Andrew Dipper

Thirty shows, ten days, one pub in Salford

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The Greater Manchester Comedy Festival is back.

Salford’s Kings Arms pub will play host to over 30 comedy shows in 10 days as part of the 2014 Greater Manchester Comedy Festival.

This year’s festival will include a combination of full hour length shows, shared slots of 30 minutes as well as comedy scratch nights for beginners.

The most you’ll pay for a ticket is £8, with most shows around the £5 mark. There are also a number of free shows to whet your appetite.

The Greater Manchester Comedy Festival takes place in the pub’s 3 performance spaces, one of which is the upstairs theatre room which seats up to 70 people.

Vicky Cooper, Comedy Festival Programmer, says: “The aim of this small festival is to give performers a chance to do something different and a chance for audiences to watch some emerging talent in the relaxed atmosphere of the Kings with a pint in their hands.”

The full programme:

1 November: My Summer with Daley Thompson – 5pm, £3.
1 November: Phone, Keys, Wallet: The Story of the Night Before and The Morning After – 7:30pm, FREE.
1 November: David Stanier’s Silly and Spooky Party – 8:45pm, £4.

2 November: Comedy Scratch Night with Fran Garrity, Allan McWilliam + Spoken Word Snail – 6:15pm, £4.
2 November: Making Other Plans – 2nd November, 7:30pm, £3.
2 November:Rod Shepherd’s History of Conspiracy – 7:30pm, £3.
2 November: Comedy Scratch Night with Tom Tolson, Neil Shawcross + Jennifer Banks – 8:45pm, £5.
2 November: Good times – 8:45pm, £4.
2 November:Grant Curnow: Amateur (Timelord) Hour – 10pm, £2.
2 November: [email protected] with HALF AN HOUR OF IAN – 10pm, £4.

4 November:An Evening with Angels – 7:30pm, £5/£4.
4 November: Tony Jameson: Football Manager Ruined My Life – 9:15pm, £8/£6.50.

5 November: One Or More Of My Family Died – 7:30pm, £1.
5 November: Steve Bugeja Show in Progress – 8:45pm, £3.
5 November: WRONG Comedy with Bob ‘Walshy’ Walsh and the WRONG Cast – 10pm, £5.

6/7 November: Stephen Kelly – Not Quite a Full Shilling – 7:30pm, £3.
6 November: The Man with the Carrier Bag and Friends – 8:45pm, £2.

7 November: Comedy Scratch Night with Thomas Rackham, Lucy Thompson + Danny Clives – 8:45pm, £4.

8 November: The Anti-Duhring Battalion Show – 6:15pm, £5.
8/9 November: Paolo Ferrari presents – Urban Buffoon – 7:30pm, £8.
8 November: A Spaghetti North Western – 7:30pm, £3.
8 November: One day all this will be fields – 8:45pm, £2.
8 November: Comedy Scratch Night With Jennifer Banks, Stephen Armstrong, Ros Ballinger + Sean Thorpe – 8:45pm, £4.
8 November: EL Baldiniho: Totes Amazebald – 8:45pm, £5.
8 November: THE STUPID SHOW FOR IDIOTS! – 10pm, FREE.
8 November: John Cooper: Pictures of Cats…Pictures of you – 10pm, FREE.

9 November: PICNIC – 6:15pm, FREE.
9 November: Adventures in Limited Space – 7:30pm, £4.
9 November: Duncan Oakley – 8:45pm, £5.
9 November: Heat Pumps, Kate Garraway & Other Niche Concerns – 8:45pm, £3.
9 November: The Anti-Duhring Battalion Show – 10pm, £5.
9 November: All Kinds Of Everything – 10pm, FREE.

10 November: Urmston Unusuals Comedy Sketches – 7:30pm, £3.
10 November: The Anti-Duhring Battalion Show – 7.30pm, £5.

Greater Manchester Comedy Festival 2014, The Kings Arms, 11 Bloom Street, Salford, M3 6AN, 0161 839 8726, kingsarmssalford.com