Unbutton your cardigans and loosen your trouser belts for a right good barmy Lancashire flavoured night of unique laugh-out-loud comedy and stories, catchy choruses and joiney-in things, all served up by Buzz Hawkins (the man behind the Bradshaws) and Dom Collins (the man behind the bike shed).
BUZZ HAWKINS Known internationally for his storytelling and voicing of the award-winning radio comedies “”The Bradshaws”” (700 radio stories to-date) Buzz Hawkins has been writing comedy, stories and songs and composing music since he was a schoolboy.
He delivered his first epic “”Mary Hold The Candle While I Shave The Chicken’s Leg”” from the balcony of a friend’s flat in Hulme, Manchester, to two pals standing below. They clapped (a bit) and he’s never looked back.
Augmented with a few proper jobs Buzz has been a professional performer all his life. Born and raised in the hard terraced streets of Manchester and later on a council overspill estate, nevertheless Buzz Hawkins has managed to march through life with a smile – albeit sometimes a crooked one.
His stories and songs are powerfully honest and tell the little truths of ordinary life with the disarming humour and uncomfortable irony of the north of England.
DOM COLLINS Ancoats comedian Dom Collins spent 40 years as a postman pounding the streets of the area now known as “The Northern Quarter”, while watching the local characters in Tib street and surrounding areas and writing down anything that would get him a new comedy song.
Dom won the comedy songwriter of the year award back in 2013 with a song inspired by his son, called “Will you lend me a tenner please, dad’? He has since continued with this theme but now – as with his latest offering “It’s nice to have the grandkids round but it’s nicer when they go” – it’s the grandkids who are in the firing line.
