These GICF acts are hitting the right notes! 🎶

This will be music to your ears! ✨GICF✨ are proud to present the best of musical comedy… and believe us these acts are well and truly pitch perfect. From rappers to Barber Shop Quartets, Karaoke nights to musicals, we have it all.
Comedy with a Twist, is Amelia Baylor’s Vibe 💖

Amelia Bayler (Finalist Musical Comedy Awards, Best Newcomer Scottish Comedy Awards) brings her new work-in-progress show to GICF!
‘Consistently charming, clever and most importantly funny.’ – Broadway Baby
‘There’s something ridiculously appealing about rock’n’roll daftie Amelia Bayler.’ – British Comedy Guide
‘Amelia Bayler is like Kim Wilde if she worked in a call centre and discovered the joy of Greggs.’ – Rolling Stone
AMELIA BAYLER: BROKEN RECORD (WIP)
VAN WINKLE WEST END
SUNDAY 16TH MARCH 2025
Want to sing along with Barrioke? 🎙

There are icons of the silver screen, there are Oscar winners, Bafta winners and Golden Globe winners, but are there any of these global stars that you would rather sing with on stage than the coolest man on TV – Shaun Williamson?
The star of EastEnders, Extras, Life’s Too Short and more recently a million viral videos, Shaun has now taken the music festival scene by storm, bringing BARRIOKE to thousands of music lovers at Truck and YNot Festivals. The time has come to unleash this phenomenon onto the world, and Shaun is now available to book for your Festival, Party or Event.
Shaun hosts the event with his usual trademark warmth and teasing banter, accompanying participants on stage, creating a riotous, joyous moment that people will never forget. This is the ultimate Insta moment, something people will talk about and want to be part of.
Barrioke is in partnership with SINGA Karaoke, organisers of the World Karaoke Championships and pioneers of the streamed Karaoke revolution.
BARRIOKE: FEAT. SHAUN WILLIAMSON AKA BARRY FROM EASTENDERS
SAINT LUKE’S & THE WINGED OX
FRIDAY 14TH MARCH 2025
Get down with the trumpets, with the Horne Section! 🎺

They have two series of their own Channel 4 TV show, an iTunes-chart-topping podcast and now they’re tuning up their instruments once more to tour the country: it’s the Horne Section’s Hit Show!
“Britain’s Funniest Band” (The Guardian) have made appearances on The Last Leg (Channel 4), Peter Crouch’s Year- Late Euros (BBC One), they are Dictionary Corner regulars on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and the only band to ever host Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Separately, members of The Horne Section have performed with recording artists including Robbie Williams, Madness, Florence and the Machine, Amy Winehouse, George Ezra, Basement Jaxx, Disclosure and Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds.
The six-headed comedy band includes five outstanding musicians and one non-musical stand-up. There’ll be comedy, songs, enthusiastic dancing, and a lot of mucking about.
★★★★★ Time Out
★★★★ The Independent
★★★★ Heat
THE HORNE SECTION’S HIT SHOW
KING’S THEATRE, GLASGOW
TUESDAY 25TH MARCH 2025
A robot version of musical classic Blood Brothers? Sounds Perfect!

Clown double act Harris Morris and Joe Smith star as two robo-clones who are separated at birth and raised by different families. They live lives divided by wealth and class, but can they find a way to love in a world where all odds are against them (1980s Merseyside)? Loosely based on Willy Russell’s international smash-hit sensation Blood Brothers (BEST MUSICAL – All Major Awards), but instead of two boys it’s got two robots so legally it’s fine, right?
This sellout London show makes its Glasgow debut at GICF 2025, following a critically-acclaimed run at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe. Praise for Bot Brothers:
★★★★★ ‘Chaotic… Anarchic energy’ – The Crumb
★★★★ ‘Just as bonkers as it should be’ – Binge Fringe
PICK OF THE FRINGE (honourable mention) – ChrisOnTheatre
BOT BROTHERS: A STORY OF OUR TIMES
THE OLD HAIRDRESSER’S
THURSDAY 13TH MARCH 2025
Sing along to some Comedy Songs with Brian Mooney!

Following his successes at the GICF and Edinburgh Fringe in 2024 with “Haud the Bus! It’s Brian Mooney!”, Glasgow’s * favourite comedy musician brings a new show to the GICF for 2025.
Like most overnight success stories this one has been a few years in the making – 16 years in playing comedy venues in Scotland and 65 years worth of life experience going into original comedy songs and stories… .from Brian’s early upbringing in Glasgow’s East End to his current auld age living in Clydebank.
Could’ve been called from “Dennistoun to Duntocher” but Mooney Tunes sums it up just as well!
*Big Joe Glasgow from just across the road.
BRIAN MOONEY: MOONEY TUNES
DRAM!
THURSDAY 20TH MARCH 2025
Irish Musical Comedy your thing? 🍀

Dan Leith mixes up a fine home-brew of Irish musical comedy. Adding a splash of sardonic humour with a dash of profound foul-mouthed lyrics and catchy tunes to create his own special brand of musical comedy with teeth.* *May also contain cats, ghosts and a trace of banana. Musical Comedy Award 2024 semi-finalist.
DAN LEITH: MOONSHINE IN LEITH
TENNENT’S LAUGHTER LOUNGE @ TENNENT’S BAR
WEDNESDAY 19TH MARCH 2025
Rock out with Gibby 🎸

Stephen Brackenridge returns with his character Billy ‘Gibby’ Gibson in a musical comedy about the exploits of an increasingly isolated punk. More jokes and tunes! More political confusion! More vital music industry tips! Daft songs about Fifteen Minute Cities and other Internet based conspiracies! Some welcome (and less welcome!) friends visit Gibby in his flat to bring him back to somewhere approaching reality. Will he come to his senses or dig his heels in?
GIBBY’S CONTINUING ROCK N’ ROLL CONFUSION
THE FLYING DUCK
SUNDAY 30TH MARCH 2025
Do you like Jazz…Emu?

Jazz Emu was Born To Please. He’s offering more fulfillment than an Amazon warehouse. Why, “Satisfaction” is his middle name, if you pretty heavily reconceptualise the pronunciation of “John”.
9 out of 10 dentists would recommend him. And the fact that 1 out of 10 dentists had his house egged last night is legally a coincidence.
Join the Audiovisual Connoisseur as he brings you an hour of new Musings and Odes that he personally guarantees will leave you 100% satisfied, within 57 minutes, or your money* back**.
*opinions
**discounted
As seen on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
“The breakout comedy act of 2023”- The Guardian
★★★★★ Telegraph, Times, List
★★★★ Guardian, Evening Standard, Chortle
JAZZ EMU: PERFECT WORK, IN PROGRESS
THE FLYING DUCK
SATURDAY 29TH MARCH 2025
Get yourself a one-woman Fascinating Aïda!

Fife-based comedy songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Julia Knight brings her unique take on life’s ups and downs through comic and parody songs. Find out why she loves avocados but avoids extreme sports. Expect songs about George Monbiot, gin and billionaires.
Jest Julia also features songs from both Julia’s solo shows – ‘I Am Not Victoria Wood” which had sell-out runs at Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, and the award-winning “Zeit-Heist: more than a feeling”.
Previous audiences have described her as “A one-woman Fascinating Aïda”.
Praise for Julia’s previous work:
“Impressively evocative” Chortle
“As warm and welcoming as a nice cup of tea” The Wee Review
“Plays a mean piano” British theatre guide
JEST JULIA: SONGS OF JOY & JUSTICE
STRATHDUIE BAR
SUNDAY 23RD MARCH 2025
The best of improvised comedy rap 🙌 with MC Hammersmith

MC Hammersmith is the world’s leading freestyle rapper to emerge from the ghetto of middle-class west London. He presents an evening of improvised comedy raps based on your suggestions.
Featuring brand-new routines for 2025! You’ll leave astounded at the speed of his brain, the spontaneity of his punchlines, and the stability of his upbringing. Jaw-dropping, hilarious, utterly unbelievable.
‘Stomach-achingly funny raps’ * (EdFringeReview.com).
‘An improvised hip hop masterpiece’ * (VoiceMag.uk).
Tour support for Jason Manford and John Bishop. 100 million views online. As heard on BBC Radio 4, as seen on Beta Squad.
MC HAMMERSMITH
STAND COMEDY CLUB GLASGOW
THURSDAY 27TH MARCH 2025
Musical theatre with some milk on the side ☕️

Baristas Amy and Callum are back from their sell-out show at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival! But they’re still stuck navigating the coffee-ground trenches together, where they serve up coffee, songs and stories about their lives and those of their customers.
They ask, what can I get for you? Is this really low-skilled labour? And what do Jools Holland and a smashed avocado have to do with it?
“Funny, light-hearted and relatable … a bespoke and inventive performance” says GUM Magazine, this immersive comedy musical will give you food for thought to discuss over coffee afterwards.
MILK ON THE SIDE: A BARISTA MUSICAL
RIDING ROOM
20TH/21ST MARCH 2025
Want some music with your satire? 🫵

Mitch Benn – The Point
What it might be, how we can miss it and how we can find it again…
Like all those who spread mirth for a living, Mitch Benn (‘the country’s leading musical satirist’ The Times) has been wondering if he’s really making a difference, and if there is – yes – a POINT to what he – or anybody – is doing.
Well the good news is he’s had a long hard think about it and he’s figured it out, and he’s coming back to tell us all what the POINT of comedy – and much else besides – might be…
‘Song after song of exquisitely crafted satire’ The Scotsman
‘Well crafted, well sung, his songs are just plain funny’ The Guardian
MITCH BENN: THE POINT
THE FLYING DUCK
SUNDAY 23RD MARCH 2025
Drag and Jane McDonald…what more could you ask for! 💅

Nancy Clench is back with her famous annual outing as part of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival. Her new show takes you back stage to some of the fancier encounters involving celebrities like Sam Smith, Russell Tovey and of course Jane McDonald.
There will be lots of stories, some bad jokes and terrible singing that crowds have come to know and love from the towering Scottish Diva. There’s a reason she’s never applied for Drag Race – she can use a mic.
NANCY CLENCH: SINGING FOR JANE MCDONALD
ROOM 2
SUNDAY 16TH MARCH 2025
Piano Powered Comedy! 🎹

More than funny enough without her keyboard but with a knack for an excellent comedic song, Teresa is so easy to like and even easier to laugh at” (QR Review) “F***in’ brilliant” (Janey Godley). “Relatable, confessional musical comedy” (Chortle) “Effortlessly funny” (Pepper & Salt)
Northern Ireland’s premier musical comedian brings her hilarious piano-powered comedy to Glasgow Comedy Festival. After a lifetime of dealing with smug women, bad haircuts and embarrassing herself in public, Teresa is ready to share.
TERESA LIVINGSTONE: DELIGHTED
RIDING ROOM
SUNDAY 16TH MARCH 2025
🎶Bum Bum Bum Barbershops🎶

Character comedy show about a barbershop singer who was kicked out of his quartet for stage diving, so must make a new quartet out of audience members every single night.
This is an interactive vaudevillian clown show about barbershop quartets from acclaimed character comedian and clown, Tom Whiston. Featuring sidesplitting audience interactions, gag-a-minute punchlines, and several showstopping numbers from a full barbershop quartet, this show has everything and more!
“A night of great fun” – Chortle.
★★★★★ “I was in stitches.” – Phoenix Remix.
★★★★ “A straight shot of serotonin right to the brain” – Edfringesider
★★★★ “Just the sort of silly, crackers show that the Fringe needs” – GetYourCoatsOn Edinburgh
TOM WHISTON: THE DANDY DANIELS
BRITANNIA PANOPTICON
FRIDAY 28TH MARCH 2025