This is my default look. And there it was: Beasley, asking for it. Thats an intelligent question too, from Ben, because lyricists have probably influenced me more than any other poets. I figured I had to sign somebody." Dont ever do it. That is the story of the Donald, and because in this business I learned long ago you should never knock success, I cant help admiring the crazy fucker in some way. He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). I will never resolve. He brought his collection of records and a record player, which was new to us. If its true, as I claim in the title poem of my book, that I am the Luckiest Guy Alive, its for two reasons. [15][29], "Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt (film)", John Cooper Clarke performs Beasley Street at Hammersmith Palais, "John Cooper Clarke interview: 'Poetry is not something you have to retire from', "John Cooper Clarke On Life In Higher Broughton", "John Cooper Clarke: 'It's diabolical how poor I am', "Plan B's Ill Manors set to hijack charts in Olympics opening week", "John Cooper Clarke honoured by University of Salford", "Does Rock 'N' Roll Kill Braincells?! The fury of the crowds really was quite alarming at that time. I wasnt thinking of Stevenage, though I did live there for a couple of years. Dr John Cooper Clarke at the Firestation Arts Centre - 21/06/17. Every time I saw him he had a meat-cleaver in his hand and the look of a man who might have been Henry Coopers psychotic kid brother. It is a kind of a dream town, as Im sure Wilko knows, coming as he does from nearby Canvey Island. (i married a) monster from outer space(i've got a brand new) track suit23rd36 hoursa distant relationaction manapart from the revolutionare you the businessarts n' craftsbeasley streetbelladonnabronze adonisbunch of twigsburnleyconcussionconditional dischargecycle accidentday my pad went madday the world stood stilldrive she saiddumb row Other Works Mr_Jones Often referred to as "the bard of Salford",[9] he usually refers to himself on stage as "Johnny Clarke, the name behind the hairstyle". He is married to Evie. VD, with its hard, accusatory consonants. 1) But thats the secret: the sound of the language, those sonorous words. Im fashionable once every 15 years, for about three months. The wording is discussed. When two dozen paramedics have to put on high-vis tabards and possibly die in trying to rescue him? She was well, and recovering, and looking forward to Spain. 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. I mean that crowd wanted crooners, strippers; they might fleetingly tolerate a magician. I think of it more like Tin Pan Alley work. That judgmental 'V', hanging over romantic proceedings like the Damoclean sword of justice, rendering enjoyable sex utterly impossible. "Don't forget Eddy Arnold," he replies, referring to the country singer's version of a song by Hank Cochran. What he did was extremely brave, especially for a self-confessed coward." It is a romantic picture, that idea of Cole Porter always writing lyrics on the back of cigarette packs and menus. See full bio 1982 Snap, Crackle & Bop. Occasionally it would appear out of the mist, just for a day, like some demonic equivalent of Brigadoon." John Cooper Clarke performing at the 3rd International Moscow Open Book Festival (3 ) at The . Now you, being unprejudiced, would give them the benefit of the doubt. John Cooper Clarke Albums Anthologia Miscellaneous Snap, Crackle & Bop O Est la Maison de Fromage? John Cooper Clarke is touring now. "Genesis. The one thing you could guarantee was that they didn't share an overpowering enthusiasm for poetry. Have you ever seen Our Cartoon President? Did you ever think you could stop using smack [heroin]? Cale, who was 'in his vodka period' was, the poet recalls, 'a lovely guy, but a bit of a handful. His gentleness of manner means that, even at venues in his adopted home county, he can get away with tormenting audiences with their own vowel sounds delivered in an excruciating tone of laryngeal menace that might frighten Ray Winstone. He had it all. He came into the office pulling a suitcase and immediately he sat down he was unzipping it to reveal his latest pride and joy, a handsome hardback collection of his poetry, entitled The Luckiest Guy Alive. 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. 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. The third punter - Jewish guy - hands over his fiver and says, 'paint my house. 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. Actually if it sounds like anybody, it's Rimbaud. "Trafford Park looked like the gates of hell. 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. I know for many people our departure from the EU is the worst thing thats ever happened. To take one of my more popular poems, Beasley Street: I worked my way back on that one. "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. He had Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Sinatra obviously the great American songbook. And you will live with those items for years, halfway up the lounge wall. Because they weren't prejudiced. "It wasn't. "I've been in Time magazine," he says, "but don't wait to hear me on [BBC Radio Four's] Poetry Please." The performer, who is still occasionally stopped in the street and asked how much he charges to haunt a house ("That," he replies, "would depend how many rooms you have") is the sort of figure that cab drivers don't stop for. Do you get some element of therapy from writing and performing your poetry? My answer back then would be, as they say, to be hopped up on goof balls. I've got VD.' His wisest recourse at such moments is to start talking. Cooper Clarke met the Cologne-born icon in Manchester in about 1980. However, their grandfather may be Thomas COOPER of Fluton with Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. He speaks with love of the life he has created there, referring often to his wife, Evie, and daughter, Stella, his guiding lights. His vocals from both of his Suns of Arqa tracks have been used on numerous remixes by the band ever since. Everest. 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.". 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. This is a poem of rigidly defined structure: five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. The one message I would like to send out is that this is not something you can pick up and leave alone just like that, you know. Final nail in Julius Malema's political coffin? He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). One thing: when I met Linton, I knew I had to tighten up my game in the wardrobe department. I prefer to see it as a sexual relationship that is recognised by the police. "They did but she basically just moved in on me in Brixton. 'Oh, you poor thing, I'll put your electric blanket on. "That," I suggest, "can't have been easy". Lydia, Girl with an Itch by John Cooper Clarke - YouTube 0:00 / 4:51 Lydia, Girl with an Itch by John Cooper Clarke 20,175 views Mar 6, 2014 Live at the Cambridge Junction 5th March 2014. She was exemplary. That could be the Ramones, or Hogarth, or Yevtushenko - who, incidentally," he added, "really loves John's work. New Avalanches Mixtape? [4] He also duetted with Reverend Jon McClure at a Reverend and the Makers concert at London's Spread Eagle, performing the poem "Last Resort", which would later be released as the B-side for the band's single "Heavyweight Champion of the World". Didn't his dick almost drop off once? [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. The sun has set. It was the beginning of the end." Shakespeare wrote for actors. 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. The way poetry works is this: you learn the sound of the words first. Nobody saw this coming. ", STIs, he continues, "are what STDs used to be called and before that - give it a name - VD. CliveHR Fool." 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. But drug addiction really is the most tedious of subjects. ", His celebrated haiku has developed into a routine that can last 20 minutes. "His saving grace," Costello added, "was that he was really fucking funny.". "I don't want that again. This period is chronicled in keyboard player James Young's outstanding memoir, Songs They Never Play On The Radio. The Nationwide adverts, along with collateral backlash, have been sparking debates among poets on social media for several weeks now. 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. He brought about this hothouse atmosphere of competitive poetry recital. Is that the crime of the century? ", He seemed to have arrived fully formed, performing brilliantly incisive poems such as 'You Never See a Nipple In The Daily Express'. What is on your rider [dressing room request list] these days? Even though quite often you literally couldn't see it for the smoke. lennie7 TA: Do you do much Skyping?Never. He set a very high bar. ", 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. 'Yes mother. [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". The poem is also the inspiration behind the single's video, in which clowns brawl. coastangel So: thanks, Linton! Arctic Monkeys "Now that I come to think of it," he adds, "Spitting on my ancestors is what I do best. We had to learn The Lady of Shalott, by the late, great Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which was 12 pages long, and I have to say I am all the better for it. Chicken Town E John Cooper Clarke 3. She was also an unpublished poet. They were built as holiday chalets, but people now live permanently in them. 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. "Frontal lobes just had a trim," it begins, "or did you meet the Moonies? All rights reserved. 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'. They died out. 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. If memory serves, you are marginally safer in the Three Jays. Capacious trouser pockets are like a new living-room shelf: the moment you put it up it becomes occupied not only by favoured ornaments but by half-squeezed-out tubes of Neutrogena hand cream and stuff. But in Colchester, we've talked for more than six hours in a single session and the most life-threatening substance he has ingested has been a Glenmorangie. [2], Clarke has attributed his early success in part to the influence of the English poet Pam Ayres. Riot Van His occasional Sunday afternoon shows for BBC 6Music have been a joy to compare with Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour. He speaks with love of the life he has created there, referring often to his wife, Evie, and daughter, Stella, his guiding lights. When you first started out, did you get stage fright? Clarke, who claims [bogusly] on stage at Shepherd's Bush that he is half-Jewish, delivers old school gags such as: "Hooker opens up in a new area. And it caught on. He closed the show at Shepherds Bush with his signature piece, 'Evidently Chickentown'. "How," I ask the poet, "did you hear that she'd died?" If you read the lyrics to Its Magic, that very sexy Doris Day song, for example, you are already singing the song they leave you no other way to go. Ivy League suits and three button coats things that you might buy at John Simons. "Well," Cooper Clarke says, "he was a rent man, wasn't he?". In July 2019 Clarke was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. 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. ", The reason John Cooper Clarke has been so patronised, Liverpool poet Adrian Henri once argued, "has to do with his association with music. This was at Bernard Mannings Embassy Club in Manchester. And since you ask, Chickentown is among my favourites, not least because of that and its appearance in the penultimate episode of The Sopranos. ukje11ybean Ninkasi It was National Poetry Day. He connects with a young audience precisely because he has never attempted to deny his years. "Over two decades on," he says, "some kinds of reputation never leave you. His perennial UK tours he is just about to embark on another are invariably sold out to audiences of all ages. He doesn't care for the musical arrangements, by yet another 'late' associate Martin Hannett, acclaimed producer of, among others, Joy Division. 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. He moved back to Manchester, focussed on his art and was eventually spotted by the head of CBS, the late Maurice Oberstein. [2] His first releases were on Tosh Ryan and Martin Hannett's independent label Rabid,[7] starting with the EP Innocents in October 1977. 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. ", As a teenager at secondary modern school, he was a mod. He has embraced old age as an opportunity to indulge the kind of recklessness traditionally associated with youth. Youre like a dose of scabiesIve got you under my skinYou make life a fairy tale Grimm! 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. Many people have told me that they do use the writing of poetry to concentrate their mind on some pressing metaphysical problem. 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 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. 9.50 gbp. -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. 'near enough'. And cheese and chutney sandwiches. For a while, though, I have had some problems with the craze for the low-rise pant, the hipster. I'm a much more confident person than I was. But lets rack our brains. If you went to see a band, the Beatles, the Stones, they were up there on the stage; you would naturally expect all the sound to come from their general direction. 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. His will was proved on 25 Feb 1683/84. He used to have to fight his audiences to be heard; now they hang on his every inflection. He and Garry are usually to be found supporting the older star. Wright, 31, has clearly modelled himself on Cooper Clarke, but has developed his own distinctive voice, and humour. louisdj I figure any town in the whole world has an equivalent of the fictional neighbourhood I describe. 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. People used to go on about how soulless life in those new towns was, but that was not my experience of Stevenage. 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. Simpo Cooper Clarke has lived here for the best part of 25 years with Evie, his Picardy-born wife; the couple have a grown-up daughter, Stella. You couldnt have asked me at a better juncture. Much of that gift lies in his voice: you cant help but smile when he talks. Ive done everything the wrong way. nicoleec 2016 Zip Style Method. 9.50 gbp. As it happened, the record company boss conceded, he stumbled upon the more enduring talent. Bonnaroo is held in Manchester, Tennessee. He was a magic realist right to the end. Believe me.". Baudelaire was my hero. 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. And I am very lucky to be here really. I began with a question from one of the many performers who, no doubt, owe just a little bit of their style and delivery to watching Clarke with an audience, seeing how it might be done. "I did," is all he will say, "all of those things that you have to do. Look whos played there: Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, you name them. And it seems hilarious now, when you read biographies about Wordsworth striding out on the fells, whingeing on about Coleridge lying zonked out on the couch on laudanum. 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 mean Elvis was a world-changing event for me. 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). Poet; Movie star; Rock star; TV & radio presenter; Comedian; Social & cultural commentator. 'Haiku #1' I call it: 'To convey one's mood / In seventeen syllables / Is very diffic.'". 1), The Best Punk Album in the World Ever! max_stenner I thought very carefully before I embarked on mine," he explains. John Cooper Clarke has always been adjacent to musicians, but in I Wanna Be Yours he recounts his many attempts at forming bands of his own.Throughout the '60s, he was a member of a comically . 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. the very best of john cooper clarke - cd. But not me. 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