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Five things you might not know about John Shuttleworth

The polo-necked Yorkshireman hits the road with A Wee Ken To Remember.

Brian Donaldson, BBC News, 10th March 2015

Review: John Shuttleworth, Nottingham Playhouse

From Shopkeepers in the North ("When you've had a good chin-wag / They'll pop your provisions in your bag) to Eggs and Gammon (Poor Rhiannon / Ken's got wind) and the sublime I Can't go Back To Savoury Now (That Shepherd's pie was stunning / But I'm half way through me pudding), every time he sits down to play, the audience knows they in for a treat.

David Fagan, Nottingham Post, 3rd March 2015

Review: John Shuttleworth

This tour's title A Wee Ken To Remember, is based on yet another poster misprint that his hapless manager and next-door-neighbour Ken Worthington apparently failed to notice. Of course the limited horizons of Graham Fellows's alter-ego is the joke.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th February 2015

Review: John Shuttleworth: A Wee Ken To Remember

Performing onstage for over 25 years and having a large presence on Radio 4 has earned him a loyal fanbase and a sold out 500 seat Lowry theatre hang on every twang of his Sheffield accent.

Luke Walker, The Public Reviews, 2nd February 2015

Review: John Shuttleworth and Dylan Moran

Graham Fellows feels his retro comedy character cannot go on forever.

Dylan Moran is lyrical, poetic yet fearlessly frank too on religion, politics, parenthood, middle-age spread, and irritating young men, whether spouting their mystical language in mobile phone shops or the coffee house attendant with the "Edwardian cricketers' beard" lecturing him on beans.

The York Press, 6th December 2014

An evening to remember: John Shuttleworth

John's got songs detailing the 'nightmare scenario' of having two tubs of margarine on the go at the same time.

Lauren Ballinger, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 1st December 2014

Graham Fellows: 'I can't do John Shuttleworth for ever'

Sean O'Grady joins Graham Fellows down the comedian's local Spar in Louth, Lincolnshire, for milk, pasties - and a heart-to-heart about the future of Sheffield's most versatile singer-songwriter.

Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 28th July 2014

John Shuttleworth - review

Those of us who have long believed John Shuttleworth's songs to harbour untapped reserves of musical and emotional potency could hardly resist this breast cancer charity event: an evening of cover versions by chart-topping acts from now and way back when.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 23rd September 2012

Interview: John Shuttleworth, comedian, musician

Jilted John stopped Graham Fellows playing Hamlet! That's the claim being made by the 51-year-old master of character comedy best known as Radio 4 favourite and Sheffield's finest synthesizer player and twaddle talker, John Shuttleworth.

Liam Rudden, The Scotsman, 10th March 2011

John Shuttleworth's change of rolls

Stand-up comedian Graham Fellows discusses the life of alter ego John Shuttleworth with Viv Hardwick.

Viv Hardwick, The Northern Echo, 14th February 2011

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