Evidently Chickentown

"Evidently Chickentown" is a poem by the English performance poet John Cooper Clarke.

[1] Featured on Clarke's 1980 album Snap, Crackle & Bop, the realism of its lyrics is married with haunting, edgy arrangements.

"[6] Clarke appears as himself reciting "Evidently Chickentown" in the 2007 British film Control, directed by Anton Corbijn.

[7] "Evidently Chickentown" appears in Danny Boyle's 2001 film Strumpet,[8] in Jacques Audiard's 2012 film Rust and Bone,[9] during the transition between the subject matter of parts 1 and 2 in the 2021 two-part documentary Tiger, and at the beginning of S1 E5 of Danny Boyle's 2022 biopic Pistol entitled "Track 5: Nancy and Sid."

Club wrote that the poem "ranks as one of the show's sharpest and most effective musical moments, somehow capturing the vexation of a New York mafia guy with the words of a British punk who's complaining about flat beer and cold chips.