JOHN COOPER CLARKE innocents

A real old one for you. jcc was a punk poet throughout the late 70's and 80's his named was sometimes spelled clark. this little ditty comes from 1977 and was i think his first e.p.although i might be wrong about that as i dont have it but know this song from the comp L.P ...streets

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[SeagreenSerenade]

the name of the band is The Curious Yellow, according to my original copy (rabid records), the band is credited for each song, and the sleeve notes says :

"that thursday, The Curious Yellow were Tony McGrahan, Phil Middleton, Tony Roberts, John Scott, Martin Hannett.

Produced by Martin Zero for the criminal gramophon Co."

each song on this single is a bloody must !!! ;)

[edfeltch]

This band is actually The Nosebleeds w/JCC fronting instead of Ed Banger.Invisible Girls and others like Pete Shelly and Bill Nelson played on John Cooper Clarke LP "Disguise In Love".Clarke was a children's television show host in Britain.During a drug fueled party in Houston in 1979 Elvis Costello and I dueled with JCC lyrics,it was a draw.

[balearicsoundwave89]

@stellaandlily4ever the invisible girls,martin hannet,bruce mitchell .they backed a lot of johns music as well as pauline murray [penetration].

[stellaandlily4ever]

does anyone know who's playing the music for this?

[garethrhysjones1]

First single I bought, having heard it on Peel. Still got it. Still play it

[OriginalAgePunk]

He's still going and still very funny.

[TheF0nz1]

He was and doubtless still is one of the greatest poets of our time!

[northernhecklet]

Re. queries re. "I didn't do your meters" - a play on metre - as in poetry, and "doing the meter" - a petty crime usually carried out by poor working class people with coin operated electricity meters - once very common but by the time of this release usually only in dodgy rented accommodation, or for people whose credit wasn't good enough to pay monthly. Could be quite easily jemmied to release the money - all in coins - and was likely to be a crime that you would certainly be caught for.

[joesith12345789]

@killyrboyfriend

Marvellous observations mate. I couldn't agree more!

[killyrboyfriend]

The above picture looks like Paul Weller and the background vocals sound like the Dead Milkmen. Either someone agrees with me on either one or both observations or it is past my bedtime.