You'll see re-enactments of stories from Chat magazine, hear accordion cover versions of Queen and Radiohead, participate in live Boggle matches and meet a character called Dali Parton whose breasts drop open to reveal Salvador Dali-esque images of Dolly Parton songs.

You probably won't find an opportunity to share those interesting observations about the use of pastoral imagery in Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

The toast of Edinburgh 2005, The Book Club is at once a literary event, a comedy gig and a variety performance - like Vic Reeves' Big Night Out with a thesaurus and a slightly more even distribution of participating egos.

A monthly must in London and now a touring show, it is witty, wacky and wise, catering for the sort of comedy fan who has tired of the three-acts-and-a-compere format and likes foraging in charity shops.

And it is the brainchild of Robin Ince, a Radio 4 regular who, after guest starring in The Office and supporting Ricky Gervais on tour, has also become known as Gervais' plaything.

"It has actually been going on for 12 years," he says, "this psychotic bullying. Ricky'll start to make loud and incessant noises when I enter the room or I'll go to the loo and he'll find a way of breaking in and filming me on the toilet - all these things you wouldn't normally expect of an award-winning writer and comedian.

"It's a twisted obsession, a very strange thing. Even his girlfriend Jane doesn't understand it."

But never mind the bullying. Ince is now the proud host of his own hip club, the seed of which was sewn when he unearthed a copy of Syd Little's autobiography A Little Goes A Long Way, found himself enthralled by its lack of self-awareness, and took to reading out extracts while accompanied by the music of Philip Glass.

"I really like creating an incongruous mix of things," says Ince. "So if I read from Mills & Boon, I quite like to play Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis. It's such a powerful piece of music that it can make even something as utterly trite as a lonely woman describing a lasagne she's eating moving - that's from Stormy Vigil, by the way, my favourite lighthouse love story."

In a breathtaking mix of styles and content, Ince is joined tomorrow by the likes of comedian Josie Long, accordion player Martin White, crazed costumiers Gawk A-Go-Go and, quite possibly, an impersonation of Andy McNabb. But he'd also like to invite audience members to submit their own crap books for his attention.

"One of my favourites was when someone brought with them the I Spy Book Of Ghosts And Haunting," he says. "I Spy was normally birds, trucks, trains - y'know, things that can be seen with the human eye.

"You'd never get more than two ticks in an I Spy book of ghosts, and if you did it'd suggest that you were mentally ill."

Starts at 8.30pm, tickets cost £8 and £6, call 01273 647100