John Shuttleworth, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal

The audience at a sell-out performance at the Brewery spent an amiable evening yesterday in the company of Sheffield musician and entertainer John Shuttleworth (Graham Fellows).

What John talks about is all fairly banal - a forthcoming trip to see relatives at Rotherham, a weekend of DIY and so on - but the cleverness is all in the delivery and the fact he creates a believable world inhabited by himself, his manager Ken, wife Mary and assorted other characters such as Mary's school lunchtime monitor colleague, Joan Chitty.

Highlights included his anecdote about misunderstanding an endorsement after his first deal done on eBay (buying a toaster from a couple in Hathersage) and how he subsequently interpreted it to mean that the sellers would like to meet up socially.

His musings on the rise of tiffin (overtaking chocolate brownies in popularity in John's view) and how, in the 1980s, everyone thought the nectarine would take over from peaches, were very funny.

The songs on his Yamaha organ came thick and fast. There were old favourites like Y Reg, I Can't Go Back to Savoury Now and Save The Whale and I particularly enjoyed A Late Arrangement for an Early Tea, which charted the chaos caused when Mary announces the evening meal will have to be brought forward as she has an engagement at 6pm.

Graham Fellows has created a character who is able to entertain and elicit lots of laughter.

Andrew Thomas