WIN tickets to Bottle Rocket's Edinburgh preview shows

Those jolly fellows at Bottle Rocket Comedy Club are putting on a fine selection of Edinburgh preview shows during June and July, and two lucky winners will each win a pair of tickets to one of those shows - how lovely.

Edinburgh-bound: Tom Rosenthal & Pat Cahill

Their full schedule of preview shows is as follows:

JUNE:
Thu 20th - Nick Helm, Daniel Simonsen @ Firebug
Wed 26th - Romesh Ranganathan, Brett Goldstein @ Firebug
Thu 27th - Tom Rosenthal, Pat Cahill @ Firebug

JULY:
Thu 4th - Carl Donnelly, Carey Marx @ Firebug
Thu 11th - Zoe Lyons, Chris Stokes @ Firebug
Thu 25th - Glenn Wool + Special Guest @ Firebug

Five Go Mad at The Y this Saturday

Still grinning smugly at their award for Best Promoter from this year's Comedy Festival, Bottle Rocket Comedy present their first awesome line-up of the year at the Y Theatre this Saturday.
Headlined by the fast-moving and unpredictable multi-award winner Terry Alderton, it's bound to be a cracking night with four other quality acts on the bill.
The first of these is Nick Helm, who epitomises the word 'unique' - let's just say I went to see him in February and he had me up on stage in a pink rain mac, ringing a little pink bell and tap-dancing on bubble wrap. Prepare to be shouted at...
Also appearing are Edinburgh award winner and burgeoning panel show star Roisin Conaty; Tom Rosenthal, who won Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year in 2011 and has since appeared in Channel 4's Friday Night Dinner, and last but not least Ed Gamble - the 'straight man' of comic duo Peacock and Gamble (and by straight man I mean mildly less juvenile, but still wonderfully silly nonetheless).
Tickets are £13 and you can get yours at http://www.leicesterymca.co.uk/y-theatre-whats-on-details.php?listing=1070

Need cheering up? Try hitting the Bottle (Rocket)

Hahaaa do you see what I did there? It sounded like I was advocating alcoholism as a cure for depression!. Outraaaaageous. I should be on Mock the Week or something.

Ahem... Continuing my round up of excellent upcoming comedy in Leicester, I now turn my attention to Bottle Rocket, Leicester's longest-running comedy club. Based at a number of venues around the city and beyond, they've been putting on fantastic shows since 2005 featuring many big names, and it seems this year is no exception.

Their next show is on Saturday April 14th at the Y Theatre, and features the rock-solid line-up of Rufus Hound, Nick Helm, Tom Rosenthal, Pat Cahill and Ed Gamble.

Upcoming shows this year feature the likes of amiable kiwi Jarred Christmas, Peep Show's very own sweet little songbird Isy Suttie, the weird and wonderful Phil Nichol, Show Me the Funny series winner Pat Monahan and storyteller-par-excellence Rob Rouse.

As always, check the website for info, tickets & associated shizzle http://brcomedy.com/events/

And don't forget to drink lots of booze.