Took gall to stand up and read them, especially to those punk audiences back in the day. I styled myself as the alluring silk-suited entertainer, slicker than snot on a doorknob, using poetry as my ticket to the Big Life.
NextAs a writer his voice is equally unmistakable.
Once he realised that he could perform poems as live entertainment he started to work in local comedy clubs including Bernard Manning's Embassy Club. Talk about getting the most out of life. Curiously, everything after his rehab and recovery seems rushed or at least in a lot less detail.
They were speaking my language.
Like his poetry,his prose style is wry and dry.
It was a pleasant surprise that nearly half of the book f The memoir all obsessives of the self-professed Bargain Basement Baudilaire have been waiting for.
The memoir all obsessives of the self-professed Bargain Basement Baudilaire have been waiting for. He has such a striking and inimitable presence, it's like seeing a Tim Burton character come to life.
NextI Want It All9.
The name of a group is important and that one is unforgettable.
NextEven his musical tastes were mine in those early days; Dylan and Captain Beefheart.
Inimitable and iconic, his book will be a joy for lifelong fans and for a whole new generation. The story of a man who has played every pub, dive and stage in the country and travelled the length and breadth of the country taking in every back alley and dodgy side street in the process and lived to tell the tail.
NextI found the 2nd half of the book a bit wearing as Clarke outlines the arrival of punk music in the late 1970's before spending page after page on his addiction to heroin.
Interspersed with the most unlikely offerings that came with the dis The soundtrack of your life often reflects the time when you were a teenager, when everything sears into the memory, embeds itself deep in the psyche and remains with you.
Snap Out of It17.
Which feels odd, too, because it seems it's these years that he's never been happier. In this autobiography he is engaging and pretty honest irritating as well. Get that monkey out of there! His life and Where was the editor? Toppermost of the poppermost.
NextThey drive the book, his difficult life and the mean spirit which is probably not his true self.