How much has privatisation bettered or worsened things? But I persuaded my wife to drive me there one weekend and on arrival I turned to her and said: Weve never been here before, sweetheart, but I sure have dreamed about this place. The streets are all sand. He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). John Cooper Clarke has always been adjacent to musicians, but in I Wanna Be Yours he recounts his many attempts at forming bands of his own.Throughout the '60s, he was a member of a comically . It wasnt easy: it is an unnatural act to get out there and draw that much attention to yourself. Much more than in the beginning. Have you ever been offered an honour by the Queen, Sir John? John Cooper Clarke (born January 25, 1949) is a performance poet from Salford, Lancashire, England, affectionately known as the Bard of Salford. Poet; Movie star; Rock star; TV & radio presenter; Comedian; Social & cultural commentator. Nobody saw this coming. People used to go on about how soulless life in those new towns was, but that was not my experience of Stevenage. They have one child. He moved back to Manchester, focussed on his art and was eventually spotted by the head of CBS, the late Maurice Oberstein. It was hand to mouth. His predecessor as the people's Poet Laureate, John Betjeman, never performed to this size of crowd. In an hour long conversation, Wise emphasises the foolishness of underestimating Cooper Clarke. HelenK Yes. I believe that John Cooper Clarke should be regarded as being among the very best writers in Britain. When two dozen paramedics have to put on high-vis tabards and possibly die in trying to rescue him? I never put a geographical stamp on it. Chicken Town E John Cooper Clarke 3. 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. Who ever asked for that? I dont graze. I am sure some of my classmates felt their time could have been more profitably spent. What is the worst act you opened for, and why? Mine is arbitrary I keep meaning to get a favourite word. Thats the gold standard, not just for me, but worldwide. VD, with its hard, accusatory consonants. Copyright 2017 sabotagereviews.com. "[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. He was previously married to ?. Stereo is some nerd twiddling his knobs. "They married you off in the music press, didn't they?" "That was great for a while," he tells me, "Until Ron was in the news for having that fight with his wife. He got married at 21, to Christine, four years his junior, then became an apprentice type compositor, based in Dorset. "They all had this desire to exclude the world." They have one child. on 14 August 2015[24] and again on 7 January 2022.[25]. He leaves, tired but happy. Armys Magic Bullet Will Hang Out in Midair, But Murdochs UK political friendships backfire on all, The Neurological Roots of Lingering Regret, Trentemller (ft. Marie Fisker) - My Dreams. "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. Everyone seems to have one. [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". Their only shared interest, he insists, was hiding heroin from each other. What are your recollections of touring with the reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson?They are only good, put it that way. Lowry." this time it's personal cd. But once I'd had the disease, it left me prone to every kind of pulmonary disorder. My look is very easy to maintain but that wasnt always the case in the 80s, I couldnt find anything. At one point in London he addressed the problem of "The social menace of STIs - sexually transmitted infections, by which Britain leads the world by a sizzling 64%. "John?" louisdj Is that a stage name? No. He has had the wit and the generosity to encourage protgs, such as fellow-Mancunian Mike Garry and Luke Wright, who grew up in Colchester. 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. '", If you've seen him regularly over the years, you might be surprised by the material he's dispensed with, or revives just occasionally. But if I'd have been around in Bavaria in 1935, I could have told them. The only stereo I like is a jukebox: two speakers but both on the same piece of furniture. (Play Loud)". "I didn't find out they'd chosen it," Cooper Clarke says, "until after they'd made it. For that reason, perhaps I am not best placed to objectively gauge the enigmatic appeal of Jon the Postman. Ivy League suits and three button coats things that you might buy at John Simons. So I had lines like: 'The choice Iranian on my foil / It runs like virgin olive oil / I'm living the life of a decadent royal / It could spoil, it could spoil, it could spoil you / Rotten here in jail. The Veil over Society Got Removed for a Moment Jeff Buckley: Grace (SACD Version) *Hi-Res FLAC*, GREAT AMERICAN HOME IMPROVEMENT THE OLD SCHOOL BASEMENT BAR, Mike Brooks & The Roots Radics - One Love [Vista LP, 1983], Kellen303 interview 2022: "Life's Different Now". 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. I had friends but they were out indulging in robust pursuits, which I was excluded from because I had to stay indoors. 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. lennie7 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). You're late home.' 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." Trains coming down the middle of the road. The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke is published by Picador (14.99). - It is a kind of a dream town, as Im sure Wilko knows, coming as he does from nearby Canvey Island. 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. Beasley Street (Live) E John Cooper Clarke 6. ("Things are gonna get worse, nurse / I'm not optimistic / I've got a mouth shaped like a purse, nurse / And a bungalow smelling of piss and biscuit. 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 Read John Cooper Clarke's poem for Topman's show at London Collections Men. 20.00 gbp. [23] He has appeared as a guest on the comedy panel show Would I Lie To You? 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. There they are, bulldozing these beautiful villages so someone can get to Manchester quarter of an hour earlier. Is Vince the ageing Savage, [who] betrays no kind of life, but the smell of yesterdays cabbage and the ghost of last years wife in Beasley Street based on anyone in particular? I discovered your music and spoken word when I was a teenager, and it was very inspirational to me. Two words: Hitler, Nuremberg. Here's the difference between STI and VD. The Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters - Jedwabne, Can - Deadly Doris (from The Lost Tapes), Rupert Murdoch admits NoW phone-hacking cover-up. He reserves the style for poems such as, 'Solid Gold Geezer.' Her run of success on the British TV show Opportunity Knocks led both Clarke and his mother to believe that he could make a living at poetry.[8]. Occasionally it would appear out of the mist, just for a day, like some demonic equivalent of Brigadoon." I hate the word itself. And if so, how did you combat it?I didnt get it too bad. There is no Japanese term for. The cover features a Peter Blake painting of his stick man profile, and embossed graphics in Scrabble tiles. Call for Applications: Saboteur Awards and Festival 2023, Ludd Gang, edited by Alex Marsh, Dom Hale and Tom Crompton. "I was ill all the time as a boy," he says. goldthing One of his more recent poems takes its title from an ironic heckle he received in Manchester, "where drug-taking is of course compulsory." 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. Alone. The parents of Lydia, John & Ann Cooper are not known. He will turn 70 next year. John Cooper Clarke was born on January 25, 1949 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. That's half an hour of my life you've saved me, having to explain it to you. It's a level of popularity that is unprecedented in the history of performance poetry. Its not really a mullet. What are your feelings about Jaywick?Dont get me started on Jaywick. New Avalanches Mixtape? John Cooper Clarke at Latitude 2010. The sun has set. His last original solo album was released 32 years ago, which is all the more irritating because the four collections he did record for CBS, especially Snap Crackle & Bop (1980) and Zip Style Method (1982) remain remarkable testaments to his gifts as a writer. Surely theres some dead bloke? "But where did you get the dead canary from?" Otherwise, I ask for the apparatus for a gin and tonic. He is married to Evie. "I have come to understand that there is some value to what I do. As an audience member I know what I get from watching you perform. My message is always the same: dont even do it once. "I don't want that again. Dr John Cooper Clarke at the Firestation Arts Centre - 21/06/17. '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. Four of Clarke's five lots made a loss, giving a total loss of 233.54. The poet has something of a gift for talking his own work down. John has a brilliant and retentive mind and an exhaustive knowledge of all kinds of culture. [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". "Who caught it off whom?" And, gadus, good luck with your attempts to rid yourself of this terrible affliction. But that is really the way I do it, keeping that dream alive. It is sensationally good, in the manner of Family Guy or King of the Hill. John Cooper Clarke concert schedule will typically have 25-50 tour dates. 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. Sievey said. I'm a much more confident person than I was. For a while, though, I have had some problems with the craze for the low-rise pant, the hipster. It is a small part of what he does. 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. Is there any better way of saying 'stool pigeon'? 2 (liane Reyes). She loved John Betjeman, and she introduced me to his writing. Well, Kate, my first thought is: they should find somebody else. 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. "Time flies, slides down the wall," Sievey said, from memory, his eyes half closed. If you went to see a band, the Beatles, the Stones, they were up there on the stage; you would naturally expect all the sound to come from their general direction. He is married to Evie. Poetry, especially, is meant to be heard. 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? The brown ones Id give away. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Evie I thought it was fabulous: great amenities and lavishly fenestrated new houses, with generous garages. "Because you know what the Japanese are like. The Nationwide adverts, along with collateral backlash, have been sparking debates among poets on social media for several weeks now. The poet, Elvis Costello recalls, taking up the story, eventually appeared and announced that he'd left a sign reading: "Beware. What wisdom would you impart to young girls who look up to you in 2018?Young girls who look up to me? [2] Rabid also released his debut LP O est la maison de fromage'? Pinchy & Friends - Sleepy The Bug (ft. Warrior Queen) - Aktion Pak. They deserve it. Across the road, outside London's Shepherd's Bush Empire, fans are gathering to watch the poet. "Well," Cooper Clarke says, "he was a rent man, wasn't he?". [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 has at least stopped Kim Wrong Un from exploding his bombs. Of all the inventive choices of music in that series, it was the least predictable and, many consider, the most brilliantly inspired. Cooper Clarke met the Cologne-born icon in Manchester in about 1980. And it's not that bad.". It was just terrible.". ", "The trouble with that poem," he says, "is that I started out by painting a bleak picture for the first few verses. Yes. The latter band's former tour manager, the writer and cycling journalist Johnny Green, now looks after Clarke on the road. And there it was: Beasley, asking for it. A much underrated garment, the jegging: they never need ironing and they hold their colour. Cooper Clarke rid himself of his own 16-year habit for good in 1992. 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. Was there ever any talk of you joining the Fall?Are you kidding? But drug addiction really is the most tedious of subjects. One of the frustrating things for admirers of Cooper Clarke is the limited amount of work he has published and recorded. jrn1elvis My answer is this, though: they all have their uses; its invariably a matter of context. However, their grandfather may be Thomas COOPER of Fluton with Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. My answer back then would be, as they say, to be hopped up on goof balls. unknownuser snap, crackle & bop cd. 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. As the great Bill Withers once said, the writing of songs involves a kind of magic I dont mess with. 'Move to another country, you sick, dripping, filthy, home-wrecking little bitch. So, to answer Jarviss inquiry: by default, during the low-rise years, I strolled the feminine range on the ground floor of Marks & Spencer. Astra-nomical The sad truth is I never get to pick. 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. and Football Focus. "It's like any addiction. 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