John Cooper Clarke

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He's in Washington D.C. tonight at the Hamilton.

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link

four years pass...

Lovely appearance today on Desert Island Discs. Killer line: "It was a tough school. We had our own coroner."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000701x

van dyke parks generator (anagram), Sunday, 21 July 2019 10:55 (four years ago) link

I swear every time I've listened to this program in the last few years, it invariably features some boring millionaire i've never heard of before + usually one whom doesn't seem curious about music in the slightest.

calzino, Sunday, 21 July 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link

Yes, that's more or less why I stopped listening to it. Bah!

Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 July 2019 12:04 (four years ago) link

It's a good corrective though in case you harbour the notion that people are interested in music.

Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 July 2019 12:05 (four years ago) link

Lol

Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 12:13 (four years ago) link

enjoying the music and chat from JCC on this ep so far. And as someone who's once witnessed someone getting their winnings brutally robbed from them: Never smile walking out of a bookies is definitely some sage advice!

calzino, Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link

but I start nodding off when he drones on about punk.

calzino, Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link

the last straw for me is when he's civil and complementary about the Arctic Monkeys.. bring back the millionaires talking about how some John Legend track reminds them of that special day when their kid was born (and corporation tax was lowered).

calzino, Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link

Top top geezer...also anyone who likes to ‘schmei’ around is all good with me

X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Sunday, 21 July 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Listened to "Suspended Sentence" for the first time in yonks. The backing is so fabulous, almost post-punk in 1977. Who's playing behind him, and do they back him in any subsequent works?

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 19 August 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link

https://www.discogs.com/artist/3392156-The-Curious-Yellows

other involvement in The Fall and Gerry And The Holograms...

sleeve, Monday, 19 August 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link

and other than Hannett I don't think any of them reappear on the later LPs!

sleeve, Monday, 19 August 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link

A POETRY THREAD
A while ago I was reminded of John Cooper Clarke's brilliant poem "Evidently Chickentown" which basically sums up living in England in the 70s/80s. (Here's an excerpt and a link to the full poem) https://t.co/yeJOKrnXCb pic.twitter.com/KTj1QZQaSo

— Sandra Newman (@sannewman) July 31, 2019

... (Eazy), Monday, 19 August 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link

cont.

… there were all these chickens in the back yard & Nico would just sit for hours staring out the back window & the chickens would come and peck at the window right in front of her face but she just sat immobile from depression and/or opiates, blankly staring at the wet chickens

— Sandra Newman (@sannewman) July 31, 2019

... (Eazy), Monday, 19 August 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link

bleak

sleeve, Monday, 19 August 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link

jcc was on celebrity pointless yesterday

he didn’t win

Andy Jones, Earth-Born Angel of Love (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 August 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link

As pointed out above, used brilliantly in The Sopranos--best incorporation of a song over the show's entire run, I'd say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBcbc8eWz6U&t=196s

clemenza, Monday, 19 August 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBcbc8eWz6U

clemenza, Monday, 19 August 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link


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