FRESH from his sold-out, critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run and becoming the most viewed British comedian of all time on TikTok, world-famous prankster and Lee Nelson creator Simon Brodkin is back with an outrageous new stand-up show.
In Screwed Up Simon rips into celebrity culture, social media, the police, Putin, Prince Andrew and Jesus. Nothing is off limits in this hilarious show, including his own mental health, his family, his five arrests and how he once found himself at an underground sex party
Simon will be performing at Oldham Coliseum on March 9. Tickets are priced at £23.50 and can be bought at: https://www.coliseum.org.uk/spektrix/spektrix-events/simon-brodkin-screwed-up
No one cares whoever he’s supposed to be ?
This is just getting silly, The Coliseum is finally being wound up, the funding ends at the end of March, but they’ve also been awarded an extra £350,000 to cover freelance contracts and other financial comments and that’s it.
There are are around 250,000 people living in Oldham and only around 400 turned up for the meeting organized by Equity and yet they somehow still expect the town to fork out ever more money for ever less by way of a return, not artistically and not commercially.
ACE is providing £360k of support not Oldhamers, and rightly so, so those people aren’t out of pocket by the closure of the Coli. The mismanagement of this funding should be scrutinised and Oldham Council need to be completely transparent with where the ACE funding ends up being spent.
It’s a real shame that Oldham is losing the Coli and whilst the range of shows they put on might not appeal to you, there are some people who care about them.
The usual cheap and glib sophistry, premised on the conviction that there is always an inexhaustible pot of money, “somewhere,” that, “we’re,” entitled to because we enjoy going to the theater.
There are 4 points.
1. OMBC has already squandered several million pounds on planning a new theater for The Coliseum without getting any useful return.
2. Whist the money to wind up The Coliseum may not have come directly from OMBC nonetheless it’s still come out of the public purse and could have been used far better and more effectively.
3. There are a number of other theaters and production companies, (both amateur and professional,) within easy and convenient distance of Oldham and within Oldham itself that people who enjoy gong to theater can still go to.
4. There have been over 1500 redundancies in retail alone, for example since Christmas and non of them are getting a £350,000 safety net to help them out whilst they find a new job.
To most people in Oldham, more than anything else a lot of the people campaigning for, “our,” Coliseum sound too much like a bunch of spoiled children who aren’t getting their own way ?
I can see you’ve called the Coli seedy on the MEN site under articles about this. So that’s the level you’re at, I won’t engage further with you on this matter
If in doubt, tell the truth ?
Mark Twain
What a barrel of laughs you are getting your kicks from the closure of a local theatre!