John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett Backstage Green Hotel in Kinross on Wed 9th March 2016. Tickets £18. Buy Tickets HERE.
Booking Office 01577 863467 & 07935 288 816 Mundell Music Site.
John Otway is an English singer-songwriter who has built a sizeable cult audience through extensive touring, a surreal sense of humour and a self-deprecating underdog persona. Wild Willy Barrett is a Virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and songwriter best known for his partnership with John Otway.
John first achieved notoriety with his eye-watering performance on Old Grey Whistle Test and subsequent hit single ‘Really Free’ in 1977. A heady mix of blind ambition and rank incompetence was to keep this microstar shining for almost two decades despite Otway’s ability to turn any situation to his own disadvantage.
His autobiography ‘Rock and Roll’s Greatest Failure’ out sold, by a factor of ten, all the records he had released since his hit, and now Otway is struggling to live up to this billing – selling out London Astoria for his 2000th gig in 1993, filling the Royal Albert Hall in 1998, and charting at number 9 with his 2002 single ‘Bunsen Burner’. For John ‘Two Hits’ Otway, ‘the future’s bright; the future’s Otway!
John Otway
Otway & Barrett