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Britain’s best loved and most important performance poet, Dr. John Cooper Clarke 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." Live, he was performing to thousands across the UK. Crowds gathered with open eyes and ears gazing up at his distinctive, and now iconic, visual appearance, transfixed as he worked through a catalogue of work taken from his four studio albums and numerous singles.
So what of John now? Aside from being a key orator of British society during this time, his mark is indelibly seen in today's pop culture. Aside from his fashion style spawning copy-cats all over the country, his effect on modern music has been huge.
The punk revival has seen a whole new generation clamouring over John's work and saw his star rocket once again. Continuing to write new work from his Essex home, he has a plethora of new poems and monologues which he performs solo, alongside his best known works such as Beasley Street and Evidently Chickentown. His shows are always packed and his audience always leave ecstatic.