Because I'm prejudiced. That's half an hour of my life you've saved me, having to explain it to you. I'm a much more confident person than I was. [10], Clarke appeared in a 1982 music documentary compilation Urgh! I remember thinking, this must be what Stalingrad was like. It won't be me. "Frontal lobes just had a trim," it begins, "or did you meet the Moonies? tundramamine 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. There were events hosted by beat poets at the Royal Albert Hall in the Sixties, but they were ensemble shows and they didn't always sell out. Mention of the people who queued to pay him homage in that documentary - from Stewart Lee to Bill Bailey and Arthur Smith - causes Cooper Clarke, a naturally modest man, visible discomfort. He was born in Salford, on the north side of Manchester on 25 January, 1949 and has one brother, Paul, 12 years his junior. He still seems a little bewildered by his recent trajectory, which has seen him appearing on shows like Have I Got News for You? 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. Though he has travelled a long way from his native Salford, it has never left him. The poem is also the inspiration behind the single's video, in which clowns brawl. 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. TA: You were more Sinatra than Elvis back then?No. Kind of literate punk, he said. You give me the horrors. I used to think trees were dirty, because when I was a kid in Salford you'd climb them and come off filthy, it was like you'd been up a chimney and even if you got a stretch of park you just had to scrape the grass and there were, like, cinders underneath it was horrible[5], His first job was a laboratory technician at Salford Tech. He was previously married to ?. I had friends but they were out indulging in robust pursuits, which I was excluded from because I had to stay indoors. Fire away at me at random, Tim, he said. LightninDave [2] His first releases were on Tosh Ryan and Martin Hannett's independent label Rabid,[7] starting with the EP Innocents in October 1977. This is a poem of rigidly defined structure: five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. Its like men wearing short trousers. HelenK "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. Oh dear! A screen projector showing him in close up would have helped a lot-for those of us in the gallery he was a bit of a speck in the distance. Popular John Cooper Clarke albums This Time It's Personal. "I was too late. Clarke also recorded a song with the band entitled "Dead Man's Shoes". I think that made me cultivate an inner life. [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". One of Clarke's newer poems has the title 'Bed Blocker Blues'. In the way I imagine that rappers subsequently did in Compton, Los Angeles. I didnt get into show business to be pushed around by the likes of Mark E Smith. Because it is fabulous the first time. 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. Its the same with trouser pockets in my experience. I had the last line. The Kray family had a bolthole there. "Have you ever seen Genesis?" When two dozen paramedics have to put on high-vis tabards and possibly die in trying to rescue him? Riot Van It runs every teatime on television in the States. - But I know by their name that I hate them. 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. 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. How long, I'd asked him, had he known this by heart? ", 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.' 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. It was a mistake in the 60s and it doesnt look any better on some fat fuck in Shoreditch now. I believe its the kind of thing Charles Baudelaire aspired to: you know, the guy with the overview, a mirror reflecting the entire Parisian crowd. "You," he quoted from memory, sitting in the half light, "who like a dagger thrust, entered my complaining soul; sweet and potent as a host of demons, came wild, beautiful wretch infamous to whom I'm bound, like the convict to the chain, a stubborn gambler to his dice, the drunkard to his revelry. But drug addiction really is the most tedious of subjects. 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. John Cooper Clarke at Latitude 2010. A state of reverie and the virtue of idleness are paramount. Series 1 - Twisted Romance (2 Nov 2016) . No. To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point. DaveM66 present) (1 child). First, theres my domestic situation, my wonderful wife and family. 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. 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. rycu 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. The latter band's former tour manager, the writer and cycling journalist Johnny Green, now looks after Clarke on the road. 36acm ', Whereas [doorbell] 'Oh, hello Audrey. "I've been in Time magazine," he says, "but don't wait to hear me on [BBC Radio Four's] Poetry Please." 'Oh, you poor thing, I'll put your electric blanket on. He is married to Evie. Gradually, and very quietly, John Cooper Clarke has become one of the finest stand-up acts in the history of the art. Who ever asked for that? reviewed by James Webster What it is? Worst act? His father George was a skilled engineer. '", 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. 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]." It's obvious that a few hours have gone by, and he hasn't moved. John Cooper Clarke (born January 25, 1949) is a performance poet from Salford, Lancashire, England, affectionately known as the Bard of Salford. Was Nico easy to live with? Publicity Listings I didnt understand those lyrics, but they gave me an idea of an adult world. He got married at 21, to Christine, four years his junior, then became an apprentice type compositor, based in Dorset. The band's Alex Turner has said he is very fond of Clarke's work and takes inspiration for lyrics from his poems. Really, really badly. Cooper Clarke met the Cologne-born icon in Manchester in about 1980. ", That last word, Costello says, "was rendered hilarious by his voice in a way which is just impossible to replicate in print. [28], Clarke has lived for nearly 20 years in Colchester, Essex, with his second wife, Evie, who is French. [Mimics doorbell] 'Oh, hello Audrey. 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. jrn1elvis Explorers," he adds, "actively annoy me. newmanshh I Wanna Be Yours John Cooper Clarke 4. ", The poet laughed. He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). I don't need to inquire whether the poet is wondering if this is how he himself might have wound up. I hate that idea: eating on the go. It is a kind of a dream town, as Im sure Wilko knows, coming as he does from nearby Canvey Island. [1] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. The template was the 1933 Busby Berkeley movie 42nd Street. I mean that crowd wanted crooners, strippers; they might fleetingly tolerate a magician. Launcelot The poet has something of a gift for talking his own work down. "I met the whole band when they were starting out," Cooper Clarke says. There's only you and me have not been up there Robert, but then the night is still young.". "Even then, I remember wondering how on earth you'd come to be there." But since then, now I dont get a bad time from hecklers, and invariably enjoy the love of the poetry-reading public, it has become a much more relaxed affair. Across the road, outside London's Shepherd's Bush Empire, fans are gathering to watch the poet. 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. [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. We meet in the Kings Arms, a genteel coaching inn in the main street. (? "Well, I shouldn't say it, but I really do love that couplet." And you will live with those items for years, halfway up the lounge wall. 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. Brooshski Other Works And it caught on. "I don't really look forwards in that way," he says. "I'm not joking. My message is always the same: dont even do it once. The poet and performer on keeping his clothes simple, stapling them back together, and being fashionable once every 15 years for about three months. Der Geschmack von Rost und Knochen (Orginal Motion Rust og bein (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). 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. [citation needed]. He pays the money and limps home after receiving a severe pasting. 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. (De rouille et d'os) [Original De xido y Hueso (Orginal Motion Picture Soundtrack). As it happened, the record company boss conceded, he stumbled upon the more enduring talent. She'd been in Italy. 9.50 gbp. For a while, though, I have had some problems with the craze for the low-rise pant, the hipster. "You can't pretend that it never happened." The first lyrics I became aware of would have been in the pre-rocknroll 1950s, when my Uncle Dennis was demobbed from the RAF and he lived at our house for a bit. They'd all have been sat in the bar, meditating on their flares." Cooper Clarke doesn't bear a grudge. I dont like low-rise, hipster trousers on men. The truth is, Caligula, if I was opening for them, they were better than I was. He speaks with love of the life he has created there, referring often to his wife, Evie, and daughter, Stella, his guiding lights. "Genesis. mac_abre Why not Skype if you are that keen to connect at speed? 1978 Disguise in Love. 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. The first guy goes in, 'screw me stupid.' He is married to Evie. To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake. He leaves, tired but happy. "Trafford Park looked like the gates of hell. "Please," he asked the audience at Shepherds Bush, "if you ever see me in a vegetative state - drooling and incontinent, having to be reminded of my own name - just leave me in peace. Is Chickentown about Stevenage? Everest. ", His time in rehab is not a period he is keen to revisit. They have one child. Imagine trying to read in the interval for" It is quite hard to convey the venom with which he delivers the next three syllables. Around this time, he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands and continues to perform regularly. ", As a teenager at secondary modern school, he was a mod. "Who caught it off whom?" 'Make the world go away. In his autobiography The Big Wheel, Costello's former bass player Bruce Thomas describes an incident at a Copenhagen hotel when Cooper Clarke's room was substantially rearranged. The role of driver and minder, which Green has adopted out of affection, is one that the poet describes as "Gentleman's Travelling Companion". "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. Im not a handsome man and its damage limitation. Goldshaw began handling Clarke's affairs, and the two toured with the Mescaleros and several times supporting the Fall. [Pause] He's a cunt. 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. I am sure some of my classmates felt their time could have been more profitably spent. She was also an unpublished poet. John Cooper Clarke performing at the 3rd International Moscow Open Book Festival (3 ) at The . Blog Archive 2022 (44) 2022 (44) May (9) April (20) April (20) She was exemplary. It plays over the closing credits of 'Stage 5', from the final series, in which Christopher Moltisanti relapses into opiate addiction. "The rainbow I imagine is oil in a puddle" "Right." I prefer to see it as a sexual relationship that is recognised by the police. LancsMark Where do you get your trousers from?The short answer, Jarv, is River Island or Marks & Spencer, the skinniest they do. "I do it myself," he says. Because they weren't prejudiced. Now you, being unprejudiced, would give them the benefit of the doubt. Believe me.". They have one child. Anybody who calls themselves Genesis is well overdue a good hiding, you know what I mean? Why is the drug addict spat upon, and the climber of Everest revered? Its not really a mullet. "It wasn't. I wish I had an answer. 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. After that, old ladies started to hit me in the street with their umbrellas.". Here's the difference between STI and VD. 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. Tim Adams: I imagine you held your own in those battles?Oh, I was the king of the block. 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. Ex-Israeli spy boss attacks Netanyahu and Barak La Trobe 'torture' study anguish His physique has become an integral part of act. 271 people have seen John Cooper Clarke live. Is that the crime of the century? "Yes?" 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. "It's like any addiction. 'Move to another country, you sick, dripping, filthy, home-wrecking little bitch. Otherwise they would have been opening for me. But thats the secret: the sound of the language, those sonorous words. He is married to Evie. Did you ever think you could stop using smack [heroin]? No way do I ever approach my work as a way of working out my own problems. When this piece was used in The Sopranos, there was a communal surge of pride among Cooper Clarke's longstanding admirers, at the knowledge that this work by the poet could resonate as powerfully with New Jersey as it does with Moss Side. (Play Loud)". The third punter - Jewish guy - hands over his fiver and says, 'paint my house. A fan of the show for 60 years, he described it as having "all the finality of a suicide note, without the actual obligation of topping yourself". One thing: when I met Linton, I knew I had to tighten up my game in the wardrobe department. And, again, it is better that you dont know what its about at first. 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. Ive interviewed him once before, that time on the telephone, and was struck how just as on stage there appeared no subject under the sun which he could not bend to his comic will. Im obsessed with clothes and I find it very easy to write about them. I tend to live by the dictum less is more, but that mono sound proved more can be more. Evidently Chickentown E John Cooper Clarke 2. I discovered your music and spoken word when I was a teenager, and it was very inspirational to me. "Remember that poem you wrote about Lowry?" It was hand to mouth. He was closer to my age than my parents. That performance undoubtedly made him a popular figure in the Manchester pub scene of the mid-1970s. The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke is published by Picador (14.99). 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." 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. I pray that you are successful. 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 SUB89 22.06.12 Lydia The Girl With the Itch through to Rotten Here In Gaol AboutPressCopyrightContact usCreatorsAdvertiseDevelopersTermsPrivacyPolicy & SafetyHow. Thats another thing I have always avoided: peg tops. It was created originally as a holiday place. 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. His vocals from both of his Suns of Arqa tracks have been used on numerous remixes by the band ever since. '", The emaciated figure, the shades, and the obsessive attention to the minutest detail of his wardrobe ("the only casual item I own," he tells me, "is a Levi's jacket") mean that he is occasionally mistaken for the Rolling Stones' Ron Wood. evidently john cooper clarke - dvd. But if I'd have been around in Bavaria in 1935, I could have told them. [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." I really do. The cover features a Peter Blake painting of his stick man profile, and embossed graphics in Scrabble tiles. John Cooper Clarke", "BBC One Would I Lie to You?, Series 9, Episode 3", "Would I Lie to You? 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. The Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters - Jedwabne, Can - Deadly Doris (from The Lost Tapes), Rupert Murdoch admits NoW phone-hacking cover-up. But the ritual suicide; that's not really my cup of tea. At the same time," he adds, "they were a picnic compared to the working men's clubs. I won't be the one whose life is turned into legend. Well, Kate, my first thought is: they should find somebody else. "How," I ask the poet, "did you hear that she'd died?" Queues round the block, as you can imagine. There are two pubs: the Three Jays and the Sheldrake. "I just never dreamed," he tells me, "that things could ever get this good.". 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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. Even though quite often you literally couldn't see it for the smoke. John Cooper Clarke has, arguably, not only the most recognisable silhouette in show business, but also the most infectious of poetic voices. Nobody saw this coming. Now, Im no expert, but I think when it comes to guys, the less said about the hips the better. Surely theres some dead bloke? That glorious bank of french horns bleeding into a mess of cellos and strings. "Keats, Baudelaire, Poe," I suggest to Cooper Clarke. There they are, bulldozing these beautiful villages so someone can get to Manchester quarter of an hour earlier. 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. I figure any town in the whole world has an equivalent of the fictional neighbourhood I describe. Free UK p&p over 10, online orders only. And it's not that bad.". And I thought: Wow, imagine being young and living in a mod town like Stevenage! And then I did for a couple of years. What a fabulous band.". ", On stage, such classics as '36 Hours' may be followed by some surreal monologue that might or might not recur in a subsequent performance. 2 (liane Reyes). "I believe I was thinking you know that bit in On the Waterfront where they throw the informer off the roof, and the line is: "He could sing, but he couldn't fly". 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. Its an intelligent question, Phil, not least because I am old enough to have a historical perspective of the railways, but not yet too old to have lost my memory of how things were. 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He doesn't care for the musical arrangements, by yet another 'late' associate Martin Hannett, acclaimed producer of, among others, Joy Division. I wasnt thinking of Stevenage, though I did live there for a couple of years. I had that AIDS once," he adds, as an afterthought. Anything can kick you off. 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. He has his set pieces, such as 'Home Honey, I'm High.' 'BEYOND THE Sidi Tour with Yehiya Arby - Artiatanat. coastangel If memory serves, you are marginally safer in the Three Jays. [13][14] He described this period of his life: "It was a feral existence. The way poetry works is this: you learn the sound of the words first. Blues ' 'screw me stupid. though quite often you literally could n't see it for the smoke language. The working john cooper clarke lydia 's clubs low-rise, hipster trousers on men on their flares. connect speed. 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