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Reviews 8

Reissue Of The Week: Julian Cope’s Saint Julian

Movin’ On: Scott Walker & Sunn O)))’s Soused Reviewed

Sing, Cuckoo! Sing, Cuckoo! Green Man Festival Reviewed

Columnfortably Numb: February’s Psych Reviews By JR Moores

Julian Cope
Revolutionary Suicide

Songs Not Learned Or Sung: Echo And The Bunnymen Bomb In Glasgow

Articles 13

A Quietus Interview

Stone To The Bone: Squid Interviewed

Ollie Judge and Anton Pearson of modern rock band Squid take a walk past the neolithic burial chambers and chalk horse carvings of Wiltshire with John Doran to explain the genesis of their singular new album, O Monolith. All portraits by Maria Jefferis

Low Culture Essay

A Glimmer Of Cope: Adelle Stripe On The Modern Antiquarian

In the first of our subscriber-exclusive Low Culture essays, Adelle Stripe opens her battered copy of Julian Cope's The Modern Antiquarian and argues that this guide to Britain's neolithic remains has a strikingly modern relevance

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Stomu Yamash’ta

Miranda Remington gives us ten points of entry into the bewildering back catalogue of 'The Man From The East', Stomu Yamash'ta, a Japanese percussion prodigy who weaved together the classical with the underground; science fiction with Buddhism

Anniversary

The Mother Of Reinvention: Julian Cope’s Peggy Suicide 30 Years On

Peggy Suicide was the first marking and mapping out of a new Julian Cope, says Richard Foster; one who kept us sane and questing for new ideas at the dawn of the 90s

Anniversary

From Rome To Weston-Super-Mare: Coil’s Musick To Play In The Dark

On the 20th anniversary of its release, Eden Tizard looks back at Coil's 'Musick To Play In The Dark' and finds an album steeped in the landscape of the West Country

Art

Psychedelic Odin: William Blake’s Gift To Musicians

From Julian Cope to, er, Fat Les, as Tate Britain opens its major new show about William Blake, John Higgs, the author of William Blake Now, looks at the great mystic painter-poet's influence on contemporary pop

Baker's Dozen

A Spoon Baker’s Dozen: The Texan Connections Of Julian Cope

As Spoon hit the UK their vocalist and founder Britt Daniel guides Charles Ubaghs through his 13 favourite albums, from Public Enemy to Miles Davis, the raw emotion of Cat Power and strange idol Julian Cope

A Quietus Interview

Absence Makes The Art Go Further: Thighpaulsandra Interviewed

In a rare interview, Thighpaulsandra talks to Russell Cuzner about how prog rock, synthesisers, and being part of Coil have culminated in his first solo album in nine years

Books

A Righteous Tale: On Julian Cope’s One Three One

Aug Stone hits the accelerator on the Archdrude's 'Time-Shifting Gnostic Hooligan Road Novel'

A Quietus Interview

A Journey To Avebury: Stewart Lee Interviews Julian Cope

The heroic Stewart Lee meets the legendary Julian Cope to talk about the Arch Drood's debut novel for Faber, 131. All photographs by Cat Stevens

Books

Neoprolific History: Julian Cope’s Copendium Reviewed

Jimmy Martin sets off on an expedition in to the rock 'n' roll underworld with the former frontman of The Teardrop Explodes by way of his new book

Books

Psychedelic Brilliance: The Marvelous Origin Of The Teardrop Explodes

Seldom has a band name been quite so evocative as that of Liverpool's The Teardrop Explodes. Here, band members and associates recall how that name's "psychedelic brilliance" was first unearthed from the pages of an old Marvel comic book

A Quietus Interview

The Mission Celebrate Their Quarter Century: Wayne Hussey Interviewed

On the eve of a UK tour Wayne Hussey talks to Ben Graham about his career with The Mission, Sisters of Mercy and Dead or Alive

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 4

Baker's Dozen

A Spoon Baker’s Dozen: The Texan Connections Of Julian Cope

As Spoon hit the UK their vocalist and founder Britt Daniel guides Charles Ubaghs through his 13 favourite albums, from Public Enemy to Miles Davis, the raw emotion of Cat Power and strange idol Julian Cope

Baker's Dozen

All In It: British Sea Power’s Scott Wilkinson On His Favourite LPs

Ahead of British Sea Power's soundtracking of Polish animation at the Barbican as part of Kinoteka Film Festival and the release of new album Let The Dancers Inherit The Party, vocalist Scott Wilkinson guides Richard Foster through his favourite albums, from War Of The Worlds to Mighty Sparrow, Pavement and more. Photo by Mayumi Hirata