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John Cooper Clarke: The Suit: Episode 2

To complement the 6 Music Arctic Monkeys Artist Collection, their friend, inspiration and collaborator John Cooper Clarke explores the important role of the suit in music.

To complement the 6 Music Arctic Monkeys Artist Collection, another chance to hear their friend, inspiration and collaborator John Cooper Clarke exploring the important part that the suit has played in music.

The bespoke and bespectacled Bard of Salford spins sartorial songs for the switched on generation. John will join his tailoring mate, the Savile Row taught Tom Baker at his Soho establishment to get his inside leg measured and chat about the many intricacies of the modern day suit.

Expect music from Eddie Cochran, the Hives, Nancy Sinatra, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Adam Ant.

John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet who first became famous during the punk era of the late 1970s. He released several albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s and a written anthology of his work entitled Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt.

At the end of the 1990s, he was included as part of the English GCSE syllabus, which led to a whole new audience discovering his work. This is where Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys first came across him and it was the championing done by Alex and others that led to John's return to the tour circuit.

First broadcast in 2014.

1 hour

Last on

Wed 4 Oct 2023 02:00

Music Played

  • John Cooper Clarke

    The Man Who Didn't Know Elvis (6 Music Marc Riley Session, 1 May 2013)

  • Supergrass

    Late In The Day

    • PARLOPHONE.
  • The Jam

    But I'm Different Now

    • Polydor.
  • Simple Minds

    Sweat In Bullet

    • VIRGIN.
  • John Cooper Clarke

    Spilt Beans

  • Steppenwolf

    Born To Be Wild

    • MCA.
  • John Cooper Clarke

    I Married A Monster From Outer Space

Broadcasts

  • Thu 3 Dec 2020 01:00
  • Thu 3 Feb 2022 02:00
  • Thu 18 Aug 2022 02:00
  • Wed 4 Oct 2023 02:00