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Ou Est La Maison De Fromage

by: John Cooper Clarke

Release Date November 01, 1996
This is just how I remember hearing Johnny Clarke live: raw, rude and raucous! The feel of the venue is all there, his words virtually obscured at times by the hecklers, which adds verité but sadly detracts from the home listening experience. Most of the disc is unaccompanied Clarke, although there a couple of tracks with instrumentation by a group who appear to be called The Prime Time Suckers. The cd comprises a set of Clarke's earliest rehearsal tapes and live recordings, and was originally his first vinyl lp, released in 1978. Some of these poems found their way onto later releases, in tidied-up, studio versions. If you're familiar with the "gruff northern poet", please add this to your collection; if you're not, however, I suggest ... Read More: