John has a brilliant and retentive mind and an exhaustive knowledge of all kinds of culture. The poet, Elvis Costello recalls, taking up the story, eventually appeared and announced that he'd left a sign reading: "Beware. But I know by their name that I hate them. Chris Harford For a period of months, Cooper Clarke was also host to John Cale, meaning that, "I'm no name-dropper, but for a while I had two-fifths of the Velvet Underground living at my place." I cant take the credit for anyone emulating my style everybody copies somebody. It was a mistake in the 60s and it doesnt look any better on some fat fuck in Shoreditch now. ", His celebrated haiku has developed into a routine that can last 20 minutes. Gradually, and very quietly, John Cooper Clarke has become one of the finest stand-up acts in the history of the art. At the same time," he adds, "they were a picnic compared to the working men's clubs. That could be the Ramones, or Hogarth, or Yevtushenko - who, incidentally," he added, "really loves John's work. "Because of his accent and his appearance, and because he never went to college," he says, "a certain kind of people make assumptions. His father George was a skilled engineer. Budd Schulberg, Clarke adds, "what a writer. 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. Elvis and Frank, though, was the first glimpse of an eternal conflict I could never resolve. There's only you and me have not been up there Robert, but then the night is still young.". We go and see them and they come and see us and we benefit from frictionless border controls. [28], Clarke has lived for nearly 20 years in Colchester, Essex, with his second wife, Evie, who is French. jrn1elvis "You could argue that prejudice and the ability to generalise is what separates us from the lower mammals. It is sensationally good, in the manner of Family Guy or King of the Hill. Poet; Movie star; Rock star; TV & radio presenter; Comedian; Social & cultural commentator. ", Nico and Clarke were never lovers, Alan Wise told me, over tea in his local caf in Manchester. Of course he does share certain qualities with other performers: things like a sharp wit, fearlessness in the spotlight, and a peculiar and restless imagination. I will never resolve. 1), The Best Punk Album in the World Ever! 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. Cale, who was 'in his vodka period' was, the poet recalls, 'a lovely guy, but a bit of a handful. Call for Applications: Saboteur Awards and Festival 2023, Ludd Gang, edited by Alex Marsh, Dom Hale and Tom Crompton. Mention that the Bard of Salford was to visit the Observer office for this interview last week immediately prompted snatches of extemporised quotation from some of Clarkes more famous lyrics I Wanna Be Yours, Evidently Chickentown, I Married a Monster from Outer Space from those colleagues who had some grounding in his snarly Mancunian vowels and those who were not afraid of pretending. The Autism Epidemic and Disappearing Bees: A Commo Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo - The First Tim Neneh Cherry & The Thing - Dream Baby Dream. Thirty Six Hours "Great that, innit, that 'Fool'?" Show business isnt easy and it instinctively goes against the grain to do my fellow performers down. Like Ranulph Fiennes. 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]. Other Works I remember thinking, this must be what Stalingrad was like. rycu Be kind to people. At bloody fun and bloody games . He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). Much of that gift lies in his voice: you cant help but smile when he talks. Actually if it sounds like anybody, it's Rimbaud. 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. I begged the poison I abhorred. Thats an intelligent question too, from Ben, because lyricists have probably influenced me more than any other poets. It was the beginning of the end." The game's up, Clarke.' You're late home.' 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. max_stenner 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. 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]." 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 Fire away at me at random, Tim, he said. He had it all. Who ever asked for that? Stereo is some nerd twiddling his knobs. "Fancy Tony saying that." After closing time. In the way I imagine that rappers subsequently did in Compton, Los Angeles. Cooper Clarke met the Cologne-born icon in Manchester in about 1980. His wisest recourse at such moments is to start talking. zaynan He had Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Sinatra obviously the great American songbook. He doesn't care for the musical arrangements, by yet another 'late' associate Martin Hannett, acclaimed producer of, among others, Joy Division. I have to confess that jeggings were one solution. Because they weren't prejudiced. 'Danger'? "That," I suggest, "can't have been easy". You put the Shat in Shatter. It is fair to say we were not on expansive speaking terms. the very best of john cooper clarke - cd. 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. newmanshh i just wanna be yours t-shirt. Read John Cooper Clarke's poem for Topman's show at London Collections Men. 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.". It wasnt easy: it is an unnatural act to get out there and draw that much attention to yourself. He reserves the style for poems such as, 'Solid Gold Geezer.' ", On stage, such classics as '36 Hours' may be followed by some surreal monologue that might or might not recur in a subsequent performance. 1980 O est la maison de fromage ? There are two pubs: the Three Jays and the Sheldrake. "How," I ask the poet, "did you hear that she'd died?" Series 1 - Twisted Romance (2 Nov 2016) . He really does look more and more like Max Wall as he gets older. Popular John Cooper Clarke albums This Time It's Personal. This period is chronicled in keyboard player James Young's outstanding memoir, Songs They Never Play On The Radio. And then this other life where I am appearing at the Palladium. The brown ones Id give away. "The hotel roof is decided on," Thomas wrote, "but the parcel needs a warning message. No. He is a genius,' I think, 'Oh, thank God for that. Simpo I tend to live by the dictum less is more, but that mono sound proved more can be more. ", His father worked at Trafford Park, the biggest industrial estate in Europe. 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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Clarke lost much of the 1980s to a heroin addiction, when he lived in a flat in Brixton with Nico, the late singer and muse of the Velvet Underground; he dislikes any attempt to glamorise that period, and is reluctant to discuss it in detail. [18], In July 2013, Clarke was awarded an honorary doctorate of arts by the University of Salford in "acknowledgement of a career which has spanned five decades, bringing poetry to non-traditional audiences and influencing musicians and comedians." It's a level of popularity that is unprecedented in the history of performance poetry. That glorious bank of french horns bleeding into a mess of cellos and strings. Not with the laudanum, but The Lake District. Clarke has lived for the past 25 years in Colchester, Essex. I like a high waist if anything, like a flamenco dancer that rakish, swashbuckling look. Seven young guys are approaching us, wearing hoods. Imagine trying to read in the interval for" It is quite hard to convey the venom with which he delivers the next three syllables. ", The reason John Cooper Clarke has been so patronised, Liverpool poet Adrian Henri once argued, "has to do with his association with music. In his autobiography The Big Wheel, Costello's former bass player Bruce Thomas describes an incident at a Copenhagen hotel when Cooper Clarke's room was substantially rearranged. The poet has something of a gift for talking his own work down. 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. Erik_Debonair Is there any better way of saying 'stool pigeon'? Apart from them, I hated every second of school. In October of 1981 Clarke appeared in episode 2 of series 3 of The Innes Book of Records (TV series), reciting "Evidently Chickentown". Ever! ericte I mean Elvis was a world-changing event for me. coastangel Because it's very unusual that somebody manages to kick it. And, again, it is better that you dont know what its about at first. drew1992 Worst act? Much the same is true of Clarke, from the other side of the Pennines. Cooper Clarke doesn't bear a grudge. 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. harryrossgorman "I don't want that again. 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. TA: You were more Sinatra than Elvis back then?No. However, their grandfather may be Thomas COOPER of Fluton with Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. The second guy, a bit more kinky, says, 'beat me up.' [27], In November 2019 Clarke was a participant, alongside Phill Jupitus, in BBC's Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. The fact is you need help, though. 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. 'Yes mother. Whats your favourite word? "Trafford Park looked like the gates of hell. 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.) It would be wrong to dismiss John Cooper Clarke as nothing more than a nave creator of knockabout rhyme. 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 the one collection [Ten Years in An Open . Copyright 2017 sabotagereviews.com. So: thanks, Linton! 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