Alan Partridge is doing a live show in Manchester as part of huge UK tour

Alan Partridge will be visiting Manchester next year as a part of his upcoming live tour. 

Steve Coogan will be reprising his role of the peculiar radio show host as he hits arenas up and down the UK – or the Scissored Isle, as he refers to it – next year, hot on the heels of the character’s return to the BBC in the second season of This Time With Alan Partridge, which aired in April.

He also hosted his own eighteen-part podcast, From The Oasthouse, last year, which saw the character discuss everyday topics from his beloved rural Norfolk.

Alan Partridge Live

More recently, his upcoming live show, called Stratagem, promises to ‘inform, educate and entertain in approximately equal measure’ – as Partridge attempts to offer a way forward for the country in the aftermath of Brexit and COVID.

In a clip announcing the show, Coogan, dressed as his comedy alter-ego, says ‘whether you’re a pro-European who’s had the jab, or a Brexiteer who doesn’t believe in vaccines’, he wants to ‘build a bridge’.

Stratagem is not the first time Partridge has been on stage, with him often forming part of Coogan’s live shows, standing alongside his broad repertoire of characters.

However, this show has been ‘devised, written, choreographed, performed, and funded by Alan Partridge’.

Partridge will be ‘not just treading the boards but pounding them, atop stages graced by such luminaries as Michael Ball, Jack Whitehall and Welsh rockers the Stereophonics’.

The tour is set to start in Belfast in April 2022 and will cover fourteen dates, ending at the O2 Arena in London the following month.

The Manchester AO Arena date is penciled in for May 12th, 2022.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Saturday May 29th online.