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Peter Kay will be bringing his first stand-up show in twelve years to The O2 with a monthly residency at the venue.

Peter is the first artist in the world to perform a monthly residency at The O2, the world’s most popular music, leisure and entertainment venue.

Peter Kay said: “Audiences in London have always been amongst the best in Britain, plus I think seeing the show could be part of a nice weekend away treat.”

“It’s good to get back to what I love doing best, stand-up comedy and if there’s ever a time people need a laugh it’s now. And with the cost of living at an all-time high, ticket prices are starting from £35. The same price they were on my previous tour in 2010.”

Peter’s 2010 tour still officially ranks with the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest selling comedy tour of all time.

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Peter Kay tour: O2 Priority website crashes due to 'extraordinary' demand for tickets

Comedian Peter Kay has broken the internet after announcing his first tour in 12 years, when he will become the first artist in the world to perform a monthly residence at London's O2 Arena.

Arts and entertainment reporter @BethanyMinelle

Thursday 10 November 2022 16:37, UK

O2 have apologised after their Priority ticket website offering customers early access to Peter Kay tickets crashed due to "extraordinary demand".

The rush for tickets followed the announcement that the comedian would be returning to the stage after years away from the spotlight.

London's O2 Arena announced that the 49-year-old Phoenix Night's star would become the first artist in the world to perform a monthly residency there, as part of his first tour in 12 years.

Peter Kay is back on tour 🎤 😂 This is not a drill. O2 customers can get Priority Tickets at 10am on Thursday, 48 hours before general release 🎟️ @peterkay_co_uk #O2Priority pic.twitter.com/WvXN7WkB9V — O2 (@O2) November 6, 2022

The mobile phone company shared news of their priority tickets on social media at the weekend, writing: "Peter Kay is back on tour. This is not a drill."

However, messages on Twitter on Thursday pleaded with customers to be patient after the site crashed, leaving customers unable to apply for tickets.

O2 wrote: "We're seeing extraordinary demand for Peter Kay. We know customers are struggling to get on to our Priority website and app before 10am, we're working on it. Please be patient, thank you."

Later, calling the demand "unprecedented", O2 told customers: "This is by far the highest demand we've ever seen for Priority Tickets in 15 years". Beyonce was the previous most popular performer through O2's Priority ticket scheme.

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Fans of the star shared their irritation at being unable to access tickets, posting memes, pictures and comments on social media.

One fan wrote: "Would have better luck breaking into Peter Kay's house, holding him hostage and demanding a private stand-up gig than getting tickets through O2 this morning".

While another added: "Wish they would have given priority to people who originally had tickets for the cancelled Peter Kay tour. The struggle is real."

Others shared the holding message and image that came up on their screen when attempting to register for tickets.

When you realise you probably won’t get Peter Kay tickets because @O2 priority has crashed #peterkay pic.twitter.com/Q8WwONzPO0 — mollieatkinson15 (@ItsJustMollie) November 10, 2022

The whole country right now refreshing to try to log onto O2 Priority to get Peter Kay tickets pic.twitter.com/9hiCedfZjQ — Unreliable Yeltz (@Unreliableyeltz) November 10, 2022

Might just make this my screensaver at this point. #O2Priority #peterkay @O2 #crash pic.twitter.com/RDYPsr5dT5 — Steven Graydon (@saintgraydon) November 10, 2022

Kay's last planned 14-month tour was cancelled at short notice in 2017 due to "unforeseen family circumstances"

Despite the public outcry, the mobile phone company insisted that tickets were being sold, writing in a Twitter update: "We are seeing lots of Priority Tickets being sold for Peter Kay to O2 and Virgin Media customers right across the UK".

While Kay had made a point of keeping his ticket prices low amid the cost-of-living crisis - selling them at the same price as his 2010 tour and starting from £35 - tickets for some of his shows have already appeared on resale sites at inflated prices - further infuriating fans.

Kay will perform a show a month at the O2 from December 2022 to November 2023, as well as dates in cities including Liverpool, Dublin, Nottingham and Newcastle.

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The arena gigs will make up Kay's first live tour since 2010, when he broke the Guinness World Record for the biggest-selling run of all time, performing to more than 1.2 million people.

Tickets go on general sale from 12 November.

Sky News has contacted O2 and representatives for Peter Kay for comment.

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Peter Kay Announces Return to Stand-up with First Live Tour in Twelve Years

• Following the announcement of a nationwide arena tour, Peter Kay has confirmed a monthly residency at The O2, London, starting on Friday 16 December 2022 until Saturday 18 November 2023
• O2 and Virgin Media broadband customers will have access to Priority Tickets to the whole tour from Thursday 10 November at 10am – 48 hours before general release

Wednesday 9 November: Peter Kay is back with his first stand-up tour for 12 years which will see him perform in venues across the UK and includes a monthly residency at The O2, London, starting on Friday 16 December 2022.

O2 and Virgin Media broadband customers will be able to access Priority Tickets to his whole tour 48 hours before general release.

Priority Tickets are on sale from 10am on Thursday 10 November via this link . General sale tickets will be available from Saturday 12 November.

O2 and Virgin Media customers can access Priority completely free. All they have to do is register by visiting the website or downloading the Priority app.

PETER KAY – LIVE IN LONDON AT THE O2  

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What time are Peter Kay priority tickets out today? How to get O2 and Three pre-sale tickets for 2023 UK tour

The 49-year-old comedian, who has been largely absent from the public eye for the last four years, will embark on an arena tour.

Peter Kay fans are delighted after the comic announced his return to stand-up comedy, with his first live tour in 12 years.

The 49-year-old comedian, who has been largely absent from the public eye for the last four years, will embark on an arena tour.

Kay cancelled his last tour in December 2017, citing “unforeseen family circumstances”.

Here’s everything you need to know.

When is Peter Kay touring?

Kay will begin his tour on 2 December at the Manchester AO Arena before visiting locations including Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, Belfast, Newcastle, Glasgow and Dublin.

His run will end on 11 August 2023 at the Sheffield Utilita Arena.

He has also announced a monthly residency at London’s O2 arena – the first comedian ever to do so.

Here are the national tour dates:

• Friday 2 December – Manchester AO Arena
• Saturday 3 December – Manchester AO Arena
• Saturday 17 December – Birmingham Utilita Arena
• Friday 6 January 2023 – Liverpool M&S Bank Arena
• Saturday 7 January – Liverpool M&S Bank Arena
• Friday 20 January – Leeds First Direct Arena
• Friday 17 February – Sheffield Utilita Arena
• Thursday 23 February – Belfast SSE Arena
• Friday 24 February – Belfast SSE Arena
• Thursday 9 March – Newcastle Utilita Arena
• Friday 10 March – Newcastle Utilita Arena
• Thursday 23 March – Birmingham Resorts World Arena
• Thursday 6 April – Dublin 3Arena
• Friday 7 April – Dublin 3Arena
• Friday 5 May – Glasgow OVO Hydro
• Saturday 6 May – Glasgow OVO Hydro
• Friday 19 May – Leeds First Direct Arena
• Friday 16 June – Cardiff International Arena
• Saturday 17 June – Cardiff International Arena
• Friday 14 July – Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
• Saturday 15 July – Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
• Friday 11 August – Sheffield Utilita Arena

Here are the London O2 dates:

• Friday 16 December
• Saturday 21 January 2023
• Saturday 18 February
• Wednesday 22 March
• Saturday 22 April
• Saturday 3 June
• Wednesday 30 August
• Saturday 9 September
• Saturday 7 October
• Saturday 18 November

How can I get tickets?

Tickets go on general sale on Saturday 12 November at 10am through Ticketmaster .

However, O2 Priority and Three+ customers can purchase tickets from 10am on Thursday 10 November.

• O2 Priority tickets
• Three+ tickets

O2 Priority customers will be able to buy tickets for any date, while Three+ customers are limited to the following:

• AO Arena Manchester on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 December 2022
• First Direct Arena Leeds on Friday 20 January and Friday 19 May 2023
• Utilita Arena Newcastle on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 March 2023

Kay said: “With the cost of living at an all-time high, ticket prices are starting from £35 – the same price they were on my previous tour in 2010.”

What has Peter Kay said?

Kay’s comeback was announced during an ad break in the series launch of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! on ITV.

He said: “It’s good to get back to what I love doing best, stand-up comedy, and if there’s ever a time people need a laugh it’s now.”

Following the announcement, Kay’s official website appeared to crash briefly under increased traffic.

Peter Kay announces his first new live stand-up tour in 12 years! Tickets go on sale 10am Saturday 12th November at https://t.co/EVCiTLh3J7 pic.twitter.com/lJBK8R8Y8I — Peter Kay (@peterkay_co_uk) November 6, 2022

A poster for the event featured Kay holding a sign reading, “Better late than never” and described a ticket to his shows as an “ideal Christmas gift”.

Kay, from Bolton, has been largely out of the spotlight in recent years.

He returned to the stage in August 2021 for two special charity events to raise money for Laura Nuttall, a then 20-year-old with an aggressive type of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme.

There was also a brief return in January 2021 when he appeared on BBC Radio 2 to chat to Cat Deeley – who was filling in after Graham Norton left the station – about his love of music, mixtapes and the musical Mamma Mia.

He also made a surprise appearance at a charity screening of his series Car Share in 2018.

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One of Britain’s funniest comedians is finally back and you could get early access to Priority Tickets – all you need to do is to download the Priority from O2 app

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Now that Virgin Media and O2 have joined forces, our broadband customers can get access to Priority from O2. That means you can get early access to Priority Tickets for Peter Kay’s hugely anticipated UK tour – his first in 12 years! 

You read that right, one of Britain’s best-loved comedians is finally returning to stand-up comedy! 

Following the announcement of a nationwide arena tour, Peter Kay has confirmed a monthly residency at The O2 starting in December 2022 until November 2023. As revealed on BBC Radio 2 by Zoe Ball on her breakfast show, Peter is the first artist in the world to perform a monthly residency at the iconic London venue. It’s the ideal weekend away (apart from when it’s a Wednesday). 

His 2010 tour still ranks as the biggest-selling comedy tour of all time, and you’ll get a whole 48 hours to purchase up to 8 tickets before they go on general sale. 

Just download the Priority app to book Peter Kay Live from 10am on Thursday 10th November, using your My Virgin Media registered email address. 

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Virgin Media broadband customers can now get Priority Tickets for thousands of shows and events like Peter Kay Live across the UK, as well as rewards, unique experiences, daily treats, prize draws and perks, all through the Priority app – at no extra cost. Plus, if you’re already a Virgin Media broadband and O2 Pay Monthly mobile customer you can get additional benefits.  Find out more here . 

What other rewards are on offer with Priority?

With Priority, you can get complimentary cinema tickets and exclusive early access to amazing live events. You can also pick up daily treats while you’re out and about from your favourite high street brands like Greggs. And to keep things fresh, your rewards are updated every month based on the things you love… with a few surprises thrown in, too!

How do I access Priority?

Simply download the app to access these great discounts and rewards. You can get it from the  App Store  if you’re an iPhone user or the  Google Play store  for Android users. All offers are completely tailored to you. The app uses geo-location technology, which means all offers shown are in close proximity to you, so you won’t have to travel far.

So get the app today and start to enjoy the benefits of Priority!

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O2 customers and Virgin Media broadband customers only. 18+. Internet access and registration required. Offers subject to eligibility criteria and availability. Terms apply, see the Priority from O2 app or go to  o2.co.uk/terms . To access the Peter Kay Live presale, download the Priority app, register, or sign in with your My Virgin Media details. A maximum of eight tickets can be purchased per customer. For full terms see  o2.co.uk/terms .

Peter Kay ticket price, pre-sale and everything you need to know following tour announcement

Pre-sale tickets for the Peter Kay live tour go on sale soon

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Comedy icon Peter Kay has announced a huge UK 2022-23 tour after a 12 year break from stand up.

The popular comedian will visit the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool on Friday, January 6 and Saturday, January 7 2023 as part of a big UK tour that will visit cities such as Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds. Announcing the big news on Facebook to his 2.8m followers, he said: "It’s good to get back to what I love doing best, stand-up comedy and if there’s ever a time people need a laugh it’s now.

“And with the cost of living at an all-time high, ticket prices are starting from £35. The same price they were on my previous tour in 2010."

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Full dates include:

• Friday December 2, 2022 Manchester AO Arena
• Saturday December 3, 2022 Manchester AO Arena
• Saturday December 17, 2022 Birmingham Utilita Arena
• Friday January 6, 2023 Liverpool M&S Bank Arena
• Saturday January 7, 2023 Liverpool M&S Bank Arena
• Friday January 20, 2023 Leeds First Direct Arena
• Friday February 17, 2023 Sheffield Utilita Arena
• Thursday February 23. 2023 Belfast SSE Arena
• Friday February 24, 2023 Belfast SSE Arena
• Thursday March 9, 2023 Newcastle Utilita Arena
• Friday March 10, 2023 Newcastle Utilita Arena
• Thursday March 23, 2023 Birmingham Resorts World Arena
• Thursday April 6, 2023 Dublin 3Arena
• Friday April 7, 2023 Dublin 3Arena
• Friday May 5, 2023 Glasgow OVO Hydro
• Saturday May 6, 2023 Glasgow OVO Hydro
• Friday May 19, 2023 Leeds First Direct Arena
• Friday June 16, 2023 Cardiff International Arena
• Saturday June 17 2023 Cardiff International Arena
• Friday July 14, 2023 Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
• Saturday July 15, 2023 Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
• Friday August 11, 2023 Sheffield Utilita Arena

How to get pre-sale tickets

02 Priority tickets will be available to 02 customers and will go on sale at 10am this Thursday November 10. You can view the full list of dates through 02 priority here.

You must ensure you are signed in via the 02 app or online to get access to the presale tickets. We'd advise to get onto the app nice and early before 10am to be prepared.

How to get general sale tickets

General tickets will go on sale this Saturday November 12 at 10am. Tickets will be available to purchase via See Tickets and Ticketmaster. Peter Kay tickets will also be available to purchase through the M&S Bank Arena website , where you can set up an alert to remind you about the ticket sale.

How much will the tickets cost for Peter Kay's 2022 tour

In a quote shared to Facebook, popular comedian Peter Kay has said that ticket prices will start from £35. These tickets will be the same price as his tickets were back in 2010.

According to the See Tickets website, tickets will start at £35, then go up to £41, £50, £58, £65 and £74 depending on where you choose to sit. There is also a 'best seat ticket package' available for £135 which includes the top price seat for the show, a limited edition Peter Kay gift, a show programme and a Peter Kay VIP laminate and lanyard. You can purchase your tickets through See Tickets here and Ticketmaster here.

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Peter Kay at the O2 Arena review: delivered in spades

Sub-zero temperatures and rail strikes were never going to keep Peter Kay ’s fans away from the 02 Arena. They had anticipated his appearance for five years, when his last tour was cancelled for private reasons. So was the Better Late Than Never show worth the wait ? It was touch and go but eventually it delivered in spades.

Kay has lost some weight, but has hardly reinvented himself for his epic tour, which includes groundbreaking monthly gigs here until 2025. His material still trades heavily on shameless nostalgia. The bulk of his audience looked well over 30 and you might need to be almost twice that age to recognise some of his references.

But there were plenty who clearly did as the first half moved quickly from Christmas Cracker one liners – “karajoke” – to a TV advert singalong. If Kay hasn’t arranged a sponsorship deal or at least substantial free samples of Club biscuits, Mars bars or Fairy Liquid he is missing a trick.

And naturally there were his catchphrases. He can no longer buy garlic bread in Morrisons, he said, because asking for it makes everyone laugh. He claimed that he only appeared in a Doctor Who episode so that he could make a joke about “Dalek Bread”.

Elsewhere he compared the past to the present. Blockbuster Video to Netflix, chunky mail order catalogues to Amazon. No book token prizes for guessing which ones he prefers.

One change to Kay was that even he now talks about his mental health, albeit lightly. He explained that his OCD means he has to eat every baked bean in the can and puts tape around hotel door frames so keep light out. The latter led into a stand-out anecdote about a family trip to New York dominated by a search for an English cuppa.

Now that Kay is 49 and genuinely middle aged rather than prematurely middle aged there was the inevitable routine about intimate medical examinations. His account of being treated for kidney stones had the entire male contingent laughing and wincing simultaneously. My legs remained firmly crossed throughout.

A vein of sentimentality ran through the show too, most notably when he talked about his late grandmother. Kay took a break from the relatable quips to play a recording of their conversation about her funeral plans while a montage upped mushiness levels to new heights.

And then suddenly he was gone, before returning and asking everyone to keep his spectacular encore secret. Let’s just say it was not strictly comedy but as it shovelled surprise on surprise it certainly put smiles on everyone’s faces.

Next show January 21, then one monthly until April 2025; theo2.co.uk

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Peter Kay at London’s O2 Arena: timings and everything you need to know

The legendary comedian’s massive residency at the O2 Arena continues this weekend

Whether you’ve been a fan since the days of That Peter Kay Thing or you’ve recently discovered his sketches on TikTok, the chances are you’re familiar with Peter Kay, one of the UK ’s most beloved comedians. And that’s shown by the sheer number of gigs he’s playing this year – in fact, Kay is the first ever artist to perform a monthly residency at Greenwich’s massive O2 Arena.

A heck of a lot of Londoners are going to get to see Peter Kay live over the next 12 months, and those gigs continue this weekend. This Saturday (January 6), Kay takes to the O2 as part of his first tour in 12 years. Here’s everything you need to know about the show – and all the ones after that.

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When is Peter Kay at London’s O2 Arena?

Peter Kay’s next show at the O2 is on Saturday, January 6 2024 .

After that, he’ll play loads more dates. Here are those in full:

• February 24, 2024
• March 23, 2024
• April 20, 2024
• May 4, 2024
• June 2, 2024
• July 13, 2024
• August 10, 2024
• September 7, 2024
• October 8, 2024
• November 16, 2024
• December 5. 2024
• January 25, 2025
• February 22, 2025
• March 20, 2025
• April 4, 2025

What time will he come on stage?

Kay is set to take to the stage at 8pm.

What time do doors open at the London O2?

Doors will open at 6:30pm and it should end by the O2’s curfew, which is 11pm. 

Are there any tickets left?

According to ticketing platform AXS , there are still some tickets left for the January 6 show.

How much are tickets?  

You can nab tickets for as little as £42 – find remaining tickets on AXS here .

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Peter Kay fans devastated as ticket sale for stand-up tour crashes O2 Priority site with ‘highest demand in 15 years’

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Fans hoping to get tickets to Peter Kay’s first stand-up tour in 12 years were left dealing with chaos after the O2 Priority website and app crashed.

Priority tickets for the highly-anticipated tour, which will see the comedian become the first person to perform a monthly residency at London’s O2 Arena , were due to go on sale at 10am on Thursday – only fans couldn’t access them due to the technical issues.

O2 shared a statement saying the ticket sale caused the highest demand for Priority Tickets in 15 years.

Their first statement said: ‘We’re seeing extraordinary demand for Peter Kay. We know customers are struggling to get on to our Priority website and app before 10am, we’re working on it. Please be patient, thank you.’

They updated fans a few minutes later, adding: ‘We’re seeing unprecedented demand for Peter Kay tickets & we know a lot of you can’t access Priority. Sorry, we’re working on it. Please be patient; this is by far the highest demand we’ve ever seen for Priority Tickets in 15 years. The presale lasts for 48h so keep checking.’

One fan wrote on Twitter: ‘How am I supposed to get my priority tickets for Peter Kay when the O2 priority app is down.’

‘The comfort of checking twitter and realising the entire O2 priority website has crashed for peter kay tickets,’ another said.

One more added: ‘I think Peter Kay has crashed 02 priority I cannot get on to my app this morning! @O2 sort it out!’ while another said: ‘How many people are frantically refreshing @O2 priority page… can’t just be me?’

We’re seeing extraordinary demand for Peter Kay. We know customers are struggling to get on to our Priority website and app before 10am, we’re working on it. Please be patient, thank you. — O2 (@O2) November 10, 2022

Tickets go on general sale on Saturday November 12 at 10am.

The comedian will be the first artist to play a month’s residency at the O2 arena, after he announced his epic comeback after 12 years.

He said of the announcement on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 show: ‘Of course I’m not going to not do London . All I can say is yes I am.’

The whole country right now refreshing to try to log onto O2 Priority to get Peter Kay tickets pic.twitter.com/9hiCedfZjQ — Unreliable Yeltz (@Unreliableyeltz) November 10, 2022

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“What about that O2 priority crashing ey? WHAT WERE ALL THAT ABOUT??” #peterkay pic.twitter.com/QzH6OzjjHw — Ben Watson (@BenWatson_98) November 10, 2022

How am I supposed to get my priority tickets for Peter Kay when the O2 priority app is down 😫😫😫 pic.twitter.com/DILnaBDdnj — Em (@emferg9) November 10, 2022

the comfort of checking twitter and realising the entire O2 priority website has crashed for peter kay tickets — OKS (@hcbliv) November 10, 2022

If o2 even dares telling us priority tickets are sold out for Peter Kay when the app doesn’t work pic.twitter.com/38YjZe03Ax — Sian (@sianeliza_) November 10, 2022

The whole of the UK trying to get on o2 priority right now #peterkay pic.twitter.com/fQ5kBNGjjd — Lee Thompson (@Bazooka_Tooth) November 10, 2022

Me trying to get into the o2 priority app and website to get Peter Kay tickets pic.twitter.com/BB7SIHEWe3 — luce (@lucyt95) November 10, 2022

Dear @O2 , I don’t feel like much of a priority right now. Cough up the Peter Kay ticket site already! pic.twitter.com/pKlMeE9PG1 — Louise (@LouLou2109) November 10, 2022

The comedian, who has remained largely out of the limelight over recent years – will embark on his first live tour since 2010, starting this December.

And, with plenty of people up and down the country struggling financially at the moment, the northern comic is keen to keep  ticket  prices as low as he can.

‘It’s good to get back to what I love doing best, stand-up comedy and if there’s ever a time people need a laugh it’s now,’ the funnyman said.

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‘And with the  cost of living  at an all-time high, ticket prices are starting from £35. The same price they were on my previous tour in 2010.’

Peter will begin his tour on December 2 at the Manchester AO Arena before his residency at the O2, and will visit locations including  Birmingham , Liverpool and Dublin, ending in August 2023 at the Sheffield Utilita Arena.

The 49-year-old  took a break from the limelight  in 2017 and cancelled his nationwide tour, citing family circumstances as the reason at the time.

He has since started slowly returning to public life with various surprise performances and charity events,  recently delighting fans at the Dance For Life show in Liverpool  for Cancer Research in August.

Then, he began gearing up to return to the stage properly by  testing new material on fans  at a series of surprise gigs around the country.

When cancelling his 100-date sell-out tour four years ago, Peter released a statement reading: ‘Due to unforeseen family circumstances I deeply regret I am having to cancel all of my upcoming work projects. My sincerest apologies.

‘This decision has not been taken lightly and I’m sure you’ll understand my ­family must always come first.’

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Safe to say, fans were absolutely delighted to see him back.

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Peter kay, o2 arena review - comeback show is worth the wait, nostalgia-fest delivers an emotional punch.

In 2017, Bolton comic Peter Kay had to cancel his planned tour because of “family circumstances”. But then, when he announced last year that he was back in the saddle, the tickets for Better Late Than Never sold like the proverbial. Well into what has mushroomed into a mega tour continuing until 2025, I caught him at the O2 Arena.

While it's good to have him back, much of the first half could have been written for any of Kay's previous tours since he was nominated for best show in the 1998 Perrier Awards (now the Edinburgh Comedy Awards) as he riffs on one of his mainstays, advertising jingles from his youth. At one point he even leads the audience into a singalong of them.

His material moves to firmer, although no less nostalgic, territory as he recalls jobs from his youth, working at a video rental shop and at a Top Rank bingo hall (younger fans may need to do online searches). There's a decent riff on his unintentional catchphrase “Garlic bread!” and how he now can't pop down to the supermarket to buy it, and he references his appearance on Doctor Who (he says he did it just so that he could make a joke about “Dalek bread”, which I hope is true).

Much has happened to a very slimmed-down Kay since he was last on tour – as it has to much of the population, of course – but threading through the show are his more reflective view of life and mentions of his beloved 96-year-old Nan, who died last year. We hear about some of her malapropisms and later a conversation between them as a family slide show appears on the onstage screen. There's a very funny section, too, on his recent brush with ill health as he has had kidney stones and needed an operation, the experience not made any easier by the anaesthetist asking for a selfie.

And, always a crowd-pleaser, Kay does a lengthy section of his party piece – misheard song lyrics, using his trusty old Walkman just to underline the nostalgia-fest we're experiencing.

Then, just as the evening appears to be winding down, Kay delivers an astonishing coup de theatre, expertly drawing all the seemingly unconnected threads into a hilariously bombastic finale full of colour and spectacle.

The audience are asked to keep the secret for those coming to later dates, and I hope they do because the sheer theatrically of it grabs not just one's attention, but one's emotions too. Kay proves that under that everyman exterior there beats the heart of a showman.

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Peter Kay review – from tried and tested everyman routine to jaw-dropping pageant

Manchester Arena After 12 years away from the stage, the slimmed-down entertainer is more unapologetically nostalgic than ever

N o hotcake ever sold in greater quantity than tickets for Peter Kay’s new tour : at one stage in my own bid for access, I was numbered 450,000 in the online queue. It’s a fair bet, then, that Kay will break the record he himself set in 2010 for the biggest-selling standup tour of all time – 1.2 million people saw that show. But is all the fuss justified? And will the long wait for this new show, fraught with speculation about Kay’s health and the likelihood of him ever touring again, prove worthwhile?

If there was any doubt, it was dispelled the moment the slimmed-down 49-year-old stepped onstage at the Manchester Arena. The reception was long, loud and, for Kay, tear-jerking. He took a pause to settle himself: “How’m I supposed to do bloody comedy now?” Not much doubt, though, how Kay was going to do comedy. The two-hour show scarcely deviated from the everyman formula that has made him such a popular success. Some of it, indeed, was almost parodically formulaic, as the Bolton man riffed on modern technology (“What did we do before Amazon? Catalogues!”), led a singalong of 1970s advertising jingles, and gave his famous “garlic bread” routine an Italian makeover.

But for all that, it didn’t come across as just another Peter Kay show. It has a more reflective air: the first half found Kay reminiscing on the dead-end jobs he worked before he was famous, including a stint as an usher in this very arena. The show’s other theme is the recent death of his 96-year-old nan, a big presence in Kay’s life. Earlier, that manifested as some first-base gags about gran’s malapropisms. Later, it prompted a sentimental finale, as a conversation grandson had with granny at the end of her life is replayed over a family-album slideshow.

Elsewhere, while the set never directly addresses the reasons for Kay’s temporary disappearance from public life, there is a section on his recent health challenges. In comic terms, it’s the strongest part of the show, as Kay rolls his eyes at the anaesthetist asking for a selfie, then recounts the indignities of his recent operation for kidney stones. It’s familiar standup territory, but Kay’s got a minimalist gift for expressing indignity and dismay – and there’s a great acting-out of a genitally entangled couple making their way to hospital after an unfortunate post-op accident.

While this routine is fit to stand alongside well-loved favourites from Kay’s earlier shows, some of the material in the first act barely registers as comedy. When our host orchestrates the audience in a TV theme recital, say, or goes all misty-eyed at one chocolate-bar jingle after another, his role is more conduit for our collective memory than comedian. You look in vain for punchlines – at least until the show’s multiple encores, when those early sections are revisited and built upon in quite spectacular fashion.

It would be unsporting to say too much about the jaw-dropping pageant that Kay lays on here, after the comedy show proper has come to an end. In keeping with the evening’s reflective vibe, there’s a section on misunderstood song lyrics, calling back to one of Kay’s most popular routines – and as funny as ever, because Kay takes so much pleasure in sharing with us these daft misapprehensions. After that, things get wilder, as all those TV themes and jingles return with bells and whistles added – and celebrity cameos, and hot air balloons, and our host dressed like Sergeant Pepper, living out his rockstar dreams.

By the end of Kay’s return to the stage after 12 years away, you can’t help but submit, not just to the spectacle, but to Kay’s commitment to celebrating his generational experience. Top Cat, the Bodyform advert, Blockbuster video: Kay doesn’t just joke about these Proustian madeleines of our shared youth – he fashions his whole show into a hymn to them. One can only imagine what anyone under 30 would think. But for Kay’s fans, it’s catnip. He returns to the stage older, as unapologetically traditional and even more nostalgic than ever, and delivers a show that’s pretty much irresistible.

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