Press clippings Page 3
Interview with ​Andrew O'Neill
Andrew O'Neill takes some time to talk to Voice about the show, inspirations, and to give advice to young people.
Tom Inniss, Voice Magazine, 25th July 2017Andrew O'Neill to write heavy metal book
Andrew O'Neill has signed a book deal to write about his passion for heavy metal music. A History of Heavy Metal, based on the comedian's stand-up show of the same name will be published in March.
Chortle, 5th August 2016Review: Andrew O'Neill's History of Heavy Metal
Andrew O'Neill's History of Heavy Metal is confusing, at first: set out more like a music gig, with a band (three quarters of Reprisal) and we, the audience, stood for the entire thing. This is like no comedy gig I've been to before. But this is Andrew O'Neill, and everything he does seems to work so well, so easily.
Molly Stewart, Giggle Beats, 3rd May 2015Andrew O'Neill interview
From Sabbath to Slipknot: Andrew O'Neill's bringing a history of heavy metal to the stage.
Alex Bellotti, Ham & High, 23rd April 2015John Thomson: Leicester Comedy Festival review
Review of John Thomson, Andrew O'Neill, Mick Ferry and Darrell Martin.
Linda Steelyard, Leicester Mercury, 23rd February 2015UK's first Vegan Comedy Festival announced
Dig out your tofu jokes, stand by with quinoa quips, next month the UK's first Vegan Comedy Festival will open in Brighton. Twenty comedians will appear over the course of the two-day event, every one of them vegan. The comedy festival is an off-shoot of VegfestUK, a celebration of all things vegan - cookery demonstrations, food stalls, talks, speed-dating - which is now in its 13th year. The odd vegan stand-up like Sara Pascoe, Lucy Porter or Dave Spikey has appeared at the festival in the past, but this will be the first time there has been a dedicated comedy event. Carl Donnelly, Michael Legge, Andrew O'Neill and Harriet Kemsley are among the established names and up-and-comers who will perform as audiences enjoy vegan beer and hotdogs from the bar.
Alice Jones, The Independent, 13th February 2015Andrew O'Neill's History Of Heavy Metal review
The metal-loving community - if that's such a thing - is certainly large enough to sustain Andrew O'Neill's genre-specific comedy, so it's to his credit that he plays wider without alienating or patronising either side.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 26th September 2014Edinburgh Fringe 2014 interview: Andrew O'Neill
Andrew O'Neill is as much influenced by rock Gods like Metallica and Mastodon as by any comedian he's ever looked up to. The two subjects come together in Andrews' Edinburgh Fringe show this year, where he brings us a history of heavy metal. With laughs, presumably.
Laugh Out London, 3rd August 2014Leicester Comedy Festival: Awards shortlist announced
The comedians, venues and promoters who helped raise the biggest laughs at Leicester Comedy Festival are to be recognised. Shortlisted for Best Show are Ahir Shah, Andrew O'Neill, Captain Morgan and the Sands of Time and John Gordillo.
Samantha Fisher, Leicester Mercury, 26th February 2014Latitude review: Andrew O'Neill
It's hard to pigenonhole a comedian who one minute jauntily rewrites classic pop songs for the colour-blind, and the next rumbles intimidating death-metal lyrics into the face of a terrified front-row punter as part of a routine that started with small-talk at a bus stop - but there is one category you can put O'Neill into: the one marked 'funny'.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th July 2013