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#1 2008-07-20 10:09:55
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
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The Ivy style of John Cooper Clarke!
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030621/ai_n12697434
"This suit I'm wearing now, for instance, is from American Classics. It's a Palm Beach wash-and-wear, they used to sell them in places like Bloomingdales in New York in the late Fifties and early Sixties. It's great, you can just throw it in a washing machine, and the whole thing can be folded up and put in a paper bag. A 38 gram suit. Sensational."
"There's one shop in Covent Garden called J Simons that has got all the clothes from America I love but obviously they're too big for me - even the socks are too big. Americans are giants now, so I go there like someone else would go to a museum. I just look at the stuff and how it's made and the way it's finished. It's beautiful: Florsheim shoes, all this fabulous stuff from Boston and the Eastern seaboard. In fact I bought this tie there; they specialise in these squared-off knitted horizontally banded ones. Every time I go I buy a tie - one size fits all."
J.
#2 2008-07-20 11:04:57
- Kingstonian
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Re: The Ivy style of John Cooper Clarke!
Great poems (including Beasley Street and Majorca) - especially when you hear him read them out himself.
Not an obviously Ivy-looking sort of bloke though. The barnet does not look right.
#4 2008-07-20 12:05:12
- Taylor McIntyre
- Son of Ivy...
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Re: The Ivy style of John Cooper Clarke!
... Funny that he talks of J. Simons as being like a museum. I often talk of it as being like an art gallery.
And again that's the diversity of all this coming through once more - I call it classic, Horace calls it timeless, Harris calls it archaic. Obviously it's a retro thing for JCC too.
For me it's alive and it always moves on: A past, a present, and a future.
A continuum.
#5 2008-07-20 20:16:57
- Brownshoe
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Re: The Ivy style of John Cooper Clarke!
Nice interview:
http://www.thechap.net/cooper.html
#7 2008-07-21 05:41:56
- Chris_H
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Re: The Ivy style of John Cooper Clarke!
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#8 2008-07-21 15:54:15
- dempsey
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Re: The Ivy style of John Cooper Clarke!
liked the betting shop gabbichi reference, however JCC obviously does,nt know the population of docklands is,nt what it used to be,
times are a changing.......
check out the gabbichi 73 retro range on Stuarts website.
#10 2012-12-14 10:52:32
- Acton_Baby
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Re: The Ivy style of John Cooper Clarke!
Fabulous find.
JCC is a bit of a hero, even in those Sugar Puffs ads.
Very much like the 'Unlikely Ivy' idea 
Last edited by Acton_Baby (2012-12-14 11:01:30)
"I have about 100 pairs of pyjamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably."
Hugh Hefner
#11 2012-12-14 10:56:04
- Kingston1an
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Re: The Ivy style of John Cooper Clarke!
JCC almost wears leggings. A skinny bloke must have to try very hard to get his trousers that tight.
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#12 2022-01-23 04:34:11
- AFS
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Re: The Ivy style of John Cooper Clarke!
Apparently JCC once or twice shared his digs with Nico. That must have been interesting as it's alleged she didn't wash very often.
A teenage fan of the Velvet Underground, I saw her perform in Manchester in the summer of '83. JCC read a few poems. Nico was pretty bad. We'd passed one another outside the building earlier in the afternoon. A fine-looking woman, even then.