Graham Linehan to carry out at new venue following Fringe cancellation
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comedy membership has introduced it has discovered a brand new venue for Father Ted author Graham Linehan on the Edinburgh Fringe, after the unique venue cancelled the present he was as a consequence of seem in.
On Tuesday night, Leith Arches introduced it was now not internet hosting a Comedy Unleashed present on Thursday after studying Linehan, a critic of the trans rights motion, could be performing a stand-up routine.
The venue claimed in a put up on Instagram it didn’t know Linehan, who additionally wrote The IT Crowd and Black Books, had been booked to carry out beforehand.
Comedy Unleashed has since introduced on X, the micro-blogging web site previously referred to as Twitter, that it has discovered a brand new venue for Thursday’s deliberate gig – however opted to not title the place the place the present will go forward.
It was a sell-out. But you do get used to this sort of factor after some time
The membership’s put up stated: “We have found a venue for tomorrow’s gig! The show goes on! (Ticket holders will be emailed with the new address tomorrow afternoon).”
Meanwhile co-founder Andy Shaw informed BBC News: “We have found what we think is a really appropriate venue which will become obvious on Thursday night why we think it is particularly appropriate.
The change in venue was announced after Linehan told TalkTV’s Julia Hartley-Brewer in the morning he would consider taking legal action if the Leith Arches refused to host him.
He said: “It was cancelled within a couple of hours. So I had two hours of excitement and fans saying they were going to go.
“It was a sell-out. But you do get used to this kind of thing after a while.
“It never really makes you feel good.
“The only good thing about it is that it’s drawing more attention to the fact that, essentially, a group of highly ideological cultists have taken over institutions across society.
It was brought to our attention at the very last minute of the very controversial line up
“If they apologise and put the gig on, I’ll say no more about it but otherwise I’ll be looking at legal action.”
Leith Arches stated on Tuesday: “We were not aware of the line-up of this show in advance.
“We have made the decision to cancel this show, as we are an inclusive venue and this does not align with our overall values.”
The venue added in a follow-up assertion on Thursday morning: “It was brought to our attention at the very last minute of the very controversial line up.
“We work very closely with the LGBT+ community, it is a considerable part of our revenue, we believe hosting this one off show would have a negative effect on future bookings.
“The decision was not influenced by the pressure of online activists, but by our regular community who use this space on a daily, weekly and [monthly] basis.”