Miles Jupp at Nottingham Racecourse Colwick Park

Date: Mon 24th Mar
Time: 19:30

RBM is delighted to announce that Miles Jupp’s highly acclaimed show - On I Bang - will continue to the UK into 2025, due to high demand following a complete sellout run earlier this year.

Since Miles’ previous tour finished at The London Palladium in 2017, he has played Emperor Francis I in Ridley Scott’s new film Napoleon, a man who loses a battle, and consequently rather a lot of territory, in spectacular fashion. He’s been in The Full Monty on Disney Plus, The Durrells and Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? on ITV, as well as a heap of episodes of Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Have I Got News For You. He’s made an award-winning radio series and he’s published a novel.

Yet one sunny day in the middle of all this, he suddenly suffered a brain seizure. This led to the discovery of a tumour the size of a cherry tomato, and a rather pressing need to undergo major neurosurgery. Obviously, one doesn’t wish to make a big deal of it, but the experience has left him with a story to tell and a few things that he’d like to share with the room. So that’s exactly what he’s doing in his new show On I Bang – a tale about surprise, fear, luck, love and qualified medical practitioners.  

Miles previous tours include the acclaimed Fibber In The Heat, Miles Jupp is The Chap You’re Thinking Of and Songs Of Freedom.

As an actor, comedian and writer, Miles’ work spans across theatre, film, TV, radio, books and stand up. He recently starred in the Disney+ series The Full Monty and can soon be seen in the Belgravia sequel. 
 
Other recent credits include Hugh Laurie’s ITV mini series Why Didn’t They Ask Evans, SAS: Rogue Heroes, Trigger Point, A Very British Scandal and Professor T. Further television credits: Sex Education, Grantchester, The Crown, The Durrells, Rev., A Young Doctor’s Notebook and The Thick Of It.
 
Miles’ film credits include: Napoleon, Misbehaviour, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Rosewater, The Monuments Men, The Riot Club, The Look Of Love and Greed. 
 
Theatre credits include People, Rules For Living (National Theatre), The Way Of The World (Northampton Royal Theatre), A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg (Glasgow Citizens), Neville’s Island (West End). Miles also starred in one-man play entitled The Life I Lead which toured around the UK and went into Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End. 
 
Miles has contributed to a number of BBC Radio 4 shows including The News Quiz, which he hosted for four years, his own sketch series Whatever Next and In And Out Of The Kitchen, which he wrote and created. He is the author of three books, the most recent of which is a novel, History.

Miles also co-hosts the podcast Middle Please, Umpire alongside England’s 97mph World Cup-winning bowler Mark Wood. Together they share a highly entertaining chat on their mutual love of cricket from their very different vantage points. They are often joined by some great guests as well.


TOUR SCHEDULE:

2025:

JANUARY:

Wednesday 8 January Corsham, Pound Arts (warm up)
Thursday 9 January Corsham, Pound Arts (warm up)
Friday 10 January Milford Haven, Torch Theatre
Monday 13 January Lowther, Pavilion
Tuesday 14 January Lancaster, Grand
Wednesday 15 January Chorley, Theatre
Thursday 16 January Kendal, Brewery Arts
Wednesday 22 January Maidstone, Hazlitt
Thursday 23 January Henley, Kenton Theatre
Friday 24 January Basingstoke, Haymarket Theatre
Wednesday 29 January Carlisle, Fire Station
Thursday 30 January Harrogate, Theatre

FEBRUARY:

Wednesday 5 February Durham, Gala Theatre
Thursday 6 February Southport, Atkinson Theatre
Monday 10 February Leicester, Little Theatre
Tuesday 11 February High Wycombe, Wycombe Swan Theatre
Wednesday 12 February Wellingborough, Castle Theatre
Thursday 13 February Spalding, South Holland Centre
17 February Scarborough, Stephen Joseph Theatre
18 February Doncaster, Cast
19 February Peterborough, Key Theatre
20 February Exeter, Northcott

MARCH:

Thursday 6 March Theatr Brycheiniog
Friday 7 March Aberystwyth, Arts Centre
Monday 10 March London, Leicester Square Theatre
Wednesday 12 March Salisbury, Playhouse
Thursday 13 March Newbury, Corn Exchange
Monday 17 March Faversham, The Alex
Tuesday 18 March Chelmsford, Theatre
Thursday 20 March Eastleigh, The Point
Monday 24 March Nottingham, Playhouse
Tuesday 25 March Dorking, Halls
Wednesday 26 March Norwich, Theatre Royal



SYNDICATED INTERVIEW WITH MILES:

A lot has happened to Miles since his last tour finished at The London Palladium in 2017. He has acted in series including The Full Monty, Trigger Point, The Durrells and Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? In comedy mode the former host of The News Quiz has appeared on shows including on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Have I Got News For You.

But most notably, he suffered a brain seizure in August 2021 and had major neurosurgery. This is the subject of On I Bang – finding the funny side to a tale of surprise, fear, luck, love and qualified medical practitioners.


Hi Miles, you are looking very well.

My skull probably has a groove in it, but it's at the back, I can't see it. I feel quite quite jolly.

This major life event in 2021 forms the basis of your new show On I Bang. Without any spoilers what happened?

Well, the big spoiler is I survived. I had a brain seizure, which was actually quite lucky. It meant I was taken to hospital where they ran tests. So having the seizure was an element of fortune because it's like a big helpful sign that something is up. And that something was a brain tumour the size of a cherry tomato, which had to be removed.

What were you doing when it happened?

I was filming the ITV series Trigger Point. I'd just finished my scene. Ludicrously my character, a radio host, is speaking and then a bomb goes off roughly when it felt like a bomb had gone off in my own head. Luckily I was in a work environment which meant there was a medic on the set so they wrestled me into the appropriate position. It was only a day's work, but taking that job might have saved my life.

Was it completely unexpected?

The tumour was there but I was totally unaware of it. They can't date it. It's not like trees or fossils.

The swelling of the tumour causes the pressure. And it's the pressure that eventually caused the seizure. It could have happened at any time, but until about five minutes before, there was nothing. I just started feeling very dizzy very quickly and there was some flashing of lights. I remember falling forward and then some people holding me down and then it's just like a series of moments of consciousness. Next time I was in an ambulance and then I was in A&E at West Middlesex Hospital.

Has it changed your outlook on life?

It's very good for putting things in perspective. Not that I don't moan about all the pathetic things other people moan about as well. But after a while, you can go, oh, I've got the freedom to moan about it. You just think about things in a different way.

It must have been very worrying for your family.

I could be lying in a hospital bed plugged into stuff and actually feeling fine, whereas from their point of view it's 'oh no, he's lying in a hospital bed with lots of stuff plugged into him.' And they got the call from the programme's line producer to say I was on my way to hospital. So that's quite as a shocking thing to get when you are on the bus.

The luxury for me was you go, 'well, all I can do is trust these people.' In a way it's sort of freeing. It's all the unknowns that are stressful. Even dealing with being lucky is stressful. Because you think why? Why me?

You had surgery after three weeks to remove the tumour...

It was accessible, but not totally straightforward. I found being in hospital, very uplifting, actually, partly because you're just surrounded by people that are very caring. There must have been about five other people on that ward all in the same boat. So you don't feel alone in that sense. It is scary. And I've not experienced a thing like that. I can't pretend that it isn't.

So On I Bang is all about this event - before, during and after?

This is the show. It's a story told in a stand-up style. I promise you there are lots of jokes. It's not me moaning about unsatisfactory customer experience or something I've noticed about luggage. Hopefully it's a pure piece of storytelling, with a beginning, a middle and an end. I got a letter from a guy who saw a work in progress gig and he's been through the same thing. He was saying people around him were worried but it was very cathartic for him.

How did the show come about?

I started writing it down, not in a comedic way, but I thought it would be useful to have a record of it. Then I thought, I haven't done a stand-up tour for six years. And I went to see Blur at Wembley and I just thought it's great being in a crowd, isn't it? I just thought I like this thing of a crowd enjoying a thing together so much. And I thought, yes, I should turn that thing into a show and do it, which is a kind of an odd genesis, really. And I like going to theatres.

You started out as a stand-up but many people will know you as an actor. You've done so much, from Balamory and Harry Potter to Rev and The Thick Of It.

I think filming my part in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix took 20 minutes. My costume fitting took longer. I'm a sucker for a straight offer without an audition. There's a difference between working hard and working a lot. And I think if you're creating the work yourself, that counts as working hard, if you're just accepting the work that you're given that's not the same. Working on my own has its pleasures in terms of control and being able to fix something quickly, or make adjustments. But I really like the bit when you're making something in a team, the rehearsals are the best bits.

With acting you don't know what's next...

I got a nice part in a thing in Antwerp and then a week later I did one audition for Disney+'s The Full Monty on a Friday, got the part on the Tuesday, the next Friday I had a costume fitting, then started filming on the following Monday for six months.

You've got some high ranking roles coming up. The Duke of Rochester in the series Belgravia and Emperor of Austria in Ridley Scott's movie Napoleon...

It could be cut to nothing but I did get to ride a horse in Napoleon. I had to go to a riding school and I thought, this is quite fun, quite therapeutic. But then when we started filming a stunt rider did absolutely everything! 

You clearly enjoy performing, but stand-up seems to be your first love.

I like walking out onto a stage somewhere. I think the best view of a theatre is nearly always from the stage. I find there's a sort of romance about touring. I remember with my show Fibber in the Heat appearing in Swindon on a Monday night. I turned up and there was 170 people there. I don't know Swindon, I didn't know anyone in Swindon. And I remember thinking, that's great that 170 people have come here to watch this thing. I just love touring for that. So I really look forward to walking onstage again and telling a story. And hopefully, you know, we'll have fun.

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