The Stand Comedy Club
| The Stand | |
The Stand, Newcastle
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| Location |
Glasgow & Edinburgh, Scotland Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
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| Owner | Tommy Sheppard |
| Type | Comedy |
| Opened | 1996 (Edinburgh), 2000 (Glasgow), 2011 (Newcastle) |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
The Stand Comedy Club are three stand-up comedy venues in the cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle upon Tyne.
The Stand hosted its first regular club night on Thursday 21 September 1995: seven people came and the total box office was £22.
The Stand Comedy Club has three venues in the UK, two in Edinburgh and Glasgow, which were originally set up by owners Tommy Sheppard and Jane Mackay. The Edinburgh venue was established in 1995, in the small basement of WJ Christie's Bar in the city’s Old Town, and the Glasgow venue was opened in 2000, located in the basement of an old secondary school in Woodlands in the West End of the city.
The Stand runs live stand-up comedy shows every night of the week in both venues, with a programme of contemporary comedy from Scottish and international comedians. They also stage weekly open mic nights - Monday night in Edinburgh and Tuesday night in Glasgow.
The Stand Comedy Club has a mailing list of 22,000 people. In 2009, 10,000 tickets were sold to events between both the Glasgow and Edinburgh venues and roughly 600 acts a year are performed at these clubs every year. Between the two clubs an average of 1600 tickets are sold to events every week.
The venue has banned stag and hen parties, and talking during the performances, in an effort to minimise disruptive behaviour so that the comedians can concentrate upon delivering their crafted material.
The club ran weekly when first set up in 1996 and relied on local talent. Expansion meant a second weekly venue in the Moscow Bar and by the end of 1997 a third weekly club had started.
In April 1997 Tommy Sheppard and Jane Mackay formed Salt 'n' Sauce Promotions to develop the club on a commercial basis. After two and a half years of moving around and staging shows in different pubs the club finally settled and moved into a new purpose built venue on the edge of the city's New Town.
The Edinburgh club now stages up to ten shows per week and with its connection with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe it is the fourth largest comedy venue in the world's largest arts festival.
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