John Cooper Clarke - Hire Car - 08.10.11 - Jazz Cafe, Camden

Fantastic live performer, better than any stand-up I think.  I saw him once, some years ago, in a bit of a dive of a place in Edinburgh, and he was brilliant.  

I'm going to see him again in April.  

Things are gonna get worse. John Cooper Clarke

The maestro says it all about ageing.  A bungalow smelling of piss and biscuits 👍

Ageing is a bastard. Withnail and I - Camberwell Carrot

I'm the same age as Paul McGann.   Getting old would be fine if not for regrets, the bodily decay thing and the ever-more-intrusive looming of Death.

There's also a definite feeling that you should be thankful to have got this far in years without pegging out or becoming disabled and living in John Cooper-Clark's 'piss-stained bungalow' rather than having a whinge about dodgy knees and other embarrassing, undignified and preferably unmentionable things that occur as a process of said bodily decay.  

Which I truly am.  Nevertheless...you have to allow yourself a screaming episode once in a while.  Ageing is a bastard.  It's really bloody awful.

I like this clip.  It's about the end of an era.