UDDERBELLY FESTIVAL COMPLETES 2015 LINE-UP

ARTHUR SMITH, STEPHEN K. AMOS, FRISKY & MANNISH, LUISA OMIELAN AND LEE NELSON JOINING THE BILL

LILI LA SCALA, TINA C, MAT RICARDO AND CABARIOT HEAD TO LONDON WONDERGROUND

UDDERBELLY FESTIVAL COMPLETES 2015 LINE-UP

• Underbelly and Southbank Centre are delighted to unveil the final major additions to the Udderbelly Festival 2015 programme to go on sale on Friday 6th names have also been announced for London Wondergound. Both are part of Southbank Centre’s Festival Of Love.

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• Also just announced for Udderbelly Festival (9 April – 19 July): Brendon Burns, Tim FitzHigham, Kraken, This Is Your Trial, Abandoman, S**t-faced Shakespeare, Paul Zerdin, Jay Foreman, David Mills, Ukeclear Power, Tongue Fu, Bec & Tom’s Awesome Laundry, Annabelle’s Skirting Board Adventure, King of Tiny Things and Magical Bones

• Shows already on sale include: Scotch and Soda and Briefs at London Wonderground, with A Simple Space, Bromance, Circus Geeks, Katherine Ryan, James Acaster, The Horne Section, Funz and Gamez, Nina Conti and Sara Pascoe all headed for the big upside-down purple cow. See full listings attached.

With just over a MOO-nth to go until it opens for 2015, the line-up of comedy juggernauts heading to Udderbelly Festival and the purple cow this summer can now be revealed in full.

The latest shows on sale include the last ever performance of Arthur Smith’s rare, critically acclaimed and bittersweet journey through his late mother’s struggle with dementia, Oh Hazel.

The announcement comes in the wake of BBC Comic Relief’s Voices For Dementia Twitter takeover, which has shone fresh light on the issue which makes this show so poignant and hilarious.

Arthur Smith said: ‘Oh Hazel’ is a show that will never be done again in this form after this performance. In it, accompanied by pianist Kirsty Newton, I read from the diary my mother kept as she was assailed by grief and the beginnings of dementia. It is, despite its subjects, hugely funny.

He will be joined by some of the most singularly skilled stand-ups in the country, including the genius behind BBC Radio 4’s Life: An Idiot’s Guide, Stephen K Amos and queens of comedy cabaret, Frisky & While comedy fans will be treated Luisa Omielan’s inimitable, character-driven, observational storytelling, Luisa herself was looking forward to getting reacquainted with the fans, saying: SO happy to be back at the udder of things on the Southbank, Udderbelly is my favourite party venue on March at 10am.

Also cow-bound are notorious cockney wideboy Lee Nelson, Brendon Burns, armed with tales from his…ahem…graceful descent into middle age, the paper boat paddling, bath rowing, giant-balloon inflating, record-breaking funny man Tim FitzHigham with his show about history’s greatest wagers, The Gambler, and Fosters-Nominated artistic buffoonery-cum-buffoonish artistry from Kraken.

FitzHigham will also moonlight as judge in improv comedy-court This Is Your Trial which pits some of the country’s top comedians against each other in a battle of deduction, rhetoric, wit and willy jokes, as they seek to prove or disprove charges against you, the audience.

Others to join the line-up include regular Udderbelly residents , improv comedy rap machine Abandoman, and sozzled soubrettes S**t-faced Shakespeare.

Master of puppets Paul Zerdin will also return to the South Bank, as will master musical comic Jay Foreman, acerbic counter-culture commentator David Mills, ukulele trailblazers Ukeclear Power and some of London’s finest spoken word proponents on the same bill in Tongue Fu.

Family fun on offer includes Bec Hill at her electric best in Bec and Tom’s Awesome Laundry, the multimedia children’s theatre odyssey, Annabelle’s Skirting Board Adventure, the amazing fantasy circus world created by the King of Tiny Things and flabbergasting visual magic from Magical Bones.

More names have also been announced for the fantastical London Wonderground including Lili La Scala’s astonishing new show Siren, the second instalment of country legend Tina C’s musical biography, outrageous slapstick from gentleman juggler Mat Ricardo, and a late night Cabariot from Frisky & Mannish.

All of this amazing summer entertainment can be enjoyed at London’s most atmospheric cultural hub on the South Bank, firstly on the serene pastures at Udderbelly Festival and then in the insouciant Coney Island dreamland around the magnificent Paradiso Spiegeltent at London Wonderground.

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