Comedy fans can bag tickets from just £3 at one of the Northern Quarter’s most loved venues this Valentine’s Day.
If a romantic meal for two isn’t your thing, and laughter is your love language - then how does a night at a venue that’s hosted Peter Kay, Johnny Vegas and Sarah Millican take your fancy?
Date night can be expensive - but tickets for Manchester’s Frog and Bucket can see you bag two tickets and a drink each with change from a twenty.
The Frog & Bucket Open Mic Night is the event which helped to propel some of your favourite comedians to stardom, including the likes of John Bishop and Jason Manford.
And if you browse their event selection carefully, you can bag tickets for just a couple of quid.
For example, Beat the Frog held on Mondays is only £7 a ticket, and if you’re a student it’s only £3 each.
The event centres around 10 acts who are each given five minutes to win over the audience on stage - with punters deciding who stays and who goes.
Competing comedians aim to not be ‘carded off’ by three chosen card holding audience members, and if they do last the full five minutes, they’ve successfully ‘beat the frog’.
Each weeks’ winner is then put forward to heats in October, which will see a World Series annual final to crown an overall comedy champ.
The Frog and Bucket student tickets are available for January 31, February 7 and even Valentine’s Day, on February 14.
The Frog - which was one of the first venues to open in the NQ - provides a place for people to discover new talent, and give emerging and established comedians a platform to perform their standup routines.
The venue was first opened in 1994 by Dave Perkin, and later moved to its larger Oldham St premises where it’s still run by Dave and his daughter Jessica Toomey.
Their website says: “Though it’s been a while since [Peter] Kay was at the club [Johnny] Vegas returns from time to time.
“In his book Saturday Night Peter, Peter Kay mischievously notes ‘the place used to be roasting all the time. I’m sure Dave Perkin used to turn the heating up full to sell more drink.’”
