Clare Ferguson-Walker – 8pm – 8:20pm

Mike Garry – 8:20pm – 8:45pm

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Dr John Cooper Clarke – 9:15pm – 10:25pm

The ever eminent Dr. John Cooper Clarke returns to Electric Palace by popular demand!!

John Cooper Clarke originally shot to prominence in the 1970s as the original ‘people’s poet’.

Since then his career has spanned cultures, audiences, art forms and continents – a lifelong craft most recently embodied in his book of poetry The Luckiest Guy Alive, which was released worldwide in November on Picador/Macmillan.

JCC is as relevant and vibrant as ever, and his influence just as visible on today’s pop culture. Aside from his trademark ‘look’ continuing to resonate with fashionistas young and old, and his poetry included on national curriculum syllabus, his effect on modern music is huge.

His influence can be heard within the keen social observations of the Arctic Monkeys and Plan B. These collaborations mean that John has been involved in 2 recent global number 1 albums – with The Arctic Monkeys putting one of John’s best loved poems, I Wanna Be Yours, to music on their critically acclaimed A:M Album

His latest show, touring across the UK, USA, Canada & Australasia, is a mix of classic verse, extraordinary new material, hilarious ponderings on modern life, good honest gags, riffs and chat – a chance to witness a living legend at the top of this game.

“I say to people, have you heard of John Cooper Clarke and if they say, yes, yeah he’s an absolute genius and you just go, ‘oh – ok, you’ve saved me a lot of time.”     Steve Coogan

WITH SUPPORT FROM

Mike Garry

Garry was a librarian for 15 years before becoming a poet.  He began by reading his own poems to the hundreds of young people who attended his Library Homework Centre. They loved what they heard and encouraged him to perform them at live poetry events and Slams, which he did, instantly winning fans and prizes throughout the UK. His gritty poetry has won the admiration far and wide and his collaboration with Joe Duddell and New Order in New Yorks Carnegie Hall in 2014 received five star reviews.

Clare Ferguson-Walker

Described as “Absurdly Talented” by Phill Jupitus, whom she has supported at the Edinburgh Fringe, and“Funny as F*ck” by John Cooper Clarke, Clare is tender and funny with a wicked bite.