Anne Clark (Croydon, London, England, 14 May 1960) is an English poet-songwriter. Her first recording was The Sitting Room in 1982, and she has released about a dozen albums since then. Croydon is a major suburban town and commercial centre situated 9. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004... May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004... // Events January 15 - K.C. and the Sunshine Bands Harry Wayne Casey is seriously injured in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida. ...

Her experimental music occupies a region bounded roughly by electronic and dance (techno applies on occasion) and possibly avant-garde genres, with varying hard as well as romantic and orchestral styles. Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... Dance music is music composed, played, or both, specifically to accompany social dancing. ... Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ...

Clark is mainly a spoken word artist, but she also plays piano and occasionally accompanies herself, with piano and voice mixing in a somewhat a-typical New Wave style. Many of her lyrics deal critically with the imperfections of humanity, everyday life and politics. Especially in her early works she has created a gloomy, melancholy kind of atmosphere bordering on weltschmerz. Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in American, Australian, British, Canadian and European popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s born out of the punk rock movement. ... Melancholia (Greek μελανχολια) is a mood of non-specific depression. ... Weltschmerz (from the German meaning world-pain or world-weariness, see wiktionary entry) is a term coined by the German author Jean Paul and denotes the kind of feeling experienced by someone who understands that the physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind. ...

Life

Anne Clark was born as the daughter of an Irishman and a Scotswoman. At the age of 16 she left school. She took various jobs, among which as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital. Then she got a job at the local record store (and label) 'Bonaparte Records'. Punk rock was just about finding its way into London's music scene and totally matched Anne Clarks emotions. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

A further stage of her life lay very close to Bonaparte Records at Warehouse Theatre, an independently financed stage for bands, always low on cash. After initial objections of Warehouse Theatre's owners because of the strange pierced punk scene characters and their leather outfits, Anne could successfully arrange the program. Bands like Siouxsie and The Banshees, Generation X and The Damned belonged to the local scene and performed at the Warehouse besides theatre, dance and comedy projects and poets. Anne Clark managed to fill the theatre with artists like Paul Weller, Linton Kwesi-Johnson, French & Saunders, The Durutti Column, Ben Watt (now member of Everything But The Girl) and many others. The Warehouse Theatre is a studio theatre with up to hundred seats in Croydon, South London, based in a Victorian warehouse. ... A group of punks at a music festival. ... Siouxsie and the Banshees are a British gothic rock band. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The Damned are a punk rock group formed in London in 1976. ... Paul Weller (born John William Weller on 25 May 1958, in Stanley Road, Woking, Surrey) is a British singer / songwriter, leader of two successful bands: The Jam and The Style Council. ... French & Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and starring by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, and also the name by which the performers are known on the rare occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act. ... The Durutti Column is the ongoing band project of guitarist (and occasional pianist) Vini Reilly (born in Didsbury, Greater Manchester, August 1953), often accompanied by drummer Bruce Mitchell. ... Ben Watt (born December 6, 1962) is a house music producer, DJ and label boss of Buzzin Fly Records. ... Everything But The Girls Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt in a publicity photo, c. ...

She experimented with music and lyrics herself and first appeared on stage in Richard Strange's Cabaret Futura, together with Depeche Mode. Depeche Mode is an electronic music band from the town of Basildon, England, founded in 1980. ...

In 1982 Anne Clark published her first album The Sitting Room with songs written by herself. On the following albums (Changing Places 1983, Joined up Writing 1984 and Hopeless Cases 1987) Anne benefited from an acquaintance from the Warehouse: keyboardist David Harrow contributed as the co-author. The songs created by this team have since been milestones of mainly the 1980s and 1990s, but even until present day as well, such as Sleeper in Metropolis, Our Darkness or Wallies. See also: 1982 in music, other events of 1983, 1984 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events The most long-term influential release of 1983 is probably Head over Heels by the Cocteau Twins, which sold poorly upon its initial release. ... See also: 1983 in music, other events of 1984, 1985 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 21 - Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart: it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top... See also: 1986 in music, other events of 1987, 1988 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... See also 1990s, the band Seinfeld was a pop cultural phenomenon during the 90s and became one of the most popular TV programs ever. ...

In 1985 the album Pressure Points was released. It was created in cooperation with John Foxx, who had founded Ultravox. See also: 1984 in music, other events of 1985, 1986 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 28 - Various artists, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon... John Foxx is the stage name of English musician Dennis Leigh. ... Ultravox (formerly Ultravox!) were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the early 1980s. ...

In 1987, Clark went to Norway for three years, where she worked with Tov Ramstad and Ida Baalsrud, amongst others. In cooperation with Charlie Morgan, she released the album Unstill Life in 1991. Charlie died of cancer in December 1992 at the age of only 36, which was also the cause of many planned collaboration projects being abandoned.

After several months of re-orientation, Clark eventually released The Law is an Anagram of Wealth in 1993, once again in collaboration with Tov Ramstad; the other musicians involved were Paul Downing, Martyn Bates, and last but not least, Andy Bell of Erasure fame. Andy Bell has been the name of several notable figures: Andy Bell (singer) (born 1964), pop band Erasure Andy Bell (musician) (born 1970), bassist for Ride, Hurricane #1, and Oasis Andy Bell (psychologist), psychologist This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise share... Erasure is a British synth pop duo band consisting of keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. ...

Just one year later, in 1994, Anne Clark dared a courageous leap into a kind of music she had not touched ever before: acoustic music. This eventually culminated in the release of Psychometry in the very same year, featuring a concert recorded live on stage in the Passionskirche in Berlin.

In 1996, various artists, producers and DJs together conceived a tribute album of techno remixes, named Word processing, which was released in 1997.

Continuously, she went on following her musical roots and influences of folk and classical music. Her 1998 album, Just After Sunset, a collaboration with Martyn Bates, featured poems by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke translated into English. This album was again re-released four years later, in 2002 as she got back the rights on the album. The extra material added included some video foottage, though of rather poor quality. Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) is generally considered the German languages greatest 20th century poet. ...

In 2003, one more album joined her series of acoustic albums: From The Heart - Live In Bratislava, which she recorded together with Murat Parlak (voc/p), Jann Michael Engel (cello), Niko Lai (dr/perc) and Jeff Aug (guitars) in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

In 2005 she joined up with the Belgian act Implant for the album Self-inflicted on which she delivered guest vocals. The album was released via Alfa Matrix records which in the meantime became her labelhome outside Germany. She also appeared on the Implant EP Too many puppies also released by the label. The term implant has different meanings: in Scientology, see Implant (Scientology) in medicine, see prosthesis This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

2006 saw her back again in the studio with Implant for the EP Fade away on which she delivered guestvocals and a duet with Leaether Strip's Claus Larsen. It is expected she will be featured on the forthcoming album as well. The term implant has different meanings: in Scientology, see Implant (Scientology) in medicine, see prosthesis This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Claus Larsen Leaether Strip is a Danish musical project whose influence has been most felt in the Electronic body music, Industrial music, and Gothic music genres. ...

At present, she is living in Norfolk, United Kingdom. Norfolk (pronounced IPA: ) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ...

Band

• Anne Clark, Vocals
• Jeff Aug, Guitarist (and Booker)
• Niko Lai, Drums & Percussion
• Murat Parlak, Piano
• Jann Michael Engel, Cello

Discography

• The Sitting Room (1982)
• Changing Places (1983)
• Joined Up Writing (1984)
• Pressure Points (1985)
• Hopeless Cases (1987)
• R.S.V.P. (1988)
• Unstill Life (1991)
• The Law Is An Anagram Of Wealth (1993)
• Psychometry (1994)
• To Love And Be Loved (1995)
• Wordprocessing (1997)
• Just After Sunset - The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (1998)
• Just After Sunset - Re-release (2002?)
• From the Heart (2003)
• Notes Taken Traces Left (2004)

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External links

• Official Anne Clark webpage
• Official Anne Clark label home: Alfa Matrix
• Anne Clark biography entry on an 'Eighties retro page'