John Shuttleworth

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(For the producer of classical recordings, see John Shuttleworth.)

The creation/alter ego of musician/actor Graham Fellows, John Shuttleworth 'is' a middle-aged "versatile singer-songwriter" from Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

Achieving a UK hit single early in his career as Jilted John, Fellows followed the misguided advice of his record label to keep a cult profile and did not see any further hits. In 1985, having signed a songwriting deal with Chappell Music, he was played some of their bad demo tapes and was inspired to create John Shuttleworth, a man with a hum-drum life and little aptitude for pop music who nonetheless writes song after song on his Yamaha keyboard with "built-in auto-accompaniment".

Shuttleworth was initially confined to home-produced tapes that were only circulated among Fellows' friends (some of these tracks later compiled on 'Blue John') but he gradually became more mainstream, with appearances on Radio 4 ('The Shuttleworths' series), Radio 1 ('Shuttleworth Showtime') and on Jonathan Ross's 'Saturday Zoo' on Channel 4, eventually progressing to his own TV shows ('500 Bus Stops', 'Europigeon') and films ('It's Nice Up North'). Most incongruously, perhaps, Shuttleworth played to 25,000 bemused Blur fans when he supported them at London's Mile End Stadium in 1996. Fellows has also written books as John and regularly tours in character.

The humour of John Shuttleworth is gentle and observational, bearing comparison to the work of Alan Bennett, being similarly rooted in a Northern English perspective. Although John is clearly never going to be a star, we are not invited to mock him, more to identify with him and his hopes and dreams. His songs, though unlikely to top the charts when covered by Clannad or Paul Young, as John perennially hopes, are nonetheless whimsical and clever beyond his understanding.

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Y Reg

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Two Margarines

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You're Like Manchester

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Modern Man

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i can't go back to savoury now

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October 7, 2025

Harrogate Theatre

Harrogate, England, United Kingdom

  • 1. Midweek

  • 2. Eggs and Gammon

  • 3. Early Tea

  • 4. Austin Ambassador Y Reg

  • 5. Y Reg

  • 6. Pigeons in Flight

  • 7. One Cup of Tea Is Never Enough (But 2 Is 1 Too Many!)

  • 8. The Man Who Lives on the M62

  • 9. The A1111

  • 10. Two Margarines

  • 11. 500 Bus Stops

  • 12. How's Yer Nan ?

  • 13. Mutiny Over the Bounty

  • 14. Smells Like White Spirit

  • 15. Serial Cereal Eater

  • 16. Save the Whale

  • 17. I Can't Go Back to Savoury Now


October 1, 2025

Redgrave Theatre

Bristol, England, United Kingdom


September 27, 2025

Chorley Little Theatre

Chorley, England, United Kingdom

  • 1. Raise The Oof!

  • 2. Dandelion and Burdock

  • 3. 500 Bus Stops

  • 4. Early Tea

  • 5. Blue Light Kettle

  • 6. "Ooh" She Says

  • 7. One Cup of Tea Is Never Enough (But 2 Is 1 Too Many!)

  • 1. The Pumice Stone

  • 2. When Suburbia Wakes

  • 3. God Bless the Fleece

  • 4. Midweek

  • 5. Mutiny Over the Bounty

  • 1. Two Margarines

  • 2. Y Reg

  • 3. I Can't Go Back to Savoury Now

  • 4. Pigeons in Flight


July 25, 2025

T'Other Stage

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom


May 14, 2025

Exeter Phoenix

Exeter, England, United Kingdom

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