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Kevin Bridges adds dates to The Brand New Tour

The tour has got even bigger with more UK dates.

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Glasgow based comedian Kevin Bridges has added four more dates to his already huge run of UK headline shows, named The Brand New Tour.

He’ll now also be appearing on the following dates:

6 September 2018 – Eventim Apollo Hammersmith, London 10 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 15 December 2018 – AECC Arena, Aberdeen 16 December 2018 – AECC Arena, Aderdeen

Tickets for the new dates will be available through a Ticketmaster presale from 10:00 on Tuesday 6 February 2018.

Bridges broke box office records when his 2015 tour A Whole Different Story went on sale at the of 2014, taking home a Ticketmaster award for the Fastest Selling Ticket of the year.

Bridges sold over 500,000 tickets across 145 live dates, including 16 nights at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow. Having recorded the show to DVD at the time, he now prepares for his biggest tour to date.

His comedy has been praised as edgy yet easy-going. The Mail On Sunday declared “an edge seldom found in mainstream comics,” with The Evening Standard adding: “His comedy style is so instinctive he makes the terrifying tough toil of stand-up resemble a piece of cake.”

Kevin Bridges continues to incite huge laughs with TV appearances on the likes of Mock The Week and Would I Lie To You? .

The Brand New Tour sees him perform shows across the country, kicking off in Bristol on the 23 August 2018, and running through to the into December 2018.

Here are those dates in full as they stand:

23 August 2018 – Hippodrome, Bristol 24 August 2018 – Hippodrome, Bristol 25 August 2018 – Hippodrome, Bristol 28 August 2018 – City Hall, Newcastle 29 August 2018 – City Hall, Newcastle 30 August 2018 – City Hall, Newcastle 31 August 2018 – City Hall, Newcastle 1 September 2018 – City Hall, Newcastle 6 September 2018 – Eventim Apollo, London 7 September 2018 – Eventim Apollo, London 8 September 2018 – Eventim Apollo, London 9 September 2018 – Eventim Apollo, London 13 September 2018 – Eventim Apollo, London 14 September 2018 – Eventim Apollo, London 15 September 2018 – Eventim Apollo, London 19 September 2018 – Hippodrome, Birmingham 20 September 2018 – Hippodrome, Birmingham 21 September 2018 – Hippodrome, Birmingham 22 September 2018 – Hippodrome, Birmingham 26 September 2018 – Playhouse, Edinburgh 27 September 2018 – Playhouse, Edinburgh 28 September 2018 – Playhouse, Edinburgh 29 September 2018 – Playhouse, Edinburgh 30 September 2018 – Playhouse, Edinburgh 4 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 5 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 6 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 7 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 10 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 11 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 12 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 13 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 14 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 17 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 18 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 19 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 20 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 21 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 24 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 25 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 26 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 27 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 28 October 2018 – The SSE Hydro, Glasgow 7 November 2018 – SSE Arena, Belfast 8 November 2018 – SSE Arena, Belfast 9 November 2018 – SSE Arena, Belfast 10 November 2018 – SSE Arena, Belfast 11 November 2018 – SSE Arena, Belfast 14 November 2018 – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton 15 November 2018 – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton 16 November 2018 – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff 17 November 2018 – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff 21 November 2018 – O2 Apollo, Manchester 22 November 2018 – O2 Apollo, Manchester 23 November 2018 – O2 Apollo, Manchester 24 November 2018 – O2 Apollo, Manchester 25 November 2018 – O2 Apollo, Manchester 28 November 2018 – Brighton Dome, Brighton 29 November 2018 – Brighton Dome, Brighton 30 November 2018 – De Montfort Hall, Leicester 1 December 2018 – De Montfort Hall, Leicester 4 December 2018 – Empire, Liverpool 5 December 2018 – Empire, Liverpool 7 December 2018 – Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham 8 December 2018 – Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham 15 December 2018 – AECC Arena, Aberdeen 16 December 2018 – AECC Arena, Aberdeen

Kevin Bridges tickets are available now through Ticketmaster.co.uk . Tickets for the newly added dates go on presale from 10:00 on Tuesday 6 February 2018 through here .

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Scottish wit Kevin Bridges will go back on the road next year with The Brand New Tour, including two dates in Nottingham.

The TV regular will play the Royal Concert Hall on Friday and Saturday, December 7 and 8, 2018.

Tickets will go on general sale at 10am tomorrow (Friday, November 24) from Ticketmaster priced at £30 (plus booking fee).

He said: "It’s been three years since my last tour, three tough years of watching the world fall apart thus, I’ve decided, I need to get out of the house more and lend a hand in saving it.

"With amusing anecdotes and witty observations I’m sure I can save the world or at least provide a decent enough night out.

"We’ll see. I’ll catch you there folks."

Bridges has broken a number of box office records over the years. When his 2015 tour A Whole Different Story went on sale at the end of 2014 it won awards from both Ticketmaster and Ents24 for the Fastest Selling Comedy Ticket of the year. The tour saw him sell over 500,000 tickets across 145 dates.

His 2012 tour, Kevin Bridges – The Story Continues… shifted 45,000 tickets in one day.

His TV work includes documentaries such as What’s The Story’? and What’s The Story Referendum Special’,a s well as specials on the Commonwealth Games and the Scottish Referendum.

He's also a regular on panel shows Have I Got News For You’? , Would I Lie To You?, Mock The Week, 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Last Leg and A League Of Their Own.

The 28-year-old also published an autobiography, We Need To Talk About… Kevin Bridges’ in 2014.

This year he has performed shows in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Dubai, as well as The Hunter Foundation’s charity dinner in Edinburgh for former US President Barack Obama.

Tickets are available in advance right now through a venue pre-sale by calling 0115 989 5555 and quoting BRIDGES. The booking fee is £3.

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Kevin Bridges set for tour in 2018 with dates in Leicester, Nottingham and Birmingham

Hailed as Scotland’s biggest comedy export, the funnyman will be embarking on his biggest tour to date

• 09:18, 24 NOV 2017
• Updated 17:33, 24 NOV 2017

Kevin Bridges is set for a brand-new tour next year with dates around the UK including dates in theatres in Birmingham, Nottingham and Leicester.

Tickets go on sale at 10am today, Friday November 24 and are available by following the link here .

Hailed as Scotland's biggest comedy export, the funnyman will be embarking on his biggest tour to date, The Brand New Tour which will see Kevin perform at some of the finest venues across the UK and Ireland from August 2018, including four nights at London's Hammersmith Apollo, as well as making a momentous return to his hometown with six nights at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow. More dates will be announced over the coming months.

Kevin said: "I'm delighted to announce that I will be back on the road in 2018. It's been three years since my last tour, three tough years of watching the world fall apart thus, I've decided, I need to get out of the house more and lend a hand in saving it.

"With amusing anecdotes and witty observations I'm sure I can save the world or at least provide a decent enough night out. We’ll see. I’ll catch you there folks. Yaldy!"

The comedian is no stranger to breaking box office records. When his 2015 tour A Whole Different Story went on sale at the end of 2014 it won awards from both Ticketmaster and Ents24 for the Fastest Selling Comedy Ticket of the year.

The tour saw him sell more than 500,000 tickets across 145 dates, including an incredible 16 nights at The Hydro in Glasgow. His 2012 tour, Kevin Bridges – The Story Continues…also smashed box office records selling a staggering 45,000 tickets in one day and went on to sell-out an incredible nine-show run at the Glasgow SECC Arena as part of the 136 date tour.

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Kevin has previously hosted much-lauded documentaries for BBC One including ' Kevin Bridges - What's The Story' in 2012, followed by 'Kevin Bridges – What's The Story Referendum Special' in 2014. In 2014 Kevin also hosted two BBC One stand-up specials on the Commonwealth Games and the Scottish Referendum.

Other recent notable TV appearances include BBC One's Have I Got News For You and Would I Lie To You?, BBC Two's Mock The Week, Channel 4's 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Last Leg and Sky One's A League Of Their Own'.

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Kevin Bridges brings The Overdue Catch-Up to cinemas nationwide

Following the success of his sold-out tour, award-winning comedian Kevin Bridges brings his critically acclaimed show, The Overdue Catch-Up, to cinemas for the first time from 17 November 2023. The release features brand-new material and exclusive behind the scenes access to Kevin on tour.

Filmed live from the Cork Opera House, Ireland, his stand-up special welcomes audiences into the mind of one of the sharpest comedy talents of a generation. Critics hail Kevin as ‘on his way to becoming a comedy great’ (The Times), ‘there aren’t many safer bets in the UK stand up scene’ (The Telegraph) and ‘a barnstorming show’ (The List).

‘Remember when you left the cinema as a kid, wanting to trade memories of all the good bits you’d seen only moments before? I felt just like that leaving Kevin Bridges’s glorious latest stand-up show’ – The Times

Speaking about the release, Bridges said: ‘Following the announcements that Beyonce and Taylor Swift are releasing their live concerts in the cinemas I felt it was only natural I followed suit. I’m excited to bring my show to the big screen. I love a day / night at the Pictures so I’m delighted that people can come out to their local cinema and have a laugh at the new show’.

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Following the success of his sold-out tour, award-winning comedian Kevin Bridges brings his critically acclaimed show, The Overdue Catch-up, to cinemas for the first time from 17 November 2023. The release features brand-new material and exclusive behind the scenes access to Kevin on tour.

Filmed live from the Cork Opera House, Ireland, his stand up special ( Kevin Bridges: The Overdue Catch-up) welcomes audiences into the mind of one of the sharpest comedy talents of a generation. Critics hail Kevin as ‘ on his way to becoming a comedy great” (The Times), ‘ there aren’t many safer bets in the UK stand up scene’ (The Telegraph ) and ‘ a barnstorming show’ (The List ).

“ Remember when you left the cinema as a kid, wanting to trade memories of all the good bits you’d seen only moments before? I felt just like that leaving Kevin Bridges’s glorious latest stand-up show ” (The Times)

Speaking about the release, Bridges said: “ Following the announcements that Beyonce and Taylor Swift are releasing their live concerts in the cinemas I felt it was only natural I followed suit. I’m excited to bring my show to the big screen. I love a day / night at the Pictures so I’m delighted that people can come out to their local cinema and have a laugh at the new show”.

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Bridges has previously broken box office records with his last two tours,  Brand New (2018) and  A Whole Different Story  (2015) going on to win awards from Ticketmaster and Ents24 for Fastest Selling Ticket of the Year.? He was also crowned by Ticketmaster fans as UK's Ticket of the Year in 2018.

Kevin' s last two tours have accumulated just under 1,000,000 tickets sold across the world including record 35 sold-out-shows at Glasgow's iconic Hydro, awarding him the most shows at that venue for one artist.

Don't miss the chance to catch one of the most astute observational comedians around today at the top of his game.

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Jewel Has Finally Found True Love. And You'll Be Surprised Who It Is (Exclusive)

In a candid interview, the singer and activist opens up about healing from an abusive childhood and painful divorce through motherhood and mental health advocacy

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Growing up Jewel felt unworthy of love.

And as she made her way into adulthood, the '90s folk icon (born Jewel Kilcher) had deep scars that she didn't dare uncover — especially for herself to see. Each day was a challenge as she battled her way through a fog of physical and emotional abuse.

No one had taught the four-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, now 49, to address her childhood trauma, and as she found success in the music industry, she struggled to untangle her past from her present.

Moments before this interview, she had been trying on a dazzling Iris van Herpen gown to wear to the May 3 VIP opening of her new exhibit, The Portal: An Art Experience by Jewel , at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

"It's not that I was sitting there thinking of taking my own life," Jewel, wrapped in a white bathrobe, tells PEOPLE over Zoom from Bentonville, Ark.

"I never had a psychotic break," she continues. "[But] I was thinking, 'Is this tenable?' If this is the rest of my life... Who wants that?"

When the singer was 8, her mother, Lenedra Carroll, left the family, and Jewel and her two brothers were raised by their father Atz Kilcher (a star on Discovery's Alaska: The Last Frontier) on their 300-acre ranch in Homer, Alaska.

"I grew up in a very traditional Mormon family. But everything changed when my mom left. My dad started drinking and being physically abusive, so like hitting us, and that's what caused me to move out," says the star, who previously detailed her father's abuse in her 2015 memoir. "He was in a lot of rage and a lot of yelling."

Outside of her family home, she also faced sexual harassment from a young age. At 8 years old, she would have men tell her, "Call me when you're 16. You're going to be a great f---," she recalls. Another time, a man slammed her against a wall after her performance at a local bar when she was 12, demanding to know if she had "cheated" on him, she says.

After years of mistreatment she was no longer willing to put up with Atz's abuse, and Jewel — who opened up to PEOPLE in 2020 about reconciling with her father , a Vietnam veteran who developed PTSD, after he got sober in his 60s — moved off her family's homestead and into her own cabin at 15, when she began shoplifting to survive.

Then in 1993 she moved to San Diego, where she worked at a computer warehouse to pay the bills while pursuing her music career. Her boss fired her after she turned down his advances, and she was left broke and homeless after her car was stolen.

"It was a violent era, but the Hells Angels actually were very protective over me. But there's still violence," recalls Jewel, who suffered from anxiety and panic attacks, kidney problems and agoraphobia (an intense fear of leaving the house alone or of being in crowded places). "It was men in positions of power from TV networks to record labels, and women faced it every day."

The harassment only worsened when her music career began taking off, and today she throws her support behind younger female artists to protect them against the abuse she endured.

A few weeks ago on the final night of her Madison Square Garden Guts world tour show on April 9, Olivia Rodrigo welcomed Jewel onstage for a duet of her 1995 hit "You Were Meant for Me." The two women strummed their guitars and took turns singing the song's lyrics before joining together in harmony for the chorus. "Dreams last so long, even after you're gone / I know that you love me," they sang.

"It is so neat to see Gen Z fighting the good fight, wanting to stand up for things... and that I can be there for them. I was humiliated and teased. I was publicly ridiculed for being different and speaking my values and for needing to heal," she says. "That's what's so touching about Olivia because I'm glad to be a role model — not just for singing and writing — but for the type of human I fought to be."

Jewel met her ex-boyfriend Sean Penn in 1995, the same year her debut album Pieces of You was released. She caught the actor's attention with her first TV appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien .

Back in her hometown one day during a break from the road, she got an unexpected call.

"My dad came to find me, saying, 'Jewel, you must be getting some kooky fans out there in the Lower 48. Some guy just prank-called and said he was Sean Penn,'" she wrote in her memoir. She eventually wrote a song, "Emily," for his 1995 film The Crossing Guard , and they went on to have a short-lived romance.

Despite being so new in the business, Jewel knew she wanted to keep the relationship under wraps. 

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"Even when I was dating Sean really early on, nobody knew I was dating him. I wouldn't do a red carpet with him. I was just very prideful," she reflects. "I wasn't famous and my album was flopping, like failing spectacularly. I remember going to the Venice Film Festival with him, and I could have done the red carpet and received a lot of media attention."

"People would've said, 'Who is this girl?' and I could have plugged my album. But I'd rather be unknown the rest of my life than have that be the way the world was introduced to me," she says. "I don't need fame that badly. I need to be fulfilled. I need to be happy. I need to be a songwriter. I wasn't thirsty in that way."

Jewel wanted people to know her for her heart, her music and her authenticity — not for the man by her side. 

Once she hit it big, she faced other cruelties. "I was called the chubby Renée Zellweger," she recalls. The humiliation fueled her eating disorder , which started at age 16. "I was bulimic," she continues. "I was at a weight I didn't like. I didn't know how to fix it other than love myself. I was trying to love what I was eating, not lose more weight or get worse."

She took years off following her critically acclaimed 1998 album Spirit, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard charts. Stepping away at the time was an "act of power," she says now.

"I had to learn how to handle the male ego and turn them down in a way that didn't cost me in the workplace. It's awful. Nobody should have to learn that, and sometimes it didn't work," she says.

A year later she met rodeo star Ty Murray, and after nearly a decade together they tied the knot in the Bahamas. In July 2014 the couple announced their divorce , and the singer says she fell into a major depression while navigating being a single mom to their son Kase, 12.

"The divorce wasn't easy . Choosing not to work for seven years wasn't easy. Choosing to build something else other than music wasn't easy. Insisting that I had to change and grow so I could be the most available mom, those were all things that I lived privately, and this was a way of honoring myself too," Jewel says. "I'm a lot more present now. I'm a present mom, which I worked hard on. It wasn't easy in the beginning to be present. Divorces... you have so much grief, and it's hard. Not wanting to let go of that dream kept me in a marriage much longer than I probably should have."

She detailed her heartbreak on the song "Love Used to Be" (off her twelfth studio album Picking Up the Pieces ). "It's a funeral song," she adds, admitting that she cries every time she sings it.

Over the years Jewel sought counseling and studied wellness. She began to meditate and journal, chronicling her sorrow.

In her 30s she discovered her mother, who used to manage her career, embezzled over $100 million from her, she alleged on a 2023 episode of the Verywell Mind Podcast . "Our relationship messed with my head so much. It was so much psychological abuse that I was afraid to let a therapist get close to me," she says. "But I don't personally believe in forgiveness. I don't have to have a relationship with my mom to heal. I don't have to hear her say 'I'm sorry.' Not all of us get the storybook ending, and that's OK. We can still heal." (They haven't spoken since 2002.)

After her divorce, Jewel began seeing a therapist again — and this time it helped. Still, she felt uninspired and beaten down by life. So she did what she knew best: create change for herself. 

Her new, self-curated 90-minute immersive art exhibit (open to the public from May 4 to July 28) reflects the growth and peace she's found. 

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For Jewel, the experience represents the "three spheres" of existence: the inner realm, which is our thoughts and emotions; the physical realm, which includes our jobs, finances, families and nature; and the unseen realm, which humans have been trying to define since the dawn of time.

"For me, mental health and emotional well-being is a side effect of our three spheres working in harmony. And suffering is a side effect if they aren't," says the singer, who's been a staunch advocate for mental wellness through her nonprofit, the Inspiring Children Foundation , and Innerworld , a virtual reality-based wellness center where people can use an anonymous avatar to access free mental health tools in a safe space.

She hopes fans visiting the exhibit this summer will take the time to learn about "what's working and what isn't" in their lives. "It's about being curious about ourselves and discovery," she says. "It's about being aware of our three realms and being committed that we can change it and have input in it."

In the evening a 200-piece drone light show, choreographed by Jewel and set to her new song "The Portal," will cap off the experience.

While each of the 10 pieces she selected for the exhibit has personal meaning to her, the most moving for her is an oil painting she created of her son specifically for the experience.

"Mothering is not given much credit in this world, or celebrated," she says. Reflecting on the creation process, Jewel grows emotional.

"It's also a way for me to deal with my feelings about my son getting older and the transitions that we are both going to be making in our lives," she says, crying. "It was a way to honor him with every single brushstroke. I just loved painting the curve of his face."

What does her son think of his famous mom? Jewel likes to think Kase would say their relationship is filled with laughter. "We're very, very, very silly. We're ridiculous and wrestle a lot," she says. "I didn't think that's the type of mom I'd be, but we do play fight every day, and it's so funny."

Motherhood has helped keep her grounded, and for her, being a parent is about explaining life and teaching her child: "I'm the kind of mom that wants to explain probably too much. That might be on the negative list, but that's the kind of mom I am. I want to break things down. I want to help him understand. And I hope I'm a good listener."

Indeed, guiding the next generation with her own experiences and speaking candidly about mental health has been a key way for Jewel to process her own trauma.

And today the star says she's never been happier. "I'm more inspired now than I've ever been in my life. The most since I was like 19 or 20 years old," she says, beaming.

And like her younger self — the one who dated Sean Penn all those years ago — it's clear Jewel still refuses to be defined by anyone else.

Asked about the rumors she's in a relationship with Kevin Costner , she shuts down the notion that a man has anything to do with where she is in life. "I found love, and I'm not talking about Kevin's. I'm so happy, irrelevant of a man. It has nothing to do with being in a relationship or not being in one," she says, declining to answer questions about the actor.

"I'm just happy ," she emphasizes, speaking with a keen understanding that everyone wants to know about her love life .

The love she's willing to share is the one she's found within herself — one she's been searching for her whole life. "I'm good," she says.

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