Now that he's enjoying his unforeseen Indian summer, I ask the poet, what can he find to trouble him? Launcelot ", 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. Chris Harford You deserve not the reward of freedom from your slavery. 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. Because John has extraordinary talent and he has lived a life of frightening extremes. Nick Cohen, our columnist, broke off from columnising to recite extended passages of Clarkes verse first committed to memory when the poet was sharing spittle-flecked stages with Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols back in the day. Why is the drug addict spat upon, and the climber of Everest revered? I keep it simple: a dark suit with a pale shirt. 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. Because it is fabulous the first time. Every style of English suburban house is represented there, but all at two-thirds scale. Pink first, then yellow. To enjoy a renaissance, Cooper Clarke concedes, you must have been dead for a period. Because it's very unusual that somebody manages to kick it. What was the first song or poem you remember learning the words to?Thats a good question, Michael, because that is exactly how I did get introduced to poetry at school, Michael Gove-style. Ex-Israeli spy boss attacks Netanyahu and Barak La Trobe 'torture' study anguish ", 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. bluemax He got married at 21, to Christine, four years his junior, then became an apprentice type compositor, based in Dorset. And if so, how did you combat it?I didnt get it too bad. He leaves, tired but happy. I dont try to explain it. The poem is also the inspiration behind the single's video, in which clowns brawl. Very good-John Cooper Clarke was on form and did some of his new poems as well as some old favourites. Cale, who was 'in his vodka period' was, the poet recalls, 'a lovely guy, but a bit of a handful. Did you ever think you could stop using smack [heroin]? 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. 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. "They all had this desire to exclude the world." 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. ", As a teenager at secondary modern school, he was a mod. Let's say you and me were in Peckham. You get out of bed late in the day and nobody calls you a lazy bastard. Budd Schulberg, Clarke adds, "what a writer. Gradually, and very quietly, John Cooper Clarke has become one of the finest stand-up acts in the history of the art. ("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."). i just wanna be yours t-shirt. Poet; Movie star; Rock star; TV & radio presenter; Comedian; Social & cultural commentator. Why not Skype if you are that keen to connect at speed? "I have two heroes in my life," he says. If they say, 'John Cooper Clarke? I was on drugs. 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 Which of your poems are you most satisfied with?Well, that is a typically clever question from Christopher, who did a memorable performance of Evidently Chickentown in that Danny Boyle film Strumpet, written by Jim Cartwright. He speaks with love of the life he has created there, referring often to his wife, Evie, and daughter, Stella, his guiding lights. 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. He knew my brother, who still works for the GPO, the Royal Mail, so we have a bit of baggage, you might say. "It's like any addiction. And he said, 'Because it does not bark, and it knows the secrets of the deep. Plus its very asexual you should like that at the Guardian looks just as right on Joan Jett as it does on Keith Richards. "They married you off in the music press, didn't they?" "My doctor told me. He has embraced old age as an opportunity to indulge the kind of recklessness traditionally associated with youth. But if you ask me, I do think the free movement of working people has impacted badly on the poorest members of our society, which is bad for both the immigrant workers and bad for our workers, because it has driven down wages and conditions. ", Clarke looks uncomfortable. Cooper Clarke had not been deemed worthy to participate in that event. Are you a soothsayer? It goes without saying. 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. There are many subjects he does not enjoy broaching on the record, and heroin is chief among them. DaveM66 He brought about this hothouse atmosphere of competitive poetry recital. He was born in Salford, on the north side of Manchester on 25 January, 1949 and has one brother, Paul, 12 years his junior. 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. But then things started to buck up. It is sensationally good, in the manner of Family Guy or King of the Hill. John Cooper Clarke", "BBC One Would I Lie to You?, Series 9, Episode 3", "Would I Lie to You? His agents saying: Dont go screwing it up again, youre opening for Doris Day at the London Palladium. And why did Lenny choose the Palladium for that routine? 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Fool." The poem, he says, has had to be retitled "Bi-Polar Inmate Diary". Britain's best loved and most important performance poet. "I told him the answer is that I read my stuff out loud and I get paid for it. Like a Night Club in the morning, you're the bitter end. ", 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. "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. 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. She'd been in Italy. 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. The sun has set. It would be wrong to dismiss John Cooper Clarke as nothing more than a nave creator of knockabout rhyme. pusb1967 "No. Chicken Town E John Cooper Clarke 3. "Yes?" A state of reverie and the virtue of idleness are paramount. I am so glad that they have had the huge success they have. I dont graze. ', 'Anything wrong?' John Cooper Clarke was born on January 25, 1949 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. He also starred in another 1982 film titled John Cooper Clarke Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt produced for the Arts Council of Great Britain and Channel 4. Why? To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories, John Cooper Clarke, who has suffered and survived the troubles that traditionally distract a poet - tuberculosis, poverty, and opiate addiction - stands on a corner in central London pondering a new and unexpected challenge: adulation. On the Page vs On the Stage Frankie Vah by Luke Wright. At the same time," he adds, "they were a picnic compared to the working men's clubs. And, gadus, good luck with your attempts to rid yourself of this terrible affliction. I can't remember what happens next" and his list of "songs I wrote where I made one mistake in the title, that later became big hits for other artists." I'd have been killed not by hostility but indifference. The poet and performer on keeping his clothes simple, stapling them back together, and being fashionable once every 15 years for about three months. You wrote [in the refrain in Chickentown] the fucking train is fucking late, you fucking wait, you fucking wait back in the late 1970s. 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. The truth is Im not just a practitioner of poetry when I am on stage I am like the police: never off-duty. Often referred to as "the bard of Salford",[9] he usually refers to himself on stage as "Johnny Clarke, the name behind the hairstyle". How much has privatisation bettered or worsened things? the very best of john cooper clarke - cd. It runs every teatime on television in the States. In the way I imagine that rappers subsequently did in Compton, Los Angeles. LightninDave "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. They have one child. First it's great, then it isn't; then it's hell." He's developed a routine in which he describes being invited to perform at the Bulimic Society's New Year's Eve Party, in Kensington. 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. My answer is this, though: they all have their uses; its invariably a matter of context. 9.50 gbp. wilburysteve Didn't his dick almost drop off once? poetry quote black t-shirt. Arriving late, he is unsure as to whether he has found the right venue. My answer back then would be, as they say, to be hopped up on goof balls. 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. /, The library's bound to fail / since the sudden departure of Jeffrey Archer / It's rotten here in jail.'". CalendarMan 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. [6] He began his performance career in Manchester folk clubs, where he began working with Rick Goldstraw and his band the Ferrets. ", The work, once a struggle, is flowing freely from him. 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. Was Jon the Postman the real voice of Manchester?Id obviously argue not, Jason. I could have saved the world a whole lot of heartbreak. Consider the dinosaurs. monastreet (at) gmail (dot) com twitter/exilestreet. 9.50 gbp. These are the very reasons for our survival as a species. I'd seen her not long before. I didnt meet her then, but she was in the audience. Kind of literate punk, he said. Alone. I was in Salford when I saw that. [1] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. 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I think," Costello continues, "this might be why he is not greatly regarded by literary snobs. 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. I wasnt thinking of Stevenage, though I did live there for a couple of years. Shakespeare wrote for actors. Too bad to be true. Like a recently disinfected shit-house, you're clean round the bend. 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. In January 2018 Clarke appeared as a contestant on an academic version of BBC One's Pointless Celebrities partnered with historian Suzannah Lipscomb; they reached the head-to-head round. I think he moved to the States for a while, but Im not sure the act travelled with him. Tickets available here, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Poetry in motion: John Cooper Clarke photographed in London earlier this month by Antonio Olmos for the Observer, TheSpecials: Respect people. 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 first saw you opening for bands at clubs like The Electric Circus in Manchester when I was still at school," I tell him. I had friends but they were out indulging in robust pursuits, which I was excluded from because I had to stay indoors. He had fixed on his sartorial style in the unlikely arena of Bernard Mannings Embassy Club, where he acted as compere in the early 1970s, warming up an audience united by their shared antipathy to performance poetry. 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. That glorious bank of french horns bleeding into a mess of cellos and strings. There they are, bulldozing these beautiful villages so someone can get to Manchester quarter of an hour earlier. But now, finally" He pauses, not wishing to appear immodest. (By some bizarre coincidence, I find out later on that, at the same time as we begin this conversation, Channel 4's Countdown had as its guest the comedian Jon Culshaw, who gave an impression of the poet reading one of his finest pieces, 'I Wanna Be Yours', which is covered by the Arctic Monkeys on their 2013 UK number one album, AM). Imtheaudioslave I may be simple minded. 'Yes mother. My message is always the same: dont even do it once. ", But the lost years do feed into his writing and his comedy. "[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. Looking at one, I remember the poet once telling me that he had "never seen a work of art that would not be improved by the addition of tropical fish". "On one tour," Costello told me, "John went on between Richard Hell and The Voidoids and ourselves. [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." He worked in the fairground cafe in Rhyl, "and then in the laboratory stores at Salford Tech". 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. He still seems a little bewildered by his recent trajectory, which has seen him appearing on shows like Have I Got News for You? There is no greater accolade for me. Their only shared interest, he insists, was hiding heroin from each other. Can I make you cocoa? That movie, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, starring Barry Evans, for which Traffic did the theme, was set there. Put the Pain in Spain. It is a kind of a dream town, as Im sure Wilko knows, coming as he does from nearby Canvey Island. jrn1elvis ("My family crest," Cooper Clarke once remarked, "is four white feathers on a yellow streak.") 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. It is a small part of what he does. The retreat Psychic TV - Live @ Shiva's Erotic Banquet LA (24 Linda Lovelace and Deep Throats 40-Year Legacy. As for people who sneer at him as a 'performance poet' - didn't Homer declaim?". 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. I begged the poison I abhorred. He arrived in traditional garb: pointed boots, strides clinging to stick-insect legs, dark jacket, buttoned-up white shirt, generous shades, Ronnie Wood hair beneath a tall grey felt hat. '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. I dont possess the equipment. In July 2019 Clarke was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. ", On stage, such classics as '36 Hours' may be followed by some surreal monologue that might or might not recur in a subsequent performance. TheRealDavidF Radiohead 'Lotus Flower' (Austin City Limits - be Megaupload: Data access talks to begin on 26 April. 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. I thought it was fabulous: great amenities and lavishly fenestrated new houses, with generous garages. And I thought I would do that, but with a lousy street. He'd just finished a show in a small theatre and we were looking for somewhere to eat. Is the father of a daughter, named Stella. John has a brilliant and retentive mind and an exhaustive knowledge of all kinds of culture. 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. "Well," Cooper Clarke says, "he was a rent man, wasn't he?". 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. I hate the word itself. No. 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. 20.00 gbp. Ive never been good at advice. Its not really a mullet. That terrible inertia they captured that brilliantly.". 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. Hilda, his mother, worked as a cleaner. John Cooper Clarke Albums Anthologia Miscellaneous Snap, Crackle & Bop O Est la Maison de Fromage? To take one of my more popular poems, Beasley Street: I worked my way back on that one. 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. louisdj 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. Well, Kate, my first thought is: they should find somebody else. What is on your rider [dressing room request list] these days? "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. "John?" I pray that you are successful. 2016 Zip Style Method. Wright, 31, has clearly modelled himself on Cooper Clarke, but has developed his own distinctive voice, and humour. Anybody. Trains coming down the middle of the road. [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. 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. Whats your favourite word? I really like the idea of being a poetic hack. 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. reviewed by James Webster What it is? [23] He has appeared as a guest on the comedy panel show Would I Lie To You? 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. "I did," is all he will say, "all of those things that you have to do. "[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. TA: Would not doing it ever be an option?Not for me. "Time flies, slides down the wall," Sievey said, from memory, his eyes half closed. ', They were great, those dudes, but Baudelaire was the baddest motherfucker on the block.". 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. The brown ones Id give away. "I went to get the Buzzcocks," Oberstein once told me. So: thanks, Linton! Why? I should say that all my characters are an amalgam or something, Craig, but Vince was the bloke in the downstairs apartment when I lived in Plymouth for a while, real name Frank. But not me. What is the worst act you opened for, and why? Like his concert last October at the larger Royal Festival Hall, the event sold out many weeks ago. "Because of his accent and his appearance, and because he never went to college," he says, "a certain kind of people make assumptions. drew1992 He pays the money and limps home after receiving a severe pasting. Thats an intelligent question too, from Ben, because lyricists have probably influenced me more than any other poets. And the people werent soulless at all; they were quite chummy in my recollection. No. They have one child. The template was the 1933 Busby Berkeley movie 42nd Street. A much underrated garment, the jegging: they never need ironing and they hold their colour. on sale a riot of our own by johnny green & garry barker. "I judge by appearances," he tells audiences. He had Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Sinatra obviously the great American songbook. It was created originally as a holiday place. All rights reserved. He had it all. For that reason, perhaps I am not best placed to objectively gauge the enigmatic appeal of Jon the Postman. The sad truth is I never get to pick. 'Move to another country, you sick, dripping, filthy, home-wrecking little bitch. John Cooper Clarke (born January 25, 1949) is a performance poet from Salford, Lancashire, England, affectionately known as the Bard of Salford. Why? Who ever asked for that? tundramamine Free UK p&p over 10, online orders only. Culture Show - John Cooper Clarke (10.03.09) Video unavailable. His response has become something of a mantra. 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." It is also more true to life. Have you ever been offered an honour by the Queen, Sir John? "In the French, it's imbcile.". John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet, who first became famous as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. Poet; Movie star; Rock star; TV & radio presenter; Comedian; Social & cultural commentator. I cant talk that guy up enough. See full bio There also can be a performance at music festivals across the country that include Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo Music Festival. Thats the gold standard, not just for me, but worldwide. A few lines later it was like I was king of the fucking nick. evidently john cooper clarke - dvd. 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. It is merciless about Trump, but even so, you cant ignore the fact that even then he somehow still tends to come out on top. Read John Cooper Clarke's poem for Topman's show at London Collections Men. 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