Beasley Street (Live) E John Cooper Clarke 6. Where will it end? ", When Nico died after falling off her bike in Ibiza, in July 1988, her Daily Telegraph obituary remarked that 'she gave up heroin for cycling, which proved to be the more lethal recreation.' 271 people have seen John Cooper Clarke live. You helped the Fall in the early days, letting them rehearse in your house, and you were a lifelong friend of the other Bard of Salford, Mark E Smith. It goes without saying. He left a will on 28 Dec 1676. [citation needed]. [20] On their 2020 eponymous debut album, English band Working Mens Club pays homage to the poet in the track John Cooper Clarke, referencing his poem "Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman" and book The Luckiest Guy Alive. A much underrated garment, the jegging: they never need ironing and they hold their colour. Sievey said. In his case there were more than 15 years of struggling, moribund times where he was writing little and barely going out. "Because you know what the Japanese are like. "From way back. She does the business. No one can be that busy. Click here for tour details, John Cooper Clarke will be launching The Luckiest Guy Alive at an exclusive reading with Q&A session at Hoxton Hall, London N1, on 1 November. "That was great for a while," he tells me, "Until Ron was in the news for having that fight with his wife. I keep it simple: a dark suit with a pale shirt. 'Yes mother. [16][17], Clarke was the subject of a BBC Four documentary, Evidently John Cooper Clarke, in May 2012, screened as part of the BBC's Punk Britannia season. ericte "Who caught it off whom?" I don't mind looking at it through a window. One of his more recent poems takes its title from an ironic heckle he received in Manchester, "where drug-taking is of course compulsory." Ex-Israeli spy boss attacks Netanyahu and Barak La Trobe 'torture' study anguish Ginger Wildheart. Dr John Cooper Clarke at the Firestation Arts Centre - 21/06/17. "It's hard to convey the aggression of those audiences." He has had the wit and the generosity to encourage protgs, such as fellow-Mancunian Mike Garry and Luke Wright, who grew up in Colchester. Charley Barnes hands over Sabotage Reviews Director to Heddwen Creaney! Your germs are splattered about. One of Clarke's newer poems has the title 'Bed Blocker Blues'. 1980 O est la maison de fromage ? Well, that's a harsh judgement in my book. He was a magic realist right to the end. [2] Rabid also released his debut LP O est la maison de fromage'? Introductory offer: she'll do anything you want for a fiver. The Luckiest Guy Alive? We go and see them and they come and see us and we benefit from frictionless border controls. And I am very lucky to be here really. "Part of me dies under my overalls / I close my eyes and a woman calls / From a nightmare / Shave, shit, a shower and a shoeshine / That's it - sack time / Everybody looks like Ernest Borgnine.", He turned to Cooper Clarke. Looking at one, I remember the poet once telling me that he had "never seen a work of art that would not be improved by the addition of tropical fish". John Cooper Clarke - Home. [15] That same year, Clarke featured in rapper Plan B's feature film Ill Manors and subsequently the Ill Manors album. I think," Costello continues, "this might be why he is not greatly regarded by literary snobs. The poet has something of a gift for talking his own work down. This is a man whose work has been praised by, among others, Jack Kerouac's co-conspirator Gregory Corso, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko, both of whom he knew. What do you want to listen to the bass player over your left shoulder for? pusb1967 ", That last word, Costello says, "was rendered hilarious by his voice in a way which is just impossible to replicate in print. Grayclaret JacobQuinn John Cooper Clarke has, arguably, not only the most recognisable silhouette in show business, but also the most infectious of poetic voices. He rang me one evening, a couple of years ago, and read me the first draft of what evolved into a piece called 'It's Rotten Here in Jail'. ", The poet laughed. "I first saw you opening for bands at clubs like The Electric Circus in Manchester when I was still at school," I tell him. Wright, 31, has clearly modelled himself on Cooper Clarke, but has developed his own distinctive voice, and humour. In his autobiography The Big Wheel, Costello's former bass player Bruce Thomas describes an incident at a Copenhagen hotel when Cooper Clarke's room was substantially rearranged. I cant talk that guy up enough. "People tell me I shouldn't. You would persuade yourself that they could be Franciscan monks. "They did but she basically just moved in on me in Brixton. As an audience member I know what I get from watching you perform. John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet, who first became famous as a " punk poet" in the late 1970s. djkeos This line needs further research. Is the father of a daughter, named Stella. If memory serves, you are marginally safer in the Three Jays. Thats an intelligent question too, from Ben, because lyricists have probably influenced me more than any other poets. Phil Spector is obviously out of circulation right now, but I am keeping the faith alive. He reserves the style for poems such as, 'Solid Gold Geezer.' I'd love to get it published. I recall sitting in his back kitchen while he read me new poems: outstanding work, but not the sort of thing he cared to perform live. Dr Clarke, as he styles himself, wearing his honorary doctorate from Salford University with pride, has always had that effect; to the many devotees of his live performances over five decades, he is both much imitated and inimitable. 36acm The latter band's former tour manager, the writer and cycling journalist Johnny Green, now looks after Clarke on the road. I dont possess the equipment. He brought his collection of records and a record player, which was new to us. I never put a geographical stamp on it. So, to answer Jarviss inquiry: by default, during the low-rise years, I strolled the feminine range on the ground floor of Marks & Spencer. TA: Do you do much Skyping?Never. Ninkasi ", As a teenager at secondary modern school, he was a mod. Its like men wearing short trousers. The band's Alex Turner has said he is very fond of Clarke's work and takes inspiration for lyrics from his poems. If they say, 'John Cooper Clarke? [2][9] Clarke toured with Linton Kwesi Johnson, and has performed on the same bill as bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Fall, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Elvis Costello, Rockpile and New Order (including at their May 1984 Music for Miners benefit concert at London's Royal Festival Hall). bands to watch for '92 (Melody Maker, January 4 1992), Ted Lasso Season 3 to Premiere Spring 2023, Motionographer | Motion graphics, design, animation, filmmaking and visual effects, Gugun Power Trio - Far East Blues Experience/Solid Ground/Soul Shaker, Art BOOOOOOOM! "Yes?" 'Oh, you poor thing, I'll put your electric blanket on. Because it's very unusual that somebody manages to kick it. August 24, 2017 October 21, . Artist: John Cooper Clarke , Venue: Pavilion Theatre , Bournemouth, England Set Times: Doors: 7:00 PM Show: 7:30 PM - 8:15 PM Hire Car Get Back on Drugs You Fat Fuck Bedblocker Blues Lydia, Girl With an Itch Necrophilia Home, Honey I'm High Beasley Street Beasley Boulevard I've Fallen in Love With My Wife Evidently Chickentown Twat I Wanna Be Yours I tend to live by the dictum less is more, but that mono sound proved more can be more. John Cooper Clarke performing at the 3rd International Moscow Open Book Festival (3 ) at The . I first met him in his so-called lost years, in the mid-Eighties, when he was living in an epically depressing mnage in Salford, with a broken down Mercedes parked outside his front door. An edited version of Wilson's observation, reproduced as graffiti on the wall of an underpass, served as the opening scene for Evidently John Cooper Clarke, director John Ross' remarkable 2012 documentary for BBC4. He'll intersperse such knockabout material with classic writing like 'Beasley Street', a stunning evocation of the trials of the underclass, which sounds like Engels' prose accounts of the Mancunian slums crossed with Bob Dylan's 'Desolation Row'. John Cooper Clarke", "BBC One Would I Lie to You?, Series 9, Episode 3", "Would I Lie to You? They deserve it. It's often asserted that he wrote nothing in his lost years; this isn't quite true. The retreat Psychic TV - Live @ Shiva's Erotic Banquet LA (24 Linda Lovelace and Deep Throats 40-Year Legacy. VD, with its hard, accusatory consonants. John Cooper Clarke - What's In My Bag? I have another reason to thank Linton: we went on tour together in 1981, all around the UK, and when we appeared in Essex, that is when my wife was first introduced to my work. "Remember that poem you wrote about Lowry?" Movement: BBC Radio 1 Peel Sessions 19771979, Greatest Ever: Punk & New Wave: The Definitive Collection, De rouille et d'os (Bande originale du film), Rust and Bone (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Elvis and Frank, though, was the first glimpse of an eternal conflict I could never resolve. Oh dear! The fact is you need help, though. But you have to keep your request down to three words. LightninDave Because it is fabulous the first time. TA: Would not doing it ever be an option?Not for me. The phlegm could be equally intimidating in its own way. Erstwhile louts trying to out-verbal each other, in a flamboyant, slightly foppish way. That could be the Ramones, or Hogarth, or Yevtushenko - who, incidentally," he added, "really loves John's work. At bloody fun and bloody games . But mostly it is down to his brilliant rambling dramatic monologue of a stage show, which has become less staccato over the years. [10], Clarke appeared in a 1982 music documentary compilation Urgh! 12.99 gbp. Is that a stage name? It's a peculiar sort of fame, driven by social media, word of mouth, and thriving in defiance of almost total indifference from the English literary establishment. It is sensationally good, in the manner of Family Guy or King of the Hill. The first lyrics I became aware of would have been in the pre-rocknroll 1950s, when my Uncle Dennis was demobbed from the RAF and he lived at our house for a bit. When Lenny Bruce was reduced to doing little 100-seat nightclubs he had this whole brilliant routine about a washed-up comedian whos given one last bite of the apple. Sievey, who was sharing the dressing room and about to go onstage, started reciting Cooper Clarke's poem '36 Hours', a gruesome meditation on joblessness, incarceration and death. He would have been very surprised if he had found out that people would sit in a room poring over his words in a textbook.". Where do you get your trousers from?The short answer, Jarv, is River Island or Marks & Spencer, the skinniest they do. You wouldnt have known she was there. The third punter - Jewish guy - hands over his fiver and says, 'paint my house. present) (1 child). [22], 2015 saw Clarke present a documentary on Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater in the BBC's second series of The Secret Life of Books. '", His delivery, stage presence, and an enviable ability to think on his feet, mean that, like a great actor or musician, he bears repeated viewing. It won't be me. He doesn't care for the musical arrangements, by yet another 'late' associate Martin Hannett, acclaimed producer of, among others, Joy Division. (By some bizarre coincidence, I find out later on that, at the same time as we begin this conversation, Channel 4's Countdown had as its guest the comedian Jon Culshaw, who gave an impression of the poet reading one of his finest pieces, 'I Wanna Be Yours', which is covered by the Arctic Monkeys on their 2013 UK number one album, AM). To enjoy a renaissance, Cooper Clarke concedes, you must have been dead for a period. For the latter event, touts have been demanding more than 200 a ticket. Which of your poems are you most satisfied with?Well, that is a typically clever question from Christopher, who did a memorable performance of Evidently Chickentown in that Danny Boyle film Strumpet, written by Jim Cartwright. ", He seemed to have arrived fully formed, performing brilliantly incisive poems such as 'You Never See a Nipple In The Daily Express'. "I didn't find out they'd chosen it," Cooper Clarke says, "until after they'd made it. "Keats, Baudelaire, Poe," I suggest to Cooper Clarke. "The bottles were bad. Because he was confident that in whatever borscht-belt dive he found himself theyd immediately get the reference: Hey, thats the place the Queen of England goes. What a thrill walking out there. "Her writing has this effortless quality. There also can be a performance at music festivals across the country that include Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo Music Festival. I remember one, a kind of agonised paean to opiates, that had the line "She's my best friend and enemy / Give me what I need. He speaks with love of the life he has created there, referring often to his wife, Evie, and daughter, Stella, his guiding lights. John Cooper Clarke (born January 25, 1949) is a performance poet from Salford, Lancashire, England, affectionately known as the Bard of Salford. Having said that, every incarnation of the Fall had something different, but the one thing they all had in common was the sensational live act that was Mark Smith. "I don't really look forwards in that way," he says. They have one child. Like a Night Club in the morning, you're the bitter end. Because what I do isn't, 'work' as any sane person would understand the term. How do you feel about Brexit not the crap leading up to it, but the actual exit?I dont even want to talk about it, to be honest. Can I make you cocoa? And, gadus, good luck with your attempts to rid yourself of this terrible affliction. He had fixed on his sartorial style in the unlikely arena of Bernard Mannings Embassy Club, where he acted as compere in the early 1970s, warming up an audience united by their shared antipathy to performance poetry. I believe he remained unaware of my poetic tribute. [2], Clarke has attributed his early success in part to the influence of the English poet Pam Ayres. Wrong on both counts, Jim tee many Martoonies. 9.50 gbp. "I was ill all the time as a boy," he says. And you know what I say? "I believe I was thinking you know that bit in On the Waterfront where they throw the informer off the roof, and the line is: "He could sing, but he couldn't fly". I used to think trees were dirty, because when I was a kid in Salford you'd climb them and come off filthy, it was like you'd been up a chimney and even if you got a stretch of park you just had to scrape the grass and there were, like, cinders underneath it was horrible[5], His first job was a laboratory technician at Salford Tech. The Veil over Society Got Removed for a Moment Jeff Buckley: Grace (SACD Version) *Hi-Res FLAC*, GREAT AMERICAN HOME IMPROVEMENT THE OLD SCHOOL BASEMENT BAR, Mike Brooks & The Roots Radics - One Love [Vista LP, 1983], Kellen303 interview 2022: "Life's Different Now". Shards. "That," I suggest, "can't have been easy". 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