The great one, the Arthur reincarnating miracle working lover of lepers, drunkards, the destitute, buxom lasses, the homeless and city dwelling foxes (we believe) is back on the road with his upcoming world tour, Messiah Complex. Though he’ll be taking in the sights of Bethlehem (the Pennsylvania version) Russell Brand (Arthur 2011, My Booky Wook) will also be fitting in a lot of UK tour dates in 2013 to take his message to the masses.
If you’ve been one of the lucky hundred or so to get cheap tickets to see the work in progress leg of the tour at the Pleasance Theatre in Islington on the 8th August 2013 then you’ll be among the first to see Brand’s theologically focused stand-up show. The rest of us will have to wait until it kicks off in full at the Birmingham Symphony Hall on the 7th October 2013. Full 2013 UK tour dates for the Messiah Complex are below.
The show is ostensibly about the mental disorder in which the sufferer is in firm belief that they are the reborn Messiah. However, above that, it’s apparently an evaluation of heroes and icons in our more modern, theologically mixed and atheistic era. Although, inevitably with Brand’s anarchic whit and pseudo-Messiah complex thrown in for good measure.
In his video to announce the tour (see below) Russell gets out and about in his new-found Californian hood to chat to some of his local homeless chums, who endorse the upcoming tour in their own special way. Hopefully, he reimbursed them handsomely for their time and carefully considered, shamanic words of wisdom.
Tickets for Russell Brand’s, Messiah Complex are on sale from the venues themselves, as well as ticket websites like Ticketmaster. The good news is that they’re a lot cheaper than the Rolling Stones’ last world tour dates, at just £27.50, so everyday fans can get to see the show without remortgaging their bedrooms or selling their kidneys to make lizard feed.
Russell Brand, Messiah Complex UK tour dates:
Birmingham
Monday, October 7th 2013
Birmingham Symphony Hall
Birmingham
Monday, October 8th 2013
Birmingham Symphony Hall
Manchester
Wednesday, October 9th 2013
Apollo
Manchester
Wednesday, October 10th 2013
Apollo
Glasgow
Friday, October 11th 2013
Clyde Auditorium
Edinburgh
Saturday, October 12th 2013
Edinburgh Usher Hall
London
Monday, October 14th 2013
Hammersmith Apollo
London
Monday, October 15th 2013
Hammersmith Apollo
Portsmouth
Wednesday, October 16th 2013
Guildhall
Southend
Thursday, October 17th 2013
Cliffs Pavilion
Brighton
Friday, October 18th 2013
Centre
Cardiff
Saturday, October 19th 2013
Wales Millennium Centre
Ipswich
Monday, October 21st 2013
Ispwich Regeant Theater
Ipswich
Monday, October 22nd 2013
Ispwich Regeant Theatre
Plymouth
Wednesday, October 23rd 2013
Plymouth Pavillions
Bournemouth
Friday, October 25th 2013
BIC
Cambridge
Saturday, October 26th 2013
Cambridge Corn Exchange
Sheffield
Sunday, October 27th 2013
Sheffield City Hall
Bristol
Monday, October 28th 2013
Bristol Colston Hall
Bristol
Monday, October 29th 2013
Bristol Colston Hall
Newcastle
Thursday, October 31st 2013
Newcastle City Hall
Nottingham
Friday, November 1st 2013
Royal Centre
Nottingham
Saturday, November 2nd 2013
Royal Centre
Belfast
Wednesday, November 13th 2013
Belfast Waterfront
Leicester
Monday, November 25th 2013
Leicester DeMontfort Hall
Southampton
Tuesday, November 26th 2013
Southampton Guildhall
Wolverhampton
Thursday, November 28th 2013
Civic Hall
Reading
Friday, November 29th 2013
Reading Hexagon
Southend
Wednesday, December 4th 2013
Cliffs Pavillion
London
Thursday, December 5th 2013
Hammersmith Apollo
Southend
Friday, December 6th 2013
Cliffs Pavillion
Liverpool
Thursday, December 12th 2013
The Auditorium, Echo Arena
Oxford
Friday, December 13th 2013
New Theatre
Bradford
Saturday, December 14th 2013
Bradford St Georges Hall
Newcastle
Monday, December 16th 2013
City Hall
Russell Brand, Messiah Complex world tour synopsis:
Messiah Complex is a mental disorder where the sufferer thinks they might be the messiah.
Did Jesus have it? What about Che Guevara, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Hitler? All these men have shaped our lives and influenced the way we think. Their images are used to represent ideas that often do not relate to them at all. Would Gandhi be into apple?
Would Che Guevara endorse Madonna? Would Jesus be into Christianity (wow man you’re blowin my mind!!). Should we even care what they think considering Gandhi slept with naked girls in his bed, Malcolm X dealt drugs and Che Guevara smelt funny?
All great people are flawed, all of us, flawed people are capable of greatness and for every identifiable icon there is an anonymous mob of unrecognised bods doing all the admin and heavy lifting.
This show looks at the importance of heroes in this age of atheistic disposability.
Plus there’s sex. Obviously.
