Catch the home-grown comedy mastermind and star of RTE’s The Panel, BBC’s The Blame Game, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and Channel 4’s Stand Up for the Week as he effortlessly mixes his distinct style of off-the-cuff audience banter with a selection of side-splitting tales.

With several platinum selling DVDs under his belt, Neil Delamere’s profile has risen considerably over recent years, making him one of the best loved comedians across both Irish television and radio.

2012 was a very busy year for Neil with a sell-out tour, receiving an IFTA award for his documentary The Only Viking in the Village, the first installment of Neil’s satirical comedy series The 2nd Republic on RTE Radio One and performances at both the prestigious Cat Laughs Comedy Festival and The Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Renowned for his astute observational anecdotes and trademark razor sharp quips, don’t miss the comedy powerhouse that is Neil Delamere in action. Tickets for Neil’s show are available now from Carlin Records, Sean Hollywood Arts Centre or the link below:

“INFURIATINGLY EXCELLENT…HE DELIVERS A SUPERB SET.” ★★★★★ Sunday Times

“WITH HIS LIGHTLY WORN INTELLIGENCE AND BOLD ARTICULACY, MAXWELL CAN AFFORD TO BE MODEST AND MAKE SEEMINGLY EXTREME STATEMENTS AND EXAGGERATIONS FOR COMIC EFFECT, THEN WIN YOU ROUND TO HIS WAY OF THINKING WITH LOGICAL ARGUMENT AND PERSUASIVE METAPHOR.” ★★★★★ Scotsman

“ONE OF THE MOST SKILFUL COMEDIANS OF HIS GENERATION…DELIVERED WITH A COMPELLING FUSION OF PASSION AND EASE.” ★★★★★ Telegraph

Andrew will perform in the intimate Sean Hollywood Arts Centre on Saturday the 9^th of March 2013. Tickets at £15 are onsale now from the link below or alternatively they will be available from both Carlin’s and Sean Hollywood Arts Centre from Friday 8^th of February 2013, we suggest that you get in there quick!

Jake’s television and radio credits include appearances on the award-winning ‘The Empire Laughs Back’ as well as guest spots on ‘Two Ceasefires and a Wedding’ and ‘Give My Head Peace’. More recently, Jake hosted and performed on the BBC NI stand up show ‘One Night Stand’ and is resident panelist on ‘The Blame Game’ on both TV and radio.

We are really looking forward to hosting Jake, and his selected special guests, and hope that you can make it along.

Blissfully at home in his own alluring genre of beautifully bruised romanticism, Duke Special inhabits a world unlike any other – a world filled with vaudevilleesque sensibility, sing-a-longs and addictive melodies. “My sound is a bit vagabondy, but pure and soulful too” he explains.

Duke Special‘s critically-acclaimed 2006 album ‘Songs From The Deep Forest’ achieved platinum status in Ireland and received plaudits across the board. His 2008 follow-up, ‘I Never Thought This Day Would Come’ was recorded between Wapping, London, Champaign, Illinois and Culleybackey, Northern Ireland, and was produced by long-time collaborator Paul Pilot and mixed by Nick Terry. This was a more immediate and visceral collection than its predecessor, with many moments of beauty and hope juxtaposed with a dark, brooding edge – the trademark twist of the Duke. It was an album for sleepwalkers, skeletons and gravediggers, for those who have fallen so far down they can taste the soil between their teeth.

Duke Special’s immense creative talents have seen him involved in projects as diverse as writing the theme tune for Sesame Tree (the Northern Ireland edition of Sesame Street where he also got to sing with The Muppets) to writing the music for and appearing in Deborah Warner’s critically acclaimed 2009 production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children at London’s National Theatre, starring Fiona Shaw in the lead role.

Joining Duke Special is Portadown-born singer and composer Katharine Phillippa. Already making sounds to swoon to, with the debut “Fallen” EP from the Queen’s University student full of sparse, graceful, elegantly pitched wonder. There’s a beautiful mimimal soulfulness to her “For the One I Love” track which augers well for what’s to come, and she is definitely one to watch out for in 2013.

Tickets at £14/12 conc are on-sale now from Carlin Records, Sean Hollywood Arts Centre and from the following link:

Stunning world-class stand up comedy from the star of TV’s Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Live at the Apollo, The Royal Variety Performance, Jason Manford’s Comedy Rocks, Just for Laughs and Best of Edinburgh Comedy Festival.

“Jimeon recalls the familiar at a fantastically silly level, boiling his audience down to a tear-filled, gibbering mess” Scotland on Sunday

‘’Inspire…Comedy so deceptively bright it almost blinds you…not so much stand-up comedian, more stand-up David Attenborough…this is comedy of the highest order’’-London Evening Standard

‘’It gets no better than this…brilliant…consummate comic. He’s not trying to preach to you, he won’t change your life but he will make you laugh a lot….Hilarious’’ Time Out

‘’A wicked self-deprecatory tone for an hour that has his victims doubled up in agonising laughter…exemplary stand-up comedy’’ Herald  

Jimeoin is loved by audiences throughout the world for his brilliant wit and his razor-sharp take on the absurdities of everyday life, and has even beaten the world’s scientists to the finish line by introducing the concept of the Speed of Cheese – the more useful and alternative measurement to the Speed of Light – into modern day vocabulary.

Having left his native Northern Irish town of Portstewart and settling in Australia over a decade ago, Jimeoin’s disarmingly relaxed, cheeky and sometimes surreal sense of humour has led to him performing sell-out tours to record-breaking audiences across the length and breadth of his adopted homeland. He has released several top-selling CD’S and DVD’s and has also built up a strong international following.

This is a show that is purely and simply about having a good time and a good old-fashioned laugh.

He has been an almost permanent fixture on Irish television for the last decade. From a long list of credits his highlights have included the five years he was the writer and presenter of, the highly regarded and critically acclaimed, Blizzard of Odd followed by a six year stint on the hugely successful The Panel for RTE.

On the BBC he is back as a regular panelist on topical news show The Blame Game and his own Great Unanswered Questions, which airs on television, BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio 4.

Colin has also acted in a wide range of productions from award winning BBC drama Holy Cross to the BAFTA nominated comedy series People Like Us.

“He is distinguishably good.. His delivery is immaculate, ultra-fast but never unintelligible. More infectiously, he has a knack of making each member of the audience feel like a friend, delivering pin-sharp observations in the form of shared confidences. Hilarious, although his mime piece illustrating an English person having sex could do untold damage to the nation’s sexual health.” – The Guardian

“Proving that swearing is both big and clever, Murphy paces the stage with great confidence in his material. With superb stage presence and upbeat enthusiasm, the show is a great presentation of all that is great and good in stand-up comedy.” – The Evening News

“Colin Murphy has a laugh-per-minute rating to which many higher-profile comics can only aspire. He is endlessly, genuinely, extremely funny. See it now because it is hard to believe he could get much better.” – The Scotsman 

Weaving a comedic web of observation about everything from fatherhood to his one armed chemistry teacher, with his 8 legs and hilarious hairy body Joe Rooney is both metaphorically and literally a comedy spider. Known as Father Damo from Father Ted and Timmy from Killinascully he is in fact Joe Rooney.

“Delivery plus content. He’s a smooth operator with an innate confidence…..” - Chortle

Very physical, totally unorthodox, and with a style so bizarre… Rooney is a refreshing change.”
- The Sunday Times

Joining Joe will be Pat Mc Donnell. From his role as Eoin McLove on Father Ted to his many hilarious characters on ‘Naked Camera’ and ‘Stew’, Patrick McDonnell is no stranger to our television screens. However, if you haven’t seen his unique brand of stand-up comedy, you’re truly missing out. He is also a key writer & character in David McSavage’s hilarious IFTA Nominated ‘The Savage Eye’ TV show.

“Splendidly original and a bit bizarre, he is the business” – The Sunday Times

“McDonnell’s stand-up routine is a delight, a cynical, angry beast of a set which never loses its comic edge” – The Scotsman

This is a night of craic you do not want to miss.

“James Blake, Jamie xx, Rustie … Two Inch Punch may have topped them all. Astoundingly good” – thisisfakediy.co.uk.

Two Inch Punch – Love you up

Lakker’s sound continues to develop further, from hauntingly beautiful melodies to dark foreboding techno. Most recently they have put out their debut vinyl release – Spider Silk – on Killekill Records, Berlin, receiving support from Surgeon, Lucy, Phon.O and Aphex Twin, who was dropping it alongside various unreleased Lakker tracks in his 2011 DJ sets.One of Ireland’s most consistent acts, Lakker’s Live AV show is one that you don’t want to miss.

Lakker – Spider Silk