"The Prat Pack" Announce 2025 Tour
25-11-24 Four of the country’s greatest comedy entertainers will tour the UK in 2025 with their own special take on the Rat Pack - Bradley Walsh (The Chase, Gladiators), Brian Conley (The Brian Conley Show, EastEnders), Shane Richie (EastEnders, I’m a Celebrity…) and Joe Pasquale (I’m a Celebrity…, Dancing On Ice) are ‘The Prat Pack’. Inspired by the performances of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford, the UK stars are hitting the road (with Pasquale at the wheel of the tour bus). Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 29 November. [qt-button text="LISTEN LIVE" link="https://matineeradio.com/listen-live/" target="_blank" size="qt-btn-m" style="qt-btn-primary" alignment="aligncenter"]
Packed with laughs and songs, backed by a 15-piece band, the show will let the audience in on the banter between some of television’s best-loved stars - who are also very close friends.
Bradley Walsh says: “People are starved of our type of entertainment - songs, stories, jokes - and banter! It's an homage to the Rat Pack but brought up to the modern day, and it's a fantastic night. We are just thrilled. We all share the same dressing room - we're mates. We've known each other for so long now - and the show is about warmth and family - because we are. It's great, really great.”
Walsh was joined by his three mates and the Barry Robinson Big Band for a one-off show at the Palladium in London in March, and the idea was born for a full-on Prat Pack tour.
Fans can expect an evening packed with jokes that can only come from the chemistry of such seasoned entertainers. Walsh, Conley and Richie were all Pontins Bluecoats earlier in their careers and Pasquale was a Warner’s Greencoat, giving them all a grounding in variety before decades-long careers at the very top of entertainment.
Bradley Walsh says: “The show harks back to the 1950s and ‘60s - the Rat Pack era of Sinatra and the gang. The four of us have been mates for over 40 years now and we have a combined age of around 250 years, so a quarter of a millennium. The only time we were on the same show was in 1993 for the Royal Variety Performance. I've been desperate to put something together like this for so long.”
2025 Tour Dates
Sunday 27 April: Usher Hall, Edinburgh Monday 28 April: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow Tuesday 29 April: Empire, Sunderland Wednesday 30 April: City Hall, Hull Thursday 1 May: Victoria Theatre, Halifax Saturday 3 May: The Olympia, Liverpool Sunday 4 May: The Plaza, Stockport Monday 5 May: City Hall, Sheffield Tuesday 6 May: Victoria Hall, Stoke Wednesday 7 May: University of Wolverhampton at the Civic Hall Friday 9 May: ICC Wales, Newport Saturday 10 May: The Forum, Bath Monday 12 May: Milton Keynes Theatre Tuesday 13 May: De Montford Hall, Leicester Wednesday 14 May: Corn Exchange, Cambridge Friday 16 May: Fairfield Hall, Croydon Saturday 17 May: Congress Theatre, Eastbourne Monday 19 May: Guildhall, Portsmouth Tuesday 20 May: Princess Theatre, Torquay Wednesday 21 May: Pavilion, Bournemouth Thursday 22 May: New Theatre Oxford Friday 23 May: Cliffs Pavilion, Southend
Get more information from the official site HERE.