Though he has travelled a long way from his native Salford, it has never left him. You get out of bed late in the day and nobody calls you a lazy bastard. John Cooper Clarke - What's In My Bag? I was unemployed at the time. If you had to choose one adjective that least well described him, as a person or as an artist, it would be 'orthodox'. All of my tomorrow's. Are lousy coz of you. It's a level of popularity that is unprecedented in the history of performance poetry. Have you ever seen Our Cartoon President? The Bard of Salford John Cooper Clarke became a doctor today after receiving an honorary degree in his home city. In a back alley. The bloody chief's a bloody swine. Gradually, and very quietly, John Cooper Clarke has become one of the finest stand-up acts in the history of the art. Why? "Genesis. It is a kind of a dream town, as Im sure Wilko knows, coming as he does from nearby Canvey Island. Clarke, who claims [bogusly] on stage at Shepherd's Bush that he is half-Jewish, delivers old school gags such as: "Hooker opens up in a new area. I hate that idea: eating on the go. 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. That judgmental 'V', hanging over romantic proceedings like the Damoclean sword of justice, rendering enjoyable sex utterly impossible. "Yes?" 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.". "I've been in Time magazine," he says, "but don't wait to hear me on [BBC Radio Four's] Poetry Please." Official Sites. 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. He had it all. Saboteur Awards Festival 2022: The shortlists! The template was the 1933 Busby Berkeley movie 42nd Street. What are your recollections of touring with the reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson?They are only good, put it that way. When we eventually arrived at the one diner that was still open, the owner, not being a man of letters, was initially reluctant to let him in. But lets rack our brains. Is the father of a daughter, named Stella. His recorded output has mainly relied on musical backing from the Invisible Girls, which featured Martin Hannett, Steve Hopkins, Pete Shelley, Bill Nelson, and Paul Burgess. Elvis and Frank, though, was the first glimpse of an eternal conflict I could never resolve. Occasionally it would appear out of the mist, just for a day, like some demonic equivalent of Brigadoon." reviewed by James Webster What it is? TA: Would not doing it ever be an option?Not for me. highwaytohell 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. 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? I'd love to get it published. Ive never been offered an honour by the Queen, but Id be happy to accept. "Because of his accent and his appearance, and because he never went to college," he says, "a certain kind of people make assumptions. Actually if it sounds like anybody, it's Rimbaud. Where will it end? 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. Publicity Listings So I came up with this. Arriving late, he is unsure as to whether he has found the right venue. [citation needed]. Ivy League suits and three button coats things that you might buy at John Simons. I didnt understand those lyrics, but they gave me an idea of an adult world. John Cooper Clarke has, arguably, not only the most recognisable silhouette in show business, but also the most infectious of poetic voices. I never put a geographical stamp on it. 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. That's half an hour of my life you've saved me, having to explain it to you. Im self-employed, my friend. 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. What is on your rider [dressing room request list] these days? Cooper Clarke's audience, once a sea of grey, now has a healthy quotient of 16-25s. Whereas I, in that situation, tend to err on the side of caution. I'm in a good place now.". We meet in the Kings Arms, a genteel coaching inn in the main street. Shock-haired and irreverent, he's been shaking up the literary establishment with his wry wit and clever couplets for decades. No way do I ever approach my work as a way of working out my own problems. I don't mind looking at it through a window. Arctic Monkeys Evidently Chickentown E John Cooper Clarke 2. I Wanna Be Yours John Cooper Clarke 4. "Sometimes," the actor Steve Coogan once said, "I ask people: 'Have you ever heard of Cooper Clarke?' Others include the use of his anthem 'Evidently Chickentown' to close a final-season episode of The Sopranos; his memorable appearance in, Ill Manors, the 2012 film by Plan B, and the tireless support of other younger artists, notably Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys. ", 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. ', Whereas [doorbell] 'Oh, hello Audrey. His perennial UK tours he is just about to embark on another are invariably sold out to audiences of all ages. In 1979, he had his only UK top 40 hit with "Gimmix! 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 am so glad that they have had the huge success they have. The third punter - Jewish guy - hands over his fiver and says, 'paint my house. 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. If I have a cup of coffee, Ill sit down at a table. 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. "I've never really known," he says. everything is fine love your government, John Cooper Clarke - (Not) Lydia Lydia (Northcote Social Club 4/4/12). One of the frustrating things for admirers of Cooper Clarke is the limited amount of work he has published and recorded. (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). "I have two heroes in my life," he says. One thing: when I met Linton, I knew I had to tighten up my game in the wardrobe department. 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. There also can be a performance at music festivals across the country that include Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo Music Festival. The poem is also the inspiration behind the single's video, in which clowns brawl. 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. That movie, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, starring Barry Evans, for which Traffic did the theme, was set there. But all poetry - all writing - is aural. Mr_Jones CliveHR Yes. CalendarMan My trouser needs are simple: a narrow leg in a dark colour, with jean detailing. I mean Elvis was a world-changing event for me. 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It can't have been easy, I suggest, opening for the Sex Pistols and The Clash. [21] In October 2020 Clarke published an autobiography which took its title from his poem I Wanna Be Yours. AMRN He really does look more and more like Max Wall as he gets older. Steve2505 The fury of the crowds really was quite alarming at that time. I cant take the credit for anyone emulating my style everybody copies somebody. 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. Anything can kick you off. 1980 O est la maison de fromage ? [6] He began his performance career in Manchester folk clubs, where he began working with Rick Goldstraw and his band the Ferrets. To enjoy a renaissance, Cooper Clarke concedes, you must have been dead for a period. ijmanchester '", If you've seen him regularly over the years, you might be surprised by the material he's dispensed with, or revives just occasionally. Cooper Clarke is largely indifferent to them. ", The definitive poem about drug addiction, Cooper Clarke told me back then, '"is 'The Vampire' by Charles Baudelaire. He has embraced old age as an opportunity to indulge the kind of recklessness traditionally associated with youth. His predecessor as the people's Poet Laureate, John Betjeman, never performed to this size of crowd. This is my default look. They have one daughter, Stella. 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. If memory serves, you are marginally safer in the Three Jays. What a fabulous band.". The poet-performer talks to Tim Adams about his new book and tour and, further down, answers questions from readers and famous fans. [1] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. The sun has set. It was once observed of Alan Bennett that the world invariably becomes an Alan Bennett sketch around him. "Well," Cooper Clarke says, "he was a rent man, wasn't he?". 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 speaks with love of the life he has created there, referring often to his wife, Evie, and daughter, Stella, his guiding lights. "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. 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 Kray family had a bolthole there. -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. They have one child. goldthing "I do it myself," he says. And you will live with those items for years, halfway up the lounge wall. After closing time. Introductory offer: she'll do anything you want for a fiver. this time it's personal cd. I mean that crowd wanted crooners, strippers; they might fleetingly tolerate a magician. What could possibly go wrong? To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake. Keep it quiet, but I plan to make a movie in Jaywick some day. Around this time, he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands and continues to perform regularly. 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. The theme of the big estate is the great British automotive industry: Wolseley Drive and Morris Road and Austin Crescent. It is a small part of what he does. Nobody saw this coming. Clarke has lived for the past 25 years in Colchester, Essex. Alone. [Pause] He's a cunt. "If there's a gene, I got it from my ma," he says. I dont like low-rise, hipster trousers on men. Why? But now, finally" He pauses, not wishing to appear immodest. "I remember that Manchester air was officially declared the worst on the planet back then," he says. He worked in the fairground cafe in Rhyl, "and then in the laboratory stores at Salford Tech". "They all had this desire to exclude the world." Because John has extraordinary talent and he has lived a life of frightening extremes. It was a mistake in the 60s and it doesnt look any better on some fat fuck in Shoreditch now. She'd been in Italy. What is the worst act you opened for, and why? The only stereo I like is a jukebox: two speakers but both on the same piece of furniture. "My doctor told me. 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. The bloody cops are bloody keen. It is the work of my long-term manager, Phil Jones. "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. He has his set pieces, such as 'Home Honey, I'm High.' No. John Cooper Clarke Top Songs 1. It is also more true to life. To take one of my more popular poems, Beasley Street: I worked my way back on that one. Clarke's recording of "Evidently Chickentown" from his album Snap, Crackle & Bop was also featured prominently in the closing scene of The Sopranos episode Stage 5. "How," I ask the poet, "did you hear that she'd died?" Are you a soothsayer? 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 is often referred to as a punk poet, having initially achieved recognition in the late 1970s amidst the flourishing punk movement. They were built as holiday chalets, but people now live permanently in them. He has at least stopped Kim Wrong Un from exploding his bombs. Cooper Clarke's Salford vowel sounds remain untarnished by two decades in the South East. This includes lines like "I've got amnesia and dj vu at the same time. "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. "No," he laughs. Every time I saw him he had a meat-cleaver in his hand and the look of a man who might have been Henry Coopers psychotic kid brother. They were never out of the dry cleaners Id only wear them to weddings, funerals and gigs, and Ive still got them now. The wording is discussed. Each of these things," he went on, "makes it far from absurd to compare him to Baudelaire, or Verlaine, or Rimbaud.". Was Jon the Postman the real voice of Manchester?Id obviously argue not, Jason. 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. The Day My Pad Went Mad - Radio 1 Live Version, (I Married a) Monster from Outer Space (Live), I Dont Want to Be Nice (Alternative Take), Limbo (Baby Limbo) (Live [Rafters, Manchester]), Night People (John Peel Session 15th March 1982), Intro and Salome Maloney (Manchester Ritz), (I Married A) Monster from Outer Space (Manchester Ritz), Gaberdine Angus - Live [Rafters, Manchester], The Day My Pad Went Mad (John Peel Session 15th March 1982), Midnight Shift (John Peel Session 15th March 1982), (I Married A) Monster from Outer Space (John Peel Session 3 October 1978), Health Fanatic (John Peel Session 3 October 1978), Mustnt Go Down to the Sea Again (Hulme Playhouse 1983), Spilt Beans (John Peel Session 3 October 1978), Readers Wives (John Peel Session 3 October 1978), Never Seen a Nipple in the Daily Express (Hulme Playhouse 1983), (I Married A) Monster from Outer Space [Live Version], (I Married A) Monster from Outer Space [Bonus Track - Live Version], The Day My Pad Went Mad (Radio Live Version), John's in the Money (Evidently John Cooper Clarke, Vol. Beasley Street E John Cooper Clarke 7. Can I make you cocoa? poetry quote black t-shirt. He set a very high bar. A Music War, in which he performed his poem "Health Fanatic". He is married to Evie. He connects with a young audience precisely because he has never attempted to deny his years. ", 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.". John Cooper Clarke (born January 25, 1949) is a performance poet from Salford, Lancashire, England, affectionately known as the Bard of Salford. Britain's best loved and most important performance poet. Prison had become like a never-ending party. "I was too late. 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. When two dozen paramedics have to put on high-vis tabards and possibly die in trying to rescue him? John Cooper Clarke Albums Anthologia Miscellaneous Snap, Crackle & Bop O Est la Maison de Fromage? The reason John Cooper Clarke has been so patronised, Liverpool poet Adrian Henri once argued, "has to do with his association with music. The standards werent high. Now the spitting on your ancestors push comes to shove, I could live with that. He used to have to fight his audiences to be heard; now they hang on his every inflection. Was there ever any talk of you joining the Fall?Are you kidding? 'Danger'? This video is unavailable. The University of Salford awarded the Punk Poet a Doctorate of Arts for bringing . He brought about this hothouse atmosphere of competitive poetry recital. 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. 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 dont graze. 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? ericte Much of that gift lies in his voice: you cant help but smile when he talks. Brooshski Explorers," he adds, "actively annoy me. JacobQuinn Jaywick is next to Clacton on the Essex coast. She was well, and recovering, and looking forward to Spain. [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. What is it that mono can do that stereo cant?Hi Lauren. But then things started to buck up. ukje11ybean It is a romantic picture, that idea of Cole Porter always writing lyrics on the back of cigarette packs and menus. Ive never been good at advice. I'd have been killed not by hostility but indifference. She was exemplary. Barry Evans and his young friends were all mods in a mod town. Pink first, then yellow. unknownuser In the early Nineties, in a pub in Withington, South Manchester, Tony Wilson, the late founder of Factory Records, stopped in the middle of a sentence concerning another of his favourite subjects, himself, then told me: "You know, it isn't me. tundramamine What wisdom would you impart to young girls who look up to you in 2018?Young girls who look up to me? John Cooper Clarke - Home. It was the undoing of us. 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. And, again, it is better that you dont know what its about at first. At bloody fun and bloody games . '", 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 the same time," he adds, "they were a picnic compared to the working men's clubs. Someone asked him, 'Why a lobster?' Cooper Clarke had not been deemed worthy to participate in that event. Its like men wearing short trousers. Its Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, rocknroll. I was on drugs. 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. Everest. "I was ill all the time as a boy," he says. "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. I believe he remained unaware of my poetic tribute. In an hour long conversation, Wise emphasises the foolishness of underestimating Cooper Clarke. Cooper Clarke rid himself of his own 16-year habit for good in 1992. Thats an intelligent question too, from Ben, because lyricists have probably influenced me more than any other poets. Der Geschmack von Rost und Knochen (Orginal Motion Rust og bein (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). ", 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. VD, with its hard, accusatory consonants. Every style of English suburban house is represented there, but all at two-thirds scale. Wrong on both counts, Jim tee many Martoonies. Sievey said. When Lenny Bruce was reduced to doing little 100-seat nightclubs he had this whole brilliant routine about a washed-up comedian whos given one last bite of the apple. 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. 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