Whatever Happened to John Cooper Clarke?

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When punk broke, and this exciting new spirit was encapsulated by having Poets onstage reading funny stuff inbetween bands sets to massive heckling and laffing both with and at the man, there was something radical opening up, or so it seemed.

Some years on, the man himself has released a fair few albums on CBS after some singles on Rabid (indie). He did a gig at the After Dark, mid nineties, his 'famous' stuff delivered 100mph speed. A good night.

But where do they go, people like this? I know about his "Nico" days, and all that. More the 'comparitively recently' stuff...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 November 2006 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

I've just been getting into him recently...really great stuff...

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 3 November 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

He plays(?), well, reads in Camden all the time. I saw him (in the bar) at the Enterprise a few months back.

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

Lives in Colchester - or did up to a year or two ago

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Friday, 3 November 2006 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

i saw him live a couple of times in the mid/late nineties and had a very quick chat with him after a show in edinburgh (don't remember it being an interview as such; probably just me being a sad fanboy - qv the human league thread i've just posted on). still love him to bits.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 3 November 2006 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Great stuff. I often wonder about Mark Miwurdz too - he seems to have disappeared ... I last saw him about 10 years ago in Bristol - some of the funniest stand-up I've ever witnessed.

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

I saw him supporting The Fall in Edinburgh a few years ago, didn't expect to enjoy it but did in spite of myself.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

He became "Mark Hurst" and I believe he's still going.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 November 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Any recommendations on CDs? This is a guy I've been curious about for years.

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

There's a cheap compilation which is good, somebody bought me for Xmas

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

"World of Mouth"?

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

or "Word of Mouth"?

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that's it. Covers all eras.

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

Word of Mouth: The Very Best of John Cooper Clarke (UK Epic / Sony) 2002.

So, yes.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

"dhansaked"

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

He seems to support the Fall quite often.

"Beasley Street" is a pretty amazing song.

― Mickey Neuman Snr (Ferg), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

a distant relation is the best one for me, though beasley st is pretty great too

― -- (688), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

You can't really beat the funny ones, "Marjorca", "Kung Fu International" etc

― Dadaismus (Takin' Funk to Heaven in '77) (Dada), Friday, 3 November 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

his records a re great

seems like he is always opening UK Fall shows

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Suspended Sentence is so classic!

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Saturday, 4 November 2006 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jcdbc

well, that was great.

really really good.

of course there were lots of the usual faces spouting on how he influenced them and all that, but the interviews and clips from live shows(old and present), with and without the music worked really well i thought.

not one single mention of sugar puffs as well.

― mark e, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 22:06 (thirteen years ago)

They can’t find a good word for you,
but I can... JOHN ROBB.

Yes, JR aside, that was excellent

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 May 2012 15:03 (thirteen years ago)

It's only right that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pieyWaRhOnU

― Mark G, Thursday, 31 May 2012 15:16 (thirteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

... On "Have I got news for you" now!

― Mark G, Friday, 10 May 2013 21:33 (twelve years ago)

you went to see a progressive psychiatrist, he recommended suicide

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 10 May 2013 22:57 (twelve years ago)

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