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23 October 2007
CARDIFF ON LEE EVANS TOUR AS HE GOES FOR RECORD

CARDIFF'S International Arena is to stage two massive gigs on comedian Lee Evans' record-breaking tour next year.

Evans is playing two nights at the CIA on September 13 and 14 with an enormous 300,000 tickets available for his 18 night tour.

Only last year, Evans, 43, and born in Avonmouth, Bristol, was at the other end of the scale where he played the very intimate Glee Club in Cardiff Bay prior to going to the Edinburgh Festival.

He was outstanding then but his show really has to be the best if it is to bring the comedian huge audiences and, in playing the O2 Arena in London - formerly the Millennium Dome - it will be the UK's biggest ever live comedy gig.

Evans said: "I'm really keen to get back out on tour again and go all around the country. You get such a buzz from the live audience, the reactions are just so immediate and totally spur you on. There's nothing else quite like it.

"Being the first comedian to play at the O2 Arena will be amazing. I'm so excited to be able to performe there. It's a big space to fill but I love a challenge."

He broke the world record for the biggest audience to watch a solo comic in 2005 when playing in front of 10,108 people at Manchester's Evening News Arena.

The Cardiff International Arena has a capacity of around 5,000 and two nights of that will go a way towards a massive tour crowd to have fun with for the legendary comedian.

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