'near enough'. Often referred to as "the bard of Salford",[9] he usually refers to himself on stage as "Johnny Clarke, the name behind the hairstyle". Bonnaroo is held in Manchester, Tennessee. ", On stage, such classics as '36 Hours' may be followed by some surreal monologue that might or might not recur in a subsequent performance. "Bloody hell," says Cooper Clarke. Yes. Im obsessed with clothes and I find it very easy to write about them. But theoretically, on planet Bizarro, where Superman is bad and Lex Luther is good, that is what I would do. Because John has extraordinary talent and he has lived a life of frightening extremes. ", STIs, he continues, "are what STDs used to be called and before that - give it a name - VD. I keep it simple: a dark suit with a pale shirt. "), He has always been a gifted mimic and, having been in Essex for so long, has perfected the local accent. Occasionally it would appear out of the mist, just for a day, like some demonic equivalent of Brigadoon." He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). Queues round the block, as you can imagine. "I think because I already looked like a punk." 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. '", 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 wasnt easy: it is an unnatural act to get out there and draw that much attention to yourself. Riot Van So: thanks, Linton! To order a copy for 12.89 go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. It is things that he might eat if he ever did turn up to my show: which is to say various heavily flavoured, deep-fried, lavishly salted snack treats. British Rail, like any monopoly, had undoubtedly got complacent. [1] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. "Yes?" A long renaissance in the years since has resulted in perhaps greater popularity now than ever. I'd have been killed not by hostility but indifference. Of course he does share certain qualities with other performers: things like a sharp wit, fearlessness in the spotlight, and a peculiar and restless imagination. JacobQuinn "You can't pretend that it never happened." 1), The Best Punk Album in the World Ever! New Avalanches Mixtape? It was created originally as a holiday place. Elvis and Frank, though, was the first glimpse of an eternal conflict I could never resolve. pusb1967 Have you ever seen Our Cartoon President? A Music War, in which he performed his poem "Health Fanatic". Im not a handsome man and its damage limitation. We go and see them and they come and see us and we benefit from frictionless border controls. I was on drugs. [Mimics doorbell] 'Oh, hello Audrey. But if I were ever to be asked for my rider requirements they might well involve a box of Mr Kiplings French Fancies, which I would stash for a 3am snack. Why? Fool." Now, Im no expert, but I think when it comes to guys, the less said about the hips the better. John has a brilliant and retentive mind and an exhaustive knowledge of all kinds of culture. I explained to him the format of this interview. 'Make the world go away. BBC Radio 4 - Dr John Cooper Clarke at the BBC (Nov 2016) Somebody once said that a wedding is a funeral where you can smell your own flowers. "The rainbow I imagine is oil in a puddle" "Right." I dont try to explain it. They include "Wherever I Lay My Hat, That's My Hat.". TA: Would not doing it ever be an option?Not for me. After 20 years of performing the same material, Clarke re-established contact with guitarist Rick Goldstraw, who had founded Blue Orchids and played with The Fall and Nico. Culture Show - John Cooper Clarke (10.03.09) Video unavailable. He toured with Bill Nelson's band Be-Bop Deluxe in 1978 and was signed by Epic Records, who issued the studio album Disguise In Love, produced by Hannett, in 1978. My influences are people like Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis that kind of American, smart, preppy look. "You could argue that prejudice and the ability to generalise is what separates us from the lower mammals. Why is the drug addict spat upon, and the climber of Everest revered? "I fell into it," he says. People mention murder, the moment you arriveId consider killing you if I thought you were aliveYouve got this slippery qualityIt makes me think of phlegmAnd a dual personalityI hate both of them, Your bad breath, vamps disease, destruction, and decayPlease, please, please, please, take yourself awayLike a death a birthday partyYou ruin all the funLike a sucked and spat our smartieyoure no use to anyoneLike the shadow of the guillotineOn a dead consumptives faceSpeaking as an outsiderWhat do you think of the human race, You went to a progressive psychiatristHe recommended suicideBefore scratching your bad name off his listAnd pointing the way outside, You hear laughter breaking through, it makes you want to fartYoure heading for a breakdownBetter pull yourself apart, Your dirty name gets passed about when something goes amissYour attitudes are platitudesJust make me wanna piss, What kind of creature bore youWas is some kind of batThey cant find a good word for youBut I can, You Never See a Nipple in the Daily Express. The poet and performer on keeping his clothes simple, stapling them back together, and being fashionable once every 15 years for about three months. "Trafford Park looked like the gates of hell. drew1992 That glorious bank of french horns bleeding into a mess of cellos and strings. 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'. ", Clarke looks uncomfortable. What could possibly go wrong? This is my default look. They have one daughter, Stella. I thought very carefully before I embarked on mine," he explains. I rest my case. "I was too late. Even though he's lived in the South for 25 years, one thought recurs, as I travel to meet him in his adopted home town: What can they make of him in Colchester? "Well, I shouldn't say it, but I really do love that couplet." It is fair to say we were not on expansive speaking terms. John Cooper Clarke SUB89 22.06.12 Lydia The Girl With the Itch through to Rotten Here In Gaol AboutPressCopyrightContact usCreatorsAdvertiseDevelopersTermsPrivacyPolicy & SafetyHow. (De rouille et d'os) [Original De xido y Hueso (Orginal Motion Picture Soundtrack). His recorded output has mainly relied on musical backing from the Invisible Girls, which featured Martin Hannett, Steve Hopkins, Pete Shelley, Bill Nelson, and Paul Burgess. [on choosing to become a poet] You get to wear fine clothes and perfume and nobody pulls you up on it. The standards werent high. "But once I got in there," he tells the audience, "I knew I was in the right place when the clock struck twelve and a cake jumped out of a girl. The Kray family had a bolthole there. 9.50 gbp. The cover features a Peter Blake painting of his stick man profile, and embossed graphics in Scrabble tiles. ", That last word, Costello says, "was rendered hilarious by his voice in a way which is just impossible to replicate in print. Very good-John Cooper Clarke was on form and did some of his new poems as well as some old favourites. He and Garry are usually to be found supporting the older star. Clarke also recorded a song with the band entitled "Dead Man's Shoes". He was previously married to ?. Is Chickentown about Stevenage? 'Danger'? Why not Skype if you are that keen to connect at speed? "I have two heroes in my life," he says. Publicity Listings Saboteur Awards Festival 2022: The shortlists! 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The retreat Psychic TV - Live @ Shiva's Erotic Banquet LA (24 Linda Lovelace and Deep Throats 40-Year Legacy. "Have you ever seen Genesis?" Around this time, he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands and continues to perform regularly. The game's up, Clarke.' This line needs further research. After closing time. [10], Clarke appeared in a 1982 music documentary compilation Urgh! It's often asserted that he wrote nothing in his lost years; this isn't quite true. He was closer to my age than my parents. [4] During an April 2018 episode of Steve Jones' radio show Jonesy's Jukebox, Clarke revealed one of his early inspirations to be the poet Sir Henry Newbolt, reciting from memory a portion of Newbolt's poem "Vita Lampada". I wish I had an answer. Others include the use of his anthem 'Evidently Chickentown' to close a final-season episode of The Sopranos; his memorable appearance in, Ill Manors, the 2012 film by Plan B, and the tireless support of other younger artists, notably Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys. On the Page vs On the Stage Frankie Vah by Luke Wright. What do you want to listen to the bass player over your left shoulder for? He is married to Evie. December 17, 2017 December 22, 2017 Editor David Colmer, Diane Lockward, Fay Roberts, Jo Mazelis, John Cooper Clarke, Lydia Towsey, Mark Pajak, New Orleans Poetry Festival, Nina Bhakoo, . He has at least stopped Kim Wrong Un from exploding his bombs. I am so glad that they have had the huge success they have. Well, for one thing, mono could produce the Phil Spector wall of sound. For a while, though, I have had some problems with the craze for the low-rise pant, the hipster. ", I've kept a copy of this piece, which he gave me in the late Eighties; a poem he knocked out in 20 minutes for a commission. As for people who sneer at him as a 'performance poet' - didn't Homer declaim?". 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. It was hand to mouth. At that time, as he puts it, Andy Warhol's former muse, who appears in Fellini's La Dolce Vita, "had her own gaff in Sedgley Park [North Manchester]." 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. Ever! But lets rack our brains. -In Conversation withTim Wellsabout his Ranting Project- I did a separate couple of interviews last year for creative writing students, -Reviewed by Dana Bubulj Published by Stewed Rhubarb Press, Treasure in the History of Things by Katherine McMahon (of, reviewed by Charlotte Henson Towards the end of last year Apples and Snakes put on a number of, They dragged him from the podium the mic fell slack and squealed and back inside his hotel room his tortured, -Reviewed by Claire Trvien Now in its third year, Stoke Newingtons Literary Festival already has the reputation of an established. lennie7 djkeos [26] He has also been a panellist on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Gradually, and very quietly, John Cooper Clarke has become one of the finest stand-up acts in the history of the art. I thought it was fabulous: great amenities and lavishly fenestrated new houses, with generous garages. I figured I had to sign somebody." "People tell me I shouldn't. It was a mistake in the 60s and it doesnt look any better on some fat fuck in Shoreditch now. 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.) 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. Official Sites. afrobeat, afrofunk, afrojazz, afrorock, african boogie, african hiphop RE-UPLOAD: The Sisters Of Mercy - No Time To Cry - German TV - 1985 (Proshot DVD), [request] Private Tapes Vol.1 : Tsunematsu Masatoshi (1981), William Eaton - Music by William Eaton (1978), The Trauma of Beautiful Things Audio Recording, Update: Signed copies of the Barney Bubbles book available. Cooper Clarke had not been deemed worthy to participate in that event. John Cooper Clarke - Home. People don't expect to sit down and read him.". However, their grandfather may be Thomas COOPER of Fluton with Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. "When we walked out, tentacle in hand / You could sense that the earthlings would not understand / They'd go nudge-nudge when we got on the bus / They'd say, 'It's extra-terrestrial, not like us / And it's bad enough with another race / But fuck me. The band's Alex Turner has said he is very fond of Clarke's work and takes inspiration for lyrics from his poems. ("My family crest," Cooper Clarke once remarked, "is four white feathers on a yellow streak.") Cooper Clarke is largely indifferent to them. John Cooper Clarke: 'I've dressed the same way since 1965' The poet and performer on keeping his clothes simple, stapling them back together, and being fashionable once every 15 years for. And the people werent soulless at all; they were quite chummy in my recollection. I had the last line. Imagine trying to read in the interval for" It is quite hard to convey the venom with which he delivers the next three syllables. Worst act? At bloody fun and bloody games . 'Move to another country, you sick, dripping, filthy, home-wrecking little bitch. "All I can say is that I love what I do now. I like to say I did it in two ways: gradually, and suddenly. Thirty Six Hours I was in Salford when I saw that. "[19] His poem "I Wanna Be Yours" was adapted by Arctic Monkeys and frontman Alex Turner for the band's fifth album, AM, released on 9 September 2013. Like a Night Club in the morning, youre the bitter endLike a recently disinfected shit-house, youre clean round the bendYou give me the horrorsToo bad to be trueAll of my tomorrowsAre lousy coz of youYou put the Shat in ShatterPut the Pain in SpainYour germs are splattered aboutYour face is just a stain, Youre certainly no raver, commonly known as a dragDo us all a favour, here wear this polythene bag. 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