The Glasshouse website announced this concert thus:
“Cultural. Multifaceted. Still capturing the zeitgeist.
Don’t miss your chance to see one of the world’s most important and entertaining spoken word artists at his bold and brilliant best. Watching John Cooper Clarke perform is an opportunity to see a living legend at the top of his game. His sense of humour resounds throughout his career, and his latest live show is a mix of classic verse, new material, hilarious ponderings on modern life, good honest gags, riffs and chat.”
“And so the stick man poet came to the north-east
Dressed in trendy mod gear
Winklepicker Chelsea boots
Bob Dylan in the mid–60s
With a pocketful of poems for us
A packed house came to witness the event
Along with me and Jan
In the magic of The Glasshouse
Far from Beasley Street
The taste of Double Maxim
A north east treasure
On a sunny afternoon
Where the memories of Charley Hurley
Are still alive
The local term is “Ha’way the lads”
In the case of Fawcett Street
In the cheap seats in the Odeon
We stamped our feet as kids
At the Saturday morning pictures
A sneak preview of magic long gone
A daffodil is your flower
A stottie your bread
Spend a year in a couple of days
On the edge of Fawcett Street
Where the action is
That’s where it isn’t
Choose your seat
Vacancies exist
In a football crazy exercise
The faithful many gather
Raich Carter smiles
In our memories on Fawcett Street
From the Fire Station
Vibrant and full of culture
We get it
Where the music prevails
The stars are starting to come
Sunderland is alive again
We have a great future
Just north of Fawcett Street”
(apologies to the original work of John Cooper Clarke, 1980, adapted by Vintagerock blogger)
Setlist (something like this): Questions I Can’t Answer; Hire Car; Get Back on Drugs You Fat F**k; Lydia, Girl With an Itch; Necrophilia; Beasley Street; Beasley Boulevard; Diez Macarenas; Sir Tom Jones; She’s Got a Metal Plate in Her Head; The Marital Miseries of the Modern Misogynist or The Rime of the Ancient Marrier; I’ve Fallen in Love With My Wife; Evidently Chickentown
Encore: T**t; I Wanna Be Yours
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Posted by TerriersFan on April 20, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Not my kind of thing, Peter, but I’m glad that you enjoyed him anyway.
Roger 🤘👍
Posted by vintagerock on April 21, 2024 at 11:13 am
Have been a fan for many years saw him supporting punk bands such as Siouxsie and Public Image Ltd. I think he is funny and pretty cool Roger. Cheers Peter