The tour of Australia and New Zealand that was planned for this year will be postponed due to work commitments. It's being rescheduled for early in 2008.
Bill
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The tour of Australia and New Zealand that was planned for this year will be postponed due to work commitments. It's being rescheduled for early in 2008.
Bill
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Comments (76)
Hooray! We get to keep you! x
Posted by Annemarie | March 14, 2007 9:17 PM
Posted on March 14, 2007 21:17
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Posted by Emily (in Oz) | March 14, 2007 11:42 PM
Posted on March 14, 2007 23:42
I'm so disappointed...a whole year to wait.... :o(
Posted by Hilary | March 15, 2007 12:22 AM
Posted on March 15, 2007 00:22
Bum.
Posted by anaglyph | March 15, 2007 5:50 AM
Posted on March 15, 2007 05:50
I can't wait that long!
Although when you do don't forget to go on Spicks and specks.
Posted by Matt | March 15, 2007 8:36 AM
Posted on March 15, 2007 08:36
the land of oz... i wonder where the yellow brick road leads... maybe to the wizard of the opera house...
Posted by cat loves bill, marry me? | March 15, 2007 12:32 PM
Posted on March 15, 2007 12:32
*weeps*
Posted by kelsi | March 15, 2007 9:40 PM
Posted on March 15, 2007 21:40
NO BILL NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! =*(
Posted by Peter K | March 16, 2007 4:43 AM
Posted on March 16, 2007 04:43
Nooooooo! *weeps* I was really looking forward to it!!!
sends mind-altering thought waves: *do come to Adelaide, come to Adelaide, come to Adelaide ...*
Posted by Beck | March 16, 2007 7:23 AM
Posted on March 16, 2007 07:23
Oh dear, I was looking frward to flying over 10,000 miles to catch the BB experience. I'll still be in new zealand in may though, counting tea and coffee making facilities and trouser presses across the land.
:(
Posted by Matt Rowe | March 17, 2007 12:45 AM
Posted on March 17, 2007 00:45
absolutely devo bill... ;_; see you in 2008!!!
Posted by daft monk | March 17, 2007 2:07 AM
Posted on March 17, 2007 02:07
Didn't know you were coming in the first place (just found your website). Looking forward to it.
We will be waiting!
(Wellington, NZ)
Posted by Kevin | March 20, 2007 1:54 AM
Posted on March 20, 2007 01:54
Very sad tour has been cancelled, you'd better be out here next year!!!! ;-) You should also definitely go on "Spicks and Specks" when you come out here. It would be classic!!!
Posted by Maggie | March 20, 2007 3:39 AM
Posted on March 20, 2007 03:39
Oh now that's just unfair. Work commitments schmitments. Surely you can use the power of the mind to manifest yourself downunder?
Posted by Comic Mummy | March 21, 2007 6:58 AM
Posted on March 21, 2007 06:58
Well, stone the crows. That's a kick in the shins and no mistake.
When you DO come, Bill, you must go on this new TV show here in Melbourne called "Thank God You're Here." Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mChQeqTbYSk
Comedians are thrust into a scenario without knowing what's going on. Hilarious even without Bill, but with...
Posted by Justin | March 21, 2007 11:14 AM
Posted on March 21, 2007 11:14
Ooh, does that mean you will be appearing in QI then? Here's hoping!
Posted by Glenn | March 21, 2007 6:32 PM
Posted on March 21, 2007 18:32
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
I've been building a fan base and everything!!!! I suppose I'll live, but please come to Perth in the hot arid land that is Western Australia. and you should come and visit our school. It's Perth Modern. Ask anyone, they will direct you to the right place. A world full of eccentric musos....a dream come true, surely? Hot Fuzz was awesome!!!
Posted by Ben | March 22, 2007 9:56 AM
Posted on March 22, 2007 09:56
You're not coming to oz, crap! Now I have to get my friend a new birthday present, how am I going to top this?
Posted by Emily | March 23, 2007 6:07 AM
Posted on March 23, 2007 06:07
when you do come, I'll have the bee-keeping equipment ready at the gate (which was left slightly ajar, in hope of a speedy return).
Until then I shall amuse myself by watching endless re runs of little house on the prairie.
(sigh)
Posted by Joel | March 23, 2007 11:50 PM
Posted on March 23, 2007 23:50
What an absolute treat! Thanks a million, Bill, for acknowledging your humble fans down here in NZ. See you on tour! Brilliant.
Posted by Sub. | March 26, 2007 11:08 PM
Posted on March 26, 2007 23:08
Bill, are you by any chance coming to the download donnington festival this year, theres a poll here that says 99% of voters want you there, so please come
http://forums.downloadfestival.co.uk/tm.aspx?m=1247693&mpage=5&key=
Posted by Saul Brandwood | March 27, 2007 1:00 AM
Posted on March 27, 2007 01:00
Maybe you are part troll!!!! How can we wait another year?
Posted by bart | March 30, 2007 10:17 AM
Posted on March 30, 2007 10:17
I really thought I was finished wishing folk a happy Hogmanay, I thought I had seen everyone. Please forgive me for forgeting you, And look at the trouble It has caused. If I had given you a quick first foot at Hogmanay this might have reminded you to wish everyone you know a happy New Year.
It would have cos Being a Haggis muncher I would have had to bring you some coal and a tall dark visitor and the only person I know that is tall and dark is a farmer who bears an uncanny resemblance to A sythe carrying bearer of the worst news, I am sure you would have remembered if a short drunk scotsman visited you with the offer of fossil fuels and an angel of death who was smelling slightly of cows at the stroke of midnight.
Will you ever forgive me? I will put you on my list of first foots for 07/08 but I cant guarantee the stroke of midnight because I will be in the village hall as its my job to pull the string and release the balloons. I will however get to you at some point during the month of January, it takes a long time to get round everyone.. I hope this will ensure that Hogmany will not drift past you without so much as a dram and a bit shortie and you can get out and shake some hands and wish a few new years.
Just let me know.
Eddie
Posted by Eddie, Haggis Arse | March 30, 2007 8:17 PM
Posted on March 30, 2007 20:17
:( Aw. Disappointment! Ah well, we shall look forward to seeing you in 08, then.
You must come to Western Australia (Perth), though. Everyone misses us, and we get terribly stroppy about it. I know for a fact there are like...fifty gazillion people who would potentially sell their own grandmother to see you :)
Posted by Kia | April 6, 2007 5:37 AM
Posted on April 6, 2007 05:37
Oh Bill, say it ain't so!
Looking forward to your next trip to Melbourne ....
Posted by Juddie | April 11, 2007 2:58 AM
Posted on April 11, 2007 02:58
Well Bill, we'll forgive this timing problem, but could you try and squeeze in plenty of shows for us down here?
And please, be sure to tour in Tasmania! We have Dylan Moran here in Hobart next week, but would love to have you as well!
Please do more than one show for us, you're just fantastic man, and will do 2 or 3 sell out shows here no problems.
Posted by VstaR | April 12, 2007 3:29 AM
Posted on April 12, 2007 03:29
Goddammit - Ah well, will just have to wait another year then.
Ignore my email to you - as this blog pretty much answered my question re when are you touring OZ. That's what I get for not reading the website properly...
Posted by Chelley | April 13, 2007 2:46 AM
Posted on April 13, 2007 02:46
I missed out on getting tickets to your gig for this year. It was a blessing in disguise. Look forward to seeing you next year.
Posted by Troy | April 13, 2007 3:35 AM
Posted on April 13, 2007 03:35
sits and counts how many days till 2008..gives up cos have run out of toes...
Posted by sally | April 13, 2007 10:08 AM
Posted on April 13, 2007 10:08
no..wait..are you coming to Wellington? Please..please don't just go to Auckland ...Dylan is coming to Wellington..*hint
Posted by sally | April 15, 2007 5:38 AM
Posted on April 15, 2007 05:38
Extreme sadness :(
I was looking forward to seeing the show in Melbourne... Now I'll have to wait :( I'll be moving at the end of the year as well (to an undisclosed location). Hope it's somewhere near a tour venue tho :P
Posted by Sir loin Of Beef | April 15, 2007 7:01 AM
Posted on April 15, 2007 07:01
How could you do this to us?! More to the point, what am I going to tell my kids. I promised them, Bill, I promised them. What will I say when their little trusting puppy dog faces look up at me and ask "When are we going to see Bill Bailey, Daddy?" Think of the children, for pity's sake; think of the children... PS Wellington. You want to come and do lots of shows in Wellington. Remember that.
Posted by Stephen | April 15, 2007 10:05 PM
Posted on April 15, 2007 22:05
Oh Bill, I did have Professor Karl ready to meet you in his magic castle with dolphins to swim with. But being the all powerful being that he is he was already aware that you had postponed and is preparing his schedule to fit you in for early 08.
Posted by Dave | April 15, 2007 11:45 PM
Posted on April 15, 2007 23:45
Won't you come back Bill Bailey, won't you come on back?
She moans the whole day long.
I'll do the cooking darling, I'll pay the rent;
I knows I've done you wrong;
Member that rainy eve that I drove you out,
With nothing but a fine tooth comb?
I know I'se to blame; well ain't that a shame?
Bill Bailey won't you please come back?
Posted by kirky | April 16, 2007 2:45 AM
Posted on April 16, 2007 02:45
So disappointed that you're not coming this year! I've introduced a number of people here in Wellington to the Part Troll/Wizard and they are most distraught.
Will see you next year.
xxx
Posted by Niki Tuinman | April 17, 2007 5:09 AM
Posted on April 17, 2007 05:09
Bill, by any chance when you're flying down here, can you make a stop over in Singapore? I don't think we'll get the chance to have you anywhere near this part of the world in the future so please please please consider dropping by en route
Posted by Ricky | April 17, 2007 3:29 PM
Posted on April 17, 2007 15:29
Not coming out to Australia till 2008!!! I feel like a duck shredded in a pancake.
Soaking in the Hoisin of my cries.
Posted by Sanga | April 18, 2007 12:10 AM
Posted on April 18, 2007 00:10
Woohoo cant wait! It could be delayed 5 years and would still be worth the wait...
Posted by Chalkie | April 20, 2007 10:52 AM
Posted on April 20, 2007 10:52
i haven't bought a ticket (yet), but will remind daddy.
Posted by bella | April 22, 2007 6:32 AM
Posted on April 22, 2007 06:32
Oooh I hope you're coming to Brizvegas!
If you need anywhere to crash I have a mattress out back...i'll even get rid of the red backs for you :)
Posted by Kerina | April 24, 2007 12:37 PM
Posted on April 24, 2007 12:37
When are you coming to Canada?
Posted by mark hardy | April 26, 2007 10:02 PM
Posted on April 26, 2007 22:02
hey bill its bloody fantastic to even know your coming to New Zealand when you do please come to christchurch!!! im actually off to see dylan moran at the nz comedy fest here next month...i am excitied but ive always wanted to see you live ive got "part troll" on dvd...ive seen it soo many times and its still awesomly funny!! anyway great to hear your comming our way
Posted by Kellie | April 30, 2007 12:56 AM
Posted on April 30, 2007 00:56
Ahhh, so long as you still come, and I get tickets, it's all ok!
Posted by Maddy | May 6, 2007 9:02 AM
Posted on May 6, 2007 09:02
Oh well, just as long as the tour includes Hobart (Tasmania) . . .
. . . the tour is including Tasmania, right? . . .
. . . after all, Dylan Moran came to Tasmania, and so did Weird Al Yankovic . . .
. . . which was surprising, because hardly anyone significant comes down to Tasmania . . .
Posted by Michael | May 15, 2007 12:33 PM
Posted on May 15, 2007 12:33
OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Been waiting for you to come down, just found out its been postponned! Doh! The people of Melbourne MISS YOU!!!!
Posted by Chloe Elizabeth Smith | May 30, 2007 5:25 AM
Posted on May 30, 2007 05:25
Will this be the only comment for June! (It should as the number of comments is a logrithmic curve!)
Looking forward to catching you next year, just seen the Part Troll DVD. Excellent. Video diary was truely a British master piece of understatement! Cheers Bill.
Posted by Andy Bushell | June 22, 2007 10:50 AM
Posted on June 22, 2007 10:50
Yay, your coming. and its great. i cant wait.
Posted by Nikki | July 11, 2007 12:26 PM
Posted on July 11, 2007 12:26
dam =( is it to much to ask for you to come to Alice Springs when you get to Aus ?? Would be awesome if you could.
tee hee !
Posted by Bridget | July 25, 2007 8:54 AM
Posted on July 25, 2007 08:54
Please tell me you're coming to Adelaide though, it's the hive of activity, i swear...
I'm looking forward to it, don't let Adelaide down!
Posted by Nik | July 30, 2007 1:56 PM
Posted on July 30, 2007 13:56
I'm an English teenager living in New Zealand and I just can't WAAAIT for you to do a show here! 'Part Troll' was even funnier than Peter Kay's 'Mum Wants a Bungalow Tour'- and that's saying a lot!
Posted by Abigail | July 31, 2007 4:18 AM
Posted on July 31, 2007 04:18
Hey Bill,
Fantastic that you changed to 2008 because I would have missed you in 2007. :-)
Looking forward to seeing you when you come to Sydney.
Woo
Hoo!
Morwenna
Posted by Wenna Landers | August 6, 2007 1:01 AM
Posted on August 6, 2007 01:01
I'm so glad to hear your coming to Australia!
Consider coming to Tasmania, it's basically a shit hole so it's more for our benefit than yours, you can stop us dying inside for a few hours.
You are an indcredibly talented troll-man.
*bows down*
Posted by Hannah | August 23, 2007 6:01 AM
Posted on August 23, 2007 06:01
Hey Bill,
Missed the chance to see you in the UK, excellent on NMTB, particualarly the badgers! Now emigrated to Brisbane from the UK, looking forward to seeing you in 2008.
Cheers
Paul
Posted by The other part of the troll | August 23, 2007 3:30 PM
Posted on August 23, 2007 15:30
Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Stuart | September 25, 2007 9:45 AM
Posted on September 25, 2007 09:45
just so long as I can get tickets and maybe be part of some stunt in the show, i'll be there!
Posted by Peter | October 9, 2007 4:02 AM
Posted on October 9, 2007 04:02
If you go on Spicks and Specks, go on Rockwiz too! It's another great music quiz show and they film it in a pub in St Kilda! We all love your stuff. We have been brainwashing, I mean extolling your virtues to our friends and family.
Posted by Robyn and Harry | October 14, 2007 7:53 AM
Posted on October 14, 2007 07:53
Any more about exactly when you will tour Australia? Last news was early 2008, but it is already November 2007 and we have not heard any more, we are keen to see you here.
Posted by B McCormack | November 5, 2007 3:31 AM
Posted on November 5, 2007 03:31
Can't wait till you arrive.
Posted by Chris Sherlock | November 12, 2007 10:03 AM
Posted on November 12, 2007 10:03
Is there any more news as yet as to when you'll be touring Oz? We are getting desperate for a fix!
Angela
Posted by Angela | November 13, 2007 9:36 PM
Posted on November 13, 2007 21:36
Can't wait, since moving to New Zealand 3 years ago from the UK all we keep talking about is wouldn't it be great if Bill Bailey comes over, I'm gutted I didn't even hear you were coming late this year so pretty glad that I now know you will be here in 2008. Please make sure you come to wellington and put on plenty of shows for us all...you are the funniest and smartest comedian out there.
Posted by Julie Rayner | November 22, 2007 4:35 AM
Posted on November 22, 2007 04:35
hmm any more news on the Australian tour yet? Am hoping you make it to Perth Western Australia.
Posted by kez | December 7, 2007 9:30 PM
Posted on December 7, 2007 21:30
Hi Bill and all your fans reading this blog.
I arrived in NZ (Wellington) at the start of November and since then I have been a regular visitor to the San Fran Bathhouse comedy night (every Thursday - starts again in Jan)...but as funny as the Kiwi comics are they lack a certain wizard in a call centre style. Therefore I shall echo the others comments on here and ask that you include Wellington in your tour of NZ - I shall also ask that you do this asap in 2008 as my money is running out without securing a job down here yet (talented IT professional that I am ;)
Can I tempt you further with a slide show of park benches I have taken around Wellington?
Posted by Kevin Double | December 14, 2007 12:44 AM
Posted on December 14, 2007 00:44
so.. the Nz dates.. when when oh please reveal them.. \m/
Posted by paul jackson | December 21, 2007 1:01 AM
Posted on December 21, 2007 01:01
Bill
Ahem, it is now officially early 2008!!
Update please - when can we see you back in Sydney?
Posted by David Featherston | January 3, 2008 2:12 AM
Posted on January 3, 2008 02:12
Can't wait to see you in Oz, Bill. Please try to include Perth on your gig tour. Algis
Posted by Algis Kuliukas | January 8, 2008 12:51 AM
Posted on January 8, 2008 00:51
Hey Bill any news on the Australia tour for 2008 yet?
Last saw you at the Dome in Brighton, UK as part of your Part Troll tour. I'm now living in Oz.
Really hoping to get to see you again!
Posted by Chris | February 21, 2008 4:22 AM
Posted on February 21, 2008 04:22
How late in early 2008 are you planning on coming?
Posted by Julie | March 3, 2008 8:12 AM
Posted on March 3, 2008 08:12
Please tell me you're still coming!
Posted by Hugh | March 4, 2008 7:29 AM
Posted on March 4, 2008 07:29
So, when does early 2008 become mid 2008? It is March now Bill, where are the NZ tour dates mate, your missing the best weather (in Wellington at least) and I cannot keep avoiding the immigration officials, wanting to deport me, for too much longer! *knock*knock* Oh darn that's 'em now...got to go...you saw nothin' right!
Posted by Kevin Double | March 4, 2008 10:58 AM
Posted on March 4, 2008 10:58
Hi Bill
Cant wait to see the show, just wondering where and when it will all take place.
Love Part Troll its a must see for everyone!!!!
Was gutted when I heard that I might miss the 2007 tour but restored all hope when I heard it has been postponned. WOOHOO!!!
Posted by Louise Crawford | March 18, 2008 6:54 AM
Posted on March 18, 2008 06:54
It is now April and I have still not seen any sign of your impending visit to NZ. Missed your last visit and desperately keen to see you LIVE. Have purchased every DVD, CD, Book, TV Programme, Movie you have been in that I could find so that I could help fund your trip!!! Will be in London from 26 October to 2 November any chance you can arrange a show especially for my visit.
Posted by Ian Atkinson | April 9, 2008 8:50 AM
Posted on April 9, 2008 08:50
Adelaide... please. And when are the dates going to be announced? Or is this going to be eternally postponed...
Posted by Niki | April 19, 2008 2:50 AM
Posted on April 19, 2008 02:50
Okay, it really cannot be disputed that it is no longer early 2008, so Bill, please do not disappoint your antipodean fans, and especially those that live on the south island of NZ. My absolute worst nightmare would be for you to keep delaying and delaying past september by which time i will have left NZ temporarily heading back to the UK and therefore missing all your UK shows and Southern Hemisphere shows, in the words of a tantrumming four year old : IT'S NOT FAIR!..........
I can offer you free accommodation in a skanky backpackers in queenstown, if that will at all tempt you...........
Posted by rosa | April 20, 2008 5:12 AM
Posted on April 20, 2008 05:12
Hmmm, the leaves are falling off the trees, it must be April. But alas where is young Bill bailey?
Its finally cool enough to walk out in to open daylight and not be burnt to ashes! Horaaah!
Please come down to Oz , we may not have any wizards but appreciate humour! oh i made a funny.
Any who please give us the heads up on what�s happening soon enough okay?
Posted by Thea | April 24, 2008 2:13 PM
Posted on April 24, 2008 14:13
My family are up stairs in the middle of watching Part Troll DVD AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!! or it's Black Books, and yelling to me find out when Bill will be in OZ. So when will you be here? will a free trip on our Charter boat in the sunny Whitsunday's be enough to tempt you here. PLEASE!!!!!!!!! we need a good laugh.
Posted by Sue | May 7, 2008 9:43 AM
Posted on May 7, 2008 09:43
That's 2 team champion points right there for you, Bill!! Finally, the Oz tour has been announced. Looking forward to it!!
Posted by david | May 26, 2008 8:11 AM
Posted on May 26, 2008 08:11