Silky at Banbury Kill for a Seat Comedy Club

Liverpudlian-in-exile Silky has been a full time comedian since 1997. He did his first gig in 1994, and his fourth gig (the final of the 1995 BBC New Comedy Awards alongside Lee Mack, Daniel Kitson and Julian Barratt) was shown on BBC1's Stand-Up Show. Other awards he has failed to win include the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year (prize-winning runner-up 2000), the Liverpool Echo Arts and Entertainment Award (the only person to be nominated twice: always the sodding bridesmaid), the Perrier Best Newcomer (not even nominated for that one), the Time Out Award (didn't get entry form in on time), the F.A. cup (not a football team), numerous Academy Awards, and so on. The list gets longer every day. He did, however, win the 2000 BAF 'Out There' award for Artistic Courage, for a show at the Bakewell Arts Festival, where they were genuinely expecting folk music. Silky has performed internationally, including gigs in China, the Philippines, the Gulf, Singapore, the US, the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and all over Europe, including at the Glastonbury Festival, where no-one lobbed bottles of wee, much to his relief. He performed at the 2004 God's Kitchen Global Gathering, the 2005 Big Bang at Santa Pod, and in the houseband for the Kilkenny Festival. He is also the evil mastermind behind the Kill for a Seat Comedy clubs across the UK, and has performed with the Comedy Store's MEN at Work satirical team and Monkey Lab Improv. A tall, versatile, funny and very likeable performer, whether you need an MC, an extended set, or simply something down from the top of a cupboard... Silky headlined the inaugural Frampton Mansell comedy festival, the world's smallest. He acted in 'All Shorts' for Club West (winners of the coveted Spirit of the Fringe award), and presented WorldArt Media's TV Stage in Princes Street Gardens for Telewest. He compered the Big Value Comedy Show at the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe (**** Edfringe.com), the final of the FHM Com and has played from Manila to Berlin, Belfast to Prague, Shanghai to Croydon, but he's never been to me, and actually enjoys making people laugh. Indoor work with no heavy lifting? Lovely. In Winter 2003 he headlined his own 30-date tour of the UK and Ireland as an exercise in humility, and is doing so again this year. He acted in a pilot for SO TV that was bought for broadcast by Disney, and will never show the tape as Bee Costumes are involved. Warm-up work includes Strictly Come Dancing for BBC1, a Saturday evening primetime show attracting 9.1 million viewers. He's always doing interesting stuff. Television appearances include 'The Stand-Up Show' (BBC1), 'James Campbell's Silly Experiment' (SO TV/Disney Worldwide), 'Coronation Street' and 'Gagging for It' (Granada), The Loafers (BBC Digital), 'Hollyoaks' and 'Brookside' (Mersey TV), 'Heartbeat' and 'Rhinoceros' (Yorkshire TV), Sky TV, The Superchannel (Denmark) and Channel 6. Radio appearances include BBC 5Live, Capital FM, TalkRadio, a residency on Juice FM, Star FM, BBC Radios Sheffield, Oxfordshire and Merseyside. Corporate work includes events for Nissan, UMIST, Help The Aged, Tubedale Films, Mitchell & Butler plc. Immediate PR (FHM/Holsten Pils), God's Kitchen and many others. Warm-up work includes BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing. Does not appear on photographic film.

More Silky videos

2005: Melbourne comedy festival show: Nicko & Silky

2003:Performing at the early Big Value Comedy Show at Edinburgh

2000:Runner-up, Leicester Comedy Festival Comedian Of The Year. Nominated for a Liverpool Echo entertainments award.

1995:BBC New Comedy Awards finalist

Also promoter of the Kill For A Seat chain of comedy clubs.

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I see Silky 1-2 times a month at his Kill for a Seat events. Great compare and funny guy. He makes you laugh and squirm in equal measure. If he picks on you to talk to, be nice or he'll make you regret it! Funny for the rest of the audience, but I really wouldn't like to be on the recieving end. He's at his best when NOT trying to stop smoking, and when he has an interesting punter and a guitar in his hand. Go Silky! North Wales loves you!

Samantha Darnbrough, July 2010

I saw him Sunday 30th may 2010 in The Stand Edinburgh, was crying with laughter, brilliant!

sian hopkins, June 2010

I see Silky every month at Kill For a Seat Comedy Nights in Mold. Great compere. Tends to wait for something to happen from the crowd, and when it does he's dynamite. Top bloke.

Bri, September 2009

Last time he came to the Queens Hall in Narberth he was a waste of space. I used to think he was mildly amusing, now, I wouldn't waste my time going to see him. He'd not bothered rehearsing anything and generally couldn't be bothered to be there. I'm hoping he never comes back.

David, August 2009

Saw him for the first time at the Llangollen Eisteddfod in a dingy tent. Mixture of children, adults, OAPs, people who barely understood English... Laughed so much! His improv was quality! Looking forward to seeing him on a regular basis at local comedy clubs

Pelsi, July 2009

I went to a comedy night in Blaengarw. Have to say it was one of the funniest evenings I've had in a long old time. Variation of age and beauty did not sway Silky in any way.

Danielle, October 2007

Saw Silky last night at a special Radio Merseyside show, he was really funny, and went down well despite the average age of the audience being 80 years old.

Stephen, May 2007

i had a sh*t day - silky was the perfick evening pick-me-up (even if he failed miserably)

kat, May 2007

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