Hull date for Bill Bailey’s 2021 arena tour

COMING TO HULL: Bill Bailey

Comedian Bill Bailey will perform in Hull next year as part of a new arena tour.

Bailey – who is about to go into Strictly Come Dancing – will appear at the Bonus Arena on Sunday, December 19, 2021, as part of his “En Route To Normal” tour.

All of the 12 dates announced are in December next year and include a Boxing Day gig at Wembley Arena in London.

Tickets for the Hull show go on sale at 10am on Friday, October 9.

As the title suggests, material will include lockdown and how to “see a way through the strange unreality of our new world” – but the comic says he came up with the name “before we’d even heard of Covid”.

According the show’s description: “Tracing lines through chaotic moments in history, Bill seeks out parallels where human resilience and our ability to endure has got us through times of strife.”

Bailey says that for him the pandemic led to a greater appreciation of birdsong and how nature has inspired many great composers. Lockdown also prompted him him to create dance remixes of video-calling ringtones.

Bailey’s last tour was Larks In Transit, which toured the UK, Australia, and New Zealand – including a  five-week residency at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre. That started in 2018 and played to more than 350,000 people.

A final European leg of the Larks In Transit tour was pulled because of coronavirus.

His new book, Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to Happiness, a collection of essays exploring the nature of happiness, will be published next month.