BILL Bailey’s 2015 tour Limboland will take in King George’s Hall, Blackburn, and Preston Guild Hall.

Kicking off in Plymouth on October 9, the show also travels to Southend, Reading, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Liverpool, Cardiff, Manchester, Coventry, Leicester, Cambridge, Hull Scarborough, Guildford, Wolverhampton, Watford, Halifax, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Brighton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth.

The tour’s finale takes place at the Hammersmith Apollo - on Bill’s home turf - where the comedian will play three nights in December.

The gap between how we imagine our lives to be and how they really are is the subject of his new show.

With his trademark intelligence and sharp wit, he tells tales of finding himself in this halfway place. From his countless global travels, he recounts the hilarious saga of a disastrous family trip to Norway to see the Northern Lights.

He rails against a world that doesn’t match up to our expectations and contemplates the true nature of happiness.

And no Bill Bailey show would be complete without music, so we have Bill’s version of the protest song, a heart-rending country and western ballad played on a Bible, and a fabulously downbeat version of Happy Birthday.

The British Comedy award winner has enjoyed success on the live stage for many years.

In 2001 he took his show Bewilderness to New York for an eight-week run at the Westbeth Theatre.

The New York Times wrote of him: “Bill is an unalloyed pleasure, a treat for the funny bone, the brain and the ear” and The Telegraph pronounced him “a hobbit with a wicked sense of humour”.

In 2004 he performed his show Part Troll at more than 50 venues around the UK, culminating in an extended run at London’s Wyndhams Theatre.

In 2007 he embarked on a sold-out UK arena tour called Tinselworm. He took the show Down Under during the summer of 2008, touring Australia and New Zealand, before returning to London in December 2008 for a 10-week run of the show at The Gielgud Theatre.

The summer of 2009 saw Bill tour the UK once again with his live show, Bill Bailey Live before the successful Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra.

Dandelion Mind was followed by another hit show, Qualmpeddler, with which he toured Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Latvia, Estonia, The Netherlands and of course the UK, where he wrapped up the tour with a massive gig at London’s Wembley Arena.

His TV appearances and tours mean he is never far away from an appreciative audience.

n Bill plays Blackburn on October 23-24 and Preston on November 13-14.