Comedian and musician Rachel Parris blends her musical and comedic skills in her show 'The Rachel Parris Songbook'.
Rachel Parris plays the Reading Concert Hall on Saturday 13 March 2027, with the show billed as The Rachel Parris Songbook. It's a night that puts her two main modes — comedy and music — on the same stage, and the title gives it away: it's a set built around the songs.
If you know her, you'll know her as an English comedian, musician and actress, best known for hosting the satirical news show Late Night Mash. That show is where she does her best work — taking the news of the day and turning it into a song on the fly — and The Songbook brings that same energy to a live room. The set draws on fan favourites like 'Speedy Boarder', 'Girl With A Diamond Finger', 'I Went To The Gym' and 'Hen Do On A Train', delivered with her usual wit and razor-sharp observations. It's a mix of the songs she's become known for and the comedy that sits between them.
There's a bit of a communal side to it, too: audiences are encouraged to sing along, and a cappella may be included, so it's more of a shared thing than a standard stand-up set. If you've followed her work on Late Night Mash, this is the live version of that — the songs you've heard on screen performed in front of a room.
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The show is at the Reading Concert Hall, in the Town Hall on Blagrave Street, RG1 1QH. It starts at 19:30, with doors opening about half an hour before.
