punk poet Dr. John Cooper Clarke played Joe's Pub (pics, video)
Salford, UK’s legendary punk poet, Dr. John Cooper Clarke, was in NYC this past weekend for two nights at Joe’s Pub (April 7 & 8). While 2016’s This Time It’s Personal found JCC to possess a crooner’s singing voice (he made the LP with former Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell), these were nights of magnificent words and sharp wit. He closed out his April 8 show with his classic “Evidently Chickentown” which you might know from an episode of The Sopranos — You can watch that scene below — before finishing with “I Wanna Be Yours,” his poem which the Arctic Monkeys put to music on 2013’s AM. Video of both those from Joe’s Pub are below.
Fellow UK poet Mike Garry opened the night and pictures from the evening are in the gallery above, and a few videos from the Joe’s Pub shows, below.
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photos by P Squared
