Snap, Crackle and Bop: John Cooper Clarke Live at LCC

2016 celebrates the 40th anniversary of the beginning of Punk Rock in the UK. This talk will see Ben Kelly (UAL Chair of Interior and Spatial Design) sharing thoughts and coincidences with Dr John Cooper Clarke (JCC).
Popular culture, poetry, music and design will be subjects for discussion and JCC will be reciting a selection of his poems during the evening’s conversation.

Dr John Cooper Clarke
Britain’s best loved and most important performance poet. John is as vital now as he was in the 70s; His biting, satirical, political and very funny verse, delivered in a unique rapid-fire performance style, resonated with the punk movement. JCC toured with all the seminal bands; The Sex Pistols, The Clash & Buzzcocks, and in the USA with Elvis Costello. He began to draw large crowds in his own right. Joy Division were proud to frequently support JCC and New Order later opened for him on their first Australian tour.
A figurehead for the movement and all that it encompassed. He found himself as one of the leading voices of punk and youth culture of the late 70s. He became known as the “Punk Poet” or “The Bard of Salford”.

[@andrewjones7971]

Great interview, JCC very witty and very knowledgeable about art and popular culture. I was amused by the uncomfortable response by the audience when JCC talked about Bernard Manning glowingly.

[@stevebrindle1724]

Quite! Identity politics and "political correctness" are to humour as skid marks on clean bedsheets are to romance.

[@catrionamackenzie3638]

Fab.❤️ I used to hear Chicken Town and didn't get to hear or see any more. Now I am .Wish I had before .

[@jonathansturm4163]

Link Wray was very proud of the fact that every single recording he made in the USA prior to moving to Holland had at one time or another been banned at least once. They were _all_ instrumentals, not just “Rumble”.

[@KennethNicholson1972]

How insane and and yet awesome is that!

[@stephaneherringtoniowritin4986]

@@KennethNicholson1972
Thinking the same thing!!!

[@RapunzelinOttawa]

Is the music at 01:20 from Pulp Fiction alone, or is it found elsewhere?

[@tomwilson8607]

its LINK WRAY ,,,,,,,,,, RUMBLE,,,,,, you heathen ,,

[@asderc1]

Link Ray... some of the finest

[@sockington1]

you are joking, right ?