I was on drugs. Trains coming down the middle of the road. And the private sector has upped the standards of concourse retail in general, which used to consist of a couple of broken cig machines. "Well, I shouldn't say it, but I really do love that couplet." 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. What is it that mono can do that stereo cant?Hi Lauren. For a while, though, I have had some problems with the craze for the low-rise pant, the hipster. And then this other life where I am appearing at the Palladium. Beasley Street E John Cooper Clarke 7. Imagine trying to read in the interval for" It is quite hard to convey the venom with which he delivers the next three syllables. I dont graze. That glorious bank of french horns bleeding into a mess of cellos and strings. I thought it was fabulous: great amenities and lavishly fenestrated new houses, with generous garages. I have no children. [2], Clarke has attributed his early success in part to the influence of the English poet Pam Ayres. No way do I ever approach my work as a way of working out my own problems. Shakespeare wrote for actors. 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. I hate that idea: eating on the go. Launcelot But lets rack our brains. 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. The sad truth is I never get to pick. I learned a long time ago that if you wear trousers where you can put something in the pockets, you will put stuff in those pockets and before you know it you are clad in jodhpurs. 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. Cooper Clarke's audience, once a sea of grey, now has a healthy quotient of 16-25s. Wrong on both counts, Jim tee many Martoonies. This is my default look. .and this years most read reviews are. Cooper Clarke is largely indifferent to them. You see, I've been there before. "Now that I come to think of it," he adds, "Spitting on my ancestors is what I do best. John Cooper Clarke performing at the 3rd International Moscow Open Book Festival (3 ) at The . British Rail, like any monopoly, had undoubtedly got complacent. But then things started to buck up. "Well," Cooper Clarke says, "he was a rent man, wasn't he?". I once went clothes shopping with the poet, and the store owner had to explain that he had nothing to fit Cooper Clarke (5' 10", chest 32", waist 27", weight 116lb.) The University of Salford awarded the Punk Poet a Doctorate of Arts for bringing . Believe me.". He speaks with love of the life he has created there, referring often to his wife, Evie, and daughter, Stella, his guiding lights. [Mimics doorbell] 'Oh, hello Audrey. 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. Thats more or less the way Ive dressed since 1965. nicklawrance He was closer to my age than my parents. Worst act? His will was proved on 25 Feb 1683/84. "[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. 'Danger'? Well, Kate, my first thought is: they should find somebody else. I dont like low-rise, hipster trousers on men. "I always assumed she must have had it first, being older. zaynan John Cooper Clarke at the Contains Strong Language spoken word festival at the University of Hull in 2017. his is my default look. When two dozen paramedics have to put on high-vis tabards and possibly die in trying to rescue him? 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. He rang me one evening, a couple of years ago, and read me the first draft of what evolved into a piece called 'It's Rotten Here in Jail'. One of the frustrating things for admirers of Cooper Clarke is the limited amount of work he has published and recorded. I was unemployed at the time. But not me. "John?" You put the Shat in Shatter. Ive never been offered an honour by the Queen, but Id be happy to accept. Why is the drug addict spat upon, and the climber of Everest revered? Wright, 31, has clearly modelled himself on Cooper Clarke, but has developed his own distinctive voice, and humour. I am so glad that they have had the huge success they have. And it caught on. Popular John Cooper Clarke albums This Time It's Personal. I don't mind looking at it through a window. I think that made me cultivate an inner life. "No. I hate the word itself. (Play Loud)". "I first saw you opening for bands at clubs like The Electric Circus in Manchester when I was still at school," I tell him. louisdj In July 2019 Clarke was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. He reserves the style for poems such as, 'Solid Gold Geezer.' [28], Clarke has lived for nearly 20 years in Colchester, Essex, with his second wife, Evie, who is French. Copyright 2017 sabotagereviews.com. You couldnt have that in stereo. No. "I was ill all the time as a boy," he says. 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. "But where did you get the dead canary from?" He is married to Evie. Too bad to be true. So: thanks, Linton! I've got an STI.' Clarke was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1949. Otherwise, I ask for the apparatus for a gin and tonic. The truth is, Caligula, if I was opening for them, they were better than I was. It can be done, clearly, but it aint easy. "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. "They married you off in the music press, didn't they?" The Luckiest Guy Alive? "I met the whole band when they were starting out," Cooper Clarke says. "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. "Those gigs could be tricky," Cooper Clarke says, referring to the punk era, "but at least broken glass and saliva are an acknowledgment that you are actually in the room. And it's not that bad.". JOHN COPPER CLARKE I FALLING IN LOVE WITH MY WIFE live in DUBLIN 2010_mpeg2video.mpg. How much has privatisation bettered or worsened things? 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. Hilda, his mother, worked as a cleaner. Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans, Arundhati Roy: The point of the writer is to be unpopular, Lily Allen: We need to fight back against these forces, David Shrigley: Self-delusion is quite important if you want to be an artist, Zadie Smith: I have a very messy and chaotic mind, Liam Gallagher: Rocknroll saved my life, Yuval Noah Harari: Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so, Stewart Lee: I dont know where the ideas come from and its terrifying. Nobody likes their own hair but Im glad Ive got hair to hate. You wouldnt have known she was there. Ive never been good at advice. My answer is this, though: they all have their uses; its invariably a matter of context. "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. Im obsessed with clothes and I find it very easy to write about them. "Great that, innit, that 'Fool'?" John Cooper Clarke at Latitude 2010. Brooshski In the way I imagine that rappers subsequently did in Compton, Los Angeles. ", The definitive poem about drug addiction, Cooper Clarke told me back then, '"is 'The Vampire' by Charles Baudelaire. TheRealDavidF Your germs are splattered about. And I thought I would do that, but with a lousy street. (catalogue number NOZE 1), which was a collection of live recordings, demos and rehearsals. It was a mistake in the 60s and it doesnt look any better on some fat fuck in Shoreditch now. "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. She was well, and recovering, and looking forward to Spain. 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. coastangel He'll intersperse such knockabout material with classic writing like 'Beasley Street', a stunning evocation of the trials of the underclass, which sounds like Engels' prose accounts of the Mancunian slums crossed with Bob Dylan's 'Desolation Row'. No. [6] He began his performance career in Manchester folk clubs, where he began working with Rick Goldstraw and his band the Ferrets. "Her writing has this effortless quality. rycu I may be prejudiced. Imtheaudioslave "It wasn't. The cover features a Peter Blake painting of his stick man profile, and embossed graphics in Scrabble tiles. /, The library's bound to fail / since the sudden departure of Jeffrey Archer / It's rotten here in jail.'". I had that AIDS once," he adds, as an afterthought. Keep it quiet, but I plan to make a movie in Jaywick some day. August 24, 2017 October 21, . "I have two heroes in my life," he says. The parents of Lydia, John & Ann Cooper are not known. bluemax ("My family crest," Cooper Clarke once remarked, "is four white feathers on a yellow streak.") She loved John Betjeman, and she introduced me to his writing. On stage, Cooper Clarke delivers a mixture of stand up and poetry that is unlike any other act before or since, and in that sense, to use another word that would make him cringe, he has invented a genre. The way poetry works is this: you learn the sound of the words first. All of my tomorrow's. Are lousy coz of you. Lowry." Have you realised you would have to change very few lyrics of your poem The It Man for it to be a rant about President Trump. lennie7 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. Every style of English suburban house is represented there, but all at two-thirds scale. This period is chronicled in keyboard player James Young's outstanding memoir, Songs They Never Play On The Radio. he told me. Where do you get your trousers from?The short answer, Jarv, is River Island or Marks & Spencer, the skinniest they do. "If there's a gene, I got it from my ma," he says. And the people werent soulless at all; they were quite chummy in my recollection. '", 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. (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). Is there any better way of saying 'stool pigeon'? ", His celebrated haiku has developed into a routine that can last 20 minutes. "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. ", 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.". Final nail in Julius Malema's political coffin? TA: Do you do much Skyping?Never. John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet, who first became famous as a " punk poet" in the late 1970s. He is often referred to as a punk poet, having initially achieved recognition in the late 1970s amidst the flourishing punk movement. It is a romantic picture, that idea of Cole Porter always writing lyrics on the back of cigarette packs and menus. Youre like a dose of scabiesIve got you under my skinYou make life a fairy tale Grimm! View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Evie [citation needed]. raysgigs Was Nico easy to live with? 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. They include "Wherever I Lay My Hat, That's My Hat.". Is Chickentown about Stevenage? "They all had this desire to exclude the world." It's a peculiar sort of fame, driven by social media, word of mouth, and thriving in defiance of almost total indifference from the English literary establishment. 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. Alone. While there's nothing affected about his accent, the poet luxuriates in its extremes much in the way that fellow poet Linton Kwesi Johnson savours the cadences of Jamaican patois, or George Sanders revelled in the languid elegance of old-school English. They have one child. 1) He will turn 70 next year. l33wilko But now, finally" He pauses, not wishing to appear immodest. ", 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. Now, he makes sure that he arrives at any venue two hours early. Sievey said. You're late home.' Why? I found your poem Kung Fu International on one of my dads punk CDs when I was eight (Im 33 now), and I remember listening to it over and over, and pausing so I could write each word down and learn to recite it. And he said, 'Because it does not bark, and it knows the secrets of the deep. You couldnt have asked me at a better juncture. To bloody keep it bloody clean. Around this time, he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands and continues to perform regularly. [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". 'Yes, mother. Everest. His physique has become an integral part of act. This line needs further research. 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. Chris Harford Because it's very unusual that somebody manages to kick it. "Yes?" One of Clarke's newer poems has the title 'Bed Blocker Blues'. 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. You might look up a piece by our former Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, written to commemorate Prince William's 21st birthday. I think of it more like Tin Pan Alley work. When it first started to appear on the front of the paper the Guardian was the worst offender by the time I found out what it meant I was too annoyed to want to think about it. They have one child. mac_abre I loved it, man, I loved it. It runs every teatime on television in the States. "No," he laughs. Fire away at me at random, Tim, he said. Ivy League suits and three button coats things that you might buy at John Simons. The reason John Cooper Clarke has been so patronised, Liverpool poet Adrian Henri once argued, "has to do with his association with music. unknownuser ", STIs, he continues, "are what STDs used to be called and before that - give it a name - VD. "Time flies, slides down the wall," Sievey said, from memory, his eyes half closed. Anyone would dig it. Will he only be happy when he has lost all of his fingers? He has his set pieces, such as 'Home Honey, I'm High.' Whats your favourite gig venue, and why?It has to be the London Palladium, at which I have the honour of appearing again next month. His perennial UK tours he is just about to embark on another are invariably sold out to audiences of all ages. 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. ", That last word, Costello says, "was rendered hilarious by his voice in a way which is just impossible to replicate in print. To order a copy for 12.89 go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. My message is always the same: dont even do it once. 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. 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. Well, that's a harsh judgement in my book. Two words: Hitler, Nuremberg. So, to answer Jarviss inquiry: by default, during the low-rise years, I strolled the feminine range on the ground floor of Marks & Spencer. Tim Adams: I imagine you held your own in those battles?Oh, I was the king of the block. And if so, how did you combat it?I didnt get it too bad. 1), The Best Punk Album in the World Ever! I keep it simple: a dark suit with a pale shirt. It was the beginning of the end." 271 people have seen John Cooper Clarke live. As for people who sneer at him as a 'performance poet' - didn't Homer declaim?". "My doctor told me. 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. 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. Its a one-poet show by Luke Wright, capturing a heady mix, -Collated by Claire Trvien Its that time of year again, where end of year lists sprout across the internet, tilting, reviewed by David Mitchell Punk poetry, fifty years on It is fifty years since the summer of love. He leaves, tired but happy. "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. Though he has travelled a long way from his native Salford, it has never left him. 'BEYOND THE Sidi Tour with Yehiya Arby - Artiatanat. That terrible inertia they captured that brilliantly.". What could possibly go wrong? Chicken Town E John Cooper Clarke 3. 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. 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. Across the road, outside London's Shepherd's Bush Empire, fans are gathering to watch the poet. Was there ever any talk of you joining the Fall?Are you kidding? Thats an intelligent question too, from Ben, because lyricists have probably influenced me more than any other poets. He brought about this hothouse atmosphere of competitive poetry recital. Get it wrong by even half a syllable, and you are condemned to an eternity of spitting on your ancestors, after committing ritual suicide in a public place. He is married to Evie. Phone orders min p&p of 1.99. I really do. They were built as holiday chalets, but people now live permanently in them. (? I never went for the athleisure thing Im not very ath! In a back alley. It will be Murder on the Bus Replacement Service. Queues round the block, as you can imagine. 'Yes mother, I had to go to the doctor. A long renaissance in the years since has resulted in perhaps greater popularity now than ever. Ginger Wildheart. The band's Alex Turner has said he is very fond of Clarke's work and takes inspiration for lyrics from his poems. [15] That same year, Clarke featured in rapper Plan B's feature film Ill Manors and subsequently the Ill Manors album. Stereo, my ass. Goldshaw began handling Clarke's affairs, and the two toured with the Mescaleros and several times supporting the Fall. Beasley Street (Live) E John Cooper Clarke 6. "Don't forget Eddy Arnold," he replies, referring to the country singer's version of a song by Hank Cochran. 9.50 gbp. Who bloody draws a bloody line. 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. "From way back. Neither is it exotic or romantic. If its true, as I claim in the title poem of my book, that I am the Luckiest Guy Alive, its for two reasons. He worked in the fairground cafe in Rhyl, "and then in the laboratory stores at Salford Tech". 2 (liane Reyes). John Cooper Clarke has, arguably, not only the most recognisable silhouette in show business, but also the most infectious of poetic voices. I remember thinking, this must be what Stalingrad was like. ", The reason John Cooper Clarke has been so patronised, Liverpool poet Adrian Henri once argued, "has to do with his association with music. Because I'm prejudiced. 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. The Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters - Jedwabne, Can - Deadly Doris (from The Lost Tapes), Rupert Murdoch admits NoW phone-hacking cover-up. 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 are two pubs: the Three Jays and the Sheldrake. "Have you ever seen Genesis?" 1980 O est la maison de fromage ? In 1988, he made an appearance in two UK adverts for Sugar Puffs, taking second billing to the Honey Monster. Nick Cohen, our columnist, broke off from columnising to recite extended passages of Clarkes verse first committed to memory when the poet was sharing spittle-flecked stages with Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols back in the day. Consider the dinosaurs. "On one tour," Costello told me, "John went on between Richard Hell and The Voidoids and ourselves. [21] In October 2020 Clarke published an autobiography which took its title from his poem I Wanna Be Yours. "I just never dreamed," he tells me, "that things could ever get this good.". 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]." Caius Caligula? Many people have told me that they do use the writing of poetry to concentrate their mind on some pressing metaphysical problem. Mine is arbitrary I keep meaning to get a favourite word. ", But the lost years do feed into his writing and his comedy. Cooper Clarke met the Cologne-born icon in Manchester in about 1980. Steve2505 The latter band's former tour manager, the writer and cycling journalist Johnny Green, now looks after Clarke on the road. 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. It wasnt easy: it is an unnatural act to get out there and draw that much attention to yourself. dth64 But I know by their name that I hate them. If I have a cup of coffee, Ill sit down at a table. 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. "I didn't find out they'd chosen it," Cooper Clarke says, "until after they'd made it. The third punter - Jewish guy - hands over his fiver and says, 'paint my house. Whats your favourite word? I remember sitting backstage one night with Cooper Clarke and the late Chris Sievey, alias Frank Sidebottom, another former cult hero who has been propelled to mass fame, in his case posthumously, through Lenny Abrahamson's film, Frank, released earlier this year. They'd all have been sat in the bar, meditating on their flares." The only stereo I like is a jukebox: two speakers but both on the same piece of furniture. "Trafford Park looked like the gates of hell. 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. 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. 'near enough'. 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