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. The only stereo I like is a jukebox: two speakers but both on the same piece of furniture. Now, he makes sure that he arrives at any venue two hours early. Beasley Street E John Cooper Clarke 7. Mine is arbitrary I keep meaning to get a favourite word. Why? I've got VD.' rycu Is the father of a daughter, named Stella. I dont have a problem with the leisure bit though. Copyright 2017 sabotagereviews.com. And we had to know the whole 12 pages, because on command, at any moment, you might be called on to stand up and recite a particular verse. 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. I think it is dangerous to think it is anything to do with having an addictive personality or any of that bollocks. And it's not that bad.". "I don't want that again. I had the last line. Occasionally it would appear out of the mist, just for a day, like some demonic equivalent of Brigadoon." "I think because I already looked like a punk." 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 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. I Wanna Be Yours John Cooper Clarke 4. "Who caught it off whom?" But all poetry - all writing - is aural. DaveM66 "Don't forget Eddy Arnold," he replies, referring to the country singer's version of a song by Hank Cochran. But you have to keep your request down to three words. You're late home.' Thats another thing I have always avoided: peg tops. 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. It wasnt easy: it is an unnatural act to get out there and draw that much attention to yourself. Oh dear! 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. 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Imagine trying to read in the interval for" It is quite hard to convey the venom with which he delivers the next three syllables. "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. Launcelot It can be done, clearly, but it aint easy. I'd seen her not long before. ", The definitive poem about drug addiction, Cooper Clarke told me back then, '"is 'The Vampire' by Charles Baudelaire. Really, really badly. You helped the Fall in the early days, letting them rehearse in your house, and you were a lifelong friend of the other Bard of Salford, Mark E Smith. Who bloody draws a bloody line. She was well, and recovering, and looking forward to Spain. 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 wording is discussed. Charley Barnes hands over Sabotage Reviews Director to Heddwen Creaney! nicklawrance 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. Ganges 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. Unlike some of his fellow OAPs from the world of popular music, Cooper Clarke has understood the desperately absurd spectacle of an older artist seeking to cling to their youth. And you will live with those items for years, halfway up the lounge wall. And that," adds the poet, who is 66, "is why I have lived to be considerably older than you are. pusb1967 He doesn't care for the musical arrangements, by yet another 'late' associate Martin Hannett, acclaimed producer of, among others, Joy Division. Capacious trouser pockets are like a new living-room shelf: the moment you put it up it becomes occupied not only by favoured ornaments but by half-squeezed-out tubes of Neutrogena hand cream and stuff. It was National Poetry Day. I like to say I did it in two ways: gradually, and suddenly. [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 would be wrong to dismiss John Cooper Clarke as nothing more than a nave creator of knockabout rhyme. He is married to Evie. I have to confess that jeggings were one solution. The Changing Face of Planet Earth These are the very reasons for our survival as a species. Put the Pain in Spain. Explorers," he adds, "actively annoy me. 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 figured I had to sign somebody." One of Clarke's newer poems has the title 'Bed Blocker Blues'. Series 1 - Twisted Romance (2 Nov 2016) . 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. "That was great for a while," he tells me, "Until Ron was in the news for having that fight with his wife. 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. unknownuser They have one child. 'Move to another country, you sick, dripping, filthy, home-wrecking little bitch. "I didn't find out they'd chosen it," Cooper Clarke says, "until after they'd made it. Who were the lyricists who inspired you to write the way you do? I didnt meet her then, but she was in the audience. ", The reason John Cooper Clarke has been so patronised, Liverpool poet Adrian Henri once argued, "has to do with his association with music. To take one of my more popular poems, Beasley Street: I worked my way back on that one. If you had any sense you wouldnt look to me for any life lessons. TA: Would not doing it ever be an option?Not for me. He moved back to Manchester, focussed on his art and was eventually spotted by the head of CBS, the late Maurice Oberstein. Budd Schulberg, Clarke adds, "what a writer. 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. 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. They deserve it. 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. And if so, how did you combat it?I didnt get it too bad. No way do I ever approach my work as a way of working out my own problems. People used to go on about how soulless life in those new towns was, but that was not my experience of Stevenage. 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. He has embraced old age as an opportunity to indulge the kind of recklessness traditionally associated with youth. They have one child. 1) Anything can kick you off. "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. Have you ever seen Our Cartoon President? You get out of bed late in the day and nobody calls you a lazy bastard. It goes without saying. Lowry." He had Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Sinatra obviously the great American songbook. He was born in Salford, on the north side of Manchester on 25 January, 1949 and has one brother, Paul, 12 years his junior. I cant take the credit for anyone emulating my style everybody copies somebody. 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. Steve2505 The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke is published by Picador (14.99). Otherwise they would have been opening for me. Though he has travelled a long way from his native Salford, it has never left him. December 17, 2017 December 22, 2017 Editor David Colmer, Diane Lockward, Fay Roberts, Jo Mazelis, John Cooper Clarke, Lydia Towsey, Mark Pajak, New Orleans Poetry Festival, Nina Bhakoo, . Pinchy & Friends - Sleepy The Bug (ft. Warrior Queen) - Aktion Pak. Read John Cooper Clarke's poem for Topman's show at London Collections Men. 1980 O est la maison de fromage ? "I have two heroes in my life," he says. I may be prejudiced. But then things started to buck up. As it happened, the record company boss conceded, he stumbled upon the more enduring talent. Is Chickentown about Stevenage? It was a mistake in the 60s and it doesnt look any better on some fat fuck in Shoreditch now. 2, The Trip: Curated by Jarvis Cocker & Steve Mackey, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Short Circuit: Live at the Electric Circus, Streets: Select Highlights From Independent British Labels. Apart from them, I hated every second of school. I think of it more like Tin Pan Alley work. 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. "They did but she basically just moved in on me in Brixton. It's often asserted that he wrote nothing in his lost years; this isn't quite true. ", 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. John Cooper Clarke was born on January 25, 1949 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. 2016 Zip Style Method. Dr John Cooper Clarke at the Firestation Arts Centre - 21/06/17. Every style of English suburban house is represented there, but all at two-thirds scale. Around this time, he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands and continues to perform regularly. His wisest recourse at such moments is to start talking. Youre like a dose of scabiesIve got you under my skinYou make life a fairy tale Grimm! And then this other life where I am appearing at the Palladium. Dont ever do it. "No. 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. A long renaissance in the years since has resulted in perhaps greater popularity now than ever. '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 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. 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.". Antarctic Monkeys 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. Queues round the block, as you can imagine. "I was sent to Rhyl, to live with my auntie Eileen; she died of tuberculosis." Now, Im no expert, but I think when it comes to guys, the less said about the hips the better. Like a Night Club in the morning, you're the bitter end. TA: Do you do much Skyping?Never. There they are, bulldozing these beautiful villages so someone can get to Manchester quarter of an hour earlier. ("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."). everything is fine love your government, John Cooper Clarke - (Not) Lydia Lydia (Northcote Social Club 4/4/12). John Cooper Clarke SUB89 22.06.12 Lydia The Girl With the Itch through to Rotten Here In Gaol AboutPressCopyrightContact usCreatorsAdvertiseDevelopersTermsPrivacyPolicy & SafetyHow. 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. He reserves the style for poems such as, 'Solid Gold Geezer.' mac_abre The It Man John Cooper Clarke 5. Very good-John Cooper Clarke was on form and did some of his new poems as well as some old favourites. I keep it simple: a dark suit with a pale shirt. Show business isnt easy and it instinctively goes against the grain to do my fellow performers down. (I Married a) Monster from Outer Space John Cooper Clarke 8. I dont like low-rise, hipster trousers on men. Publicity Listings ", His time in rehab is not a period he is keen to revisit. You might look up a piece by our former Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, written to commemorate Prince William's 21st birthday. Its not really a mullet. coastangel 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? 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", One verse of 'Evidently Chickentown,' in its bowdlerised, recorded form, goes: "The bloody pubs are bloody dull / The bloody clubs are bloody full / Of bloody girls and bloody guys / With bloody murder in their eyes / A bloody bloke is bloody stabbed / Waiting for a bloody cab / You bloody stay at bloody home / The bloody neighbours bloody moan / Keep the bloody racket down / This is bloody chicken town.". US 'Blackmails' EU Into Agreeing To Hand Over Pas North Korea Threatens Seoul With Military Action, Tim Burgess's golden rules of rocknroll excess. "That," I suggest, "can't have been easy". The parents of Lydia, John & Ann Cooper are not known. At the same time," he adds, "they were a picnic compared to the working men's clubs. The big production number at the end concludes, you recall, Naughty, bawdy, gaudy, sporty, Forty-second Street. The University of Salford awarded the Punk Poet a Doctorate of Arts for bringing . [2] He returned to live performance in the 1990s, appearing again with Suns of Arqa in 1992 at The Witchwood in Ashton-under-Lyne. /, The library's bound to fail / since the sudden departure of Jeffrey Archer / It's rotten here in jail.'". Each of these things," he went on, "makes it far from absurd to compare him to Baudelaire, or Verlaine, or Rimbaud.". I thought it was fabulous: great amenities and lavishly fenestrated new houses, with generous garages. Phone orders min p&p of 1.99. And there it was: Beasley, asking for it. The Kray family had a bolthole there. 'Yes mother, I had to go to the doctor. Fool." I've got an STI.' Gradually, and very quietly, John Cooper Clarke has become one of the finest stand-up acts in the history of the art. [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. Is that a stage name? present) (1 child). "I've never really known," he says. 1978 Disguise in Love. "I was ill all the time as a boy," he says. "I told him the answer is that I read my stuff out loud and I get paid for it. And get it off my shoulders.'". [28], Clarke has lived for nearly 20 years in Colchester, Essex, with his second wife, Evie, who is French. "In the French, it's imbcile.". My message is always the same: dont even do it once. There are good reasons, he argues, for judging by appearances. 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. 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." 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. Sievey said. So: thanks, Linton! Beasley Street (Live) E John Cooper Clarke 6. You couldnt have asked me at a better juncture. DJ JetSet - Fifty minutes of Marko Frstenberg (th How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death. ', Whereas [doorbell] 'Oh, hello Audrey. 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. Will he only be happy when he has lost all of his fingers? Sexy Little Swine So I came up with this. [2][9] Clarke toured with Linton Kwesi Johnson, and has performed on the same bill as bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Fall, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Elvis Costello, Rockpile and New Order (including at their May 1984 Music for Miners benefit concert at London's Royal Festival Hall). Other Works "The bottles were bad. I had friends but they were out indulging in robust pursuits, which I was excluded from because I had to stay indoors. And you know what I say? But I know by their name that I hate them. "Which is odd," I suggest, "because, just to take one couplet from 'Beasley Street' [from Snap, Crackle And Bop]: 'There's a dead canary on a swivel seat / There's a rainbow in the road'; these are lines that any poet from TS Eliot to Betjeman would have been very proud to have written. Of course you still occasionally have that voice in your head that says: 'You are going to get rumbled; what you're doing is just a piece of piss. The sad truth is I never get to pick. 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. 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? 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