John Cooper Clarke Graffiti

Please find two different pieces of graffiti available as pictures for your Sims 3 game (if you want to place on an outside wall, press CTRL, Shift and C before typing MoveObjects on in the control panel).

You do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.

Download

To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.

Enjoy!

John Cooper Clarke is a British poet whose works are used in schools, but unlike most poets inflicted on schoolchildren, he is still alive.

Clarke took a different route to conventional poets to gain attention, his rise to fame came from being an unlikely warm up act to many punk bands playing in the north of England during the 1970s, where his deadpan wit and satirical verse on crumbling urban Britain made him a massive influence on all forms of alternative culture from poetry to art and music.Although most of his works have been a cappella, his most famous poem of all – Beasley Street – is best heard in its original slower musically accompanied form.

Beasley Street was a dispiriting, forgettable back street in Gorton later renamed Bannock Street (at the Post Office’s insistence) – a real life version of Hardy’s legendary Mixen Lane – that by the time of John Cooper Clarke’s poem was largely in ruins, overrun with vermin and awaiting demolition – like many urban back streets in the UK during the 1970s.

Clarke has since claimed the poem was inspired by Camp Street and he never even knew such a street of that name existed, but this had probably more to do with the later revelation that Beasley Street’s one grisly claim to fame before the poem was Moors Murderer Myra Hindley, who lived there with her gran at the time it was renamed to Bannock Street.

Clarke’s other best known poems are Evidently Chickentown, I Don’t Want To Be Nice, I Wanna Be Yours, Kung-Fu International, Majorca, Punk Rock Revival, Twat and You’ll Never See A Nipple In The Daily Express.