Off Topic john cooper clarke

Is against Lawro this week in the prediction thing on bbc sport ....well i had forgotten all about him blimey hes older than me ,in the seventies he was called the punk poet and i remember seeing him supporting the sex pistols and also the band called be bop delux ,from manchester i think ,i right blast back to my hey days,glad hes still hanging in there .

 

I saw him in Sheffield, or was it Barnsley, years ago Stu.

Hasnt aged a day. He looked ****ing old then!!!!

 

clever man, dont know if hes still gigging could be a second coming perhaps ,did have a decko he was born in 1948 i was hatched in 54 to celabrate they ended rationing...........lol

 

still going well, he' has a gig up this way in Durham in July.

 

For a guy who was always on the edge and nervy hes done well to survive ,them punk days were something else ,plus there was nothing to him apart from a huge shock of back combed hair

 

Totally agree Stu. He was on Never Mind The Buzzcocks a few weeks ago. Couldn't believe he was still alive!!

 

i will see if i can get play back search on iplayer, cheers

 

When I was a kid, I thought he was a ****ing genius!

 

whats your age blunham btw i was in my late teens at his peak i left school in 69

 

55 yrs young Stu. I've got this memory of coming home from work one Friday night and he was on The Tube. I just thought he was mad! Bought a cassette, Style Method, or something like that.

Had mates at Sheffield Uni around that time, they came back home talking about him.

He was just off the wall. You didn't see performance poets around then I guess, not like him anyway.

Long time ago anyway.

 

cheers for the chat, enjoyed it ...memories aaaagggghhhhh wont be long before the old swede shuts down in old age

 

Hey, you're a long time dead! I still love all that old ****!

If you ever head west, around Bedford mate, gimme a shout and we'll have a few beers down memory lane!

 

thanks very much

 

I have the Beasley Street LP lots of good tracks and some clever lyrics on it, my kids don,t get it, whats new.

 

Legendary artist. Chickentown is pure class, and still very relevant today.

 

Saw him decades ago. He was awesome then and he's awesome now. One of his poems was recited at my mate's funeral and had the right effect - still makes me smile.

 

He's got a radio programme on the go at the moment, Sunday afternoons on BBC 6 Music filling in for Jarvis Cocker:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pc20t

Well worth a listen, you can get it for a few weeks afterwards on the iplayer as well