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John Cooper Clarke plays Victoria Hall in Stoke-On-Trent on 23 October 2026, on stage at 19:00. Tickets are sold by the official seller — follow the ticket link on this page.
Set times: John Cooper Clarke due on stage around 19:00.
Victoria Hall is a concert hall in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, built in 1888 as an annex to Hanley Town Hall for the town's celebrations of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee the previous year. It is red brick and terracotta, designed by the borough surveyor Joseph Lobley, and Edward Elgar conducted the first performance of his King Olaf here. The hall originally held 2,800 people and now seats 1,467, benches having given way to seating; a 1999 extension added a new entrance and better front-of-house. It is managed by the Ambassador Theatre Group alongside the Regent Theatre, also in Hanley. John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet from Salford, known as the 'Bard of Salford' for the rapid-fire verse he first made his name with during the late-1970s punk era.
