{"id":2182704,"date":"2025-12-01T11:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2182704"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:23:20","slug":"dr-john-cooper-clarke-announces-2026-uk-tour-through-latest-and-greatest-works-along-with-new-book-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dr-john-cooper-clarke-announces-2026-uk-tour-through-latest-and-greatest-works-along-with-new-book-have-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr John Cooper Clarke announces 2026 UK tour &#8220;through latest and greatest works&#8221;, along with new book &#8216;Have It&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/john-cooper-clarke\">Dr John Cooper Clarke<\/a> has announced a 2026 UK tour that will take fans through his \u201clatest and greatest works\u201d as well as his new book <em>Have It<\/em> \u2013 check out all the details below.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/nme-blogs\/the-full-story-of-arctic-monkeys-new-album-am-and-this-weeks-nme-cover-767087\">The full story of Arctic Monkeys\u2019 album \u2018AM\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Clarke, whose performance poetry work was embraced by punk clubs in the \u201970s, is set to hit venues including London\u2019s Palladium, Liverpool\u2019s Philharmonic Hall and Manchester\u2019s O2 Apollo next winter.<\/p>\n<p>Per a press release, next year\u2019s 20-date tour will see Clarke introduce is new body of work alongside his beloved, hilarious and classic fan-favourites.<\/p>\n<p>The Salford Bard\u2019s brand-new book, <em>Have It<\/em>, will hit shelves in autumn and will follow on from 2024\u2019s <em>WHAT<\/em>, which went on to become an instant <em>Sunday Times<\/em> bestseller.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the tour will be available from 10am this Friday (December 5), and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/johncooperclarke.com\/\">you can find yours here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3914341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3914341\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3914341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr John Cooper Clarke\u2019s 2026 tour dates. CREDIT: PRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Dr John Cooper Clarke\u2019s 2026 UK tour dates are:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>OCTOBER<\/strong><br \/><strong>7 \u2013 Southend Palace Theatre<\/strong><br \/><strong>10 \u2013 Poole Lighthouse<\/strong><br \/><strong>11 \u2013 Bristol Beacon<\/strong><br \/><strong>14 \u2013 Brighton Theatre Royal<\/strong><br \/><strong>15 \u2013 London Palladium<\/strong><br \/><strong>17 \u2013 Sheffield City Hall<\/strong><br \/><strong>20 \u2013 Glasgow Pavilion <\/strong><br \/><strong>21 \u2013 Carlisle Old Fire Station<\/strong><br \/><strong>23 \u2013 Stoke-On-Trent Victoria Hall<\/strong><br \/><strong>24 \u2013 Birmingham Town Hall<\/strong><br \/><strong>28 \u2013 Liverpool Philharmonic Hall<\/strong><br \/><strong>31 \u2013 Leeds City Varieties Music Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOVEMBER<br \/><\/strong><strong>4 \u2013 Whitley Bay The Playhouse<\/strong><br \/><strong>6 \u2013 York Grand Opera House<\/strong><br \/><strong>12 \u2013 Dublin 3 Olympia<\/strong><br \/><strong>15 \u2013 Belfast Mandela Hall<\/strong><br \/><strong>18 \u2013 Blackpool Opera House<\/strong><br \/><strong>21 \u2013 Manchester O2 Apollo<\/strong><br \/><strong>25 \u2013 Leicester De Montfort Hall<\/strong><br \/><strong>27 \u2013 Edinburgh Queens Hall\u2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clarke is arguably best known for penning \u2018I Want To Be Yours\u2019, which featured on his album \u2018Zip Style Method\u2019 and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/nme-blogs\/john-cooper-clarke-on-alex-turners-lyrics-and-writing-i-wanna-be-yours-11738\">was later covered by the Arctic Monkeys for their 2013 album \u2018AM\u2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The poet<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/nme-blogs\/john-cooper-clarke-on-alex-turners-lyrics-and-writing-i-wanna-be-yours-11738\">\u00a0previously spoke to\u00a0<em>NME<\/em> about the poem back in 2013<\/a>. \u201cI wrote it along with a load of others at the time, I tend to write like that. I remember when it was \u2013 about \u201983 or \u201984 or something like that. It\u2019s come to my attention that it\u2019s the wedding favourite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cThe number of people that have said, \u2018I had that read at my wedding\u2019, or \u2018My husband proposed to me using that number\u2019\u2026 It\u2019s been very useful in the world of modern romance! It is to modern wedding ceremonies what \u2018Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life\u2019 by Eric Idle is to humanist funerals. I probably go to a great many more funerals than you do, so take it from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More recently, he teamed up with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/luvcat\">Luvcat<\/a> on their eerie collaboration \u2018He\u2019s My Man (The Anniversary)\u2019, with the Clarke providing original poetry for the song.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"@luvcat27 tells us about her song \u2018He\u2019s My Man\u2019 \ud83c\udf77\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v2Ga5T1gYOI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>On \u2018He\u2019s My Man (The Anniversary)\u2019, Clarke performs as Luvcat\u2019s victim, narrating his gradual poisoning by the singer in a grizzly baritone:\u00a0<em>\u201cClinically hypoxic, literally toxic \/ I keep fallin\u2019 in and out of sleep\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the collaboration, Luvcat said: \u201cI met John a few months back at The Northern Music Awards. He was being honoured and I won breakthrough artist of the year that night. I was so afraid to speak to him\u2026 my dad was a punk and John\u2019s work was spoken about a lot in our house. I found the courage to go over to his table and he couldn\u2019t have been more sweet to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think John is the coolest man in the country and to have him play the role of my poisoned husband for the anniversary of this song is a true honour.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr John Cooper Clarke has announced a 2026 UK tour that will take fans through his \u201clatest and greatest works\u201d as well as his new book Have It \u2013 check out all the details below. 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