I may be simple minded. He speaks with love of the life he has created there, referring often to his wife, Evie, and daughter, Stella, his guiding lights. Four of Clarke's five lots made a loss, giving a total loss of 233.54. 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. 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. We meet in the Kings Arms, a genteel coaching inn in the main street. For that reason, perhaps I am not best placed to objectively gauge the enigmatic appeal of Jon the Postman. John Cooper Clarke (born January 25, 1949) is a performance poet from Salford, Lancashire, England, affectionately known as the Bard of Salford. Him and Grard de Nerval: the guy that wore the powder blue cape and walked a lobster on a leash. So, to answer Jarviss inquiry: by default, during the low-rise years, I strolled the feminine range on the ground floor of Marks & Spencer. Neither marriage nor routine employment suited him at the time. [1] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. John Cooper Clarke - What's In My Bag? And that," adds the poet, who is 66, "is why I have lived to be considerably older than you are. The sun has set. In the mid-Eighties he shared a flat in Brixton with the music entrepreneur Alan Wise, and Nico, former member of the Velvet Underground, and one time partner of, among others, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and Alain Delon. His father George was a skilled engineer. This is "an advert," as he explains, "that I wrote for the Martini people, on the understanding that I would receive a year's supply, or a lifetime's supply, whichever was the greater, of their enervating beverage." Anyone would dig it. What are your recollections of touring with the reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson?They are only good, put it that way. 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. The poet-performer talks to Tim Adams about his new book and tour and, further down, answers questions from readers and famous fans. Anything can kick you off. Now, he makes sure that he arrives at any venue two hours early. Believe me.". He was closer to my age than my parents. Plus its very asexual you should like that at the Guardian looks just as right on Joan Jett as it does on Keith Richards. Official Sites. 9.50 gbp. windymiller It is fair to say we were not on expansive speaking terms. I may be prejudiced. 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. Too bad to be true. Who were the lyricists who inspired you to write the way you do? He is a genius,' I think, 'Oh, thank God for that. His vocals from both of his Suns of Arqa tracks have been used on numerous remixes by the band ever since. (I Married a) Monster from Outer Space John Cooper Clarke 8. I didnt understand those lyrics, but they gave me an idea of an adult world. It is the work of my long-term manager, Phil Jones. Jon the Postman would climb up on stage at any gig he attended and do an impromptu a cappella version of Louie Louie by the Kingsmen. US 'Blackmails' EU Into Agreeing To Hand Over Pas North Korea Threatens Seoul With Military Action, Tim Burgess's golden rules of rocknroll excess. I loved it, man, I loved it. on sale a riot of our own by johnny green & garry barker. "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. "Because you know what the Japanese are like. 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. Is the father of a daughter, named Stella. My look is very easy to maintain but that wasnt always the case in the 80s, I couldnt find anything. They include "Wherever I Lay My Hat, That's My Hat.". ", One of his regular companions on the road, in the early days, was Elvis Costello. John Cooper Clarke - Home. ", His father worked at Trafford Park, the biggest industrial estate in Europe. The Flaming Lips gummy skull with marijuana flavo Joy Division - Live at Bowdon Vale Youth Club, Alt Megaupload Trial May Never Happen, Judge Says The one thing you could guarantee was that they didn't share an overpowering enthusiasm for poetry. "Genesis. If anything, I go for a high-waisted trouser the Simon Cowell except I wouldnt attribute it to him, Id attribute it to flamenco dancers and matadors. I wasnt thinking of Stevenage, though I did live there for a couple of years. Surely theres some dead bloke? 1978 Disguise in Love. A long renaissance in the years since has resulted in perhaps greater popularity now than ever. I thought it was fabulous: great amenities and lavishly fenestrated new houses, with generous garages. The reason John Cooper Clarke has been so patronised, Liverpool poet Adrian Henri once argued, "has to do with his association with music. djkeos Whats your favourite gig venue, and why?It has to be the London Palladium, at which I have the honour of appearing again next month. Did you ever think you could stop using smack [heroin]? "Well, I shouldn't say it, but I really do love that couplet." '", If you've seen him regularly over the years, you might be surprised by the material he's dispensed with, or revives just occasionally. "Yes?" You wouldnt have known she was there. 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! Because what I do isn't, 'work' as any sane person would understand the term. But there is one attribute, very commonly found in lesser talents, that, you sense, John Cooper Clarke is never going to develop: an unshakeable belief in his own greatness. "I have two heroes in my life," he says. VD, with its hard, accusatory consonants. Like Ranulph Fiennes. "Have you ever seen Genesis?" Gazing at those windswept hills and imagining the unspeakable horror of actually being out there. He is married to Evie. He pays the money and limps home after receiving a severe pasting. Its like men wearing short trousers. [2] His first releases were on Tosh Ryan and Martin Hannett's independent label Rabid,[7] starting with the EP Innocents in October 1977. Her run of success on the British TV show Opportunity Knocks led both Clarke and his mother to believe that he could make a living at poetry.[8]. Shards. [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 fury of the crowds really was quite alarming at that time. Call for Applications: Saboteur Awards and Festival 2023, Ludd Gang, edited by Alex Marsh, Dom Hale and Tom Crompton. They were never out of the dry cleaners Id only wear them to weddings, funerals and gigs, and Ive still got them now. That could be the Ramones, or Hogarth, or Yevtushenko - who, incidentally," he added, "really loves John's work. The phlegm could be equally intimidating in its own way. 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. Can I make you cocoa? "I judge by appearances," he tells audiences. "You can't pretend that it never happened." 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. As for people who sneer at him as a 'performance poet' - didn't Homer declaim?". It's his reluctance to discuss narcotics - "and it always, always comes up" - that mean that he will very rarely subject himself to interviews of any length. Barry Evans and his young friends were all mods in a mod town. They'd all have been sat in the bar, meditating on their flares." New Avalanches Mixtape? People don't expect to sit down and read him.". There are good reasons, he argues, for judging by appearances. Christopher gets back on smack and he's sat in that same position, in the market, just nodding out. The template was the 1933 Busby Berkeley movie 42nd Street. The Bard of Salford John Cooper Clarke became a doctor today after receiving an honorary degree in his home city. Mine is arbitrary I keep meaning to get a favourite word. First it's great, then it isn't; then it's hell." lennie7 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. What is it that mono can do that stereo cant?Hi Lauren. John Cooper Clarke Albums Anthologia Miscellaneous Snap, Crackle & Bop O Est la Maison de Fromage? With horrible results.". Trains coming down the middle of the road. To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake. 'Oh, you poor thing, I'll put your electric blanket on. 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. "[15] In 1987, he performed live (on crutches owing to a broken ankle) at the Albany Empire in London with Suns of Arqa, recorded two tracks ("Libera Me" and "The Truth Lies Therein") for their album Seven, and featured in the music video for the latter. In an hour long conversation, Wise emphasises the foolishness of underestimating Cooper Clarke. 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. Baudelaire was my hero. "Evidently Chickentown" (recited by Christopher Eccleston) is featured in the made-for-television film Strumpet. Antarctic Monkeys Clarke lost much of the 1980s to a heroin addiction, when he lived in a flat in Brixton with Nico, the late singer and muse of the Velvet Underground; he dislikes any attempt to glamorise that period, and is reluctant to discuss it in detail. I remember sitting backstage one night with Cooper Clarke and the late Chris Sievey, alias Frank Sidebottom, another former cult hero who has been propelled to mass fame, in his case posthumously, through Lenny Abrahamson's film, Frank, released earlier this year. zaynan ", He seemed to have arrived fully formed, performing brilliantly incisive poems such as 'You Never See a Nipple In The Daily Express'. 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"Time flies, slides down the wall," Sievey said, from memory, his eyes half closed. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Evie But lets rack our brains. (catalogue number NOZE 1), which was a collection of live recordings, demos and rehearsals. Since he first began performing in Mancunian working men's clubs in the mid-Seventies, he has evolved a unique stage act that is part comedy, part knockabout verse, part rather more moving - serious poetry whose profundity slips by you without you quite noticing. So I had lines like: 'The choice Iranian on my foil / It runs like virgin olive oil / I'm living the life of a decadent royal / It could spoil, it could spoil, it could spoil you / Rotten here in jail. There is little question that Cooper Clarke could, should he so wish, fill that historic Kensington venue single-handedly. [28], Clarke has lived for nearly 20 years in Colchester, Essex, with his second wife, Evie, who is French. All of my tomorrow's. Are lousy coz of you. rycu He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). .and this years most read reviews are. "They married you off in the music press, didn't they?" Cooper Clarke rid himself of his own 16-year habit for good in 1992. "I first saw you opening for bands at clubs like The Electric Circus in Manchester when I was still at school," I tell him. Imagine trying to read in the interval for" It is quite hard to convey the venom with which he delivers the next three syllables. Was Jon the Postman the real voice of Manchester?Id obviously argue not, Jason. The third punter - Jewish guy - hands over his fiver and says, 'paint my house. You put the Shat in Shatter. The Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters - Jedwabne, Can - Deadly Doris (from The Lost Tapes), Rupert Murdoch admits NoW phone-hacking cover-up. The poet, Elvis Costello recalls, taking up the story, eventually appeared and announced that he'd left a sign reading: "Beware. "Because of his accent and his appearance, and because he never went to college," he says, "a certain kind of people make assumptions. People used to go on about how soulless life in those new towns was, but that was not my experience of Stevenage. [2] Rabid also released his debut LP O est la maison de fromage'? Their only shared interest, he insists, was hiding heroin from each other. She was also an unpublished poet. Saboteur Awards Festival 2022: The shortlists! 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I rest my case. nicklawrance Evidently Chickentown E John Cooper Clarke 2. I've got VD.' It's obvious that a few hours have gone by, and he hasn't moved. "You could argue that prejudice and the ability to generalise is what separates us from the lower mammals. 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. I wish I had an answer. deadgraham, John Cooper Clarke at Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, England, John Cooper Clarke at Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth, England, John Cooper Clarke at Brighton Centre, Brighton, England, John Cooper Clarke at The Forum, Bath, England, John Cooper Clarke at Eventim Apollo, London, England, John Cooper Clarke at St David's Hall, Cardiff, Wales, John Cooper Clarke at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England, John Cooper Clarke at Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, John Cooper Clarke at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, England, John Cooper Clarke at O2 Apollo Manchester, Manchester, England. She was well, and recovering, and looking forward to Spain. I tend to live by the dictum less is more, but that mono sound proved more can be more. "I didn't find out they'd chosen it," Cooper Clarke says, "until after they'd made it. "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. 'Mere verse' as some might call it, is the kind of thing that everybody thinks they can do - and they're quite right, they can. He had it all. The way poetry works is this: you learn the sound of the words first. Look whos played there: Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, you name them. The Luckiest Guy Alive? She does the business. Neither is it exotic or romantic. He doesn't care for the musical arrangements, by yet another 'late' associate Martin Hannett, acclaimed producer of, among others, Joy Division. They deserve it. To bloody keep it bloody clean. But mostly it is down to his brilliant rambling dramatic monologue of a stage show, which has become less staccato over the years. "The haiku," he tells Shepherd's Bush, "is a three line discipline perfected in the 17th century in Japan by a poet called Matsuo Basho. 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. The big production number at the end concludes, you recall, Naughty, bawdy, gaudy, sporty, Forty-second Street. I cant take the credit for anyone emulating my style everybody copies somebody. Here [at the Contains Strong Language spoken word festival in 2017] Ive also got a bolo tie, which chimes in with the snakeskin boots by Jeffery West. "Well," Cooper Clarke says, "he was a rent man, wasn't he?". After that, old ladies started to hit me in the street with their umbrellas.". As it happened, the record company boss conceded, he stumbled upon the more enduring talent. Partly that was because ever since I was a teenager I had been taking what you might call pep pills, so I was invariably a little bit artificially jazzed up when I walked out on stage. You are not going to understand The Lady of Shalott you are a 10-year-old boy in Salford and it was written by a 33-year-old bloke 150 years ago. Clarke was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1949. But then things started to buck up. | It's called "Get Back on Drugs, You Fat Fuck". "Frontal lobes just had a trim," it begins, "or did you meet the Moonies? l33wilko CliveHR Ive never been offered an honour by the Queen, but Id be happy to accept. [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. And, again, it is better that you dont know what its about at first. 'Yes mother. John Cooper Clarke", "BBC One Would I Lie to You?, Series 9, Episode 3", "Would I Lie to You? Get it wrong by even half a syllable, and you are condemned to an eternity of spitting on your ancestors, after committing ritual suicide in a public place. Why? What do you want to listen to the bass player over your left shoulder for? DaveM66 I have no children. When we eventually arrived at the one diner that was still open, the owner, not being a man of letters, was initially reluctant to let him in. John Cooper Clarke at Latitude 2010. And it's not that bad.". For the latter event, touts have been demanding more than 200 a ticket. At the same time," he adds, "they were a picnic compared to the working men's clubs. He was previously married to ?. 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("This paper's boring, mindless and mean / Full of pornography, the kind that's clean / Where William Hickey meets Michael Caine / Again and again and again and again / You see all kinds of ugliness and hideous excess / But you never see a nipple in The Daily Express."). 1) She'd been in Italy. "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. Across the road, outside London's Shepherd's Bush Empire, fans are gathering to watch the poet. Many people have told me that they do use the writing of poetry to concentrate their mind on some pressing metaphysical problem. 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. John died 25 Feb 1684 in Barnstable. "I don't really look forwards in that way," he says. CalendarMan A state of reverie and the virtue of idleness are paramount. In the past, I have worn a more adventurous colour palette but Im red/green colour blind so its an area of anxiety for me. It is sensationally good, in the manner of Family Guy or King of the Hill. 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. Pinchy & Friends - Sleepy The Bug (ft. Warrior Queen) - Aktion Pak. Because it is fabulous the first time. Stereo is some nerd twiddling his knobs. Who on earth needs to get to Manchester 15 minutes quicker? How long, I'd asked him, had he known this by heart? 36acm Relax, Its Just a Run-of-the-Mill Nuke Spill. "I don't want that again. ", 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. She loved John Betjeman, and she introduced me to his writing. Read John Cooper Clarke's poem for Topman's show at London Collections Men. I hope so. I dont like low-rise, hipster trousers on men. 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. The outfit was another form of fighting talk, one he has stuck with in a journey that has seen some extremes. However, I am interested in what you get out of it. He was born in Salford, on the north side of Manchester on 25 January, 1949 and has one brother, Paul, 12 years his junior. 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. Clarke's poem "Out of Control Fairground" was printed inside the Arctic Monkeys' 2007 single "Fluorescent Adolescent" CD. ', 'Anything wrong?' he told me. "No," he laughs. 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. tundramamine 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. 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. [11] The film featured live performances of mainstream artists (the Police, the Go-Go's, XTC, Devo) as well as more obscure bands (Pere Ubu, Invisible Girls, the Alley Cats, Athletico Spizz '80, Chelsea) using concert footage from around the world. 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