“David is brilliantly clever, musical, moral. Brilliant/nuts Heartily recommend!” (Rufus Hound)
In 2024 David brought his debut stand up show, The Eagle Is Candid, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It won the Spirit Of The Fringe Award (previously won by Stewart Lee, Adam Hills, Ross Noble, League Of Gentlemen, Flight of the Conchords and Phil Nichol) and was shortlisted for Best Show at the ISH Comedy Awards. Earlier that year the show won Best Variety Show at Leicester Comedy Festival.
“My God, David Eagle makes me laugh. A ludicrously amusing gentlemen” (Miles Jupp)
David has performed stand up on Rosie Jones’s TV show, and was a guest comedian on the last few series of BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show.
“David’s an unique and very funny comedian, and this debut hour comes highly recommended.” (Paul Sinha)
“constantly hilarious, gag on gag, leaving an audience gasping in admiration, and applause that goes on for minutes.” (Bath Echo)
“a comic tour de force.” (The Guardian)
“Just seen the future of stand up comedy and his name is David Eagle” (Boothby Graffoe)
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 few documentaries for BBC Radio 4. Their full length theatre show The Ballad Of Johnny Longstaff, the true tale of an anti-fascist activist from Teesside, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and made BBC Radio’s Pick Of The Year for 2024. 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 all over the world, including 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? (5 Star Guardian Review)
David is also an occasional DJ. He has released six instalments of David Eagle’s Pick And Mix, the DJ set with no rules, combining music of any genre, from any time.
David also DJs at folk festivals, mashing 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 sporadically presents The David Eagle Podcast. It started in 2016 with David’s Daily Digital Dollop, releasing an episode every day of 2016, 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. In 2020 he released a podcast every day for the first sixty days of Lockdown called The Eagle Is Stranded, featuring walks and talks with his wife and housemates, interviews with musicians and comedians, a beer sommelier and a psychic medium. In an incredible turn of events, The David Eagle Podcast became the “official” home for the latest Gina G news. “Ooh Ahh!” Other regular podcast features include, Spammer Time, Cassette Roulette, Herbal Tea Of The Week, and Ellie Skinner’s Weekly Animal Penis Fact. One of the most popular episodes was the story of David and Ellie’s inadvertently eventful/chaotic wedding.
