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Date:
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Time:
7:30pm
Price:
£ 25.00 - £ 100.00
Suitable for 16+ must be accompanied

Top price is for a Box that seats 4. Boxes may offer a restricted view.

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Dave Spikey: Life in a Northern Town

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This show is all about Dave’s life in… well… a northern town, so no surprise there.

From his working-class childhood in the small, terraced houses round the mills in Bolton through passing his 11 plus and going to grammar school with an ambition to be a doctor, which was thwarted just after his O Levels.  Instead, at 16 getting a job in the Pathology department at Bolton General Hospital and working there for 32 years, ultimately as Chief Biomedical Scientist in Haematology, before throwing caution to the wind and leaving to pursue a career in comedy – as you do!

He will tell how he turned his microscope off for the last time on October 13th, 2000, and two weeks later found himself on a car park only half a mile down the road singing Walking on Sunshine in the pouring rain on a makeshift stage dressed as a giant berry; while a ten foot c*ck and balls slowly but surely inflated behind him. He wondered at that moment if he’d made the right decision. As it turns out, he had.

Harrogate Theatre

Oxford Street, Harrogate HG1 1QF

01423 502116

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Guidance

Age Recommendation

This performance is recommended for ages 16+ must be accompanied.

Trigger Warnings

No trigger warnings.
Date
Time
Price
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Date
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Time
7:30pm
Price
£25 - £100
Accessibility
Notes

For Wheelchair and Companion bookings contact us directly on 01423 502116

Top price is for a Box that seats 4. Boxes may offer a restricted view.

Captioned Captioned
Relaxed Relaxed
Audio Described Audio Described
British Sign Language British Sign Language Interpreted
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