JOHN Otway will appear in the final gig at The Talking Heads in Portswood this weekend.
The venue, known for hosting an array of live music, is vacating its current home to move to the former location of the Maple Leaf in Southampton's Polygon.
So an act who brought the roof down last time is returning for a last party on Saturday night.
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.
Tickets from talkingheads.vticket.co.uk
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