Clinic's Ade Blackburn Reads The Poem "Tonight At Noon"

22 June 2007
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Words by Sean Moeller // Illustration by Catherine Maldonado

The second installment of the Daytrotter Bookery feels sweet and absolutely foreboding. Clinic’s Ade Blackburn reads a short poem by a local poet from the band’s hometown in Liverpool. There’s some gentle gritting of the teeth as the words come from behind Blackburn’s surgical mask, though there is neither a confirmation nor a dispelling that the trademark mask was worn during the making of this recitation. A slight and effective programmed overlay sounds like breathy pops at times, but it lends a hypnotic quality to the words of sarcasm and American warlording. Elephants are telling human jokes and America’s declaring peace on Russia. What a fucked up quilt. Clinic is celebrating its 10-year anniversary as a band this year with the just-released disc of b-sides and rarities, Funf. — Sean Moeller

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is this poem from the world war II/cold war era, or is it just talking about things from then?
either way, i really like listening to things like that being read, so that was very nice.

Lauren | 23 June 2007
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I think it would be nice if you gave recognition to the writer of Tonight at Noon. It was written by Adrian Henri (a painter/poet) for Charles Mingus and the Clayton Sqaures. The title was taken from an LP by Mingus. Tonight at Noon was the book title of Henri’s own collection of poems published in 1968 though many works had been published elsewhere and in anthologies. After an anthology called, The Liverpool Scene, which was hugely successful, Adrian Henri became one of the most well known of the “pop“ular poets.

Thompa | 28 June 2007

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