Dave Spikey returns to Middleton Arena

Dave Spikey

Double British Comedy Award Winner Dave Spikey returns to the Middleton Arena next month as he continues his critically acclaimed national tour.

The much loved stand up comedian and star of the smash hit ‘Phoenix Nights’ appears at the arena on Friday 4 November.

He’ll be performing his new show ‘Words Don’t Come Easy’, inspired by the fantastic response to his deconstruction of song lyrics in his last tour, combined with his fascination with the vagaries of the English language. The show examines situations in life where words really don’t come easy. These include tongue-tied parents explaining the facts of life, ridiculous newspaper stories, magazine poems, pathetic adolescent chat-up lines, weird hospital speak, learning a foreign language and song lyrics that range from the lazy to the ridiculous.

With a career spanning two decades, Dave has numerous television appearances to his name as a stand-up comedian, presenter and actor, and behind the screens, as a comedy writer. He’s best known for warming the nations hearts as cabaret star Jerry St Clair in ‘Phoenix Nights’ which he co-wrote.

He was also the first comedian to appear on stage at the Middleton Arena when it was officially launched back in 2009.