Live Events

Friday 7 February 2025

Keith James in Concert

THE SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN

cancelled

With regret, we must cancel “The Songs of Leonard Cohen” on Friday 7 February due to the illness of performer Keith James. 

We send Keith our fond regards and wish him a speedy recovery. All ticketholders will receive a full refund.


Saturday 8 February 2024

Doors 18.30 Show 19.30

Tickets £15

Paul Kerensa:
An Evening of (Very) Old Radio:

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin… This ‘stand-up history’ show on the BBC’s origin story is written and performed by ITV award- winning comedian, broadcast historian and British Comedy Award-winning writer (Miranda, Not Going Out) Paul Kerensa. Equipped with genuine 1920s ‘cat’s whisker’ radio set, gramophone player and 1923 Radio Times, Paul informs, educates and entertains by retelling and recreating radio’s first firsts: The first BBC broadcast, first children’s programme, drama, sports commentary and much more. Previously enjoyed in other rural touring networks, this is a fun, vintage tale packed with joy and nostalgia.                    


Friday 14 February 2024

Doors 18.30 Show 19.30

Tickets £15

Much Wenlock Extravaganza

Band on the Edge & the Male Voice Choir celebrate our community with an evening of fun and music from two of our finest local musical groups. 

 

The Male Voice Choir will be performing a variety of musical gems for your delight while Band on the Edge will be playing a selection of their music, featuring hot jazz from the golden age, ballads and jazz/rock styles from the 60s onward; plus an original composition about our town. 

 

The evening will also showcase a display from the U3A Much Wenlock.

 

Profits will be donated by the bands to our local Food Bank.                  


Saturday 15 February 2025

Doors 19.30 Show 20.00

Tickets £15

Make Much Wenlock Weird presents Field Lines Cartographer and Roma Agnihotri

For the final event of the first season of Make Much Wenlock Weird we proudly present Field Lines Cartographer.

There’s no rush in Field Lines Cartographer’s world, no hurried resolutions or hasty developments, in fact Mark Burford has been meticulously crafting an impeccable body of work that revels in gradual imperceptible shifts and slow-burning realisations for some years now.  Burford’s music is intensely emotive and unfathomably deep. While the textural detail inherent in all of FLC’s work carries through to his jawdropping live show, the performance is mostly stripped back to a couple of hardware synthesisers, effortlessly mixing analogue and digital in a masterclass of restraint and balance, earning him a much-lauded repeat appearance at Levitation festival, a spot at DiN’s Tone Science live show at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool and a performance at the G Livelab in Helsinki. Field Lines Cartographer’s work, both recorded and live is enduringly immersive and undeniably skilled, perfectly toeing the line between trickling ambient vignettes and immovable walls of sound, often both at the same time.

Support is provided by Roma Agnihotri, an audio-visual artist whose passion lies in exploring the synergy between sound and visuals. After completing their degree in creative music technology, Roma has created an abstract experimental film series that explores the relationship between sound and non-narrative-based films. Driven by a passion for repurposing and reusing materials, Roma combines reworked samples, circuit bent instruments and found sounds, infusing their films with a distinctive and unconventional sonic landscape. Their work aims to challenge the conventional notions of sound, visuals, and the boundless possibilities they hold.


Saturday 22 February 2025

Doors 18.30 Show 19.30

Tickets £15

THE EDGE COMEDY CLUB: Noel James/Dana Alexander/Rob Rouse

Dana Alexander

Dana Alexander is currently one of Britain and Canada’s hottest emerging young comedians – her style has been described as smart, irreverent and revolutionary. Dana Alexander began her career at the age of 18 years old in Canada, before long she began touring nationally with Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Clubs and completed 5 television galas and a handful of radio spots for CBC and Sirius XM. In 2011 Dana made a move to the UK where she premiered her one woman show at The Edinburgh Fringe Fest. After rave reviews and several nominations including “Best Comic” and “Best International Act” from Chortle and Black Comedy Awards.It was not long before she began working in television on BBC programs like Russell Howard’s Good News and Edinburgh Comedy Fest in 2012 and featured on The Culture Show in 2013 for BBC 2. Dana continues to tour within in the UK and Internationally in more than 23 countries including Switzerland, Croatia, France, Norway, Serbia, Bahrain, Seychelles, Hungary, Malta, South Africa and Holland. As well as for the British Troops. A must see Comic.

Noel James

Noel James’ credits are too numerous to list in full so we asked him to write his own biography to give you an idea how this bizarre mans brain ticks.

My name is Infact Noel James, although I never pronounce the Infact…”
 
These are the first words of Infact Noel James’ act – an act which, dare I say, confounds even his closest psychopathic hangers-on.
 
For eight years, Noel has performed comedy throughout the UK. He does it for a living and has performed at all the major clubs and festivals. Glastonbury, Reading, Edinburgh to name but three.
 
Before entering showbiz old Noel tried his hand at teaching. Without much success, he taught English as a foreign language: he taught it as Welsh!
 
WELSH – Old English translation meaning ‘Foreign’

The above definition gains significance when you perceive his lilting delivery. Not only does it have totally tropical taste and perfect timing but indeed it stems from his mouth which has its dark origins firmly rooted in that far-off land called Wales. As you will see, the rest of his body has no fixed abode but its amazing what a transplant operation can do.
 
But not for him the comedy of stereotyping – he finds it all too easy. Well, he is a Capricorn (near the Sagittarius end which makes him a Saggycorn)- His act is gag, gag, gag all the way – though some of it consists of non-baby-talk. Above all, his act is highly original; the guy who wrote it assured him of this.
 
Surreal, bizarre, absurd, intelligent, and yet, somehow strangely attractive. No, seriously he is a very accessible act who generally goes down well anywhere.


Rob Rouse 

As seen on Ben Elton’s hit BBC2 Shakespeare sitcom ‘Upstart Crow’
Since winning Channel Four’s prestigious ‘So You Think You’re Funny?’ Competition at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998, an award previously won by Phil Kay, Dylan Moran, Lee Mack, Tommy Tiernan and Peter Kay, Rob has been a regular performer at major venues on both the London and National circuit.

Rob has returned to Edinburgh three times; in 1999 compering The Comedy Zone at the Pleasance and co-wrote and performed The Big and Daft Comedy Show, winning critical acclaim and returning in 2000 with Big and Daft in Space, and 2001 with The Big and Daft Christmas show, massive hits with punters and critics alike.

Rob is headlining the Comedy Network for a third season this year, performing at Universities Throughout the British Isles.
Rob has toured with Phil Kay, taking him to both Hungary and Poland and has recently returned from a tour of Amsterdam.
His TV credits include presenting the first series of The Friday Night Project on Channel 4, the C4 sketch show Spoons, and playing Mike in the first series of he BBC3 sitcom Grown Ups.

“He’s a man with genuinely funny bones”  THE SUNDAY TIMES
“Rob Rouse is a born clown, a latter-day Stan Laurel” TIME OUT


Saturday 8 March 2025

Doors 18.30 Show 19.30

Tickets £20

Carismático Tango

Carismático Tango brings the classy and passionate flavours of Argentina to the stage with a contemporary twist and unique style.

 

Through combining a tented virtuoso ensemble of musicians with heartfelt Argentinian vocals and passionate Argentine Tango dancers, the show tells the secrets of Buenos Aires across time.

 

Carismático Tango adds that spice of diversity. A cultural exploration of Argentine Tango music and dance invites the audience on a journey through a spectrum of love, heartbreak, hope and uplifting joy in the space of an evening.

 

The show offers an irresistible fusion of traditional Tango, Nuevo Tango from Piazzolla & Jazz, appealing to people with a heart for travel, ear for timeless, classy music and love of dance.


Saturday 29 March 2025

Doors 18.30 Show 19.30

Tickets £15

THE EDGE COMEDY CLUB: Harriet Dyer/Sean Percival/Raymond & Mr. Timpkin

HARRIET DYER

 

Harriet Dyer was one of the stand out superstars for me of this years Edinburgh Fringe. She’s insightful, unique, peerless, extraordinary and… well, maybe a little unhinged. – 4 EXTRA STANDS UP, BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA

 

Harriet Dyer is an award winning comedian, writer and mental health advocate.

She has been a full time comic since 2013, after winning The Comedy Store King Gong and Who’s headline is it Anyway at Liverpool Envi in 2011.

Harriet’s got bipolar and does a lot of work through comedy to do with mental health. Her debut solo hour show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014, Barking at Aeroplanes which was about her struggles within mental health, received rave reviews. She was so touched by the reaction it got, that she founded Barking Tales, a comedy show that acted as a safe space for sufferers. At Barking Tales shows, the acts do material about mental health and the people that come tend to have mental health issues themselves. It’s a safe-space and for a lot of regulars it’s the only social event they feel comfortable enough to go to. Barking Tales won the City Life Best Comedy Club in Manchester Award 2019.

 

Harriet also presents and produces the cult hit podcast, Don’t Worry, Bi (polar) Happy podcast which is about trying to focus on the ups amongst a lifetime of extreme ups and downs. With over half a million listeners, her show has even been recommended for mental health patients, due to its ability to change people’s perception.

 

SEAN PERCIVAL

 

Black Country comic Sean Percival is an ex-welder from Dudley (“It’s a lovely place to come from but bloody horrible to go back to”) whose act is steeped in the traditions of the working mens clubs circuit, but bang up to date with its upfront attitude.  Sean’s brand of comedy steers clear of the surreal and confronts realism in an explosively funny way.

 

A festival favourite, he has performed at the Edinburgh, Glastonbury and Reading Festivals, and as a well established headliner he performs at all major comedy clubs around the UK as well as being a regular host for the Jongleurs comedy clubs.

In demand as a script writer, Sean works regularly with likes of Johnny Vaughan for Capital Radio.  He spent two years writing and performing on Capital fm’s drive time radio show in Birmingham and for Heart fm in Birmingham, and provided the voice for “Black Country Bob” on both those shows fronted by Talk Radio’s host and impressionist Ian Danter.

 

“Sean’s comedy is the comedy of honesty. His act is the working man’s revenge on the safe, middle-class, politically correct humour that has dominated comedy. Sean’s humour is not surreal, it’s not wacky, it’s just bloody funny. This is not smile humour, this is bust your gut rubber underpants stuff”    (Joan Serone Bungalow, What’s On)

“…the big gold star of the show must be the long-haired man from Dudley. He came. He spoke. He had us curled up begging for more…Sean Percival was the best heckler worrier I’ve seen for years…”    (Evening Mail TV)

 

RAYMOND & MR. TIMPKIN

 

Together since 1992, the Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue are a prop/music driven double act.

Their highly original performance approach has made them regulars in Universities and comedy clubs around the country, including appearances at Edinburgh Festival where they appeared in The Best of the Fringe, Glastonbury, Phoenix and Reading Festivals.

They have appeared on The Warehouse (Carlton TV), Lenny Beige’s Variety Pack (BBC Choice) and hugely popular Dutch comedy show Raymann is Latt (Men At Work Production).

 

They have crisscrossed the planet in a bid to make money and amuse. From the Falkland Islands to Oman, South Africa to East Cheam, they’ve been there and enjoyed it all.

 

Musical puns, cheeky japes and slick sandal-based choreography abound to a backing track of increasing intensity, transporting even the meekest of reluctant comedy-goers to quivering, giggling seat-wetters.

 

Excellent, fast-moving, clever, constantly changing, hilarious, musical nonsense – perfect for cabaret, corporate and parties.

If you like to laugh and want something different, we recommend Raymond and Mr Timpkins!

 

“Ridiculous – quite bonkers funniness”

VOICE MAG                                          


Saturday 5 April 2025

Doors 18.30 Show 19.30

Tickets £26.50

TOMMY BLAIZE

50 Years In Music

Tommy Blaize has one of the most recognisable voices in the UK.

 

As the lead singer on Strictly Come Dancing for 20 glorious years, he’s sung live each week to up to 12 million people.

 

And in a remarkable career spanning 50 years, he’s worked with some of the world’s most legendary artists, from Diana Ross to Queen, from The Beach Boys to Amy Winehouse, and from Stevie Wonder to Robbie Williams.

 

Now it’s time for the man with the golden voice to step out in his first, major, solo tour. Singing songs everyone knows and loves, and telling stories about the legends he’s worked alongside, expect a Strictly incredible evening.


Friday 11 April 2025

Doors 18.30 Show 19.30

Tickets £30

VIP £45

Meet 'n' Greet Tickets £80

PAUL YOUNG

From No Parlez to Secret Of Association - An Intimate Evening With Paul Young

Paul Young broke into the big time 40 years ago when No Parlez went to number one and spawned iconic hits like Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home).

 

More success followed with the number one album The Secret Of Association and the worldwide hit Everytime You Go Away, not forgetting an appearance at Live Aid and more. Paul sustained that success – while having fun in his tex-mex band, Los Pacaminos.

 

Now, he’s looking back during these intimate shows, that combine conversation and acoustic versions of songs.

 

Paul’s meeting fans, singing songs, and telling stories about his incredible career. It’s time to revel in the classic hits and learn the stories behind them in this intimate show.


Tuesday 15 April 2025

Doors 18.30 Show 19.30

Tickets £25

The Hound Of The Baskervilles

A Radio Play Live on Stage

Live on stage and in person, renowned stars of stage & screen COLIN BAKER (Doctor Who, The Brothers) & TERRY MOLLOY (Mike Tucker in The Archers for 40 years) are joining forces this spring to play the world’s most famous detectives, SHERLOCK HOLMES & DOCTOR WATSON. Alongside DEE SADLER (All Creatures Great & Small, No Place Like Home), they star in a brand new stage adaptation of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES – originally on tour to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most popular thriller and now extended by popular demand!

 

“The legend of the Hound Of The Baskervilles has haunted the Baskerville family for generations – none more so than Sir Charles Baskerville, who died in mysterious circumstances worthy of the legend. This leads Doctor Mortimer to consult Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson, in the hope of preventing the heir to the Baskerville estate, Sir Henry, from suffering the same fate. But the supernatural seems a very long way from 221B Baker Street…

 

However, once Holmes & Watson journey to isolated Baskerville Hall, the line between reality and the legend becomes blurred. Death, doom and myth surround them – what is the secret of the butler in the night, whose is the mysterious lantern that shines in the darkness, and what hellish apparition stalks Dartmoor with murderous intent?”

 

Presented by Crime And Comedy Theatre Company as a radio-play-live-on-stage – our setting is a radio studio, our actors ready as if for a radio broadcast, and our sound effects created live on stage, all combining to transport the audience from Baker Street to Dartmoor, as we bring to life this tale of murder, mystery and horror that’s surely the greatest detective story ever told! A rare chance to see these popular actors live at your local theatre, this is a play not to be missed.


Tuesday 22 April 2025

Doors 18.30 Show 19.30

Tickets £26.50

VIP £40

Meet 'n' Greet Tickets £65

Mike Peters, from The Alarm

Love Hope Strength

 

It’s been a remarkable career. Mike Peters, frontman of The Alarm, created one of Britain’s best-loved rock bands at the turn of the 1980s. He filled arenas, enjoyed hits with Sixty Eight Guns Spirit Of ’76, and Absolute Reality, and opened for U2 and Bob Dylan. There’s always been much, much more to the man who was awarded an MBE in 2019. Mike’s a multiple-cancer survivor, whose life story is truly inspiring and extraordinary. To coincide with the publication of his self-penned, multi-edition autobiography – also called Love Hope Strength – Mike is hitting the road. Expect acoustic hits, remarkable stories, and an intimate evening with one of rock’s great survivor.


Saturday 26 April 2025

Doors 18.30 Show 19.30

Tickets £15

THE EDGE COMEDY CLUB: Matt Bragg/Fiona Allen/Steve Royle

 

MATT BRAGG 

 

The son of television warm up man Bobby Bragg, Matt has been performing stand up all over the country for the last 7 years. With a unique, low energy, deadpan style and meticulously crafted material he has been gaining critical acclaim from audiences, promoters and comedians alike.

As well as performing at some of the largest clubs in the UK, he is tour support for Ricky Gervais, Harry Hill, Lloyd Griffith (Soccer AM), Suzi Ruffell, Jason Manford, John Bishop, Phoenix Night’s Clinton Baptiste and Scott Bennett. He was also selected for Just The Tonic’s Big Value showcase at Edinburgh Festival in 2019 and finished runner up in Leicester Mercury’s Comedian of The Year 2020.

His debut show ‘Matt Bragg has nothing wrong with him’ is previewing throughout 2023.

 

“Great stuff, excellent gags”

Harry Hill

 

“Exemplary stand up”

Tom Rosenthal (Plebs, Friday Night Dinner)

 

“Thoroughly enjoyable”

Reginald D Hunter

 

“Classic observational comedy, delivered with effortless style”

Ricky Gervais

 

“Matt Bragg is brilliantly funny”

Suzi Ruffell

 

FIONA ALLEN

 

Fast becoming a circuit favourite with her sell-out debut Edinburgh Fringe and current UK Tour, Fiona Allen comes with quite some comedy pedigree. 

Fiona’s sassy anecdotal style walks her audience through frustrations with her husband & three kids and her need to get out of the house and away from them.  

A natural comedian, she is warm but fearless, A great addition to any line-up.

 

Although Fiona is perhaps best known for starring and writing in the iconic Emmy award winning and BAFTA nominated TV Comedy series SMACK THE PONY, her other screen credits are extensive and include DALZIEL & PASCOE, CORONATION STREET, EASTENDERS, SHAMELESS, IN DEEP, HAPPINESS, SKINS, WATERLOO ROAD, MOCK THE WEEK, ALAN PARTRIDGE’S SCISSORED ISLE, DEATH IN PARADISE and 8 OUT OF 10 CATS.

 

On film she has starred in FAT SLAGS and GLADIATRESS, as well as 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE.

 

Reviews: 

Chortle recently reviewed Fiona Allen’s debit Edinburgh show (OTR) and championed Fiona Allen on successfully making the jump between acting and stand up, “She seems at ease and natural.”

 

 

STEVE ROYLE

 

Steve is an actor, writer, comedian, juggler, a “Gillard award” winning presenter on BBC Radio Lancashire and now a finalist on ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent 2020.

 

Steve most recently completed his 17th consecutive pantomime at The Grand Theatre, Blackpool (and his 22nd Pantomime in total) and was also made an honourary member of The Friends Of The Grand in 2016 for his services to the theatre.

 

Last year he starred, to critical acclaim, in the World premier tour of “Naturally Insane: The Life of Dan Leno” and is taking the show to the West End (Criterion Theatre).

 

In 2015 he performed 16 nights at The Manchester Arena as part of the “Phoenix Nights Live” show, helping raise well over £ 5 million in the process. He also appeared at the London Palladium twice within a month later that year when he performed as part of the TV show “Sunday Night At The Palladium” and as warm-up for “One Night With Neil Diamond”.

 

He spent many years as “Special Guest” on Dave Spikey’s Tours and has supported several other top comedic names including Peter Kay, Mick Miller, Roy Walker and The Lancashire Hotpots! He was also the first comic, ever, to act as “Warm-up” for The Royal Variety Show featuring Take That, Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow and Meatloaf.

 

He is a regular Television “warm-up” for programs such as “The Rob Brydon Show”, “A Question Of Sport”, “Mastermind” and even survived over 150 episodes of “The Price is Right” with Joe Pasquale a few years ago.

 

Steve’s first love, however, is Stand-Up and it is a job that has taken him all over the world: Cruises in the Med, Norwegian Fjords and the Caribbean, hotels and comedy clubs in Hong Kong, Dubai, Crete, Cyprus, Turkey and Japan.

 

He is a regular headline act at The Comedy Store and other “alternative” venues and has several television appearances to his credit. “Phoenix Nights”, “Max And Paddy’s Road To Nowhere”, “Peter Kay’s Britain’s Got The Pop Factor…”, “Stand-up Britain”, “Give Your Mate A Break”, “The Afternoon Show”, “Talk Of The North”, a “Real Radio” advert, straight acting roles in “The Things You Do For Love” and “Magnolia”, and despite being one of the North West’s healthiest males, a medical insurance commercial for “Medicash”. He was also featured on the Granada Programme “Behind The Scenes” and “That’s Entertainment” (with Cannon and Ball) and was voted “Entertainer of the Year” at the inaugural Red Rose Awards.

 

For over 12 years Steve could be found in the guise of “Mad Edgar” the court jester at Camelot theme park where he presented over 2000 “Crazy Juggling Shows”.

 

For years, the father-of-three has been encouraged by family and friends to audition for Britain’s Got Talent, but didn’t expect to get far. However in August 2020, Steve became the first act sent through to the final, impressing judges with his comedy juggling routines.

 

For 51-year-old Steve, this is the latest journey in a rich history in the world of entertainment.

 

Steve previously charmed the judges in the audition round, with his impressive juggling skills, using his mouth to juggle ping-pong balls before juggling three guitars.

 

His semi final performance was a huge change for Steve, who is used to feeding off an audiences live reaction – the show had to be pre-recorded this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, and social distancing, and saw Steve perform to a huge Zoom wall of viewers, as well as the shows judges.

 

The judges unanimously chose to send him through. As Ant and Dec confirmed the news, Steve said it was “crazy and unbelievable” that he had made it through, although he left the entire panel in stitches.

 

The grand final took place in October 2020 and Steve was placed third overall. Which was a wonderful conclusion to an amazing run on the show. And Steve is looking forward to seeing you on tour next year. So watch this space


Friday 2 May 2025

Doors 18.30 Show 19.30

Tickets £26

Meet 'n' Greet Tickets £55

TOM BALL

Britain’s Got Talent singing sensation Tom Ball is heading to Much Wenlock in 2025.

 

Tom will share his remarkable talent with audiences at intimate venues around the UK on the Spotlight tour.

 

The former teacher shot to fame as a finalist in BGT 2020, catching the attention of Simon Cowell, who called him ‘simply sensational’, and Amanda Holden, who said he was one of the best she’d ever seen.

 

Since then, he’s racked up 85 million views on social media, and been working with Grammy-winning writers. He’s been likened to stars such as Michael Ball and Michael Bublé.

 

The tour follows the release of his debut album, Curtain Call.

 

Tom says: “I feel extremely excited to be heading out on my first major solo tour; I can’t wait to share some of my favourite songs with fans. See you there!”

 

“One of the best performances I’ve ever seen in my life” – Terry Crews (AGT)


Friday 3 October 2025

Doors 18.30 Show 19.30

Tickets: £30

VIP: £50

Meet 'n' Greet: £80

ANNABEL CROFT

From Tennis Balls to Glitter Balls

From winning the Wimbledon and Australian Girls’ Tournaments in 1984 to becoming British No. 1 and representing Great Britain in the Fed Cup, Annabel has solidified her status as a national treasure.


After hanging up her racquet, she seamlessly transitioned into the commentary box, captivating audiences as a presenter and pundit for major networks including Amazon Prime, BBC, ESPN USA, Eurosport, and Sky Sports.


Annabel also wowed audiences on the dance floor during her recent thrilling run to the final four on Strictly Come Dancing with her dance partner Johannes Radebe.


In her first ever theatre tour, Annabel invites you behind the scenes of the world’s greatest tennis tournaments, sharing unforgettable moments from her career including interviewing legends like Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic. This is an unmissable experience for tennis and dance enthusiasts everywhere!


Annabel said: “I am excited to go on this tour to share my experiences from the world of Tennis Broadcasting and Dancing on ‘Strictly’ – from tennis balls to glitter balls!”
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this captivating journey — tickets on sale now.