IT’S been a good 12 months in the West End for stand-up fans. Bill Bailey, Eddie Izzard and Rob Brydon have been and gone, Frank Skinner’s Monday night residency at the Lyric resumes on October 12, and Dylan Moran and Ross Noble are on their way soon But first it’s the turn of Irishman Ed Byrne and his new show Different Class (Vaudeville, Monday to September 19, 0844 4124663 or www.ticketmaster.com). He opens in the West End after two UK tours including the Mercury Theatre, in Colchester, dates in New Zealand and Australia, and sold-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios. Different Class examines his inability to fit in, whether it be the youth of today, the old, the middle class or the working class. Byrne, who’s steadily turning into a grumpy, middle-aged man, touches on all things that exasperate and amuse him. These include the planning of his recent marriage, social class and all its divisions, the young and their ways and anything else that strikes him as humorous. Ed Byrne: Different Class is only considered suitable for 14-year-olds and older. Meanwhile, Robyn Petersen’s self-penned semi-autobiographical solo show Catwalk Confidential transfers to London from the Edinburgh Festival (Arts Theatre, Wednesday to October 3, 0845 0175584 or www. seetickets.com/catwalk confidential). Petersen, became one of the most successful fashion models of the 1970s. Catwalk Confidential is part fairy tale, part romance and part memoir, where she discovers there is always a younger girl waiting to step into your shoes.