Yorkshire homecoming dates for Keith Lemon star Leigh Francis

My First Time: Keith Lemon star Leigh Francis bringing all his characters on stage for first UK tour

Keith Lemon star Leigh Francis has announced his first ever UK live tour including Yorkshire homecoming dates.

My First Time – an 18 date tour including a party finale in his home city of Leeds – will feature all his iconic characters and hilarious sketches which have kept millions of people around the UK laughing for years

BUY TICKETS: Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 23, 2023, at 10 am from gigsandtours.com and ticketmaster.co.uk

Yorkshire region dates – full 2024 tour details below – are Sheffield City Hall, Friday, March 15; Halifax Victoria Theatre, Saturday, March 16; York Barbican, Wednesday, March 20; Hull City Hall, Friday, March 22; Bradford St George’s Hall, Saturday, March 23; Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House, Saturday, April 6.

Joining Leigh will be his favourite characters, all brought to life in a live environment for the very first time ever.

From Keith Lemon, Bear and Avid Merrion to 'David Dickinson', 'Ant and Dec' and Myrtle, this tour promises to be packed full of hilarious sketches with buckets of audience interaction.

Leigh said: "Hey, really exciting news! Well exciting for me! I hope it’s exciting for you! Or at least provokes some sort of interest! I mean, just look how many exclamation marks there is in this quote! It’s definitely news with exciting intent!

"So what is this exciting news? I’m doing my first ever tour! Never done one before. It’s gonna have masks in it! The Bear, Avid Merrion, Amanda Holden’s Gran, not her actual gran but me playing her.

"I’ll also be playing Keith Lemon; I look just like him!

"It’s me doing all the characters I do that hopefully have the intent to provoke hilarity! So many exclamation marks, and the word ‘intent’ and ‘provoke’ twice! I’m excited! Come see ME being other people LIVE for the first time! It’ll be your first time and my first time! Hence the title of the tour MY FIRST TIME! (There’s another exclamation mark) how exciting!"

Kicking off in Bath on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, Leigh will also visit Guildford, Bournemouth, London, Cambridge, Salford, Glasgow, Buxton, Newcastle, Nottingham, Liverpool and Birmingham.

From London's iconic Palladium to the Liverpool Philharmonic, Leigh and his characters are ready to assemble and give people a night to remember:LEIGH FRANCIS - MY FIRST TIME 2024 TOUR: