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Last Updated: 19/1/22
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Last Updated: 19/1/22
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GOOD NOOSE - UK GIGS 19/1/22
JANUARY EDITORIAL - JOHN COOPER CLARKE...9/1/22
GOOD NOOSE - MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCT...18/7/21
GOOD NOOSE - RECORDED PRODUCT ..18/7/21
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TWAT!
Gawd it's that time of year again. Belated Happy New Year everyone. New Hope, new beginnings and all that razzamatazz, but we still got the virus, we're still on a knifes edge regarding lockdown and I had a week off work. Which along with an audio book by John Cooper Clarke was really the main protagonist to give this here site a rare update!
I first discovered the Rainy City slanger via his '77 track on the 'Streets' compilation called 'Innocents'. Which was definitely one of the albums highlights, alongside Arthur Comics, Art Attacks, The Doll, Slaughter And The Dogs, The Nosebleeds and The Drones. There's definitely a Manc theme going on there. However I'd never have bothered usually, as his nom de plume didn't exactly strike me as that interesting as say The Nosebleeds in those heady days of punk. But the track in question really did. Which ignited my intrigue for further investigation. I found out over the coming months and years some of his other repertoire like 'You'll Never See A Nipple In The Daily Express', 'I Don't Wanna Be Nice' or this hilarious, 'The Day My Pad Went Mad' and more via various John Peel slots and OGWT were just as good. Clarkey has a sardonic Manchester drawl which sounded like he had a permanent cold. Later epitomised by the Fall's Mark E. Smith. You can forget those Oasis cunts, coz these couple of Northern peculiarity's from Manchester were the real deal. I even liked some of the early run of the mill backing tracks produced by Martin Zero, coz they definitely give some of the poems a rabid punk backing. But by 1980 they were dragging his prose down. We wanted to hear his fantastic wordplay, not some impro jazz routine which overrun long after the phrases had cut out. So I followed other acts with way more intensity and lets face it punk had died back in 1980 according to Dr Clarke...but not for the rest of us!
I first discovered the Rainy City slanger via his '77 track on the 'Streets' compilation called 'Innocents'. Which was definitely one of the albums highlights, alongside Arthur Comics, Art Attacks, The Doll, Slaughter And The Dogs, The Nosebleeds and The Drones. There's definitely a Manc theme going on there. However I'd never have bothered usually, as his nom de plume didn't exactly strike me as that interesting as say The Nosebleeds in those heady days of punk. But the track in question really did. Which ignited my intrigue for further investigation. I found out over the coming months and years some of his other repertoire like 'You'll Never See A Nipple In The Daily Express', 'I Don't Wanna Be Nice' or this hilarious, 'The Day My Pad Went Mad' and more via various John Peel slots and OGWT were just as good. Clarkey has a sardonic Manchester drawl which sounded like he had a permanent cold. Later epitomised by the Fall's Mark E. Smith. You can forget those Oasis cunts, coz these couple of Northern peculiarity's from Manchester were the real deal. I even liked some of the early run of the mill backing tracks produced by Martin Zero, coz they definitely give some of the poems a rabid punk backing. But by 1980 they were dragging his prose down. We wanted to hear his fantastic wordplay, not some impro jazz routine which overrun long after the phrases had cut out. So I followed other acts with way more intensity and lets face it punk had died back in 1980 according to Dr Clarke...but not for the rest of us!
