Top Gear Live news - Top Gear Live - 2008

The unstoppable Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May walked the boards at Earls Court last night, marking the beginning of the Top Gear Live world tour.

It featured Jeremy, Richard and James - plus the Stig, fresh from his awards bash - creating a real-life motoring experience on stage, 'incorporating the drama of film and theatre with the thrills and spills of stunts and special effects'.

Basically what that means is that it was like Top Gear, only, erm, live, onstage.

Loads of awesome supercars being hooned about, mixed with some high-comedy like the ever popular car football, and some explosions and fire too, just to make sure that the job's done properly.

Top Gear Live will continue in London until November 2, and then it travels on up to Birmingham from November 13 to 16. With 71,000 visitors turning up last year, you'll be in good company, and you can get tickets from here.

And don't worry if you're outside of the UK, 'cos the show will be visiting Dublin, Johannesburg, Sydney, Aukland and Hong Kong too. There's even plans to roll the show out to another 11 countries over the next 18 months, so we'll keep you posted on where and when.