JOHN COOPER CLARKE
Ten Years
in an Open Necked Shirt
[updated - Feb 24,98]
This video was a U.K. Arts Council / Channel Four endeavour. It features JCC live in concert, several music videos, Lynton Kwesi Johnson with JCC and much more.
UPDATE: This video is available from Concorde Video in Ipswich (UK). Concorde are the official outlet for the Arts Council and are selling it for the exhorbitant sum of sixty pounds (UK sterling) according to info I have received. It's also probably the only place you can buy it.
Dialogue & Poetry: John Cooper-Clarke
Director: Nick May
Producers: Elizabeth Taylor-Mead Peter Berry
Featuring: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Hilary Mason, Andrew de la Tour Production Company: Metropolis Pictures Ltd.
© Arts Council of Great Britain & Channel Four Television Ltd,1982
Colour, 52mins, 16mm, U-Matic & VHS
A portrait of poet, storyteller and comic, John Cooper-Clark. His poems, a satirical blend of humour and social comment, are delivered at a fast pace, often with musical backing. His style, and that of his contemporary Linton Kwesi Johnson, have influenced a generation of younger poets involved in a revival of popular poetry in Britain.
That's all they say. If anyone wants to check it out some more, the web page where this can be found is... http://www.ace.mdx.ac.uk/OffLine/FilmsOnArt/Poetry.html. Note that the Arts Council weren't on-line the last time I checked, so e-mail's out!
Anyone interested in buying this video should write to:
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“An entertaining mix of film overdubbed by studio-recorded JCC
performances, interviews , music by Mantovani & The Invisible Girls,
live gigs with Linton Kwesi Johnson and Seething Wells, possibly the
first TV appearance of Attila the Stockbroker, and a 3 way poetry
workshop with Jules Deeder and the laughably moist Michele Roberts.”
Writers: Nick May, David Kelly
The Arts Council,
14 Great Peter Street,
London, SW1P 3NQ.