Julian Cope Radio 6 Show

Julian stood in for Iggy on the Friday night BBC Radio 6 spot, and what a great and eclectic mix of garage rawk it was. I recon the Arch-Drude should be given  a  regular weekly spot,
Like having Peel around again fer a short while.

Listen to the show here.

Or save fer later .... Radio-Show

Track list

Amon Duul - Shattering & Fading (Intro)
13th Floor Elevators - Never Another
The Black Diamonds - I Need, Love, Want You
The Helpful Soul - Peace For Love
Can - Uphill
The Wig - Crackin' Up
The Craig - I Must Be Mad
The Misunderstood - Children Of The Sun
Caretakers Of Deception - Cuttin Grass
The Litter - Blue Ice
The Rationals - Guitar Army
MC5 - Looking At You (The Square 45 Version)
Churchmice - Babe, We're Not Part Of Society
David Peel And The Lower East Side  -Mother, Where Is My Father?
The So - A Certain Kind (feat, Machine)
The Savage Rose - A Trail In Our Native Town
Country Joe And The Fish - Flying High
The Zombies - Butcher's Tale
The Jacks - Marianne
Kim Fowley - Up
Amon Duul - Shattering & Fading
Kim Fowley - Caught In The Middle
Kim, Fowley - Down
The Music Machine - Dark White
The Electric Prunes - You Never Had It Bettter
The Red Crayola - Hurricane Fighter Plane
Cromagnon - Caledonia
Silver Apples - You & I
Blue Cheer - Second Time Around
Love - Love Is More Than Words (Or Better Late Than Never)

Julian Cope / Black Sheep Radio Shows.

In light of his recent 'Tue'sday Night, Wodensday' Morning web broadcast, here it is in case you didn't hear it and would like to. Packed full of the best in out there tunes, it's a pretty enjoyable few hours.
I've included an earlier show here too. Had to split it into four files as there are quite a few hours of radio here.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Playlist for the last TNWM radio show ...

1st Hour.
Mountain Of Skulls Blues .... Working Man Moise Unit
Lowborn .... GR
Ganoderma Lucidum .... Botanist
Nazi Popes Fuck Off .... Black Sheep
Ode To The Bad People .... Speed Glue & Shinki
Grave Chyld .... Morbid Wizard
Easy .... Trumpets Of Jericho
Linda .... Sleepers
Yaca .... Aedi
Hermit .... Anthroprophh
Before Your Eyes .... Transmontane
Midnight Sky .... Can
Not Bite .... Red Resistor

2nd Hour.
Joey Ramone Is Dead .... Swastika Girls
Rock 'n' Roll .... Detroit
Sweat It Out .... Working Man Noise Unit
Lost on The Ocean .... Tractor
Stoned Out Of My Mind .... Speed Glue & Shinki
Quoth Azalea .... Botanist
Shubunkin .... Tractor
Pulsaang .... Trumpets Of Jericho
Wail Of Summer .... Fields Of The Nephilim

3rd Hour.
Graublau .... Can
Kinnel Tommy .... Ed Banger
Molecules .... Transmontane
Keep It Cool .... Speed Glue & Shinki
Sleepwalker .... Working Man Noise Unit
Field Of Hours .... Obsessed
The Presence .... Crispy Ambulance
Mr. Walking Drugstore Man .... Speed Glue & Shinki

4th Hour.
Side One, Track One .... Itsutsu no Akai Fusen
Ende .... Anthroprophh
Six Days .... Sujo
Little Girl In Yellow ....Tractor
Not I .... Lucifer N.Y.C.

Concert Climax - Saint Julian Cope Live in Hearing of The Motherfucker

Don't know much about this alleged 'rare Italian' 2006 release from Julian Cope. Part of it is live, part studio recordings. Contains an OK cover of 13th Floor Elevators - 'Easter Everywhere' and a few hard to find tracks. to me it seems a bit of a  cobbled together affair, but it has it's moments. Not his most outstanding release that's for sure, but for those Cope completists, I guess it's one to track down.

Cope fan site Trampoline has this to say about the release...

"Described by Head Heritage as: "This limited edition Italian-only release purports to be recorded live at 2005's Urbino Festival, though in truth it also includes unreleased studio sessions and four brand new songs including the 11-minute epic 'How the West Was Lost' and the Skynyrd-inspired heavy ballad 'Lost Generation'."

 

If this is your bag, have a listen Here.

Julian Cope Live - Camden Cumming 16th February 2006

In the interest of actually posting at least one thing this month, I've trawled the archive for another live Julian Cope set. This is from the heart of his 'metal' phase several years ago, but don't let that put you off, as it's a pretty entertaining show, with a great career spanning tracklist. Not a bad recording, sound wise either.

This was another of those Head Heritage forum swaps that the generous folk in those parts are won't to do, and the artwork for this one is by Black Sheep's very own Common Era if I'm not mistaken.

If you think this may be your kind of thang, you can listen to Disc 1 Here and Disc 2 Here

The Sons Of T C Lethbridge - A Giant

First released in 2003, this is a great double disc CD with accompanying booklet is a homage to the great paranormal investigator T.C. Lethbridge. Disc one is a great Kraut/Psych informed rock out on the themes and titles explored in T.C Lethbridge's books, whilst the second CD is a spoken word biography of Lethbridge by another great paranormal researcher Colin Wilson. Wilson highlights the breakthroughs and most prominent research of Lethbridge's later years, with some fascinating insights and asides, all delivered with a warm, friendly tone that anyone who has heard him speak on radio or TV (sadly, less so now) will recognise at once.

T.C. Lethbridge, explorer, archaeologist and paranormal researcher

Lethbridge started his career as an archaeologist, eventually becoming keeper of Anglo Saxon Antiquities at Cambridge Museum, remaining there until 1957 when he bored with what he called "The academic trade unionism" of his profession. Moving to 'Hole House' in  Branscombe, Devon in 1961 kick-started what many consider his more interesting passion 'parapsychology. From 1961-71 (the year of his death) he produced no less than 16 books on the subject, ranging from witches, ghosts and ghouls and several on dowsing with pendulum's.


The Son's of T.C Lethbridge first live appearance was at Julian Cope's 'Rome Wasn't Burnt In A Day' event at Hammersmith Lyric which ran from October 30th - November 1st 2003.
Featuring members of Spiritualized, Dogntank and Julian Cope Group it is I feel an unsung classic of out-there-ness, all sweetly packages in a dayglo cover.
Listen  Here  And Here

I've had 'A Giant' for some years now and it always seems to get dragged out as Autumn draws near. There's a melancholy to those Kraut inspired wig outs that seem to fit the season admirably.

Julian Cope - Royal Festival Hall - 21 01 2005

Found another great quality Cope gig from 2005. There were 2 sets, one a little shorter than the other, but both well worth your time for a listen. Unfortunately a couple of the longer tracks refuse to extract on the second disc. Never mind, it's all good!  I'll post what I've got for now and try and rectify that second set later.

Part one is Here
And part two is Here

Julian Cope - Live Liverpool Uni 27th October 2003

Here's a great gig from 2003 from the Copester, pretty good sound quality for an audience recording.
Nice mix of Braindonor material and earlier stuff. The tracks from 'St. Julian' get a full metal overhaul which works surprisingly well considering it was his great short haired pop comeback. There's also one track, 'Shrine Of The Black Youth' from the 'Rome Wasn't Burned In A Day' Tour CD. All in all, one of the better Cope gigs I've been to.I've split the concert into 2 discs and edited it for audience noise, have a listen  Here.