Festival Sponsors
Festival Sponsor: Llangollen Chamber of Trade & Tourism
Event Sponsors:
Cam Wrth Gam
Llangollen Management Services
We would also like to thank Cadwyn Clwyd for their support with marketing the event as part of the Llangollen Partnership's Pavilion New Event Programme.
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Hey gang. We’ve wound up our first Llangollen International Comedy Festival, (no kids show today, Sunday) so thanks for coming! Please join the mobile & e-mailing lists at Killforaseat.com to be the first to know what we’re up to for next year’s festival. My thanks go to Elin, Michael, Paul, Andy, JC & Geoff at the Pavilion for their tireless work and calm professionalism, Sheena and Brian and the folks at the RAFA Club for not freaking out when telly people turned up and took the piss out of the amount of sheer Brown in the building, PJ, Katy and the Sun Trevor crew for making alcohol so readily available, and all the acts for being so patient as I flapped around Denbighshire, crying and gibbering, especially John & Ed, for the humility and generosity with their time, and Brendan, consigliere. Last but not least, Jo. With all my heart.
Thursday Night
(c/o Andrew Gale, Dogs Dinner Productions) More to be added soon..
 John Bishop  Ed Byrne Fencing
 Silky In The Batcave  TV's Nick Page Channels Zap Brannigan  Lloyd Looms...  Award Winning Canadian Tony Law molests invisible woman
 Mister Showbiz, Danny McLoughlin More to follow…
Now then: here’s your full line-up for this weekend’s festivities.. We’ve entirely sold out for both Thursday shows and we’ve very limited availability for the Pavilion show on Friday, and the best of the New Welsh Wave on the Saturday. Just generally don’t hang about..
‘the Llangollen lineup should be the envy of its much larger peers.. It’s no easy task to put together a programme packed with enough quality to get the locals buzzing as well as drawing in comedy junkies from further afield’ -The Guardian
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Thursday 10th June
Royal International Pavilion, 7pm. John Bishop, Nick Page, Silky (MC)
RAFA Club, 9.15pm. Kill for a Seat Comedy Ed Byrne (IRE), Lloyd Langford (CYM), Tony Law (CAN), Danny McLoughlin (MC)
Friday 11th June
RAFA Club, 7pm. Kill for a Seat Comedy John Bishop, Adam Staunton, Noel James (CYM), Chris Cairns (MC)
Royal International Pavilion, 9.15pm. Sarah Millican, Brendan Dempsey, Nige, Silky (MC)
Saturday 12th June
KIDS COMEDY KABLOOEY Royal International Pavilion, 3pm. Elis James (CYM), Tony Law (CAN), Silky (MC)
CHANGE OF VENUE: Royal International Pavilion, 7pm, BEST OF THE NEW WELSH WAVE 7pm. Lloyd Langford , Dan Mitchell, Jonathon Williams, Elis James (MC)
Royal International Pavilion, 9.15pm. Simon Munnery, Tony Law (CAN), Tudur Owen (CYM) Jason Cook (MC)
Sunday 13th June
KIDS COMEDY KABLOOEY Royal International Pavilion, 3pm.
HANGOVERS STOPPED PLAY: NO KIDS SHOW TODAY..
Simon Munnery, also known by his stage names of Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League against Tedium, will headline on Saturday 12th June at the Pavilion. ‘One of the most original and talented comedians in the country’ according to the Observer.
Alongside him is the BAFTA award winning comedian Tudur Owen, best known for his comedy series for S4C, “The PC Leslie Wynne Show” and the Canadian comic, Tony Law. “To see Tony Law is to inhale deep breaths of comedy oxygen” The Herald
The night will be hosted by Geordie funny-man, Jason Cook, nominated for best compère in this year’s Chortle awards. ***** The Herald ***** Chortle **** Metro “The unexpected find of the Fringe. **** ” The Scotsman
It’s a brilliant line-up for our first ever comedy festival.. Come on down, you.
 BAFTA Award winning comedian Tudur Owen has been added to the Pavilion Saturday show. Tudur was in Llangollen a couple of years ago with an excellent pair of performances (one in English, one in Welsh) at the Fringe Festival and joins an already exceptional line up of Welsh Comedians on the Saturday night of the first Llangollen Comedy Festival.
There are still tickets left for both Saturday shows and the Pavilion show on Friday evening.
There are still a few sponsorship opportunities available for the festival - reserved tickets are included. The packages are deliberately very affordable, if you are interested ring Elin Williams at the Pavilion on 01978 860111 during office hours.
You can see which events are still available on the sponsors page.
 We have added the fantastic observational wit of Ed Byrne to the Festival, the spark of Canadian born Tanyalee Davis, Chris Cairns (”A true star waiting to shine” - LIVE MAGAZINE) and the warm humour of Brendan Dempsey - you can see when they are on by checking the programme page. Not long to wait now …
 The Pavilion has had its capacities reviewed as part of the refurbishment, this means we will definitely have additional tickets for the show at the Pavilion on the Thursday evening.
We have a reserve list for these - it is probably still worth ringing if you have a hankering to see John Bishop & Lloyd Langford on that evening - 01978 860111 during office hours. We will release these tickets (which means we will contact those people on the list) as soon as we have written confirmation of the new capacity.
We will have the full line up (including the Saturday headliner) in the next couple of weeks.
We’re not happy - your side of the deal was to wait until we put all the posters up, had a press launch and spent all the advertising money, then you were meant to work yourselves into a frenzy and buy all the tickets. Without all that to do (which frankly we were looking forwards to) we have now sold out of tickets for John Bishop & Lloyd Langford at the Pavilion on Thursday and Craig Campbell and John Bishop at the RAFA on the Friday. We’ll see what we can do about squeezing a few more bodies in - so if you want to go on the reserve list you will need to ring the Pavilion on 01978 860111 during office hours and give us your name, e-mail and mobile number.
We are still waiting on confirmation of the Saturday headliner - you’ll know minutes after we do!
Tickets go on sale at 9am today - there are two methods to buy them:
- Online : decide which shows you want to go to by day and venue and then use our InstantTicketSeller facility to buy your tickets
- Phone : ring 01978 860111 to buy tickets by credit card
 We have added a page with quotes and links to websites and MySpace for each of the acts so far. There are more to come - you will find out here moments after we get confirmations …
The new page is here.
Tickets will go on sale this Friday morning as planned - there will be a £15 ticket covering both shows on each evening, but no overall weekend ticket.
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