John Cooper Clarke (The Bard Of Salford / The Luckiest Guy Alive / Chickentown) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with John Cooper Clarke, originally episode 240 from 2018-11-21.
Original writeup below!
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“If I was a band I would have split up years ago…”
Hopefully you are aware of the fellow and his work, but if that’s not the case, well you have a glorious road ahead of you… Pip sits down with the legendary punk poet to comb through all the good stuff - being the force of nature he is, most of the heavy lifting is done by John himself but as you’ll hear, this is not a problem in the slightest. Just tune in and take a ride with the story telling genius and indulge in those sweet Northern tones. From history to now, it all gets covered - his inspirational teacher who encouraged him in all kinds of ways, cultivating his own style from the cast in his life and picking up little elements from everyone he appreciated, the cerebral of poetry vs the immediate of rock and roll, his love and adoption of American style and trends, aiming to be an ‘artist as professional citizen’, having the door to success opened to him by none other than Bernard Manning of all people, NO FLARES, gigging with The Fall, Chickentown, Arctic Monkeys, Michael Madson, and as you can imagine - AN IMMENSE AMOUNT MORE! So, so great. You’ll like this one.
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| 0:32.4 | Emmo Clue, in Mo Clue, Emow, Emow Clue. Welcome to the distraction pieces, rewind. You know what it is. On a Friday, |
| 0:39.7 | we delve into our decade-long back catalogue and find a gem that you might have overlooked. |
| 0:44.4 | And this one's a real gem because I sat down with living legend, Dr. John Cooper Clark. |
| 0:50.8 | Icon, absolute genuine icon. We sat down together in 2018. So we're going back a while. |
| 0:59.1 | This was episode 240. And yeah, John's been good to me over the years. Our paths have only crossed a |
| 1:05.4 | handful of times, but he's an icon and doesn't need to be good to people but he chooses to so it's really nice um |
| 1:13.6 | let's get into it hope you enjoy this it's john cooper clark intro to distraction. This piece of fiction is the intro to distraction. |
| 1:28.0 | This piece of fiction is the intro to the station. |
| 1:33.2 | No, no, no, I don't feel like you are. |
| 1:35.3 | You call it, kid. |
| 1:36.3 | It's your show. |
| 1:37.4 | Right. |
| 1:37.8 | Well, with that said, we are rolling. |
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