Breakneck Comedy: Andrew O'Neill

Andrew O'Neill plays the Breakneck Comedy Club on Friday 30 October, part of the Breakneck Comedy series at Aberdeen Performing Arts. They're an award-winning comedian, musician and best-selling writer, and they describe themselves as a psychedelic non-binary whirlwind who combines surrealism, polemic and stagecraft for counter-cultural stand-up.

If you're not familiar with their work, O'Neill has written and toured several critically acclaimed solo shows, including Occult Comedian, Winston Churchill Was Jack The Ripper, MINDSPIDERS, Alternative, the early show Andrew O'Neill is Easily Distracted, Andrew O'Neill's Black Magick Fun Hour and GEBURAH. On screen, they've acted opposite John Hamm and David Tennant in Good Omens, Steve Coogan in Saxondale and Tom Burke and Ellie Bamber in Alan Moore's film The Show. They co-wrote and starred in Radio 4's occult sitcom Damned Andrew, and their Radio 4 stand-up show Pharmacist Baffler won an award.

There's a musical side to their career too. O'Neill is a founder member of the punk band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, and they've performed in more than a dozen countries and at over a hundred festivals, including Glastonbury, Download, Leeds and Reading, and have supported Amanda Palmer, Les Claypool and the Kaiser Chiefs. Alan Moore praised their book A History Of Heavy Metal.

The show is at the Breakneck Comedy Club, 28 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 5AX. Doors open at 7pm, with the show starting at 7:30pm. Tickets are £17.50.