{"id":268949,"date":"2025-07-17T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268949\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:26:12","slug":"rob-auton-follows-edinburgh-run-with-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/268949\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Auton Follows Edinburgh Run With Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Rob Auton<\/strong>\u00a0(The Change,\u00a0Marching Powder,\u00a0Starstruck) will be heading out on tour with his latest show\u00a0CAN: The Story of a Man Called CAN\u00a0\u2014 his first-ever narrative story, centred on a man who was once the world\u2019s leading motivational speaker\u2026 until something changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The show debuts in Edinburgh for the full month this August and tours the UK from 2026, including dates in Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle, Cambridge, Brighton, Bristol, York, Sheffield, Salford, Birmingham and Cardiff. Rob will kick-start the tour with a return to London\u2019s Soho Theatre, performing Downstairs for a week-long run from Monday 19th\u00a0January to Saturday 24th\u00a0January at 7.15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dubbed \u201cthe Fringe\u2019s comedian laureate\u201d by the British Comedy Guide, Rob has earned a cult following with his acclaimed comedy, theatre, and spoken word shows exploring specific themes \u2014 from time and yellow to hair and even himself \u2014 which he has toured nationally and internationally, including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A two-time\u00a0British Podcast Awards\u00a0Gold winner, Rob is the creator of\u00a0The Rob Auton Daily Podcast, which has over 500 episodes and 2 million downloads. Praised by The Observer\u2019s Miranda Sawyer for \u201cmaking you see the world differently,\u201d the podcast features Rob\u2019s uniquely humorous reflections on the everyday, blending spoken word with evocative music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On screen, in the past year, Rob has starred opposite Danny Dyer in\u00a0Marching Powder, appeared in Channel 4\u2019s hit comedy\u00a0The Change, and released his debut stand-up special\u00a0The Time Show\u00a0with PLOSIVE and Turtle Canyon Comedy. He also featured in the latest series of\u00a0Starstruck\u00a0(BBC), adding to credits including\u00a0Miracle Workers\u00a0(TBS),\u00a0The End of the F**ing World\u00a0(Netflix\/Channel 4),\u00a0The Russell Howard Hour\u00a0(Sky),\u00a0Cold Feet\u00a0(ITV), and\u00a0Random Acts\u00a0(Channel 4). His appearance on\u00a0Stand-Up Central With Rob Delaney\u00a0(Comedy Central) went viral, amassing over 21 million views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Rob recently partnered with JF Abraham of acclaimed conceptual pop group Public Service Broadcasting to debut their collaborative project,\u00a0Words With Music, to a packed tent of thousands at last summer\u2019s End of the Road Festival. Following its success, the duo will return to perform again this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Rob\u2019s latest book,\u00a0I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things, was published by HarperCollins\u2019 Mudlark. He has also released three earlier books with Burning Eye and a spoken word album on Scroobius Pip\u2019s Speech Development Records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Tour tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 18th\u00a0July and Fringe tickets are on sale now. Full dates and tickets at\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robauton.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>robauton.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Auton\u00a0(The Change,\u00a0Marching Powder,\u00a0Starstruck) will be heading out on tour with his latest show\u00a0CAN: The Story of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,102312,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-268949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-rob","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114867862510857879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}