John Otway & The Big Band

A concert by John Otway & The Big Band at Alexander's Live in Chester, featuring the performer John Otway, whose career in rock and indie music spans around fifty years.

John Otway has been performing for around fifty years and has played more than 5,000 gigs. He has released 15 albums, six of them with Wild Willy Barrett, and has achieved sell-out shows at the Royal Albert Hall as well as headlining at the London Palladium. His song Beware of the Flowers placed seventh in a BBC poll of the nation's favourite lyrics. A 1977 appearance on Old Grey Whistle Test, during which a leap across an amplifier went wrong, brought him wider attention and preceded the first of his two top 20 hits. He has also published two bestselling volumes of autobiography and has received an honorary degree from Oxford.

The 2013 biopic Otway the Movie: The Story of Rock n Roll's Greatest Failure premiered in Leicester Square, was shown at Cannes and was voted second-best film of the year by Guardian readers. It has remained popular on Netflix. His surreal humour, near-constant gigging and self-deprecating underdog persona have earned him the status of a national treasure.

This concert is billed as John Otway & The Big Band and takes place at Alexander's Live in Chester, a venue that mainly hosts concerts, with a focus on pop, rock and indie music.