IF easily offended, please stay away, as Roy Chubby' Brown always advises. However, if you love the Chubby one and have tickets for his live show at the Grand Opera House on August 25, then please note the date has changed to July 21. Correct, that's tonight, but don't curse. Leave that to Mr Brown.

Into his sixties, the insatiably blue comic from the rough industrial suburb of Grangetown, Middlesbrough, continues to play to sold-out British theatres and concert halls, as well as taking his brassy brand of humour around the world with success in Australia, the USA, the Middle East and Hong Kong.

Always greeted by men and women alike with that distinctive chant of endearment, "You fat b**tard", the outrageous Chubby is still considered unsuitable for mainstream television or radio. Indeed the only way to hear Chubby is to watch him live, either in his many videos or in the substantial flesh provided you go on the right night in York! If not easily offended, tickets for tonight's 7.30pm show cost £18 on 0870 606 3595.

Should you be needing a little more Chubby in your life, his autobiography, Common As Muck!, will be published by Time Warner Books on August 3, with recollections of his days in Britain's toughest Borstal; his stabbing in the Merchant Navy; his switch from rock'n'roll to smutty comedy; and his determination to overcome throat cancer when diagnosed at 60.

In August too, he will be the subject of an episode of Channel 4's three-part series The Right To Offend, alongside shows on Monty Python and Rowan Atkinson.