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DR JOHN Cooper Clarke knows he has a new album anthology out — appropriately entitled Anthologia — but he isn’t entirely sure which of his compositions are on it.
He takes a good guess, though, closing his main set with Evidently Chickentown. It’s a song used on an episode of The Sopranos and one that fits in with the New York accent he drifts in and out of throughout the night.
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