Feb

Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival director Geoff Rowe is to receive an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University (DMU). As this year’s 17-day festival was launched at DMU on 3 February, Vice-Chancellor Professor Dominic Shellard announced the honour for Geoff who founded the festival 19 years ago as part of his Arts Management degree at the...

Feb

An exhibition featuring cartoon images of iconic Leicester buildings opens this week as part of Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival. Leicester based cartoonist Paul Wood, whose work has appeared in Punch, Private Eye, The Sunday Express & The Independent, has produced original cartoons of buildings including the National Space Centre, Curve, John Lewis and...

Jan

 Now for something completely different! Comedy Cabaret! Alternative Comedy night! Starring The “…incredibly funny!” (Chortle) Modern Day Vaudeville Musical duo, Brian & Krysstal. Helping to raise money for Oxfam by headlining Loughborough’s 2Funny Comedy night at The Swan in the Rushes pub on Thurs Feb 9th 2012 as part of Dave’s Leicester...

Jan

This February, DAVE’S LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL (3 – 19 February 2012) returns to Curve with a variety of hilarious comedy offerings. Curve is one of the busiest venues of the festival with 21 shows during February. Curve’s line-up includes the best in stand-up, theatrical comedy, female impersonation, European black humour, local performers, Sing-along-a...