EDINBURGH 2008

My show "The Headmaster's Son" is on at the White Belly at the Underbelly at 7.30pm from 31st July - 24th August (not 20th)
You can book tickets at The Underbelly website
Or by phone 0844 545 8252
10am to 6pm (Mon-Fri)
The edfringe website is now working too.
Please book early to avoid disappointment, especially for the weekend gigs.

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Lyric Comedy Nights - Advance Tickets.

Hello
Just a quickie to let you know that I have organised a special deal and an opportunity to buy tickets before the general public for the autumn run at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith

Tickets are £15 per gig or £10 per gig if you sit in the Upper Circle - or buy tickets for all three gigs and get the best seats for just £30 total (3 for 2).

The line ups are really good and there has already been a lot of interest in the November gig so I advise you to book AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to avoid disappointment. Stewart Lee will be roadtesting different material every month for his forthcoming BBC show "Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle".

The gigs are all hosted by me, plus:

Sun 21st September - Robert Newman, Stewart Lee and Dan Antopolski.

Sun 28 October - SPECIAL SURPRISE HEADLINER WHO WE CAN'T NAME YET, BUT WHO IS BRILLIANT, Stewart Lee, Ivan Brackenbury and Wilson Dixon

Sun 16 November - TMWRNJ Reunion Special - Many of the cast of the cult BBC 2 show get together for the first time on stage for almost 10 years. Please be aware that most of these people will be doing their current acts rather than material or characters from the show - including Stewart Lee, Richard Thomas, Paul Putner, Emma Kennedy and Trevor Lock. Hopefully Kevin Eldon will also show up, though he hasn't got back to me yet. The evening will be headlined by a short 10 minute set from defunct double act LEE AND HERRING. This is the kind of gig that only comes along once in a blue moon and will sell out first, so BOOK NOW!

In fact take advantage of the one off 3 for 2 offer for Lee and Herring fans only and come to all three.
Tickets are only available to fans in the know for the next week, so please ring the Lyric on 0871 22 117 29 and quote "Moon on a Stick" to take advantage of this unique opportunity.

There will be another newsletter soon with all my other news, but knew you'd want to know about this as soon as possible.
Hope to see you at the gigs!
Don't miss out.
Rich Herring

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Richard Herring - a couple of things - maybe three.

Hi
Hope you're having a good mid April. Just a couple of things (maybe three) to tell you about.

1) EDINBURGH PROGRAMME - As usual I am giving you the chance to get your name in my latest Edinburgh Fringe programme, receive a free limited edition of the programme and help raise money for SCOPE. All you have to do is visit My just giving page and donate at least £12.50 and you will get all of this, plus the chance to win some cool spot prizes. The more you donate, the bigger your name will be in the programme and the person who donates the most will win the "How Much is Too Much" T shirt as worn in the "Oh F***, I'm 40" show. Please remember to email me your postal address to Herring1967@googlemail.com once you have donated. Last year's programme raise over £10,000 for SCOPE. Be nice to do even better this year. And if you have something to promote then there is also advertising space available. E mail me for rates.

2) OLD EDINBURGH POSTERS - You can now buy original posters from three of my previous shows "The Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace", "Talking C*ck" and "Someone Likes Yoghurt" at The Go Faster website
These are £5 each or all three for £10 (including delivery in a nice cardboard tube). While you're there why not pick up my three DVDs if you haven't got them already!

3) LYRIC COMEDY NIGHTS - the line ups for all three Lyric, Hammersmith shows are now all sorted out and the first one is on Sunday. I am delighted to say that Russell Howard will be headlining on the 18th May. He rocks. You can see all details at The Lyric website
Book now.

There are your, as it turns out, three things. And while I think about it here is a bonus number 4

4) There's a funny video of me having to deal with a heckler on youtube. You can see it here and there's a slightly longer version here

I am going now before I think of something else

RKH

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Edinburgh Programme Fund

I have though set up a new Just Giving Page for donations for the new Edinburgh programme fund.
As usual I am giving you the chance to get your name in the new Richard Herring Edinburgh programme (probably a bumper double issue for both Headmaster’s Son and Christ on a Bike) and to help a brilliant charity at the same time. You will also received a limited edition copy of the programme through the post (please email your home address to Herring1967@googlemail.com - if I have not received your address by the end of July you will not get your free programme) and there will be some spot prizes too.
This year due to inflation the minimum donation to ensure entry to the programme will be £12.50. Butl the more you donate the bigger your name will be and the person who donates the most money will win the "How Much is Too Much" T-shirt as worn during the entire run of "Oh F***, I’m 40"(it will be washed).
Deadline for final entry not yet decided, but please give sooner rather than later.

It would be terrific if you could be as supportive as you have been for the last couple of years. This money makes a massive difference and it’s really a terrific cause.

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Richard Herring - Spring News

Hello everybody,
Here is all the spring based Richard Herring news (incorporating stuff both about the season and the coiled bouncy bits of metal).

TOUR
Thanks to all those of you who came to see my latest tour and DVD record. There will be a few more fleeting opportunities to see this show before I turn 41. They are:
24th April Black Box, Belfast
3rd May Chipping Norton Theatre
10th May York
7th June Liverpool (not totally confirmed)
Or you can wait til the DVD comes out in around about six months time.

OTHER GIGS
Here are my gigs for March and April which will be a combination of old bits, plus me trying to work up new material. Details for all gigs will (eventually) be up on.."http://www.richardherring.com/gigs/"> my gig guide and no doubt new gigs will be added in April.

March
28th Walton on Thames
29th Taunton
30th Wam Bam Club
April
1st Ginglik, Shepherd’s Bush
2nd Streatham Waterfront
4th Kingston
16th Galway, Ireland
19th Laughter in Odd Places
19th Gypsy Hill
21st Kilburn
28th Fortnight club

LYRIC COMEDY NIGHTS
April also sees the return of the popular Sunday night comedy club at the Lyric theatre.
20th April will see me introducing Jenny Eclair, Tom Basden and Francesca Martinez - website
27th April I host Sean Hughes, Pappy’s Fun Club and Wil Hodgson - website
18th May - we have yet to confirm the headliner, but Justin Edwards and Tony Law are definitely on, which should be enough for anyone.
BOOK EARLY to ensure your seat.
Either book on line at The Lyric website
or call 0871 22 117 29
Tickets £15 or £10 if you sit in the Upper Circle.

PODCAST
I am doing a (now) weekly podcast with my old 6 Music colleague (he is not my friend) Andrew Collings. There are five in the bag already and we’ll try to do them every Friday for the foreseeable future. You can listen to or download the ones we’ve done from here
Or more excitingly you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and help our assault on the charts. So far our highest position has been 25th in the main chart and 16th in the comedy one, though our main aim is to get ahead and stay permanently ahead of the Nuts video podcast (don’t look at it, you’ll only help them!). So please subscribe if you enjoy our stupid rambling.

EDINBURGH
I am planning to do Edinburgh 2008 and am probably going to do two shows. A new one called "The Headmaster’s Son" which will probably be on in the White Belly at the Underbelly again and then at weekends I am going to revive "Christ on a Bike", maybe in a slightly larger venue. We are already making plans to record both these shows for DVD in the autumn. I will let you know how to get hold of tickets for Edinburgh as soon as they are available.

EDINBURGH PROGRAMME
I will shortly be starting work on the free programme for Edinburgh, all the proceeds of which will go to SCOPE as usual (you all helped to raise well over £10,000 this year, so thanks!). You will be able to donate money to get your name in this bumper programme (which will cover two shows this year), but if you think you might like to purchase advertising space for a company or product or maybe even another Edinburgh show, then please email me at Herring1967@googlemail.com and I will let you know the prices. Space is very limited as I don’t want a programme full of just adverts, but as well as getting your advert into the hands of up to 10,000 comedy fans over the course of the year, all the money you spend will be going to charity. So it’s a win/win situation. It’s worth getting in touch, cos the space is going for a song, it really is and a quarter or half page ad might not cost you much at all.

DVDS
If you want to catch up on the back catalogue of my one man shows you can buy "The Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace", "Someone Likes Yoghurt" and "menage a un" from Go Faster Stripe
"Oh F***, I’m 40" will be joining the ever-increasing roster of this fine organisation that already have brilliant Stewart Lee and Simon Munnery shows available and have also recorded shows by Robin Ince, Lucy Porter, John Hegley, Paul Sinha, Wil Hodgson and Tony Law. Any self respecting comedy fan should buy everything that this company puts out as they have excellent taste and should be encouraged in this superb enterprise of providing DVD releases for comedians who might never get them otherwise.

RADIO
The third series of Banter is on Radio 4 at 6.30pm on (I think) Thursday evenings, starting on the 3rd April. It’s the best series yet if the records were anything to go by, so do tune in or listen again or whatever you youngsters like to do these days.

TV
I have just given in a pilot script for my Scrabble sit-com (provisionally entitled "Absolutely Scrabulous"), so hopefully there might be news on that next time. There is apparently still a chance that "You Can Choose Your Friends" might become a series, but as always, don’t hold your breath.

BLOG
Warming Up continues into it’s sixth year at this location
I also do a fortnightly blog on the New Statesman site, which occasionally (as with this week) contains different content to Warming Up - New Statesman

SPRINGS
There is no spring news at the moment, but should there be any then you will be the first to know.

Hope that’s enough to be going on with.
Say hi if you come to one of the gigs (you know, afterwards - not while I am on stage)
Rich

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Collings and Herring Podcast

To hear the first ever official Andrew Collings and Richard Herring podcast, please click here

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Richard Herrnig - February News

Hello everybody,
Hope you're having a good 2008. I haven't had an alcoholic drink all year. Beat that! I expect you can, having almost certainly drunk more. What a lightweight!

Here's what's going on in the upcoming month

Oh Flip, I'm 40 - TOUR
Here are the tour dates - please book early to avoid disappointment - I have heard tell that the Reading gig is already sold out, so don't leave it til the last minute - especially with the very limited run at the Arts Theatre, where I sold out five nights out of ten last year.
09-Feb-08     Battersea Arts Centre     (020) 7223 2223
13-Feb-08     Cheltenham Town Hall     01242227979                             
15-Feb-08     Totton Hangar Farm Arts Centre     023 8066 7683
17-Feb-08     Manchester Frog N Bucket     0161 236 9805
19-Feb-08     Camberly Theatre     01276 707600
20-Feb-08     Cardiff St David's Hall     029 2087 8444
22-Feb-08     South Street Arts, Reading     0118 960 6060
23-Feb-08     Durham Gala Theatre     0191 332 4041
24-Feb-08     Bristol Tobacco Factory     0117 902 0344
28-Feb-08     Arts Theatre, London     0870 060 1742
29-Feb-08     Arts Theatre, London     0870 060 1742
01-Mar-08     Arts Theatre, London     0870 060 1742
02-Mar-08     Bath Cavern     01225 404 445
03-Mar-08     Farnham Maltings     1252745444
04-Mar-08     Wolverhampton Little Civic     8703207000
07-Mar-08     Jersey Arts Theatre     01534 700444
08-Mar-08     Dublin, Tripod     35316610700
09-Mar-08     Glasgow The Tron     0141 552 4267
11-Mar-08     Nottingham, Just the Tonic     0115 950 6149
12-Mar-08     Hilarity Bites, Darlington     01325 362364
13-Mar-08     West End Centre, Aldershot     01252 330040
15-Mar-08     The Y Theatre, Leicester     0116 255 6507
16-Mar-08     Derby Assembly Rooms     01332 255800
17-Mar-08     Birmingham Mac     0121 440 3838
19-Mar-08     Cambridge The Junction     01223 511511
20-Mar-08     Komedia Brighton     01273 647100
29–Mar-08     Taunton, Wellsprings Centre     No number at the moment
24-Apr-08      Belfast, Black Box      028 9024 4400
May-08         Chipping Norton Theatre     01608 642350
10-May-08     The Shed, York    01653 668 494
            
If you are afraid of telephones you can book a few of those gigs on Ticketmaster.

You can also catch me doing regular stand up gigs at these London clubs - see my gig guide for details
2nd Feb Red Rose
3rd Feb Troy Club
16th Feb Just The Tonic
26th Feb London Word Festival

CHARITY GIG
CHARITY GIG: STANDING UP FOR SCENE & HEARD on MONDAY 4TH FEBRUARY at 8.00pm
The line up includes:
STEPHEN MERCHANT
Richard Herring
Mark Allen
Justin Edwards
Pappy's Fun club
Lenny Beige
This will SELL OUT. BOOK NOW!
All proceeds go to Scene & Heard and tickets are a snip at £15.00.
They can be purchased in person from the Comedy Store box office or via their website
Alternatively you can book with Ticketmaster on 0844 8471728

RADIO
The third series of Banter is being recorded on 10th Feb (2 shows) 18th Feb, 27th Feb and 6th March (2 shows). Hosted by Andrew Collings, with me, Will Smith, Russell Howard as regulars, with other terrific guests. You can get FREE tickets at www.tvrecordings.com.

PODCAST
Andrew Collings and me are going to start a fortnightly podcast. We're recording the first one next Friday. Keep an eye on my website for details of when and how you can get it into your ears.

DVDs
My three DVDs, (including the brand new "menage a un" - the best one yet) as well as some Stewart Lee and Simon Munnery products are still available from those good folks at Go Faster Stripe.
Please buy them if you haven't already in order to help this band of Welsh misfits record even more obscure comedians (I will be filming the 40 show on 21st March at Chapter Arts).

Hope to see you at one of those gigs! Do come and say hello. I'll be in the bar afterwards, drinking tap water!

Rich Herring

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Comedy Store gig with STEPHEN MERCHANT

STANDING UP FOR SCENE & HEARD on MONDAY 4TH FEBRUARY at 8.00pm

The line up includes:

Stephen Merchant
Richard Herring
Mark Allen
Justin Edwards
Pappy's Fun club

All proceeds go to Scene & Heard and tickets are a snip at £15.00.
They can be purchased in person from the Comedy Store box office or via their website
Alternatively you can book with Ticketmaster on 0844 8471728

BOOK NOW - This will sell out!

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Richard Herring "menage a un"

Happy Christmas everyone and wishing you a brilliant 2008

Just to let you know that my latest DVD "menage a un" is now available from those good people at Go Faster Stripe.

While you're there you can also pick up the DVDs of "The Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace" and "Someone Likes Yoghurt", as well as some marvellous products from Stewart Lee and Simon Munnery.

Please support this wonderful organisation, bringing you cheap DVDs of comedians who would otherwise not get a release for their shows.

Rich x

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Happy Christmas myspace. My time here shall not be long

I am getting fed up with myspace's unwieldiness and all the spam and crap, so I shall soon be shutting this page down.
However I have a facebook page that I have no opened up to all comers. Once you've joined facebook it's here
I hope that works

Richard Herring

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