He was closer to my age than my parents. 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. To take one of my more popular poems, Beasley Street: I worked my way back on that one. He knew my brother, who still works for the GPO, the Royal Mail, so we have a bit of baggage, you might say. 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. The University of Salford awarded the Punk Poet a Doctorate of Arts for bringing . 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. People don't expect to sit down and read him.". 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.) windymiller "I fell into it," he says. ", When Nico died after falling off her bike in Ibiza, in July 1988, her Daily Telegraph obituary remarked that 'she gave up heroin for cycling, which proved to be the more lethal recreation.' You couldnt have asked me at a better juncture. Plus its very asexual you should like that at the Guardian looks just as right on Joan Jett as it does on Keith Richards. 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. Believe me.". John Cooper Clarke - 'Lydia, Girl With An Itch' @ Sheffield, Leadmill, 29.05.2010 3,511 views May 31, 2010 7 Dislike Share Save polewka123 2.05K subscribers Classic JCC Stevie Maclane 63K views. That terrible inertia they captured that brilliantly.". 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. 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 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. "I've lost that. I'd seen her not long before. It was created originally as a holiday place. 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. 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. 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. The first lyrics I became aware of would have been in the pre-rocknroll 1950s, when my Uncle Dennis was demobbed from the RAF and he lived at our house for a bit. "I have two heroes in my life," he says. '", 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. The truth is, Caligula, if I was opening for them, they were better than I was. John Cooper Clarke at the Contains Strong Language spoken word festival at the University of Hull in 2017. his is my default look. 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. You deserve not the reward of freedom from your slavery. 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. (i married a) monster from outer space(i've got a brand new) track suit23rd36 hoursa distant relationaction manapart from the revolutionare you the businessarts n' craftsbeasley streetbelladonnabronze adonisbunch of twigsburnleyconcussionconditional dischargecycle accidentday my pad went madday the world stood stilldrive she saiddumb row DaveM66 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 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. [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". "Sometimes," the actor Steve Coogan once said, "I ask people: 'Have you ever heard of Cooper Clarke?' [1] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. 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. In 1979, he had his only UK top 40 hit with "Gimmix! Copyright 2017 sabotagereviews.com. There they are, bulldozing these beautiful villages so someone can get to Manchester quarter of an hour earlier. I have to confess that jeggings were one solution. ", His father worked at Trafford Park, the biggest industrial estate in Europe. First it's great, then it isn't; then it's hell." I dont try to explain it. "My doctor told me. They deserve it. A live performance of the same poem appears in the film Control, with Clarke portraying himself in a re-creation of a 1977 concert in which he supported Joy Division, despite being 30 years older than the events depicted in the film. This is my default look. Imtheaudioslave But once I'd had the disease, it left me prone to every kind of pulmonary disorder. It goes without saying. 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. "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. It wasnt easy: it is an unnatural act to get out there and draw that much attention to yourself. 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). Everybody has gone home and all the stores are shut. That is the story of the Donald, and because in this business I learned long ago you should never knock success, I cant help admiring the crazy fucker in some way. Some questions have been submitted by famous admirers of his, others by Observer readers. Any poet will tell you this. See full bio 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. "It wasn't. Pinchy & Friends - Sleepy The Bug (ft. Warrior Queen) - Aktion Pak. JacobQuinn 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. Put the Pain in Spain. John Cooper Clarke at Latitude 2010. 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. No one can be that busy. ", 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. He brought his collection of records and a record player, which was new to us. 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. There also can be a performance at music festivals across the country that include Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo Music Festival. So, to answer Jarviss inquiry: by default, during the low-rise years, I strolled the feminine range on the ground floor of Marks & Spencer. I remember thinking, this must be what Stalingrad was like. Who were the lyricists who inspired you to write the way you do? Now the spitting on your ancestors push comes to shove, I could live with that. [23] He has appeared as a guest on the comedy panel show Would I Lie To You? "Have you ever seen Genesis?" It runs every teatime on television in the States. English punk poet John Cooper-Clarke first began performing his verse backed by a local folk group called the Ferrets, but with his rapid-fire verbal delivery and stinging social commentary, he quickly emerged as the poet laureate of the punk movement. Call for Applications: Saboteur Awards and Festival 2023, Ludd Gang, edited by Alex Marsh, Dom Hale and Tom Crompton. John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet, who first became famous as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. "Who caught it off whom?" Its like men wearing short trousers. The Kray family had a bolthole there. This is "an advert," as he explains, "that I wrote for the Martini people, on the understanding that I would receive a year's supply, or a lifetime's supply, whichever was the greater, of their enervating beverage." You wouldnt have known she was there. There is no Japanese term for. But lets rack our brains. As an audience member I know what I get from watching you perform. John Cooper Clarke was born on January 25, 1949 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. ", Nico and Clarke were never lovers, Alan Wise told me, over tea in his local caf in Manchester. Every time I obtained a tubular Ivy League blazer that didnt have padded shoulders I had to treat it like it was made out of gold. And he said, 'Because it does not bark, and it knows the secrets of the deep. It was the undoing of us. People mention murder, the moment you arriveId consider killing you if I thought you were aliveYouve got this slippery qualityIt makes me think of phlegmAnd a dual personalityI hate both of them, Your bad breath, vamps disease, destruction, and decayPlease, please, please, please, take yourself awayLike a death a birthday partyYou ruin all the funLike a sucked and spat our smartieyoure no use to anyoneLike the shadow of the guillotineOn a dead consumptives faceSpeaking as an outsiderWhat do you think of the human race, You went to a progressive psychiatristHe recommended suicideBefore scratching your bad name off his listAnd pointing the way outside, You hear laughter breaking through, it makes you want to fartYoure heading for a breakdownBetter pull yourself apart, Your dirty name gets passed about when something goes amissYour attitudes are platitudesJust make me wanna piss, What kind of creature bore youWas is some kind of batThey cant find a good word for youBut I can, You Never See a Nipple in the Daily Express. Ganges I wasnt thinking of Stevenage, though I did live there for a couple of years. In the way I imagine that rappers subsequently did in Compton, Los Angeles. It's a place with heavy oak doors, tasteful decor and a few unobtrusive pictures. I don't need to inquire whether the poet is wondering if this is how he himself might have wound up. He used to have to fight his audiences to be heard; now they hang on his every inflection. I think he moved to the States for a while, but Im not sure the act travelled with him. If they say, 'John Cooper Clarke? ", I've kept a copy of this piece, which he gave me in the late Eighties; a poem he knocked out in 20 minutes for a commission. Nobody likes their own hair but Im glad Ive got hair to hate. Stereo is some nerd twiddling his knobs. In an hour long conversation, Wise emphasises the foolishness of underestimating Cooper Clarke. 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'. Ivy League suits and three button coats things that you might buy at John Simons. The way poetry works is this: you learn the sound of the words first. dth64 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. Charley Barnes hands over Sabotage Reviews Director to Heddwen Creaney! I really like the idea of being a poetic hack. Well, that's a harsh judgement in my book. ", One of his regular companions on the road, in the early days, was Elvis Costello. 9.50 gbp. ", But the lost years do feed into his writing and his comedy. Read John Cooper Clarke's poem for Topman's show at London Collections Men. What is on your rider [dressing room request list] these days? I hate the word itself. Four of Clarke's five lots made a loss, giving a total loss of 233.54. It is the work of my long-term manager, Phil Jones. 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. goldthing The band's Alex Turner has said he is very fond of Clarke's work and takes inspiration for lyrics from his poems. "It's hard to convey the aggression of those audiences." But we couldn't live with that. The latter band's former tour manager, the writer and cycling journalist Johnny Green, now looks after Clarke on the road. I keep it simple: a dark suit with a pale shirt. Really, really badly. It would be wrong to dismiss John Cooper Clarke as nothing more than a nave creator of knockabout rhyme. I know for many people our departure from the EU is the worst thing thats ever happened. Britain's best loved and most important performance poet. I believe its the kind of thing Charles Baudelaire aspired to: you know, the guy with the overview, a mirror reflecting the entire Parisian crowd. After that, old ladies started to hit me in the street with their umbrellas.". newmanshh '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. Its not really a mullet. I don't mind looking at it through a window. "Genesis. John died 25 Feb 1684 in Barnstable. Its the same with trouser pockets in my experience. 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. 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. 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." Why? ', Whereas [doorbell] 'Oh, hello Audrey. But then things started to buck up. I thought it was fabulous: great amenities and lavishly fenestrated new houses, with generous garages. 271 people have seen John Cooper Clarke live. 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. Clarke also recorded a song with the band entitled "Dead Man's Shoes". 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. I like a high waist if anything, like a flamenco dancer that rakish, swashbuckling look. Official Sites. I loved it, man, I loved it. 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. 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. And the private sector has upped the standards of concourse retail in general, which used to consist of a couple of broken cig machines. Cale, who was 'in his vodka period' was, the poet recalls, 'a lovely guy, but a bit of a handful. 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. ", "The trouble with that poem," he says, "is that I started out by painting a bleak picture for the first few verses. John Cooper Clarke was born on 25 January 1949 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. They have one child. The bloody cops are bloody keen. Cooper Clarke's Salford vowel sounds remain untarnished by two decades in the South East. "I first saw you opening for bands at clubs like The Electric Circus in Manchester when I was still at school," I tell him. For that reason, perhaps I am not best placed to objectively gauge the enigmatic appeal of Jon the Postman. Apart from them, I hated every second of school. He really does look more and more like Max Wall as he gets older. It was the beginning of the end." This line needs further research. Anybody who calls themselves Genesis is well overdue a good hiding, you know what I mean? 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. I didnt understand those lyrics, but they gave me an idea of an adult world. I prefer to see it as a sexual relationship that is recognised by the police. TheRealDavidF I really do. 36acm "Her writing has this effortless quality. Each of these things," he went on, "makes it far from absurd to compare him to Baudelaire, or Verlaine, or Rimbaud.". She does the business. "I always assumed she must have had it first, being older. He speaks with love of the life he has created there, referring often to his wife, Evie, and daughter, Stella, his guiding lights. If you read the lyrics to Its Magic, that very sexy Doris Day song, for example, you are already singing the song they leave you no other way to go. He had it all. 'Yes mother. Because it's very unusual that somebody manages to kick it. Hilda, his mother, worked as a cleaner. The brown ones Id give away. 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. The poem is also the inspiration behind the single's video, in which clowns brawl. 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, . An edited version of Wilson's observation, reproduced as graffiti on the wall of an underpass, served as the opening scene for Evidently John Cooper Clarke, director John Ross' remarkable 2012 documentary for BBC4. He still seems a little bewildered by his recent trajectory, which has seen him appearing on shows like Have I Got News for You? Poetry, especially, is meant to be heard. If you had to choose one adjective that least well described him, as a person or as an artist, it would be 'orthodox'. Im not a handsome man and its damage limitation. CliveHR The Nationwide adverts, along with collateral backlash, have been sparking debates among poets on social media for several weeks now. 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. [28], Clarke has lived for nearly 20 years in Colchester, Essex, with his second wife, Evie, who is French. The outfit was another form of fighting talk, one he has stuck with in a journey that has seen some extremes. What are your recollections of touring with the reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson?They are only good, put it that way. AMRN But drug addiction really is the most tedious of subjects. [10], Clarke appeared in a 1982 music documentary compilation Urgh! As for people who sneer at him as a 'performance poet' - didn't Homer declaim?". At bloody fun and bloody games . Goldshaw began handling Clarke's affairs, and the two toured with the Mescaleros and several times supporting the Fall. I mean Elvis was a world-changing event for me. Zip Style Method Zero: A Martin Hannett Story 1977-1991 North by North West Me and My Big Mouth Disguise in Love The Very Best Of New Wave Post Punk: 1977-1981 John's in the Money (Evidently John Cooper Clarke, Vol. Much the same is true of Clarke, from the other side of the Pennines. Yes. The game's up, Clarke.' "Yes?" JOHN COPPER CLARKE I FALLING IN LOVE WITH MY WIFE live in DUBLIN 2010_mpeg2video.mpg. The sun has set. "), He has always been a gifted mimic and, having been in Essex for so long, has perfected the local accent. But theoretically, on planet Bizarro, where Superman is bad and Lex Luther is good, that is what I would do. bands to watch for '92 (Melody Maker, January 4 1992), Ted Lasso Season 3 to Premiere Spring 2023, Motionographer | Motion graphics, design, animation, filmmaking and visual effects, Gugun Power Trio - Far East Blues Experience/Solid Ground/Soul Shaker, Art BOOOOOOOM! Thats an intelligent question too, from Ben, because lyricists have probably influenced me more than any other poets. Now that he's enjoying his unforeseen Indian summer, I ask the poet, what can he find to trouble him? Though he has travelled a long way from his native Salford, it has never left him. The 2,000-seat venue, which has hosted entertainers including Bob Dylan and David Bowie, has proved to be a little small for Cooper Clarke. [2] He returned to live performance in the 1990s, appearing again with Suns of Arqa in 1992 at The Witchwood in Ashton-under-Lyne. And if so, how did you combat it?I didnt get it too bad. British Rail, like any monopoly, had undoubtedly got complacent. 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. ", That last word, Costello says, "was rendered hilarious by his voice in a way which is just impossible to replicate in print. 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. "Frontal lobes just had a trim," it begins, "or did you meet the Moonies? ("My family crest," Cooper Clarke once remarked, "is four white feathers on a yellow streak.") "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. "His saving grace," Costello added, "was that he was really fucking funny.". I mean that crowd wanted crooners, strippers; they might fleetingly tolerate a magician. 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. It was once observed of Alan Bennett that the world invariably becomes an Alan Bennett sketch around him. Keep it quiet, but I plan to make a movie in Jaywick some day. 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? Of all the inventive choices of music in that series, it was the least predictable and, many consider, the most brilliantly inspired. 1), The Best Punk Album in the World Ever! Two words: Hitler, Nuremberg. I operate on a capsule wardrobe because I spend a lot of time on the road, so I aint got the whole rainbow spectrum of colours in my luggage. To enjoy a renaissance, Cooper Clarke concedes, you must have been dead for a period. He set a very high bar. His perennial UK tours he is just about to embark on another are invariably sold out to audiences of all ages. ("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. Is that a stage name? If I have a cup of coffee, Ill sit down at a table. Otherwise they would have been opening for me. mac_abre It is a small part of what he does. Let's say you and me were in Peckham. Im fashionable once every 15 years, for about three months. Around this time, he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands and continues to perform regularly. 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. She'd been in Italy. 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