'One word for this boy - astonishing! He will go far...' (Daily Express 1953)

Well he couldn't have gone further than he did when he emigrated from Scotland to New Zealand in 1991. But wherever he is in the world, John Cairney, actor, writer and raconteur par excellence is never more at home than when he is on a stage talking to an audience.

His audience is mainly Scots, and those who wish they were Scots, but he believes that once the lights go down we're a "Jock Tamson's bairns" and nationality means nothing in the dark. An audience is an audience anywhere. As a solo performer he falls in love with his audience every night, and to win them he must woo them with words.

'www' to John Cairney means 'words, words, words'. Words to be written, read, recited, or researched alone or in tandem with his wife, Alannah O'Sullivan, his partner in The Pennyfarthing Partnership.