John Cooper Clarke / Anthologia

This October Sony will release Anthologia, a four-disc collection of the work of the ‘punk poet’ John Cooper Clarke.

Anthologia brings together material from a career spanning over 40 years, and incorporates studio versions with music from Martin Hannett and Invisible Girls plus spoken word performances across three CDs.

The fourth disc is a DVD which features rare and unseen footage dating back to the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1978 through to the more recent Palace Theatre Manchester show from 2014.

The booklet will contain ‘written tributes’ by the likes of Paul McCartney, Alex Turner, Hugh Cornwell and boasts liner notes by Nick Kent.

Tenuous SDE link: JCC has toured in the past with similarly cool ‘dub poet’ Linton Kwesi Johnson, who used to live a few doors down from this writer back in the late 1990s!

Anthologia is released on 16 October 2015. There will also be a double-vinyl ‘highlights’ edition.

3CD+DVD box set

• UK Pre-order: Anthologia

2LP Highlights edition

• • UK Pre-order: Anthologia Highlights [vinyl]

4-disc box track listing

Disc: 1
1. (I Married A) Monster From Outer Space (John Peel Session 1978)
2. Gimmix! Play Loud
3. Health Fanatic (John Peel Session 1978)
4. Mustn’t Go Down To The Sea Again (Live at Hulme Playhouse 1983)
5. Spilt Beans (John Peel Session1978)
6. Twat Hulme (Live at Hulme Playhouse 1983)
7. Readers Wives (John Peel Session 1978)
8. The Barber (Live at Hulme Playhouse 1983)
9. Bronzed Adonis (Live at Hulme Playhouse 1983)
10. Drive She Said (Live at Hulme Playhouse 1983)
11. The Scarlet Snow
12. Never Seen A Nipple In The Daily Express (Live at Hulme Playhouse 1983)
13. Conditional Discharge (Alternative Mix)

Disc: 2
1. (I Married a) Monster from Outer Space
2. Gimmix! Play Loud
3. Health Fanatic
4. Mustn’t Go Down to the Sea Again
5. Split Beans
6. Twat
7. Readers Wives
8. The Barber
9. Bronze Adonis
10. Drive She Said
11. The Scarlet Snow
12. Never Seen a Nipple in the Daily Express
13. Conditional Discharge

Disc: 3
1. Midnight Shift (John Peel Session 1982)
2. Gaberdine Angus (Live)
3. Marjorca
4. The Day My Pad Went Mad (John Peel Session 1982)
5. Film Extra’s Extra (Live at the Manchester Ritz 1978)
6. I Don’t Wanna Be Nice (Alternative Take)
7. Nothing
8. Limbo (Baby Limbo) (Live)
9. Night People (John Peel Session 1982)
10. Intro and Salome Maloney (Live at the Manchester Ritz 1978)
11. The Pest (Live at the Manchester Ritz 1978)
12. Sperm Test (Live at the Manchester Ritz 1978)
13. (I Married A) Monster From Outer Space (Live at the Manchester Ritz 1978)
14. He Doesn’t Try

Disc: 4 (DVD)
1. See The World (Evidently John Cooper Clarke)
2. I Don’t Want To Be Nice (Old Grey Whistle Test 1978)
3. Evidently Chickentown (BBC Something Else)
4. Glasgow Apollo (BBC documentary)
5. Readers Wives (Old Grey Whistle Test 1978)
6. Post – War Glamour Girl (Old Grey Whistle Test 1981)
7. The List Of Things That Don’t Exist (Evidently John Cooper Clarke)
8. I Wanna Be Yours (Live at Palace Theatre Manchester 2014)
9. Evidently Chickentown (Live at Palace Theatre Manchester 2014)
10. Beasley Street (Live at Palace Theatre Manchester 2014)

2LP Vinyl track listing

Side 1
1. Evidently Chickentown
2. I Wanna Be Yours
3. (I Married A) Monster From Outer Space
4. Beasley Street
5. Night People
6. The Day My Pad Went Mad

Side 2
1. I Don’t Want To Be Nice
2. Valley Of The Lost Women
3. Midnight Shift
4. A Heart Disease Called Love
5. Limbo (Baby Limbo) (Live)
6. Post – War Glamour Girl

Side  3
1. Readers Wives (John Peel Session 1978)
2. Gimmix! Play Loud
3. A Distant Relation
4. Twat (Live at Hulme Playhouse 1983)
5. Never Seen A Nipple In The Daily Express (Live at Hulme Playhouse 1983)
6. Drive She Said (Live at Hulme Playhouse 1983)
7. Mustn’t Go Down To The Sea Again (Live at Hulme Playhouse 1983)
8. Bronzed Adonis (Live at Hulme Playhouse 1983)
9. (I Married A) Monster From Outer Space (John Peel Session 1978)
10. Health Fanatic (John Peel Session 1978)
11. Conditional Discharge

Side 4
1. Midnight Shift (John Peel Session 1982)
2. Gaberdine Angus (Live)
3. Marjorca
4. The Day My Pad Went Mad (John Peel Session 1982)
5. Film Extra’s Extra (Live at the Manchester Ritz 1978)
6. The Pest (Live at the Manchester Ritz 1978)
7. (I Married A) Monster From Outer Space (Live at the Manchester Ritz 1978)
8. Intro and Salome Maloney (Live at the Manchester Ritz 1978)
9. Night People (John Peel Session 1982)

3CD+DVD box set

• UK Pre-order: Anthologia

2LP Highlights edition

• • UK Pre-order: Anthologia Highlights [vinyl]