John Cooper Clarke's 2008 Concert History

John Cooper Clarke (born January 25, 1949) is a performance poet from Salford, Lancashire, England, affectionately known as the Bard of Salford. He is often referred to as a punk poet, having initially achieved recognition in the late 1970s amidst the flourishing punk movement. His recorded output has mainly centred around musical backing The Invisible Girls, featuring Martin Hannett, Pete Shelley, Bill Nelson and Steve Hopkins.

Aug 22, 2008
John Cooper Clarke

Reading Festival

Little John's Farm Reading, England, United Kingdom
Aug 22, 2008 –
Aug 24, 2008
Leeds Festival 2008
The Killers / Metallica / MGMT / Cage The Elephant / Vampire Weekend / Florence + The Machine / Bring Me The Horizon / Queens of the Stone Age / Avenged Sevenfold / All Time Low / Foals / Plain White T's / Bloc Party / The Wombats / Justice / Rage Against The Machine / Bullet for My Valentine / Bombay Bicycle Club / Santigold / Crystal Castles / Dizzee Rascal / Tenacious D / The Fratellis / The Raconteurs / The Ting Tings / Taking Back Sunday / Pendulum / Biffy Clyro / Dropkick Murphys / Editors / Chromeo / The Kills / Yeasayer / You Me At Six / White Lies / Friendly Fires / Manic Street Preachers / The Last Shadow Puppets / Wiley / Flogging Molly / Digitalism / The Gaslight Anthem / Frank Turner / Thrice / The Joy Formidable / Alkaline Trio / We Are Scientists / Feeder / Pennywise / Goldfinger / Simian Mobile Disco / Serj Tankian / Less Than Jake / Mindless Self Indulgence / CSS / Babyshambles / Mystery Jets / Wild Beasts / The Cribs / Glasvegas / Alexisonfire / White Denim / Black Kids / The Subways / Anti-Flag / The Pigeon Detectives / Los Campesinos! / Attack Attack! / Jack Peñate / Seasick Steve / Does It Offend You, Yeah? / The Enemy / Lethal Bizzle / Hadouken! / MxPx / Sea Power / Ida Maria / Blood Red Shoes / The Dresden Dolls / The Automatic / Dirty Pretty Things / Set Your Goals / Fucked Up / Holy Fuck / Tiger Army / The Rascals / The Shoes / Gallows / Kids In Glass Houses / Adam Green / Late of the Pier / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Black Tide / Stephen Lynch / One Night Only / Cancer Bats / The Audition / The Duke Spirit / Emmy the Great / Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly / Louis XIV / H₂O / These New Puritans / The Whip / Teenagers / The King Blues / Jeffrey Lewis / Lightspeed Champion / The Blackout / Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band / Pete and The Pirates / John Cooper Clarke / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Young Knives / Natty / Pulled Apart By Horses / Henry Rollins / Future of the Left / Beans on Toast / Elliot Minor / The Unseen / The Briggs / General Fiasco / Johnny Foreigner / The Death Set / Loved Ones / Twisted Wheel / Robots In Disguise / Fight Like Apes / Broken Records / Cajun Dance Party / Esser / Hot Club de Paris / Red Light Company / The Metros / Ian Moore / Random Hand / Jeremy Warmsley / Flashguns / Thomas Tantrum / Dinosaur / Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong / The Hungry Ghosts / Skeletons / Grammatics / Fighting With Wire / Lovvers / Matt Reed / That Fucking Tank / In Case of Fire / Be Your Own Pet / Teenagersintokyo / Youthmovies / XX Teens / Underground Railroad / Blackhole / Tripwires / Sergeant / Pens / Ipso Facto / Eureka Machines / Milton Jones / Wintermute / Fangs / The New York Fund / Hexes / So So Modern / Black Acid / Make Model / Collapsing Cities / Humour / These Monsters / The Maybes / George Pringle / Our Fold / Leeds Festival Chorus / Smash 'n' Grab / The Bacchae / The Situationists / Phill Jupitus / Brendon Burns / Adam Hills / I Concur / Sean Walsh / The Wallbirds / Robin Ince / Love Ends Disaster! / Out From Animals / Al Pitcher / Jason Rouse / Hifi Handgrenades / Chris Hicks / Fox Cubs / Fran Rodgers / Darlings Of The Splitscreen / razmataz lorry excitement / Reading / Kid Id / Pete Johansson / Adam Bloom / Loqui / Dockers MC / Andi Osho / Tiger Shadow / Steve Gribbin / Excentral Tempest / The Last People on Earth / Solus Locus / Christian Reilly / Tim Clare / Byron Vincent / Sleeveface / Jarred Christmas / Rob Rouse / The Cherry Cobb Cartel / Pile Up! / Trevor Lock / Ross Sutherland / Arnab Chanda / Steve Weiner / Dougie Dunlop / The Ff'ers / Barry Castagnola / Fur Tv / Daniel Townes / The Music / Jubilee Show all bands
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Leeds Festival 2008 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicates for Aug 22, 2008
May 11, 2008
John Cooper Clarke Citadel Theatre St Helens, United Kingdom
May 10, 2008
John Cooper Clarke / Mark Radcliffe & The Family Mahone Picturedrome, Holmfirth Holmfirth, England, United Kingdom
May 09, 2008
John Cooper Clarke Fibbers York, England, United Kingdom
May 08, 2008
John Cooper Clarke Tower Lounge Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
May 07, 2008
John Cooper Clarke Glee Club Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
May 04, 2008
John Cooper Clarke / Charlie Chuck
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Union Chapel London, England, United Kingdom

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Reading Festival 2008 on Aug 22, 2008 [401-small]

Reading Festival 2008
Aug 22 - 24, 2008
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Leeds Festival 2008 on Aug 22, 2008 [110-small]

Leeds Festival 2008
Aug 22 - 24, 2008
 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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