Wavis O'Shave is a surreal English musician and comedian, who regularly appeared on Channel 4's music show, The Tube (1982–1987). Description Wavis O'Shave performed many original comedy characters including the cult figure "The Hard", a bizarre character who made brief appearances on The Tube hitting his hand with a hammer and saying "I felt nowt (nothing)!" O'Shave appears as Foffo Spearjig The Hard on The Tube Anthology - The Best of Series 1 double disc DVD (2006) and in Once Upon a Time in the North, a 2010 documentary about local music in South Tyneside released on DVD by Northeastern Films. He appears as Wavis O'Shave in the 2011 Northeastern Films DVD We Sold our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll. His video for the remake of his earlier song "Mauve Shoes are Awful" was a nominated at the NME Shockwaves Video awards in 2009. O'Shave appeared in The Strange world of Wavis O'Shave as part of the hour long BBC Radio 1 documentary Viz - The Rock 'n' Roll Years broadcast in 1997, and in April 2010 had his own one-hour-long special An Evening with Wavis and Foffo on London's Resonance FM. 'O'Shave featured heavily in the 1981 book 'Rock Bottom - The Book of Pop Atrocities' by Muck Raker. O'Shave's last TV appearance was on the Granada Television show, Stars In Their Eyes, performing Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" in 1994. In his 2004 autobiography 'Rude Kids - The Unfeasible story of VIZ', author and ex-British comic adult magazine VIZ COMIC Editor Chris Donald describes Wavis as 'He was a sort of cross between Howard Hughes,Tiny Tim and David Icke. He was never seen at the Gosforth Hotel and I'd only ever caught a glimpse of him once in the Anti-Pop office, when he didn't speak at all. To promote the album he only played one gig - at the Music Machine, Camden, in March 1980 - and he didn't even turn up for that. A heavily disguised Arthur 2 Stroke went on in his place. None of his fans knew what Wavis looked like, so there were no complaints'. The gig Donald refers to was reviewed in the British Music Press by RECORD MIRROR on 5/4/1980 without the magazine realising it wasn't actually the real Wavis. 'O'Shave has often had strained confrontations with other celebrities. In 1980 he chased British