John Shuttleworth, Out Of Our Sheds, Grand Opera House, York, Wednesday, March 6

John Shuttleworth, Out Of Our Sheds, Grand Opera House, York, Wednesday, March 6

3:48pm Thursday 28th February 2013 in Comedy By Charles Hutchinson

GRAHAM Fellows, creator of Sheffields sage man of song and life-skills tips John Shuttleworth, is thinking equally about a converted church and sheds at present.

On the one hand, Graham is undertaking the renovation and conversion of a church on Rousay, a hilly island three miles north of Orkneys mainland in the north of Scotland.

On the other, he is on his travels with alter ego Shuttleworths latest show, Out Of Our Sheds, whose progress around Britain brings him to the Grand Opera House, York, next Wednesday (March 6).

The Press caught up with Graham as he was about to catch the Rousay ferry after a day of Orkney paperwork. Ive been running around trying to finalise my grant, he says. Overseeing the renovation is very unromantic compared to my original thoughts on the project.

Then he perks up. Having said that, he says, suddenly as positive as his philosopher of the mundane, Shuttleworth, Its going to be wonderful and a big success with a recording studio and space for recuperation and itll be available for hire.

Then Graham thinks again. At least I hope itll become a success as a recording studio, but there are studios now closing down or turning into yoga centres. Hopefully people will find it appealing to record in the quiet up here because theres nothing to do on this island! he says.

Theres no ferry on a Sunday in the winter and the last ferry daily to get back to the mainland is 6.05pmbut it will be a lovely place to record and maybe that might be the only way some people might visit the Orkneys.

Graham says that to be honest I come up here to be on my own, but then he has to return to the world of John Shuttleworth, the former sweet factory security guard turned organ-playing club act.

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John Shuttleworth, Out Of Our Sheds, Grand Opera House, York, Wednesday, March 6