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Mark Gwynne Jones’ city rattles to the undertones of a diesel engine and sings like ‘a sparrow of fog and fumes and the time when he was cock of the world. Yes the city is a drunk. Harbouring hurt.’
Performed as encore at the Kings Arms in Salford.
Mark Gwynne Jones’ film-poem. Noah lives at the top of a block of flats and wakes one morning to find the town flooded. (5:02)
Mark Gwynne Jones performs ‘Plasticman’ and bemuses shoppers down at the local superstore. (2:39)
Ian Clayton’s son Edward is a budding pianist. Here he is having fun during practice, knocking out some Miles Davis and Scott Joplin. (3:55)
Mike Sheridan speaks to Eric Cantona and Paul Laverty about Looking for Eric (5:51)
Allen Ginsberg reads ‘Howl’, with animation by Mark Mentzer (4:50)
Chloe Poems live at Joshua Brooks in Manchester, recorded on 22 February 2006. Chloe performs two of her more bawdy numbers, ‘Something Red in a Tart’s Glass’ and ‘Why Do Roughs Have Such Tight Buns’. (9:59)
Allen Ginsberg and Steven Taylor have a light chat over breakfast in Ginsberg’s New York apartment. (3:05)
‘The Tyger’ by William Blake as sung by Allen Ginsberg with Steven Taylor and Jim Jones. Recorded by The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, July 1988 (2:03)
The infamous night in Paris in the European Cup Final when Alan Clarke was denied a penalty and Peter Lorimer had a goal disallowed. Bayern Munich went on to beat Leeds United 2-0 and, as recounted by J R Endeacott in One Northern Soul, everything from that moment changed for young Stephen Bottomley. (1:39)