Poetry phenomenon and British cult icon John Cooper Clarke is back on tour in the UK in November 2024 for an exclusive handful of shows in some of the UK’s most beautiful theatres and he will be ...

John Cooper Clarke, the bard of Salford, is hitting old London town again next week with a show at the Palladium, a venue that still holds huge allure for the national treasure that is Mr Clarke.

John Cooper Clarke is nursing a tumbler of rum in a wood-panelled London boozer. “It’s Havana Gold. Unspiced. The one pirates drink,” he says, impishly flashing a mouthful of gold teeth worthy of ...