[I]Report on John Cooper Clarke today

[GaryN]

I could have spent £15 more constructively by getting pissed in an unknown
pub and waking up naked in a ditch[1] instead of buying a ticket for JCC in
Oxfred for this.

It's cringe inducing watching someone who isn't a stand-up comedian trying
to be Billy Connolly. He's good at what he did but this isn't it.

And then he started making (bad) jokes about PTerry choosing the right to
die. At which point a good 1/3 of the audience, myself included, walked
out.

If anyone UK was thinking of going - don't bother.

gary

[1]Yes, that has happened.

--
"The British government has ministers for Northern Ireland, Wales and
Scotland - but no minister for England.

Constitutionally, in fact,England does not even exist"

Paul Kingsnorth "Real England"

[GaryN]

GaryN <webm...@oxtoyrun.org.uk> wrote in
news:XnsA0FAEB5A9AF53...@216.196.109.145:

> I could have spent £15 more constructively by getting pissed in an
> unknown pub and waking up naked in a ditch[1] instead of buying a
> ticket for JCC in Oxfred for this.
>
> It's cringe inducing watching someone who isn't a stand-up comedian
> trying to be Billy Connolly. He's good at what he did but this isn't
> it.
>
> And then he started making (bad) jokes about PTerry choosing the right
> to die. At which point a good 1/3 of the audience, myself included,
> walked out.
>
> If anyone UK was thinking of going - don't bother.
>
> gary
>
> [1]Yes, that has happened.
>

Remember - only one band ever wrote a song for their roadies - Lemmy,
Philthy and Fast Eddie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb3zSgxMuug

gary

[Nigel Stapley]

GaryN wrote:
> I could have spent Ł15 more constructively by getting pissed in an unknown

> pub and waking up naked in a ditch[1] instead of buying a ticket for JCC in
> Oxfred for this.
>
> It's cringe inducing watching someone who isn't a stand-up comedian trying
> to be Billy Connolly. He's good at what he did but this isn't it.
>
> And then he started making (bad) jokes about PTerry choosing the right to
> die. At which point a good 1/3 of the audience, myself included, walked
> out.
>
> If anyone UK was thinking of going - don't bother.
>
> gary
>
> [1]Yes, that has happened.
>

I did warn you - I'm afraid the man has lost the plot. Best remember him
at his best, even if it was thirty-odd years ago.

--
Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.thejudge.me.uk

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[GaryN]

Nigel Stapley <un...@judgemental.plus.com> wrote in
news:XZydnRXsmvt0vxPN...@brightview.co.uk:

> GaryN wrote:
>> I could have spent £15 more constructively by getting pissed in an

>> unknown pub and waking up naked in a ditch[1] instead of buying a
>> ticket for JCC in Oxfred for this.
>>
>> It's cringe inducing watching someone who isn't a stand-up comedian
>> trying to be Billy Connolly. He's good at what he did but this isn't
>> it.
>>
>> And then he started making (bad) jokes about PTerry choosing the
>> right to die. At which point a good 1/3 of the audience, myself
>> included, walked out.
>>
>> If anyone UK was thinking of going - don't bother.
>>
>> gary
>>
>> [1]Yes, that has happened.
>>
>
> I did warn you - I'm afraid the man has lost the plot. Best remember
> him at his best, even if it was thirty-odd years ago.
>

Yup, should have listened but the old story - got to see for yourself,
was extant.

Sometimes you get a 'past their prime' gig that really works. I saw
Caravan at 'The Fridge' in Brixton (Admittedly I worked for the drummer
in a pub in Ashford at the time) in the 90s. That one worked, possibly
starting with 'Golf Girl' broke the ice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=743WvX97UYw

Still got a copy of "Cunning Stunts" album signed by all members.

gary

[Nigel Stapley]

GaryN wrote:
> Nigel Stapley <un...@judgemental.plus.com> wrote in
> news:XZydnRXsmvt0vxPN...@brightview.co.uk:
>
>> GaryN wrote:
>>> I could have spent �15 more constructively by getting pissed in an
>>> unknown pub and waking up naked in a ditch[1] instead of buying a
>>> ticket for JCC in Oxfred for this.
>>>
>>> It's cringe inducing watching someone who isn't a stand-up comedian
>>> trying to be Billy Connolly. He's good at what he did but this isn't
>>> it.
>>>
>>> And then he started making (bad) jokes about PTerry choosing the
>>> right to die. At which point a good 1/3 of the audience, myself
>>> included, walked out.
>>>
>>> If anyone UK was thinking of going - don't bother.
>>>
>>> gary
>>>
>>> [1]Yes, that has happened.
>>>
>> I did warn you - I'm afraid the man has lost the plot. Best remember
>> him at his best, even if it was thirty-odd years ago.
>>
>
> Yup, should have listened but the old story - got to see for yourself,
> was extant.
>
> Sometimes you get a 'past their prime' gig that really works. I saw
> Caravan at 'The Fridge' in Brixton (Admittedly I worked for the drummer
> in a pub in Ashford at the time) in the 90s. That one worked, possibly
> starting with 'Golf Girl' broke the ice
>

Funny thing about that track: Back in about 1974, I used to listen to
"Sounds Of The Seventies" on Radio 1 late at night. That track still got
quite a bit of airplay there, despite the fact that it was three years
old by that time.

Fast forward to about 2002. I'm in Grey And Pink Records in Chester,
flipping listlessly through some 7" singles when that track comes on. I
could remember the words to it, despite not having heard it for close on
forty years.

[GaryN]

Nigel Stapley <un...@judgemental.plus.com> wrote in

news:WNudnfoGx96GNxPN...@brightview.co.uk:

> GaryN wrote:
>> Nigel Stapley <un...@judgemental.plus.com> wrote in
>> news:XZydnRXsmvt0vxPN...@brightview.co.uk:
>>
>>> GaryN wrote:

>>>> I could have spent Ł15 more constructively by getting pissed in an

"Standing by a golf course, dressed in PVC". Does tend to leave a
mental image...


At the time I worked for the drummer, who was a pub landlord in Ashford,
the bass player ran a pub in Canterbury. Strange sense of quiet humour,
both of them (except the thunderflash method of dispersing late night
hangers on in the beer garden). They got arrested along with a local
band for pouring washing up liquid and food colouring into the fountains
down Hastings sea front during the carnival..:-)

The Brixton gig was fun - we took a coach with 50 of the regular punters
from the pubs, arrived an hour early and patronised a few local
establishments before rolling up at The Fridge.

[Nigel Stapley]

GaryN wrote:
> Nigel Stapley <un...@judgemental.plus.com> wrote in
> news:WNudnfoGx96GNxPN...@brightview.co.uk:
>
>> GaryN wrote:
>>> Nigel Stapley <un...@judgemental.plus.com> wrote in
>>> news:XZydnRXsmvt0vxPN...@brightview.co.uk:
>>>
>>>> GaryN wrote:

>>>>> I could have spent £15 more constructively by getting pissed in an

That was probably the most fun thing that had happened in Hastings since
my grandfather left there in eighteen-ninety-is-that-the-time.

And, of course, two of the band (in its classic line-up) were called
Hastings...