John Otway? As in "Beware of the Flowers" ??
If so then he's truly wonderful - but I'd be more inclined to call it all-round incompetence!!!
We saw him at Trowbridge Festival, and the marquee had a heaving mass of ecstatic fans at the front, and a somewhat puzzled set of people sitting on their deckchairs at the back wondering what the hell all the fuss was about. Pure magic.