"The Luckiest Guy Alive" by John Cooper Clarke (published by Picador)

Clarke misses the mark

27 November 2018 - 12.11 PM

A bit of an odd thing happened with us and John Cooper Clarke in the early 1980s. Your Budapest Times correspondent was then living in Sydney, Australia, and had gone on a holiday to England. On the last night there, he went with a friend to see Clarke, the so-called “punk poet”, perform his rapid-fire readings at London’s famed Marquee Club. The next day your correspondent flew back to Sydney ... and within a day or two was again watching JCC perform there. Ever since, we’ve enjoyed the feeling that perhaps the two of us were on the same flight – but then, how could we have missed seeing Clarke’s wild barnet of hair sticking up over the top of a seat in economy class?

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