Julian Cope
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Julian Cope: World Shut Your Mouth (Mercury)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 18 February 1984
I FEAR WE might shut our collective gob for the rest of time and we still wouldn’t get a good Julian Cope album. I didn’t ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 15 December 1984
HIS BOTTOM lip trembles as he bites his fingernails. Beneath the familiar lazy flop of a frizzy blond fringe, his eyes are filmed with liquid. ...
Julian Cope: Saint Julian (Island)
Review by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 7 March 1987
THERE HAVE been four Saint Julians. One, Julian of Toledo, persecuted the Jews; Julian the Hospitaller murdered his mum and dad by mistake; and three, ...
Julian Cope: Je Ne Suis Pas Sting!
Report by Andy Gill, Q, May 1991
IN A FUNKY but chic little Parisian cafe called the Piano Vache (rough translation: Soft Cow), Julian Cope faces a roomful of French journalists and ...
Julian Cope: Blonde on Peggy Suicide Blonde
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Pulse!, August 1991
One of pop's most eccentrically self-important extremists, Julian Cope drops drugs, gets centered and creates his first brilliant album ...
Julian Cope: A Rune With A View
Interview by Max Bell, Vox, September 1992
Powerful things, ley lines. They can make Julian Cope commune with rocks, and cause his old boss Bill Drummond to break the silence he's kept ...
Julian Cope: Mad Dog and Englishman
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Details, March 1993
There's a fine line between genius and madness. Julian Cope erases it. ...
Review by Susan Compo, MOJO, August 1994
JULIAN COPE is even more twisted than his infamous mikestand. ...
Julian Cope: Krautrocksampler: One Head’s Guide To The Great Kosmiche Musik - 1968 Onwards
Review by Simon Reynolds, MOJO, December 1995
Since it deals with that most fetishised of genres, Krautrocksampler is appropriately enough an intensely fetishisable object. Purportedly the first of a whole line of ...
Julian Cope: Head On/Reposessed
Review by Rob Chapman, MOJO, November 1999
RICHARD HELL once claimed that he first noticed the schism between himself and Tom Verlaine when they were on acid. Hell wanted to play the ...
Julian Cope: Royal Festival Hall, London ****
Live Review by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 4 April 2000
IT HAS BEEN a long time since Julian Cope could be described merely as a singing psychedelic mystic eco-warrior. ...
Julian Cope's Cornucopea: South Bank Centre, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2000
BILLED AS "a festival of plenty" by its curator Julian Cope, the two nights spent in the company of his various label mates, old mates ...
Profile and Interview by William Shaw, The Word, December 2003
A thin evolutionary strand connects the forgotten sounds of the psychedelic North and a meticulous chronicle of megalithic Europe. It's Julian Cope, a man whose ...
Report by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, June 2004
GETTING DITCHED by a major label is not always the end of the line for the big stars of yesteryear, as Terry Staunton reports ...
Comets On Fire/Julian Cope: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, Plan B, February 2005
EVEN THOUGH THE rock star's wearing denim jeans, a strong waft of leather-kekkedness has wandered idly to Seats 2 & 3, Row E, Upper Stalls. ...
Review by Roy Wilkinson, MOJO, March 2005
From his personal Xanadu, Julian Cope emerges with a straight-ahead rock album for the 21st century. ...
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