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Peter Kay's Dance for Life review: Comedian makes joyous return to stage in Manchester with huge dance party
17.04.2022 - 11:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Peter Kay is certainly a man of many talents; a beloved comedian, as well as an award-winning writer and actor, but can he add superstar DJ to to his CV? Although his mixing may not be quite as slick Calvin Harris or David Guetta, Bolton’s favourite son had thousands in the palm of his hand as he made a joyous return to stage in Manchester.
During a three hour ‘dance-a-thon’ at Manchester Central, the national treasure treated the crowd to banger after banger from Abba to House of Pain and from the Urban Cookie Collective to S Club. Kay started Dance for Life back in 2016 to raise money for Cancer Research UK. This particular event has been rescheduled from 2020 and marks one of the comedian’s first public appearances since being forced to cancel a huge tour in 2018 citing 'unforeseen family circumstances'.
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The 48-year-old eventually took to the stage at around 7.50pm about 20 minutes behind schedule and joked: “Sorry we’re late, they’re a bit slow coming in”. He added: “A lot of you won’t get a chance to dance anymore. If you’re like me, it’ll be every four years at a wedding for about 11 minutes until they play something modern and you sit down because you feel about 100!”
The warmth that he exudes from stage throughout is infectious and really helps set the tone for the fantastic atmosphere. Wearing a rainbow sweatband on his head and a shell suit adorned with drawings of vinyl records, Kay kicked the set off with Agadoo and before pausing to tell the audience “You don’t all have to look at me, you can dance!”
People of all ages - from 18 to 80 - were dressed in weird and wonderful fancy dress costumes with Fred Flintstone,
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