ECHO Entertainment News: PREVIEW: John Shuttleworth: Out of Our Sheds

SHEFFIELDS finest comedy synthesiser player and twaddle-talker is heading for Liverpool.

John Shuttleworth brings his new touring show, Out of Our Sheds, to the Playhouse on February 2.

His previous visits to the city have included dates at the Everyman with his sold out shows A Man With No More Rolls, Beyond Our Kennel and The Minor Tour.

This time he ventures beyond the garden gate to tread the mean streets of Britain. Which is better: city life or country living? Supermarket or village shop? Or is it better to sit in your shed and count the cobwebs?

It is, in fact, part of what is described as a totally misguided (but utterly hilarious) crusade to persuade villagers throughout the UK to give up their primitive rural existence, and head back to the cities, just as they did in the mass exodus during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century.

Expect his persuasive patter to be accompanied by music from his trusty portable synthesiser.

The softly-spoken Shuttleworth is a fully-formed figment of comedian, actor and writer Graham Fellows fertile imagination, with the character first making his appearance back in 1986.

Graham, meanwhile, has an association with the Everyman and Playhouse going back more than 30 years to when he performed in the Lennon show at the Everyman in the months after the former Beatles murder.

But he first came to prominence as Jilted John who had a 1978 hit of the same name, famous for its line Gordon is a moron and which reached number four in the charts.

In addition to John Shuttleworth, the comedian has also created two more characters Brian Appleton and Dave Tordoff.

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ECHO Entertainment News: PREVIEW: John Shuttleworth: Out of Our Sheds