John Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke has toured with all the seminal bands; The Sex Pistols, The Clash & Buzzcocks, and in the USA with Elvis Costello.

Fast forward to 2013, and JCC remains a key orator of British society with his fashion style spawning copy-cats all over the country and his continual impact on modern music being heard in the satirical and keen social observations of the songs of the Arctic Monkeys.

Alex Turner cites JCC as a huge inspiration and this was recently demonstrated when the Arctic Monkeys covered I Wanna Be Yours on their critically acclaimed fifth studio album AM. In addition, UK rapper and film maker Plan B asked John to appear in his directorial film debut Ill Manors, where their duet Pity the Poor Fellow appeared in the movie and on the soundtrack.