DE | Humboldtsaal TICKETS
Fri 12 April 2024 Copenhagen, DK | DR Koncerthuset TICKETS
Sat 13 April 2024 Malmo, SE | Slagthusnet TICKETS
Mon 15 April 2024 Copenhagen, DK | Falconer Hall TICKETS
Tue 16 April 2024 Vienna, AT | Globe TICKETS
Wed 17 April 2024 Rotterdam, NL | Oude Luxor Theatre TICKETS
Thu 18 April 2024 Amsterdam, NL | Carre TICKETS
Sat 20 April 2024 Stavangar, NO | Konserthous TICKETS
Mon 22 April 2024 Bergen, NO | Grieghallen TICKETS
Tue 23 April 2024 Oslo, NO | Folketeateret TICKETS
Wed 24 April 2024 Trondheim, NO | Olavshallen TICKETS
Thu 25 April 2024 Harstad, NO | Kulturhus TICKETS
Fri 26 April 2024 Tromso, NO | Kulturhus TICKETS
Sun 28 April 2024 Reykjavik, IS | Harpa TICKETS
Tue 30 April 2024 Eindhoven, NL | Muziekgebouw TICKETS
May
Wed 1 May 2024 Groningen, NL | SPOT TICKETS
Thu 2 May 2024 Antwerp, BE | Arenburg TICKETS
Sat 4 May 2024 Brussels, BE | La Madeleine TICKETS
Sun 5 May 2024 Heerlen, NL | Parkstad Lumburg Theaters TICKETS
Mon 6 May 2024 Ghent, BE | Capitole TICKETS
Tue 7 May 2024 Rotterdam, NL | Oude Luxor Theatre TICKETS
Wed 8 May 2024 Utrecht, NL | Tivoli Vred TICKETS
OTHER LIVE EVENTS
Look out for Bill at other one-off gigs, events and festivals. Come back here to check for new listings.
UK FESTIVALS
July
Fri 26 Jul 2024 Glasgow, GB | Summer Nights at the Bandstand TICKETS
Sat 27 Jul 2024 Inverness, GB | Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival TICKETS
August
Sun 04 Aug 2024 South Yorkshire, GB | Underneath the Stars Festival TICKETS
OTHER EVENTS
July
Wed 31 Jul 2024 Halifax, GB | Live at The Piece Hall TICKETS
August
Fri 2 Aug 2024 Scarborough, GB | Scarborough Open Air Theatre TICKETS
PREVIOUS TOURS
EN ROUTE TO NORMAL
How did we get here? How do we find our way through this? And exactly who are we again?
In Bill’s newest show, Bill ponders this and other questions that this moment in history has thrown up, and tries to see a way through the strange unreality of our new world. Tracing lines through chaotic moments in history, Bill seeks out parallels where human resilience and our ability to endure has got us through times of strife.
“A joyful reconnection”
“His verbal flights of fancy exude wit, brains and boundless imagination.”
2017 – 2019
LARKS IN TRANSIT
Larks in Transit 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, he tackles politics, philosophy, the pursuit of happiness, death metal, ringtones… and an excruciating encounter with Paul McCartney. Two decades of life as a comic filtered through what the Daily Telegraph calls ‘the brainiest comic of his generation’.
“Scales the peaks of sublime silliness… Delightful.”
Australia & New Zealand Tour 2018
EARL OF WHIMSY Bill returns to Australia and New Zealand with his new musicomedy show, Earl of Whimsy. It has Bill’s trademark blend of satire and surrealism, stories and dismantled jokes, crowd sing-alongs, weird instruments and musical showstoppers. But there’s a distinctly historical feel to this show. With its tales of Britain’s fortunes past and present, of ancient Viking battles, of Shakespeare’s contribution to comedy, and Bill’s own ancestry, this is both a mockery and a celebration of national identity.
“★★★★★
King of his domain and long, long may he continue to reign”
LIMBOLAND
The gap between how we imagine our lives to be and how they really are is the subject of Bill’s new show LIMBOLAND. With his trademark intelligence and sharp wit, he tells tales of finding himself in this halfway place. From his countless global travels, he recounts the hilarious saga of a disastrous family trip to Norway to see the Northern Lights. He rails against a world that doesn’t match up to our expectations and contemplates the true nature of happiness. And no Bill Bailey show would be complete without music, so we have Bill’s version of the protest song, a heart‐rending country and western ballad played on a Bible, and a fabulously downbeat version of Happy Birthday.
Recorded at the Eventim Apollo Hammersmith, London in August 2016. Available on DVD and Download to Own.
“Life in Limboland - consistently funny and dazzlingly quick”
2014
BILL BAILEY – QUALMPEDDLER
After receiving rave reviews in Australia and New Zealand, Bill returns to the UK with his new tour entitled ‘Qualmpeddler’… A brilliant mix of stand-up, stories, music and old-fashioned wit distilled from his own extraordinary experiences and reactions to the modern world, he looks at Cut-Price Shark Diving, The Hiding Skills of Dentists, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance & Internet Shopping, Mandarin Ambiguity, Religious Dubstep, and Fashioning Replacement Hamsters. All in all, vintage Bill Bailey with trademark musical mash-ups, multi-lingual riffs, films, songs, philosophizing and silliness on a grand scale…plus one amazing owl.
Recorded at The Hammersmith Apollo, London in June 2013. Available on DVD, Blu-ray and Download to Own.
“Brilliant.. superbly observed.. Shot through with fantasy and music.. comedy’s Mozart”
2010 – 2011
BILL BAILEY – DANDELION MIND
Featuring Bill’s trademark musical interludes, observations and stories of the road, Dandelion Mind will be based loosely on the theme of doubt (or will it?), as we follow Bill from his real-life saga of being trapped by the ash cloud, to his barely contained rants about celebrity, TV, creationism and Michael Winner. He demonstrates new instruments, both ancient and modern, he sings an internet love song, a lament about punk heroes, Iranian hip-hop, and plays a mean folk-bouzouki. Thomas the Doubter gets a new look, and Darwin’s curious obsessions and the myth of intelligent design are all worked over in Bailey’s own surreal style. He revisits the music of his youth, with a brand-new French Disco re-working of Gary Numan’s hit, Cars, played in his own inimitable way, and maybe some Wurzel-based remixes of classic German techno. Just your normal Bill Bailey gig, then. Recorded at Dublin’s O2 in October 2010.
Available on DVD, Blu-ray and Download to Own.
“Sublime hilarity”
2008 – 2009
BILL BAILEY’S REMARKABLE GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA
Bill Bailey joins forces with the brilliantly versatile BBC Concert Orchestra and musical maestro Anne Dudley, one of the UK’s most celebrated composers and arrangers. The show is Bill’s own uniquely hilarious and irreverent guide to the sounds, styles, and instruments of the orchestra, with a wide and eclectic range of subjects, including music for 70’s cop shows, sci-fi films, horror movies, news themes, plus some of Bill’s own songs re-imagined for an orchestra, and including Anne’s own specially written new works.
Recorded at The Royal Albert Hall, London in October 2008. Available on DVD, Blu-ray and Download to Own.
“Wonderfully enjoyable… like driving a Rolls-Royce off-road.”
2007
BILL BAILEY – TINSELWORM
From the imagination of Bill Bailey, experience Tinselworm – a visually stunning comedy and music extravaganza. It’s everything you expect from Bill, and more. Using huge screens, films and animation by award-winning film-maker Joe Magee, plus Bill’s trademark musical inventiveness and verbal brilliance, this is quite simply the most spectacular one-man comedy show ever staged in the UK.
Recorded at Wembley Arena, London in November 2007. Available on DVD and Download to Own.
“A comedian like no other…”
2006
BILL BAILEY – STEAMPUNK
Bill casts a whimsical eye over subjects such as celebrity and dutch hip-hop, and performs such diverse material as a jazz version of the Imperial March, and the Friends theme as played by Slayer.
“Rare comedic intellegence”
2004
BILL BAILEY – PART TROLL
2004 saw Bill perform his hugely successful live show, Part Troll, to a massive 80,000 people following a series of added dates to this sell-out 52 date tour of the UK. A unique blend of the off-the-wall comedy and music for which Bill has become acclaimed, Part Troll tells how Bill’s native West Country accent cost him a part in Lord Of The Rings and why swimming with dolphins shouldn’t be on everyone’s list of ‘top 50 things to do before you die’. Bill also explains the real reasons for our poor rail network; fluff from Saturn, dragons and Gameboy Tetris, as well as provides an insight into what actually goes on during one of President Bush’s ‘briefings’.
Recorded at The Hammersmith Apollo, London in June 2004. Available on DVD and Download to Own.
“A masterpiece of high concept silliness”
2001
BEWILDERNESS
Filmed at the Grand Theatre, Swansea, this stand-up special showcases comedian Bill Bailey's hilariously unfocused and scattered comedy stylings as well as his enviable musical skills.
“The finest stand-up comedian this country has to offer…”
1995
BILL BAILEY – COSMIC JAM
In this classic show, Bill explains why Bryan Adams is perhaps the greatest ever exponent of the rock anthem, demonstrates the influence Cockney music has had on the great classical composers, and warns of the perils of a world ruled by insects, while playing the second biggest gong in Britain.
Recorded at The Bloomsbury Theatre, London in 1996. Available on DVD and Download to Own.
“Intelligent, inspired and often painfully funny”