You wrote [in the refrain in Chickentown] the fucking train is fucking late, you fucking wait, you fucking wait back in the late 1970s. Much of that gift lies in his voice: you cant help but smile when he talks. 'Danger'? "I remember that Manchester air was officially declared the worst on the planet back then," he says. 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. It's called "Get Back on Drugs, You Fat Fuck". But thats the secret: the sound of the language, those sonorous words. Pinchy & Friends - Sleepy The Bug (ft. Warrior Queen) - Aktion Pak. newmanshh They include "Wherever I Lay My Hat, That's My Hat.". "Trafford Park is working well / Its pestilential ethers swell /, Malodorous clouds like sombre shrouds / Dividing heaven from bloody hell / Where idle hands are the devil's dowry / Knock-knock rent-man Mr. He really does look more and more like Max Wall as he gets older. "Remember that poem you wrote about Lowry?" I learned a long time ago that if you wear trousers where you can put something in the pockets, you will put stuff in those pockets and before you know it you are clad in jodhpurs. I had the last line. Kind of literate punk, he said. Imagine trying to read in the interval for" It is quite hard to convey the venom with which he delivers the next three syllables. ", "The trouble with that poem," he says, "is that I started out by painting a bleak picture for the first few verses. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Evie You see, I've been there before. Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans, Arundhati Roy: The point of the writer is to be unpopular, Lily Allen: We need to fight back against these forces, David Shrigley: Self-delusion is quite important if you want to be an artist, Zadie Smith: I have a very messy and chaotic mind, Liam Gallagher: Rocknroll saved my life, Yuval Noah Harari: Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so, Stewart Lee: I dont know where the ideas come from and its terrifying. "Evidently Chickentown" (recited by Christopher Eccleston) is featured in the made-for-television film Strumpet. ", STIs, he continues, "are what STDs used to be called and before that - give it a name - VD. You couldnt have asked me at a better juncture. 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. Anyone would dig it. Read John Cooper Clarke's poem for Topman's show at London Collections Men. 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. He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). The truth is, Caligula, if I was opening for them, they were better than I was. His response has become something of a mantra. The band's Alex Turner has said he is very fond of Clarke's work and takes inspiration for lyrics from his poems. [10], Clarke appeared in a 1982 music documentary compilation Urgh! Writing is the prism through which you see the world. Where I grew up, the one unmistakable sign of homosexuality was to betray some interest in your appearance.". There is no doubt that you can get a better cup of coffee since privatisation; youd have waited a long time for an espresso in 1975. 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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". 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. His will was proved on 25 Feb 1683/84. For details and tickets visit johncooperclarke.com, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The bloody chief's a bloody swine. It was the beginning of the end." He was previously married to ?. It included the lines: "Rotten here in jail / The communal TV has gone, / Everyone knows that one of us has got it / But we don't know which one / And he's too scared to turn it on. Poetry, especially, is meant to be heard. ", As a teenager at secondary modern school, he was a mod. "Because you know what the Japanese are like. No. pusb1967 There's only you and me have not been up there Robert, but then the night is still young.". "It's like any addiction. Where do you get your trousers from?The short answer, Jarv, is River Island or Marks & Spencer, the skinniest they do. The phlegm could be equally intimidating in its own way. For that reason, perhaps I am not best placed to objectively gauge the enigmatic appeal of Jon the Postman. The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke is published by Picador (14.99). Anything can kick you off. Why is the drug addict spat upon, and the climber of Everest revered? I explained to him the format of this interview. ", I spent three months, off and on, on the road with Cooper Clarke for this article, and this monologue has found its way into his act. However, I am interested in what you get out of it. "I told him the answer is that I read my stuff out loud and I get paid for it. The first guy goes in, 'screw me stupid.' I didnt meet her then, but she was in the audience. He'd just finished a show in a small theatre and we were looking for somewhere to eat. Riot Van He was a magic realist right to the end. It's a level of popularity that is unprecedented in the history of performance poetry. Caius Caligula? They have one daughter, Stella. To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake. She was also an unpublished poet. Beasley Street (Live) E John Cooper Clarke 6. Mr_Jones 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'. His last original solo album was released 32 years ago, which is all the more irritating because the four collections he did record for CBS, especially Snap Crackle & Bop (1980) and Zip Style Method (1982) remain remarkable testaments to his gifts as a writer. That glorious bank of french horns bleeding into a mess of cellos and strings. "I do it myself," he says. 2 (liane Reyes). I believe he remained unaware of my poetic tribute. I dont like low-rise, hipster trousers on men. Now you, being unprejudiced, would give them the benefit of the doubt. "Well, I shouldn't say it, but I really do love that couplet." Here's the difference between STI and VD. If its true, as I claim in the title poem of my book, that I am the Luckiest Guy Alive, its for two reasons. ", One of his regular companions on the road, in the early days, was Elvis Costello. There were events hosted by beat poets at the Royal Albert Hall in the Sixties, but they were ensemble shows and they didn't always sell out. There are good reasons, he argues, for judging by appearances. The latter band's former tour manager, the writer and cycling journalist Johnny Green, now looks after Clarke on the road. [2] He returned to live performance in the 1990s, appearing again with Suns of Arqa in 1992 at The Witchwood in Ashton-under-Lyne. He had Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Sinatra obviously the great American songbook. ", His fragile frame is the result not, as some assume, of his years as a heroin addict, which are long behind him, but a legacy of the TB he suffered as a child. Ross' film has been one of a number of factors in the poet's belated but rapid ascent from cult artist to international icon. Explorers," he adds, "actively annoy me. We had a brilliant English teacher called John Malone, who somehow conveyed his love of 19th-century poetry to an entire class of rough kids at Higher Broughton secondary modern school. I mean Elvis was a world-changing event for me. Everyone seems to have one. They have one child. I may be prejudiced. "Time flies, slides down the wall," Sievey said, from memory, his eyes half closed. Somewhere between a narrative film, a series of music videos and a documentary, the film features interviews and performances by Clarke and Linton Kwesi Johnson among others. He left a will on 28 Dec 1676. ', Whereas [doorbell] 'Oh, hello Audrey. That's half an hour of my life you've saved me, having to explain it to you. 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. What are your recollections of touring with the reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson?They are only good, put it that way. Someone asked him, 'Why a lobster?' If I have a cup of coffee, Ill sit down at a table. He leaves, tired but happy. 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'. That terrible inertia they captured that brilliantly.". The parents of Lydia, John & Ann Cooper are not known. Clarke also recorded a song with the band entitled "Dead Man's Shoes". The Changing Face of Planet Earth In the early Nineties, in a pub in Withington, South Manchester, Tony Wilson, the late founder of Factory Records, stopped in the middle of a sentence concerning another of his favourite subjects, himself, then told me: "You know, it isn't me. That performance undoubtedly made him a popular figure in the Manchester pub scene of the mid-1970s. Arctic Monkeys 1980 O est la maison de fromage ? As a scene, that was the best treatment of drug addiction I have ever seen. ("My family crest," Cooper Clarke once remarked, "is four white feathers on a yellow streak.") Upon receipt, Clarke commented: "Now I'm a doctor, finally my dream of opening a cosmetic surgery business can become a reality. I tend to live by the dictum less is more, but that mono sound proved more can be more. I remember thinking, this must be what Stalingrad was like. One of Clarke's newer poems has the title 'Bed Blocker Blues'. His predecessor as the people's Poet Laureate, John Betjeman, never performed to this size of crowd. "Well, I'm with Coleridge there. Are you a soothsayer? The template was the 1933 Busby Berkeley movie 42nd Street. | I discovered your music and spoken word when I was a teenager, and it was very inspirational to me. You're late home.' He closed the show at Shepherds Bush with his signature piece, 'Evidently Chickentown'. CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS, Perfect Pitch - Tim Bouverie # 11 Johann Sebastian Bach - Mass in B Minor, ROOTS REGGAE MAIOR ACERVO DE REGGAE DA INTERNET, FilterWhere Do We Go From Here + Link (2 X US Promo 12), X-Press 2 Essential Mix 1994-04-16 [repost classic essential mix], Skullflower "Exquisite Fucking Boredom" (tUMULt TM212) 2003, Sting - Before the Police - Various Songs (1975-1977), Benjamin Godard - Piano Works, Vol. 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. Across the road, outside London's Shepherd's Bush Empire, fans are gathering to watch the poet. He knew my brother, who still works for the GPO, the Royal Mail, so we have a bit of baggage, you might say. And they have followed me all my days, because as you get older you keep finding some new dimension even in the simplest love song. Christopher gets back on smack and he's sat in that same position, in the market, just nodding out. He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). ukje11ybean They have one child. Goldshaw began handling Clarke's affairs, and the two toured with the Mescaleros and several times supporting the Fall. 'Yes mother. "I didn't find out they'd chosen it," Cooper Clarke says, "until after they'd made it. [26] He has also been a panellist on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. "I was sent to Rhyl, to live with my auntie Eileen; she died of tuberculosis." Erik_Debonair 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.". Final nail in Julius Malema's political coffin? Popular John Cooper Clarke albums This Time It's Personal. Very good-John Cooper Clarke was on form and did some of his new poems as well as some old favourites. Like a recently disinfected shit-house, you're clean round the bend. This is a poem of rigidly defined structure: five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. (I Married a) Monster from Outer Space John Cooper Clarke 8. ", The definitive poem about drug addiction, Cooper Clarke told me back then, '"is 'The Vampire' by Charles Baudelaire. But we couldn't live with that. There are many subjects he does not enjoy broaching on the record, and heroin is chief among them. Tim Adams: I imagine you held your own in those battles?Oh, I was the king of the block. There have been some landmark events to prompt this: Arctic Monkeys dreamy 2013 cover of I Wanna Be Yours; the use of Evidently Chickentown as the backing in one of the most memorable sequences in box-set TV, at the end of an episode of the final season of The Sopranos; the fact that his poems have made it on to the GCSE syllabus. Apart from the one collection [Ten Years in An Open . [27], In November 2019 Clarke was a participant, alongside Phill Jupitus, in BBC's Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. Shakespeare wrote for actors. One of the frustrating things for admirers of Cooper Clarke is the limited amount of work he has published and recorded. Keep it quiet, but I plan to make a movie in Jaywick some day. I think of it more like Tin Pan Alley work. [23] He has appeared as a guest on the comedy panel show Would I Lie To You? Ever! I never went for the athleisure thing Im not very ath! I am so glad that they have had the huge success they have. 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! For me, I think it might turn out to have some gifts but dont get me wrong, my wife is French and half of my daughters relatives live in France. Who bloody draws a bloody line. "Her writing has this effortless quality. I once went clothes shopping with the poet, and the store owner had to explain that he had nothing to fit Cooper Clarke (5' 10", chest 32", waist 27", weight 116lb.) The sad truth is I never get to pick. A screen projector showing him in close up would have helped a lot-for those of us in the gallery he was a bit of a speck in the distance. John Cooper Clarke - 'Lydia, Girl With An Itch' @ Sheffield, Leadmill, 29.05.2010 3,511 views May 31, 2010 7 Dislike Share Save polewka123 2.05K subscribers Classic JCC Stevie Maclane 63K views. It won't be me. "Solid gold geezer that / From the solitaire pin through the mink cravat to the snake-eye studs on his kid suede spats / Solid gold geezer that / Lives in a solid gold flat / With a girl worth a million / Plus VAT / And a caviar-guzzling cat. Their only shared interest, he insists, was hiding heroin from each other. Plus its very asexual you should like that at the Guardian looks just as right on Joan Jett as it does on Keith Richards. "Better stand back / Here's an age attack / But the second in line / Is dealing with it fine / It's a day to celebrate / A destiny, a fate / It's a taking to the wing / A future thing. Cooper Clarke had not been deemed worthy to participate in that event. 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. Clarke's recording of "Evidently Chickentown" from his album Snap, Crackle & Bop was also featured prominently in the closing scene of The Sopranos episode Stage 5. On stage, Cooper Clarke delivers a mixture of stand up and poetry that is unlike any other act before or since, and in that sense, to use another word that would make him cringe, he has invented a genre. Consider the dinosaurs. His set is characterised by lively rapid-fire renditions of his poems, usually performed a cappella. And that," adds the poet, who is 66, "is why I have lived to be considerably older than you are. "Bloody hell," says Cooper Clarke. English punk poet John Cooper-Clarke first began performing his verse backed by a local folk group called the Ferrets, but with his rapid-fire verbal delivery and stinging social commentary, he quickly emerged as the poet laureate of the punk movement. JacobQuinn There also can be a performance at music festivals across the country that include Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo Music Festival. And it caught on. Often referred to as "the bard of Salford",[9] he usually refers to himself on stage as "Johnny Clarke, the name behind the hairstyle". mac_abre Back then there was only me and him doing poetry on stage, so we cranked it up a gear, not least because our audiences often had no prior interest in poetry. [15] That same year, Clarke featured in rapper Plan B's feature film Ill Manors and subsequently the Ill Manors album. Though he has travelled a long way from his native Salford, it has never left him. Yes. Do you get some element of therapy from writing and performing your poetry? Poet; Movie star; Rock star; TV & radio presenter; Comedian; Social & cultural commentator. Armys Magic Bullet Will Hang Out in Midair, But Murdochs UK political friendships backfire on all, The Neurological Roots of Lingering Regret, Trentemller (ft. Marie Fisker) - My Dreams. harryrossgorman His perennial UK tours he is just about to embark on another are invariably sold out to audiences of all ages. He stayed with me occasionally in London in those years and he was not an ideal guest: getting up around 4pm, then sitting up past dawn, working through my library of low-budget horror films. I won't be the one whose life is turned into legend. And if so, how did you combat it?I didnt get it too bad. But if I'd have been around in Bavaria in 1935, I could have told them. John Cooper Clarke was born on 25 January 1949 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. 271 people have seen John Cooper Clarke live. "They all had this desire to exclude the world." Stereo, my ass. John Cooper Clarke (born January 25, 1949) is a performance poet from Salford, Lancashire, England, affectionately known as the Bard of Salford. When two dozen paramedics have to put on high-vis tabards and possibly die in trying to rescue him? Because I'm prejudiced. It plays over the closing credits of 'Stage 5', from the final series, in which Christopher Moltisanti relapses into opiate addiction. His book choice was Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans, his luxury item was a boulder of opium twice the size of his head and his favourite track was "How Great Thou Art" by Elvis Presley. Like a Night Club in the morning, you're the bitter end. The dinosaurs," he goes on, "took people as they found them. "It wasn't. Why? Evidently Chickentown E John Cooper Clarke 2. Culture Show - John Cooper Clarke (10.03.09) Video unavailable. "Over two decades on," he says, "some kinds of reputation never leave you. /, The library's bound to fail / since the sudden departure of Jeffrey Archer / It's rotten here in jail.'". And, gadus, good luck with your attempts to rid yourself of this terrible affliction. Dr John Cooper Clarke at the Firestation Arts Centre 21/06/17, Treasure in the History of Things by Katherine McMahon, Review: John Cooper Clarke w/ Mike Garry and Salena Godden Apple & Snakes 30th Anniversary 01/12/12. Dr John Cooper Clarke at the Firestation Arts Centre - 21/06/17. I've got VD.' rycu Other Works Around this time, he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands and continues to perform regularly. I thought it was fabulous: great amenities and lavishly fenestrated new houses, with generous garages. I operate on a capsule wardrobe because I spend a lot of time on the road, so I aint got the whole rainbow spectrum of colours in my luggage. I hardly ever get the trains these days, but I know one thing for a fact: they should spend a few billion on improving the current network rather than on HS2. I visited him on one occasion with a view to suggesting that I help the poet manage his career, such as it then was; an offer I never quite brought myself to make, on the grounds that this world was not one that anyone with a fleeting acquaintance with the Mental Health Act would want any part of. John has a brilliant and retentive mind and an exhaustive knowledge of all kinds of culture. The reason John Cooper Clarke has been so patronised, Liverpool poet Adrian Henri once argued, "has to do with his association with music. First, theres my domestic situation, my wonderful wife and family. They died out. Well, that's a harsh judgement in my book. There is little question that Cooper Clarke could, should he so wish, fill that historic Kensington venue single-handedly. "Fancy Tony saying that." People don't expect to sit down and read him.". Chicken Town E John Cooper Clarke 3. Ginger Wildheart. Really, really badly. ", I remember John Humphreys on Celebrity Mastermind, earlier this year, beginning to tease Cooper Clarke by asking him what the difference was between 'performance' poetry and [by implication], 'proper' poetry. 1) They may appreciate 'a voice' when it comes from 'the underclass', and they can indecently patronise it; but do they ever recognise 'a delivery', as in performance? It was a mistake in the 60s and it doesnt look any better on some fat fuck in Shoreditch now. After that, old ladies started to hit me in the street with their umbrellas.". I was in Salford when I saw that. Pink first, then yellow. Zip Style Method Zero: A Martin Hannett Story 1977-1991 North by North West Me and My Big Mouth Disguise in Love The Very Best Of New Wave Post Punk: 1977-1981 John's in the Money (Evidently John Cooper Clarke, Vol. - And, again, it is better that you dont know what its about at first. [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. Whats your favourite word? Barry Evans and his young friends were all mods in a mod town. John Cooper Clarke - Home. I never put a geographical stamp on it. It's obvious that a few hours have gone by, and he hasn't moved. Gradually, and very quietly, John Cooper Clarke has become one of the finest stand-up acts in the history of the art. I don't mind looking at it through a window. It was hand to mouth. But I persuaded my wife to drive me there one weekend and on arrival I turned to her and said: Weve never been here before, sweetheart, but I sure have dreamed about this place. The streets are all sand. Ive never been good at advice. The Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters - Jedwabne, Can - Deadly Doris (from The Lost Tapes), Rupert Murdoch admits NoW phone-hacking cover-up. It was National Poetry Day. I believe that John Cooper Clarke should be regarded as being among the very best writers in Britain. Relax, Its Just a Run-of-the-Mill Nuke Spill. His occasional Sunday afternoon shows for BBC 6Music have been a joy to compare with Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour. [1] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. Saboteur Awards Festival 2022: The shortlists! unknownuser What wisdom would you impart to young girls who look up to you in 2018?Young girls who look up to me? 'Move to another country, you sick, dripping, filthy, home-wrecking little bitch. The poet, Elvis Costello recalls, taking up the story, eventually appeared and announced that he'd left a sign reading: "Beware. John Cooper Clarke EvidentlyChickenTown@BarFly10thOctober2009. What a fabulous band.". I'm in a good place now.". I occasionally ask him about it: In all my years on the road, Phil, have you ever seen me eat a cheese and chutney sandwich, or a single Dorito? Im no snacker. He will turn 70 next year. A fan of the show for 60 years, he described it as having "all the finality of a suicide note, without the actual obligation of topping yourself". 2, The Trip: Curated by Jarvis Cocker & Steve Mackey, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Short Circuit: Live at the Electric Circus, Streets: Select Highlights From Independent British Labels. I need some encouragement. wilburysteve Believe me.". With the passage of time, I suggest, such periods of lassitude in poets, or even stand ups like Lenny Bruce, become not just pardoned but somehow regarded as magnificent. John Cooper Clarke has, arguably, not only the most recognisable silhouette in show business, but also the most infectious of poetic voices. the very best of john cooper clarke - cd. My answer is this, though: they all have their uses; its invariably a matter of context. In 1979, he had his only UK top 40 hit with "Gimmix! You get out of bed late in the day and nobody calls you a lazy bastard. The bloody cops are bloody keen. "Which is odd," I suggest, "because, just to take one couplet from 'Beasley Street' [from Snap, Crackle And Bop]: 'There's a dead canary on a swivel seat / There's a rainbow in the road'; these are lines that any poet from TS Eliot to Betjeman would have been very proud to have written. Much more than in the beginning. on 14 August 2015[24] and again on 7 January 2022.[25]. Prison had become like a never-ending party. Wrong on both counts, Jim tee many Martoonies. I cant take the credit for anyone emulating my style everybody copies somebody. "Have you ever seen Genesis?" And then when you arrive at the so-called Northern Powerhouse, you will find you cant get a train to Blackpool or Burnley for about two years. Who were the lyricists who inspired you to write the way you do? John Cooper Clarke performing at the 3rd International Moscow Open Book Festival (3 ) at The . Yes. I found your poem Kung Fu International on one of my dads punk CDs when I was eight (Im 33 now), and I remember listening to it over and over, and pausing so I could write each word down and learn to recite it. Neither is it exotic or romantic. "Those gigs could be tricky," Cooper Clarke says, referring to the punk era, "but at least broken glass and saliva are an acknowledgment that you are actually in the room. 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