

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Dave Spikey - Life in a Northern Town
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: This show is all about Dave’s life in… well… a northern town, so no surprise there.

From his working-class childhood in the small, terraced houses in the shadow of the mills in Bolton through passing his 11 plus and going to grammar school with an ambition to be a doctor which was thwarted just after his “O” levels.

Instead, at 16 getting a job in the Pathology department at Bolton General Hospital and working there for 32 years ultimately as Chief Biomedical Scientist in Haematology before throwing caution to the wind and leaving to pursue a career in comedy (as you do!).

He will tell how he turned his microscope off for the last time on Friday 13 October 2000, and two weeks later found himself on a car park only half a mile down the road singing “Walking on Sunshine” in the pouring rain on a makeshift stage dressed as a giant berry; while a twenty foot c*ck and balls slowly but surely inflated behind him.

He wondered at that moment if he’d made the right decision. As it turns out, he had.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bury/dave-spikey-life-in-a-northern-town/200029362559900
- **Event Categories**: workshops, comedy, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://themet.org.uk/event/dave-spikey-2026/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=bury-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Bury
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: The Met
- **lat**: 53.59296
- **long**: -2.29728
- **full address**: The Met, Market Street,Bury, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: The Met (https://allevents.in/org/the-met/1861125)

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- **Alt text**: thumbnail
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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** The Met, Market Street,Bury, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Met
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, comedy, nonprofit
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Dave Spikey - Life in a Northern Town ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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