Picked him up in a cab in Liverpool... took him to hope st hotel...had a quick chat with him told him if he could get me interested in poetry which he did... he's a good man... because I would have said you were mad... so good on him...and he gave me a tip so top man
I had a long , drunken chat with him once, after meeting him at a party. He was so easy to talk to, totally not up himself, with a dry wit & an interest in anything & everything. Simply a great bloke.
A charming and humorous personality. Decades ago, as a fan of his early TV appearances, I went to see him ‘in concert’, though it turned out his name was the lure for an early (and unbilled) Joy Division gig. He only performed for around 15 to 20 minutes. The band were on for over an hour. I suppose I got to see them in their prime, even if it was accidentally. The audience felt a bit short changed at the end, I certainly did.
III manors a brilliant amazing but dark film I found him in apart from that 8 out of 10 cats again amazing I did get to see him in Dublin a few years ago great gig
On the point about does Dr JCC’S poetry go down differently in different countries, over 20 years ago I recited ‘I Married a Monster From Outer Space’ to some teenagers in Gdansk Poland (I was doing a Shakespeare project with them) thinking it would be a laugh, but after the final line ‘I remember the monster from outer space’ there was silence only broken when a girl said, ‘The poem is beautiful!’
Picked him up in a cab in Liverpool... took him to hope st hotel...had a quick chat with him told him if he could get me interested in poetry which he did... he's a good man... because I would have said you were mad... so good on him...and he gave me a tip so top man
I had a long , drunken chat with him once, after meeting him at a party. He was so easy to talk to, totally not up himself, with a dry wit & an interest in anything & everything. Simply a great bloke.
A charming and humorous personality.
Decades ago, as a fan of his early TV appearances, I went to see him ‘in concert’, though it turned out his name was the lure for an early (and unbilled) Joy Division gig.
He only performed for around 15 to 20 minutes. The band were on for over an hour.
I suppose I got to see them in their prime, even if it was accidentally.
The audience felt a bit short changed at the end, I certainly did.
Fabulous and unique
Simply love this guy. 🥰
I like the way he keeps saying "Pardon?" to the woman. Like when people say sorry to get you to repeat yourself.
I’d like to meet John have some whiskey and wine .. and re live those heady 70s days of punk n innocence of abandonment 🌹
John makes me happy,love the guy.
The man is a LEGEND.😊
You're amongst friends - couldn't have put it better myself !!!!
Thankyou Doctor
Existentially yours.....
I took him and Johnny Green back to their hotel after a gig a few years ago. Top blokes the both of them
Always astounded by the longevity of many people who took a lot of opiates.
Thanks
III manors a brilliant amazing but dark film I found him in apart from that 8 out of 10 cats again amazing I did get to see him in Dublin a few years ago great gig
Legend.
On the point about does Dr JCC’S poetry go down differently in different countries, over 20 years ago I recited ‘I Married a Monster From Outer Space’ to some teenagers in Gdansk Poland (I was doing a Shakespeare project with them) thinking it would be a laugh, but after the final line ‘I remember the monster from outer space’ there was silence only broken when a girl said, ‘The poem is beautiful!’
He supported Pauline Murray at the Odeon in Birmingham in 1980 that way a big venue he’s still class
He had some of her band playing on his early albums
Saw him at the MAC roughly same time.
i used to watch him in small clubs great times not keen on big venues but good luck john
From the thumbnail I thought it was Geddy Lee from Rush... Then I heard him speak. 😂
I thought it was the mother in Law
Shame it's so near the City ground.
a legend
You have to love JCC , he's one of ,if not , our best living poet.
He always says he's from Essex now 🤔
JCC is more real than his interviewers...and not just these ones. I hope he's got another 30 years left!
Sally's lovely. John cooper Clarke lives in Colchester Essex very nice bloke 😊
Fame is a curse with no redeeming features. Alan Ginsberg once said.
He was over the moon that his poem 'Chickentown' was used in The Sopranos.
I know a few people at the time thought he was some sort of up and coming grime artist lol
Pure class JCC ,funny n real ,unlike alot arnd today