Underbelly Boulevard breaks its Soho lease and shuts in January
“Sometimes you just have to hold your cow-shaped hands up and accept it.” That’s the sentence Ed Bartlam and Charlie Wood, the directors of Underbelly,…
The new Comedy Fee Tracker shows openers on $500 a night
Luke Null got $2,000 to warm up a $70,000 room In 2021 the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign paid Colin Jost $70,000 for an hour…
BBC axes Live at the Apollo with one series still to tape
Rhod Gilbert, John Bishop and 6.29 million viewers The biggest night Live at the Apollo ever had was a December 2009 episode with Rhod Gilbert…
NextUp will stream 16 Fringe shows for £50 this August
Fifty quid buys you the whole of NextUp’s Edinburgh Fringe slate on your sofa this August. The press material sells that as £3.30 a show.…
Assembly moves 17 Fringe shows to St Andrew Square after fire
The email nobody wants ten days before their Fringe run opens went out on Monday 27 July. It told 17 companies their venue had shifted…
Comedy clubs miss out on Burnham’s 20% business rates cut
The door charge is the bit that disqualifies you The government’s own guidance sets out which venues qualify for its business rates relief. Buried in…
Edinburgh’s visitor levy starts today – the 5-night cap spares Fringe acts
“I honestly think Edinburgh will lose the festival,” Elf Lyons told Midlothian View this week. It’s a heavy thing to say about the event she…
Sandringham festival axed five weeks out, and the refund got messy
A day ticket to watch Lionel Richie at Sandringham this August was priced at £135. Christina Aguilera on the Friday came in cheaper, at £84.80.…
Leicester comedy festival files ‘serious incident’ report over unpaid acts
The regulator now has it in writing The charity behind Leicester Comedy Festival has done the thing you do when a cashflow problem stops being…
Shane Gillis played to 73,946 people in an NFL stadium
Three 6 Mafia closed a stand-up gig By the time Shane Gillis got to the sincere bit, the bill had already run through a Dave…