Gazing at those windswept hills and imagining the unspeakable horror of actually being out there. Phil Spector is obviously out of circulation right now, but I am keeping the faith alive. "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. 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. Goldshaw began handling Clarke's affairs, and the two toured with the Mescaleros and several times supporting the Fall. As the great Bill Withers once said, the writing of songs involves a kind of magic I dont mess with. It would be wrong to dismiss John Cooper Clarke as nothing more than a nave creator of knockabout rhyme. The fact is you need help, though. You wrote [in the refrain in Chickentown] the fucking train is fucking late, you fucking wait, you fucking wait back in the late 1970s. A Music War, in which he performed his poem "Health Fanatic". I'd love to get it published. I loved it, man, I loved it. 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. Prison had become like a never-ending party. bluemax I think he moved to the States for a while, but Im not sure the act travelled with him. 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. I hope so. 'Make the world go away. The game's up, Clarke.' dth64 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. He set a very high bar. "How," I ask the poet, "did you hear that she'd died?" They have one child. Because what I do isn't, 'work' as any sane person would understand the term. 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. "I told him the answer is that I read my stuff out loud and I get paid for it. 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. [21] In October 2020 Clarke published an autobiography which took its title from his poem I Wanna Be Yours. 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. The sad truth is I never get to pick. CliveHR and Football Focus. Evidently Chickentown Lyrics. His vocals from both of his Suns of Arqa tracks have been used on numerous remixes by the band ever since. He is married to Evie. jrn1elvis "Sometimes," the actor Steve Coogan once said, "I ask people: 'Have you ever heard of Cooper Clarke?' 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. Ross' film has been one of a number of factors in the poet's belated but rapid ascent from cult artist to international icon. Much the same is true of Clarke, from the other side of the Pennines. Yes. In an hour long conversation, Wise emphasises the foolishness of underestimating Cooper Clarke. 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. I never put a geographical stamp on it. "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 figured I had to sign somebody." I remember thinking, this must be what Stalingrad was like. (catalogue number NOZE 1), which was a collection of live recordings, demos and rehearsals. No. 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. John Cooper Clarke at Latitude 2010. There have been some landmark events to prompt this: Arctic Monkeys dreamy 2013 cover of I Wanna Be Yours; the use of Evidently Chickentown as the backing in one of the most memorable sequences in box-set TV, at the end of an episode of the final season of The Sopranos; the fact that his poems have made it on to the GCSE syllabus. 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 will never resolve. -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. What is it that mono can do that stereo cant?Hi Lauren. And I thought: Wow, imagine being young and living in a mod town like Stevenage! And then I did for a couple of years. [20] On their 2020 eponymous debut album, English band Working Mens Club pays homage to the poet in the track John Cooper Clarke, referencing his poem "Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman" and book The Luckiest Guy Alive. I dont like low-rise, hipster trousers on men. An added complication for the guys who The Yardbirds - Dazed And Confused (1968), David Bowie - Can't Help Thinking About Me. Mine is arbitrary I keep meaning to get a favourite word. 9.50 gbp. In July 2019 Clarke was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. It's a place with heavy oak doors, tasteful decor and a few unobtrusive pictures. One of Clarke's newer poems has the title 'Bed Blocker Blues'. Because John has extraordinary talent and he has lived a life of frightening extremes. Now the spitting on your ancestors push comes to shove, I could live with that. | John Cooper Clarke at the Contains Strong Language spoken word festival at the University of Hull in 2017. his is my default look. "They all had this desire to exclude the world." Its the same with trouser pockets in my experience. Any poet will tell you this. harryrossgorman Shards. The third punter - Jewish guy - hands over his fiver and says, 'paint my house. Because they weren't prejudiced. Cale, who was 'in his vodka period' was, the poet recalls, 'a lovely guy, but a bit of a handful. "Well, I shouldn't say it, but I really do love that couplet." However, their grandfather may be Thomas COOPER of Fluton with Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. Their only shared interest, he insists, was hiding heroin from each other. He will turn 70 next year. "His saving grace," Costello added, "was that he was really fucking funny.". But lets rack our brains. There is no greater accolade for me. I dont possess the equipment. He really does look more and more like Max Wall as he gets older. The theme of the big estate is the great British automotive industry: Wolseley Drive and Morris Road and Austin Crescent. "You can't pretend that it never happened." This is a man whose work has been praised by, among others, Jack Kerouac's co-conspirator Gregory Corso, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko, both of whom he knew. He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). 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. He used to have to fight his audiences to be heard; now they hang on his every inflection. 'Yes mother, I had to go to the doctor. I think that made me cultivate an inner life. Why is the drug addict spat upon, and the climber of Everest revered? I cant talk that guy up enough. The first guy goes in, 'screw me stupid.' Some questions have been submitted by famous admirers of his, others by Observer readers. ("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."). It will be John Cooper Clarke. "I went to get the Buzzcocks," Oberstein once told me. But we couldn't live with that. [6] He began his performance career in Manchester folk clubs, where he began working with Rick Goldstraw and his band the Ferrets. It's obvious that a few hours have gone by, and he hasn't moved. ", On stage, such classics as '36 Hours' may be followed by some surreal monologue that might or might not recur in a subsequent performance. "Trafford Park is working well / Its pestilential ethers swell /, Malodorous clouds like sombre shrouds / Dividing heaven from bloody hell / Where idle hands are the devil's dowry / Knock-knock rent-man Mr. 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. 36acm 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. LancsMark "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. What is on your rider [dressing room request list] these days? That judgmental 'V', hanging over romantic proceedings like the Damoclean sword of justice, rendering enjoyable sex utterly impossible. After closing time. It runs every teatime on television in the States. I discovered your music and spoken word when I was a teenager, and it was very inspirational to me. highwaytohell "I have two heroes in my life," he says. Do you get some element of therapy from writing and performing your poetry? That performance undoubtedly made him a popular figure in the Manchester pub scene of the mid-1970s. They were never out of the dry cleaners Id only wear them to weddings, funerals and gigs, and Ive still got them now. What do you want to listen to the bass player over your left shoulder for? 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. 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." Have you ever seen Our Cartoon President? 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. HelenK 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). Was Jon the Postman the real voice of Manchester?Id obviously argue not, Jason. But now, finally" He pauses, not wishing to appear immodest. 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. Apart from them, I hated every second of school. I dont graze. [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. It was the undoing of us. Yes. 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. Official Sites. "I prefer to do this one from a stage," he told the audience, "because BBC bleep operators have sued for repetitive strain injury and my swear box doubles as a high yield pension fund. 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 is a romantic picture, that idea of Cole Porter always writing lyrics on the back of cigarette packs and menus. And get it off my shoulders.'". We meet in the Kings Arms, a genteel coaching inn in the main street. I may be prejudiced. goldthing This is a poem of rigidly defined structure: five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. He brought about this hothouse atmosphere of competitive poetry recital. I'd have been killed not by hostility but indifference. [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". "I've been in Time magazine," he says, "but don't wait to hear me on [BBC Radio Four's] Poetry Please." Chicken Town E John Cooper Clarke 3. For the latter event, touts have been demanding more than 200 a ticket. [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. 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. - If you had to choose one adjective that least well described him, as a person or as an artist, it would be 'orthodox'. lennie7 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. Publicity Listings 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. JacobQuinn "My doctor told me. They may appreciate 'a voice' when it comes from 'the underclass', and they can indecently patronise it; but do they ever recognise 'a delivery', as in performance? ericte Is Chickentown about Stevenage? "If there's a gene, I got it from my ma," he says. What a fabulous band.". [Mimics doorbell] 'Oh, hello Audrey. That terrible inertia they captured that brilliantly.". "[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. There are good reasons, he argues, for judging by appearances. He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). [12], Clarke released Zip Style Method in 1982, but thereafter performed his live act less frequently, spending much of the 1980s mired in heroin addiction, living in a "domestic partnership" with singer and fellow addict Nico. I have no children. He reserves the style for poems such as, 'Solid Gold Geezer.' 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 credit this experience as one that led me to a lifetime of writing. I've got VD.' He was a magic realist right to the end. I rest my case. Each of these things," he went on, "makes it far from absurd to compare him to Baudelaire, or Verlaine, or Rimbaud.". My message is always the same: dont even do it once. There's only you and me have not been up there Robert, but then the night is still young.". Didn't his dick almost drop off once? My trouser needs are simple: a narrow leg in a dark colour, with jean detailing. "You could argue that prejudice and the ability to generalise is what separates us from the lower mammals. i just wanna be yours t-shirt. I like a high waist if anything, like a flamenco dancer that rakish, swashbuckling look.
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