Who on earth needs to get to Manchester 15 minutes quicker? I dont try to explain it. His set is characterised by lively rapid-fire renditions of his poems, usually performed a cappella. I spent quite a while thinking of the right adjectives: greasy, cheesy and so on, and then looked for a street name that toned in, but was credible. But if I'd have been around in Bavaria in 1935, I could have told them. 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. The It Man John Cooper Clarke 5. ", 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.' You're late home.' 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. He got married at 21, to Christine, four years his junior, then became an apprentice type compositor, based in Dorset. Across the road, outside London's Shepherd's Bush Empire, fans are gathering to watch the poet. However, I am interested in what you get out of it. Cooper Clarke rid himself of his own 16-year habit for good in 1992. "I remember that Manchester air was officially declared the worst on the planet back then," he says. And cheese and chutney sandwiches. 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. What do you want to listen to the bass player over your left shoulder for? Who bloody draws a bloody line. 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. One of the frustrating things for admirers of Cooper Clarke is the limited amount of work he has published and recorded. bluemax Believe me.". For a period of months, Cooper Clarke was also host to John Cale, meaning that, "I'm no name-dropper, but for a while I had two-fifths of the Velvet Underground living at my place." And then this other life where I am appearing at the Palladium. "I've never really known," he says. The Nationwide adverts, along with collateral backlash, have been sparking debates among poets on social media for several weeks now. Each of these things," he went on, "makes it far from absurd to compare him to Baudelaire, or Verlaine, or Rimbaud.". He closed the show at Shepherds Bush with his signature piece, 'Evidently Chickentown'. 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. "I was sent to Rhyl, to live with my auntie Eileen; she died of tuberculosis." Explorers," he adds, "actively annoy me. 9.50 gbp. That movie, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, starring Barry Evans, for which Traffic did the theme, was set there. Is there any better way of saying 'stool pigeon'? Around this time, he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands and continues to perform regularly. His vocals from both of his Suns of Arqa tracks have been used on numerous remixes by the band ever since. 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. Chris Harford Is the father of a daughter, named Stella. They died out. Baudelaire was my hero. The template was the 1933 Busby Berkeley movie 42nd Street. Brooshski Astra-nomical I figure any town in the whole world has an equivalent of the fictional neighbourhood I describe. Not with the laudanum, but The Lake District. Writing is the prism through which you see the world. But you have to keep your request down to three words. [18], In July 2013, Clarke was awarded an honorary doctorate of arts by the University of Salford in "acknowledgement of a career which has spanned five decades, bringing poetry to non-traditional audiences and influencing musicians and comedians." The third punter - Jewish guy - hands over his fiver and says, 'paint my house. John Cooper Clarke Top Songs 1. /, The library's bound to fail / since the sudden departure of Jeffrey Archer / It's rotten here in jail.'". Mine is arbitrary I keep meaning to get a favourite word. I think of it more like Tin Pan Alley work. He reserves the style for poems such as, 'Solid Gold Geezer.' He knew my brother, who still works for the GPO, the Royal Mail, so we have a bit of baggage, you might say. "That," I suggest, "can't have been easy". It's obvious that a few hours have gone by, and he hasn't moved. And it's not that bad.". He is married to Evie. CliveHR That performance undoubtedly made him a popular figure in the Manchester pub scene of the mid-1970s. Beasley Street (Live) E John Cooper Clarke 6. Too bad to be true. The Bard of Salford John Cooper Clarke became a doctor today after receiving an honorary degree in his home city. "I first saw you opening for bands at clubs like The Electric Circus in Manchester when I was still at school," I tell him. "You and John Lennon. I don't mind looking at it through a window. There is no Japanese term for. Seven young guys are approaching us, wearing hoods. I had the last line. Free UK p&p over 10, online orders only. 1978 . See full bio I was unemployed at the time. [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". Show business isnt easy and it instinctively goes against the grain to do my fellow performers down. You give me the horrors. 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. "My doctor told me. For a while, though, I have had some problems with the craze for the low-rise pant, the hipster. Ive done everything the wrong way. I cant take the credit for anyone emulating my style everybody copies somebody. Erstwhile louts trying to out-verbal each other, in a flamboyant, slightly foppish way. "I have two heroes in my life," he says. John Cooper Clarke was born on 25 January 1949 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. "I think because I already looked like a punk." "Remember that poem you wrote about Lowry?" 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. [2] He lived in the Higher Broughton area of the city and became interested in poetry after being inspired by his English teacher, John Malone,[3] whom he described as "a real outdoor guy, an Ernest Hemingway type, red blooded, literary bloke". John died 25 Feb 1684 in Barnstable. Him and Grard de Nerval: the guy that wore the powder blue cape and walked a lobster on a leash. Barry Evans and his young friends were all mods in a mod town. ukje11ybean John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet, who first became famous as a " punk poet" in the late 1970s. 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The cover features a Peter Blake painting of his stick man profile, and embossed graphics in Scrabble tiles. You would persuade yourself that they could be Franciscan monks. The truth is Im not just a practitioner of poetry when I am on stage I am like the police: never off-duty. "Because of his accent and his appearance, and because he never went to college," he says, "a certain kind of people make assumptions. [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. "Fancy Tony saying that." "[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. If they say, 'John Cooper Clarke? He was previously married to ?. John Cooper Clarke, TV Smith, Joe Cairo, Ann Ziety 26 March 1993 at Covent Garden Community Centre (182) Immortalised on the earliest video recording of an A&S show at Covent Garden Community Centre - which reveals that the 'special guests' promised on the flyer are, in fact, Joe Cairo. coastangel The role of driver and minder, which Green has adopted out of affection, is one that the poet describes as "Gentleman's Travelling Companion". I dont graze. reviewed by James Webster What it is? 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. 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. The fury of the crowds really was quite alarming at that time. One of the more fortunate breaks in his poetic career, he suggests, was that he looked like a punk before punk rock arrived. He really does look more and more like Max Wall as he gets older. A live performance of the same poem appears in the film Control, with Clarke portraying himself in a re-creation of a 1977 concert in which he supported Joy Division, despite being 30 years older than the events depicted in the film. Why? 9.50 gbp. But not me. Look whos played there: Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, you name them. PMgep "Even then, I remember wondering how on earth you'd come to be there." [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. "That was great for a while," he tells me, "Until Ron was in the news for having that fight with his wife. 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. "His saving grace," Costello added, "was that he was really fucking funny.". But the ritual suicide; that's not really my cup of tea. This is a poem of rigidly defined structure: five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. I had friends but they were out indulging in robust pursuits, which I was excluded from because I had to stay indoors. Are you a soothsayer? But I know by their name that I hate them. "John?" 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. Where do you get your trousers from?The short answer, Jarv, is River Island or Marks & Spencer, the skinniest they do. The way poetry works is this: you learn the sound of the words first. Caius Caligula? Can I make you cocoa? ', They were great, those dudes, but Baudelaire was the baddest motherfucker on the block.". TheRealDavidF mac_abre When I moved to Essex, among the first things everyone said was Dont ever go to Jaywick, its a toilet. Costello's musicians debated where to dump the pillow case in which they'd hidden the shattered glass from a picture frame above the poet's bed. Four of Clarke's five lots made a loss, giving a total loss of 233.54. 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. "Her writing has this effortless quality. I like a high waist if anything, like a flamenco dancer that rakish, swashbuckling look. So, to answer Jarviss inquiry: by default, during the low-rise years, I strolled the feminine range on the ground floor of Marks & Spencer. The reason John Cooper Clarke has been so patronised, Liverpool poet Adrian Henri once argued, "has to do with his association with music. There is no greater accolade for me. It's called "Get Back on Drugs, You Fat Fuck". Alone. It was a mistake in the 60s and it doesnt look any better on some fat fuck in Shoreditch now. 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 plays over the closing credits of 'Stage 5', from the final series, in which Christopher Moltisanti relapses into opiate addiction. max_stenner '", 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. "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. The first guy goes in, 'screw me stupid.' Now you, being unprejudiced, would give them the benefit of the doubt. Ive never been offered an honour by the Queen, but Id be happy to accept. Imagine trying to read in the interval for" It is quite hard to convey the venom with which he delivers the next three syllables. Put the Pain in Spain. It was a time of letters left unopened, heavy curtains warding off the maddening reality of daylight and, as he would concede, anxiety and reclusiveness. Series 1 - Twisted Romance (2 Nov 2016) . He was a magic realist right to the end. As a scene, that was the best treatment of drug addiction I have ever seen. Ever! [28], Clarke has lived for nearly 20 years in Colchester, Essex, with his second wife, Evie, who is French. 'Haiku #1' I call it: 'To convey one's mood / In seventeen syllables / Is very diffic.'". For that reason, perhaps I am not best placed to objectively gauge the enigmatic appeal of Jon the Postman. It wasnt easy: it is an unnatural act to get out there and draw that much attention to yourself. ", One of his regular companions on the road, in the early days, was Elvis Costello. '", If you've seen him regularly over the years, you might be surprised by the material he's dispensed with, or revives just occasionally. No way do I ever approach my work as a way of working out my own problems. This video is unavailable. If you haven't previously encountered his work, you might start with 'I Married A Monster From Outer Space', a poem inspired by the 1958 film of that name. 'near enough'. When you first started out, did you get stage fright? TA: Would not doing it ever be an option?Not for me. 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? [2] He returned to live performance in the 1990s, appearing again with Suns of Arqa in 1992 at The Witchwood in Ashton-under-Lyne. Apart from the one collection [Ten Years in An Open-Necked Shirt, which originally appeared in 1981, superbly illustrated by Steve Maguire] he has never been published. Its like men wearing short trousers. "They married you off in the music press, didn't they?" newmanshh As an audience member I know what I get from watching you perform. Consider the dinosaurs. In the way I imagine that rappers subsequently did in Compton, Los Angeles. Like his concert last October at the larger Royal Festival Hall, the event sold out many weeks ago. Now the spitting on your ancestors push comes to shove, I could live with that. nicklawrance No one can be that busy. 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. The sad truth is I never get to pick. "How," I ask the poet, "did you hear that she'd died?" 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