Event Description

John Watterson is delighted to announce his new show for 2025 – ‘Another Audience without Jake Thackray’, celebrating the lwonderful wordsmithery of the great Yorkshire chansonnier. The set includes many Jake classics (Sister Josephine, On Again On Again, The Bantam Cock etc), anecdotes from the recent biography plus some recently discovered ‘lost’ Thackray masterpieces.

Watterson is the UK’s leading performer of Jake’s songs. As Fake Thackray he has toured with Fairport Convention and Jasper Carrott and has performed at festivals, theatres and clubs across the UK and on local and national radio, as well as appearing with Jon Richardson on ‘Meet the Richardsons’.