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Saturday Night at the Empire

11 April 2012
The Weekender

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COMEDY

Saturday Night at the Empire

7.30pm, Hackney Empire, 291 Mare Street, E8. £12.50, friends £9.50. Rail: Hackney Central

A new season of Saturday shows kicks off in considerable style with rapid-fire, nononsense Irishman Ed Byrne topping the bill. Erstwhile poet Murray Lachlan Young - he of the £1 million recording contract - returns with his barbed bouquets, plus Simon Munnery, Nina The Cleaner and a "very special guest". Compere is serial oddball Boothby Graffoe. Bruce Dessau 020 8985 2424

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