Downpatrick date for Neil Delamere tour

Downpatrick date for Neil Delamere tour

25 October 2017

TOP Irish stand-up Neil Delamere has announced details of his brand new tour Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Pensioner.

The 50 date tour, which Dublin’s Vicar Street, Cork Opera House and the Ulster Hall, will be stopping off at Down Arts Centre in Downpatrick on March 4.

The intriguingly-titled Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Pensioner represents a somewhat new approach by the Offaly funnyman. The show is framed around a single narrative – a day earlier this year when Delamere helped his 82 year-old father deliver the local meals-on-wheels to the elderly, which they had to finish in time for a horse race. 

While hilariously describing the experience, and the various characters they meet on their outing, Delamere deviates with some side-stories before bringing everything together in a rewarding finale.  

While not an official tribune to his father, ‘Butch Cassidy’ is underpinned by the close father and son relationship. There’s even some recorded comments from Mr Delamere Senior who, interestingly, has yet to see the show. 

Separate to comedy, Neil is currently honing his acting talents for a three-part drama series for BBC Northern Ireland, details of which will be announced in early 2018. 

Neil will also make a welcome return to TV screens this Autumn in the eleventh season of the ever-popular topical news and current affairs panel show The Blame Game on BBC Northern Ireland. He is one of the stars of the show, alongside Colin Murphy, Jake O’Kane and host Tim McGarry. The show regularly gets more audience share than Graham Norton and Neil is now considered an “adopted northerner” who can sell out successive nights at the Ulster Hall. 

An accomplished broadcaster as well as comic, Neil is the host of his own hugely-popular two-hour weekend show on Today FM, Neil Delamere’s Sunday Best (Sunday’s on Today FM 11am-1pm).

Tickets for  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Pensioner are available at: www.neildelamere.com/gigs for tour listings and bookings.