Month: November 2022

One of Britain’s best loved comedians, Peter Kay, is finally returning to stand-up comedy after twelve years.

 

Thursday 23 February: The SSE Arena, Belfast

Friday 24 February: The SSE Arena, Belfast

 

Tickets go on sale Saturday 12th November at 10am at: www.ticketmaster.ie

“It’s good to get back to what I love doing best, stand-up comedy and if there’s ever a time people need a laugh it’s now”

 

“And with the cost of living at an all-time high, ticket prices are starting from £35. The same price they were on my previous tour in 2010”

 

Peter’s 2010 tour still officially ranks with the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest selling comedy tour of all time.

 

Playing to over 1.2 million people.

 

Tickets for go on sale Saturday 12th November at 10am via www.ticketmaster.ie

Fri 02 December 2022            Manchester AO Arena

Sat 03 December 2022           Manchester AO Arena

Sat 17 December 2022           Birmingham Utilita Arena

Fri 06 January 2023                Liverpool M&S Bank Arena

Sat 07 January 2023               Liverpool M&S Bank Arena

Fri 20 January 2023                Leeds First Direct Arena

Fri 17 February 2023              Sheffield Utilita Arena

Thu 23 February 2023            Belfast SSE Arena

Fri 24 February 2023              Belfast SSE Arena

Thu 09 March 2023                Newcastle Utilita Arena

Fri 10 March 2023                  Newcastle Utilita Arena

Thu 23 March 2023                Birmingham Resorts World Arena

Thu 06 April 2023                   Dublin 3Arena

Fri 07 April 2023                     Dublin 3Arena

Fri 05 May 2023                      Glasgow OVO Hydro

Sat 06 May 2023                     Glasgow OVO Hydro

Fri 19 May 2023                      Leeds First Direct Arena

Fri 16 June 2023                     Cardiff International Arena

Sat 17 June 2023                    Cardiff International Arena

Fri 14 July 2023                       Nottingham Motorpoint Arena

Sat 15 July 2023                      Nottingham Motorpoint Arena

Fri 11 August 2023                 Sheffield Utilita Arena

 

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Last night, award-winning Irish documentary LYRA had an emotional private screening in Derry ahead of its UK and Ireland release today (Friday 4 November).

At a full-capacity cinema in Derry’s Omniplex, LYRA was shown for the first time to guests including civic leaders, friends and family of the late journalist. The screening was then followed by a Q&A with director, Alison Millar and Lyra’s partner, Sara Canning.

Directed by Alison Millar, BAFTA-winning director and close friend of Lyra McKee, LYRA is a beautiful and heartfelt film about the life and death of the internationally renowned Northern Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee.

Raised in working-class, war-torn Belfast, McKee went on to highlight the consequences of the Troubles, seeking justice for crimes that had been forgotten since the Good Friday Agreement. Her murder by dissident Republicans the day before Good Friday in 2019 sent shockwaves across the world.

Using hours of voice recordings from Lyra’s own mobile, computer and Dictaphone, the documentary, which won the Audience Award at the Cork Film Festival, seeks answers to her senseless killing through Lyra’s own work and words. The result is a complex picture of Northern Ireland’s political history, bringing into sharp focus the ways in which the 1998 Good Friday agreement – with its promised end to violence for future generations – has struggled to be fully realised.

Speaking following the screening, Director Alison Millar said:

“Thanks to Wildcard Distribution, we are delighted to be able to share the incredible LYRA with the world, and to a full-capacity audience in Derry.

“This evening was hugely emotional, bringing Lyra’s story back to the city she he cared about so much. The making of this film was incredibly personal for me as a friend of Lyra’s and throughout the entire process I wanted to make sure that the world knew who Lyra was and, to do it through Lyra’s own words, made it all the more special.

“Alongside projecting Lyra McKee as a ‘fearless investigative journalist, determined and tenacious, honest in her approach’ I wanted this film to also capture the great warmth and infectious humour of the person I’d known for so many years.

“Through the use of her voice recordings (enabling us to have her narrate her own story), home footage and her remarkable writing, I hope LYRA will inspire and introduce a new generation to her work and the story of her homeland, the turbulently beautiful Northern Ireland, of which she wrote so much about.

“I’ve made many films about Northern Ireland – its people and its past – but with this film, with LYRA, it’s different – with her, this time, it’s personal.”

LYRA is a Channel 4 commission, produced by Jackie Doyle and Alison Millar for Erica Starling Productions and executively produced by Siobhan Sinnerton, Edward Watts, Greg Darby, Andrew Eaton, Louisa Compton and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton with funding from Northern Ireland Screen in association with TG4 and HiddenLight Productions. Music for the film was scored by the Ivor Novello Award-winning David Holmes, Mark McCauley was cinematographer on the project and it was edited by the British Independent Film Award-winning Chloe Lambourne.