Neighbours' Karl to tour the UK

Neighbours' Karl to tour the UK
Neighbours' Karl to tour the UK (Image credit: five)

Neighbours star Alan Fletcher has announced that he will be touring the UK with his music act. The Australian actor - best known for playing Ramsay Street doctor Karl Kennedy - will be supported by British band The X-Rays for nine university gigs, before he goes solo for five dates, from September 28 until October 15. "I am very excited to be touring again and can't wait to catch up with fans all over the UK - I will arrive in the UK to perform a series of nine gigs at unis," he wrote on his website. "I will also appear at five venues as a solo act performing a few songs and meeting fans," he added. Alan's tour kicks off with personal appearances at Manchester, Newcastle and Birmingham, before he performs at the Liverpool Guild of Students. He then moves onto Swansea University, London, Plymouth, Portsmouth, UCA at Surrey and Farnham, Aberystwyth, Glyndwr, Leeds and Sheffield. More details are on Alan's blog (web.me.com/fletch17/Site/Blog/Blog.html). Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.