You Me Bum Bum Train: Legendarily Surreal Show Extends Run

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Last Updated 21 January 2025

You Me Bum Bum Train: Legendarily Surreal Show Extends Run
A man and woman, the latter wearing a comic rubber nose and smoking a cigarette
The phenomenon that is You Me Bum Bum Train returns to London after almost a decade's absence. Image: Kirk Newmann

UDPATE: This show has now been extended till 4 April 2025, with a ticket ballot now live until 2 February.

"There is simply nothing else like You Me Bum Bum Train. To lump it in with other 'immersive theatre' would feel like an injustice."

Not our words, but... oh actually they were our words, after we experienced the phenomenon that is You Me Bum Bum Train (YMBBT), back in 2015. There's been radio silence from Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd's boundary-shattering show since it wound up almost a decade ago, but now, YMBBT — the ever-changing contents of which are forever shrouded in secrecy — has returned to London, with a series of Covent Garden outings.

What to expect? No one knows, and that's the point. Described as a "surreal, exhilarating, euphoric and mind-bending participatory experience", 'passengers' aboard the train have previously wound up hosting TV chat shows (in front of a live audience), leading a police raid and conducting an orchestra. But what's on the cards this time is a complete mystery — and the YMBBT crew are determined this remains the case: passengers have to sign NDAs preventing them from spilling the beans.

The plaudits, however, are unanimous: YMBBT has been heavily furnished with five-star reviews, and winning quotes from the Independent ("I was swept along as if I was on a magic carpet, and thinking only of the here and now") and the Guardian ("Entirely euphoric. A once in a lifetime chance to break the mould and find out what we are capable of").

Tickets for YMBBT shows are more in demand than Glastonbury — over 120,000 people applying in the first minute of release. That is utterly insane. Just like You Me Bum Bum Train itself.

You Me Bum Bum Train, until 4 April 2025 (latest ticket ballot open till 2 February)