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<\/a>Headlined by Irish based New Zealand comic Danny Dowling<\/em>, the stage will also feature a plethora of up and coming Irish talent.<\/p>\nDowling, a regular face around Ireland\u2019s comedy clubs has played everything from support slots for comedy greats including Tommy Tiernan to major Irish comedy festivals.<\/p>\n
He may be best known however for winning Ireland\u2019s Come Dine With Me programme with a series high score for throwing 250 custard pies at his fellow contestants.<\/p>\n
Throughout the day, the G Spot comedy stage, run in conjunction with the team at Panicdots.com, will feature a further 7 slots filled by some fantastic new talent.<\/p>\n
Monaghan born comedienne Niamh Marron<\/em>\u2019s exuberant style will work well as the only female acts amongst the men; her excitable style setting her out as one of Ireland\u2019s premier female acts.<\/p>\n Joining them will be a couple of Glasgowbury returnees in Colin Geddis<\/em> (best known for his I Am Fighter work) and Micky Bartlett<\/em>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile the line-up is completed by Magic George, Ronan Linskey, Ryan Hand <\/em>and Philip McEwan<\/em> \u2013 acts judged to be showcasing their work to great effect across the country.<\/p>\n \u201cComedy is just one part of what makes a vibrant and exciting festival,\u201d said organiser Paddy Glasgow.<\/p>\n \u201cGlasgowbury aims to be the sort of event which showcases new talent across a range of arts. And the comedy scene in Ireland is a really exciting one at the moment so we\u2019re delighted to be able to include a stage full of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe massive success of last year\u2019s stage, fuelled by the excitement from the audience, prompted us to work with the team at Panicdots.com to bring some laughs back to the mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n Glasgowbury 2012 takes place across the weekend of Saturday 21st<\/sup> July and tickets are on sale now. Full details at www.glasgowbury.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FOLLOWING the \u2018small but massive\u2019 success of a G Spot comedy stage at last year\u2019s festival, Glasgowbury are delighted to announce its return for 2012. Headlined by Irish based New Zealand comic Danny Dowling, the stage will also feature a plethora of up and coming Irish talent. Dowling, a regular face around Ireland\u2019s comedy clubs … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4566,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions\/4566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}