John Cooper Clarke - Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #240
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 240 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! You asked for it… The universe provided… Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the Bard Of Salford, the living legend - that’s right, this week Pip is joined by JOHN COOPER CLARKE!
“If I was a band I would have split up years ago…”
Hopefully you are aware of the fellow and his work, but if that’s not the case, well you have a glorious road ahead of you… Pip sits down with the legendary punk poet to comb through all the good stuff - being the force of nature he is, most of the heavy lifting is done by John himself but as you’ll hear, this is not a problem in the slightest. Just tune in and take a ride with the story telling genius and indulge in those sweet Northern tones. From history to now, it all gets covered - his inspirational teacher who encouraged him in all kinds of ways, cultivating his own style from the cast in his life and picking up little elements from everyone he appreciated, the cerebral of poetry vs the immediate of rock and roll, his love and adoption of American style and trends, aiming to be an ‘artist as professional citizen’, having the door to success opened to him by none other than Bernard Manning of all people, NO FLARES, gigging with The Fall, Chickentown, Arctic Monkeys, Michael Madson, and as you can imagine - AN IMMENSE AMOUNT MORE! So, so great. You’ll like this one.
His book 'The Luckiest Guy Alive' is out and about so grab that!
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• JOHN COOPER CLARKE on THE INTERNET!
• JOHN COOPER CLARKE on TWITTER!
• CHICKENTOWN ON THE SOPRANOS!
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SCROOBIUS PIP & SPEECH DEVELOPMENT LINKS:
• WE ARE LIZARDS • SATURDAY 24th NOV! EMAIL HERE FOR GUESTLIST
• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on FACEBOOK
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| 0:00.0 | This is a paid advertisement from Better Help. I've got a really clear memory when I first got a |
| 0:06.6 | dog of being really focused on how important all the things I have to do for this cute little guy |
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| 0:21.1 | day, eating good food. And it becomes such a kind of a focus and a drive because you want to do all |
| 0:28.0 | you can for this little creature that you love. But we don't always put that much time and |
| 0:32.8 | attention into what we need for ourselves. Like what are our basic requirements to get through |
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| 1:09.5 | B-E-T-T-E-R-H-E-L-P.com slash distraction pod. Welcome, welcome, welcome, this is episode 240 |
| 1:20.0 | of the distraction pieces podcast. And that feels like a |
| 1:24.0 | around and significant number. So I have to have a hugely significant and wonderful guest. I'm joined |
| 1:29.8 | today by Mr John Cooper Clark, a living legend. I've had a lot of people ask me if I'm going to |
| 1:36.8 | have John on for ages and it's been someone that's always been on my list. So I'm glad that we could |
| 1:41.6 | make it happen and time it around the release of his new collection, The Luckiest Guy Alive, which |
| 1:49.6 | they were, it is they were a sponsor of the podcast. So you will have heard me |
| 1:56.4 | ramble plenty about it already, but it's great and John is a favourite. You're going to love this |
| 2:03.5 | conversation because strap yourself in basically because John is not afraid to talk. He loves a chat. |
| 2:11.3 | He loves a ramble and he's got the best stories. I genuinely was just |
| 2:17.8 | sitting back with a smile on my face for this whole episode. Chirping in every now and then, |
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