In 2018 David began performing stand up comedy. He was awarded the New Act Of The Year prize at 2018’s Nottingham Comedy Festival. In 2019 he won Bath Comedy Festival’s New Comedian Of The Year and the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian Of The Year. In 2022 he performed stand up on BBC Radio 4’s topical comedy programme The Now Show. He frequently supports Boothby Graffoe. He also starred in Tony Law and Phil Nichol’s improvised 2019 Edinburgh Fringe show.
“a comic tour de force.” (The Guardian)
“Brilliant, nuts, heartily recommend” (Rufus Hound)
“David Eagle is a genuine stand up rookie phenomenon! Looking forward to hearing more.” (Reginald D Hunter)
“just seen the future of stand up comedy and his name is David Eagle” (Boothby Graffoe)
constantly hilarious, gag on gag, leaving an audience gasping in admiration, and applause that goes on for minutes.
David is one third of three-time BBC Radio 2 folk Award winning band The Young’uns. You may have heard them performing on BBC Radio 2 and 3, or maybe seen them on BBC’s Springwatch. They’ve also done a couple of documentaries for BBC Radio 4. Or perhaps – and granted, this is unlikely, but maybe – you heard them in the Aardman Animations film Itch of the Golden Nit, in which they played the role of Vic Reeves’ pirate backing band. They perform at venues and festivals in the UK and all over the world, including Cambridge Folk Festival and Glastonbury, where they played on stage with Billy Bragg.
The harmonies are glorious, the wit is waspish. The songs are powerful, the banter is relentless and the audience is happy. What’s not to like?
David presents The Young’uns Podcast, comprising music and chat from top guests in folk, and a variety of irreverent features.
David also DJs at folk festivals, presenting The Young’uns In The Mix, which mashes up folk with pop, thrash metal, dubstep, or whatever the heck he bloody well fancies. “An inspired and zany mix that moved from Jackson Five to Bellowhead to Diana Ross to, er, Mr Blobby. ‘Somewhere in a parallel universe, Van Halen is on stage with the Watersons,’ said Eagle, melding Jump with Norma singing Sumer Is Icumen In. Perhaps you had to be there. I’m glad I was.” The Guardian
He has also released two mashup projects, David Eagle’s Pick and Mix, the DJ set with no rules and no restrictions, combining music from any genre and time. A third Pick and Mix is due for release later in 2019.
David frequently performs music and comedy alongside comedian Paul Silky White (Silky). He also occasionally performs with writer, singer and storyteller Matthew Crampton under the moniker Muddling Through, featuring a mix of music hall, stories, poetry and original songs. “A show packed with humour, satire and, oh yes, smut, lots of smut.” Folk Radio.
In 2017 and 2018, David performed in the folk opera The Transports, a musical tale of exile and migration. “There is a priceless comic turn from Young’un David Eagle as an unrepentant reprobate who sings of his appointment with the hangman at breakneck pace.” 5star Guardian review.
In 2016 he produced a daily blog called David’s Daily Digital Dollop, featuring a mix of written and audio pieces on all manner of subjects (although more often than not, his errant kettle) and recordings of his rural walks through Sheffield, chatting to people he met on his way, such as old, profane, politically incorrect farmers. David Eagle’s Blog is available as a podcast.
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