There was no one around, but I was embarrassed. Was I becoming part-man, part-machine? Was I on the verge of surgically attaching them to my ears? Something had to be done. I resolved to spend the ...

At the end of 1981, lead songwriter Vince Clarke quit the Basildon synth-pop band as they were poised to become an international success. Radio X digs into the story behind one of the biggest bands of ...

James Young, a recent Uni of Salford graduate, has been making ripples in the Manchester poetry scene since the release of ...

A former Arctic Monkeys employee is planning to sell off dozens of pieces of memoribilia from his time working for the huge ...

Previously announced acts include festival headliner Iggy Pop, as well as Warmduscher, Lambrini Girls, Trupa Trupa and more. The Royal Hospital Kilmainham one day festival In The Meadows, set to take ...

Slowdive, Billy Nomates, Dr. John Cooper Clarke, and Meryl Streek are among the acts added to the line-up of In The Meadows ...

poet John Cooper Clarke, Welsh rugby star Dan Biggar and Albanian prime minister Edi Rama. The Hay Festival will have more ...

Punk poet John Cooper Clarke is set to perform in Bury St Edmunds. Known as the 'Godfather of Punk Poetry', Clarke will take the stage at The Apex on March 13, at 8pm. The poet rose to fame in the 70s ...

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.

Punk poet John Cooper Clarke is set to perform in Bury St Edmunds. Known as the 'Godfather of Punk Poetry', Clarke will take ...

John Cooper Clarke, the bard of Salford ... Alex Turner, for one, who loved his work and of course turned one of Clarke’s poems into song from, with the mighty I Wanna Be Yours from the album ...