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Peter Kay

Peter Kay

Tue 1 Dec - Thu 31 Dec

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The O2 Arena

Peter Kay

See Peter Kay at The O2 Arena with reserved seating and pre-show dining.

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Clients praised exceptional service, premium seating, and seamless event coordination.

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Peter Kay
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The O2 Arena

Clients praised exceptional service, premium seating, and seamless event coordination.

Peter Kay
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The O2 Arena

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Had an amazing experience through this…

Had an amazing experience through this company which was a lovely gift for my 50th birthday. They took care of me 100% the box where we were seated was spectacular views to see Peter Kay. The meal that went with the show was just wonderful and the service was 2nd to none. Thank you again for all your help and for making this, event a lifetime memory . Special thanks to Chloé and Megan for the booking.

Rachel03 Jun 2024

Went to see Mo Gilligan at the O2 and…

Went to see Mo Gilligan at the O2 and could not believe the level of service I received! The O2 restaurants are super super busy on the night of events but due to our reservation we skipped the queues, had a lovely 3 course meal in the Gaucho and even had time to have a few drinks in the Amex lounge before the show and experience the live band. The allocation of our Box was amazing, 5/5 would definitely recommend big cheers Dan for sorting us out, looking forward to Peter Kay

Reece Anderson30 Jan 2023

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The history of Peter Kay

The history of

Peter Kay

Peter Kay is, by any reasonable measure, the most commercially successful stand-up comedian Britain has ever produced. Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, in 1973, he turned the everyday absurdities of northern working-class life into arena-filling gold. His career spans stand-up, sitcom, charity singles, and a record-breaking comeback tour that proved five years away from the spotlight had done nothing to diminish his pull.

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I'm not a celebrity. I'm just a bloke from Bolton who tells jokes.
Peter KayComedian and Actor
A microphone on a stand in front of a brick wall at a comedy club
It's good to be back.
Peter KayOpening line, Better Late Than Never Tour, 2022
1996

A Bolton lad wins a talent show and the comedy circuit takes notice.

A microphone on a stand in front of a brick wall at a comedy club

Bolton's brightest student walked into a talent competition and walked out with the comedy circuit's full attention.

After studying HND Media Performance at the University of Salford, Peter Kay entered and won the North West Comedian of the Year competition in 1996. A year later, he reached the final of the prestigious So You Think You're Funny? award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and in 1997 won Channel 4's So You Think You're Funny? competition outright. The comedy circuit had a new name to watch.

1998

The Perrier nomination and a BAFTA-winning debut.

Microphone on a comedy stage under spotlight

Six mockumentary episodes set in Bolton. One BAFTA. Northern life had never looked so quietly extraordinary.

Kay was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award at Edinburgh in 1998, cementing his reputation as one of the most exciting new acts in British comedy. The following year, Channel 4 commissioned That Peter Kay Thing, a series of six mockumentary episodes set in Bolton. It won a BAFTA and introduced a wider audience to Kay's gift for observational comedy rooted in the mundane details of northern life.

2001

Phoenix Nights lights up Channel 4.

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Twelve episodes, one fictional Bolton social club, and a wheelchair-bound optimist the whole nation adopted as their own.

Phoenix Nights, co-written with Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice, debuted on Channel 4 in January 2001. Set in a fictional Bolton social club, the sitcom ran for two series and twelve episodes, earning a devoted following. Kay played Brian Potter, the wheelchair-bound club owner whose relentless optimism in the face of disaster became one of British comedy's most beloved characters. A second series followed in 2002.

2004

The first arena tour smashes records.

Microphone on a foggy stage with dramatic lighting

A comedy DVD outsold every stand-up release in British history; Kay had rewritten the rulebook entirely.

Kay's Mum Wants a Bungalow Tour ran from 2002 to 2003, but it was the subsequent live DVD release in 2004 that broke records. Peter Kay: Live at the Bolton Albert Halls became the best-selling stand-up comedy DVD in UK history at the time. The same year saw Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, a Phoenix Nights spin-off, air on Channel 4. Kay was now operating at a scale no British comedian had managed before.

2010

Over a million tickets sold in a single day.

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A million tickets gone on day one; Peter Kay did not merely sell out arenas, he rewrote the record books.

When tickets went on sale for Kay's 2010-11 Tour That Doesn't Tour Tour... Now On Tour, the demand was staggering. Over a million tickets sold on the first day of release, entering the Guinness World Records for the most tickets sold for a stand-up comedy tour. The tour ultimately played to over 1.2 million people across arenas in the UK and Ireland.

2010

Charity single reaches Christmas number one.

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Three charity singles across five years, though only the 2010 animated effort was confirmed number one; Kay's pop culture reach remained genuinely remarkable.

Kay's Comic Relief single, a cover of '(Is This the Way to) Amarillo' featuring Tony Christie, had already been a massive hit in 2005, raising millions for charity. In 2009, he teamed up with Susan Boyle for a Children in Need single. Then in 2010, his animated series Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band produced another charity number one. Kay's ability to cross over from comedy into mainstream pop culture was unmatched.

2017

A sold-out tour is cancelled and Kay disappears from public life.

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Five years of silence turned absence into the loudest statement of his career.

In November 2017, Kay announced a massive new arena tour, with dates selling out almost instantly. Then, just weeks later, he cancelled all dates citing "unforeseen family circumstances." He withdrew entirely from public life. No interviews, no social media, no appearances. For five years, one of Britain's biggest entertainers simply vanished. The silence only intensified public curiosity and affection.

2022

The comeback. Again, records fall.

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Over 100 tour dates, a crashed ticketing system, and his own world record broken. Kay simply rewrote the rulebook twice.

In November 2022, Kay announced his Better Late Than Never tour. Tickets sold at a pace that crashed multiple booking websites. The initial run of dates expanded repeatedly, eventually stretching to over 100 shows across the UK and Ireland, running from December 2022 well into 2025. It became the biggest-selling comedy tour in history, surpassing his own previous records. The O2 Arena in London alone hosted multiple sold-out nights.

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