musings

Just watched episode 79 of TV series “The Sopranos” and was stunned by the inspired choice of music for the closing titles. John Cooper Clarke’s “Evidently Chickentown” is a hypnotic litany describing grim, gritty life in post-industrial Greater Manchester UK.

I saw Cooper Clarke perform live in 1978, and I live in Greater Manchester but I confess I had never heard this track, which was released in 1980.

At first the music seemed incongruous, but there’s a dark, menacing feel to it. Maybe the message is that the Mafia world of New Jersey USA and rainy, hopeless Manchester have more in common than we think.

PS He’s on at the Comedy Store, Manchester Tuesday 30 October 2007

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