Top of the bill tonight (Friday, September 26) is Justin Moorhouse, alias the tiger face-painted Young Kenny, currently touring his fourth solo show, Justin Moorhouse's Ever Decreasing Social Circle, which he will be performing during the Grin Up North festival next month.

On Saturday it's the turn of Kenny Senior, stand-up Archie Kelly, who has recently completed filming a new British comedy feature film, Snappers, in Devon which he wrote and appears in along with Sheffield's own Toby Foster. He's back with his first love, stand-up,and the support on both nights is young, up-and-coming comic Dan Nightingale and deadpan Scottish comic Dougie Dunlop, with guest compere Steve Harris.

Philharmonic secrets

THERE'S a chance to get up close and personal with Gianandrea Noseda before the chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra picks up the baton to conduct the opening concert of the new Sheffield International Concert Season. The charismatic Milanese Maestro joins Trisha Cooper on stage, along with general manager Richard Wigley to share some of the backstage secrets of the orchestra whose every note is broadcast on BBC Radio Three at the City Hall on Saturday at 6.30pm.

Keane performance

IN the wake of their highly-anticipated third album Perfect Symmetry out in October, Keane are going out on a UK tour next year which brings them to the Sheffield Arena on Saturday, February 6. Tickets at £27.50 (subject to booking fee) go on sale at 9am today.

At the same time tickets become available for Boyzone's Sheffield date on their Better 09 Tour, Saturday, June 6, which will see all five original members – Ronan Keating, Stephen Gately, Shane Lynch, Mikey Graham and Keith Duffy – perform. The price is £32.50 (subject to booking fee).

Memorial lecture

ENVIRONMENTALISTS and mountaineers Roger Payne and Julie-Ann Clyma are giving the the annual Paul Nunn Lecture (in memory of the economic history lecturer killed climbing in Pakistan in 1995) at Sheffield Hallam University on Wednesday. Now Swiss mountain guides, they have been on more than 20 Alpine style climbing trips to high and difficult mountains and their expeditions often encompass environmental projects with organisations such as the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, the World Conservation Union and the United Nations Environment Programme.
They will be describing their trips to Mount Grosvenor in the Daxue Shan, Chomolhari on the border of Tibet and Bhutan and four trips to mountains in west and north Sikkim in the Pennine Lecture Theatre on Wednesday. Tickets at £8/£5 are available via 2252050 or email r.vyse@shu.ac.uk.

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