From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #430 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Monday, July 21 2008 Volume 10 : Number 430 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] githead review ["Mileta Okiljevic" ] [idealcopy] Julian Cope at Latitude ["Keith" ] [idealcopy] elektrolad remix on iTunes - Ionic Vision - Sleep [elektrola] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:13:00 +0200 From: "Mileta Okiljevic" Subject: [idealcopy] githead review http://habloennui.blogspot.com/2008/07/githead-art-pop-previously-unpublished .html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:30:37 +0100 From: "Keith" Subject: [idealcopy] Julian Cope at Latitude As most of you will no doubt know, I'm rather fond of a certain British eccentric who goes by the name of Julian Cope. Anyway, he played the Latitude festival this weekend. I've seen him loads of times, but I really do wish I'd caught this one. There's a review from the Uncut website below, whilst one Cope regular said "it even left a small group of us hardcore fans, who thought we'd seen Cope do it all before, speechless... It was extraordinary!" The extraordinary spectacle of Julian Cope 2008-07-18 21:26:18 Let's start at the end. Julian Cope is standing onstage in the Uncut Arena. The power has just been pulled on him for over-running. He has started half an hour late after a doomed attempt at soundchecking, played two newish songs and a bizarre medley of some old songs, sacrificed a guitar to the goddess, challenged God, Jehovah and Allah to a fight, and ended by announcing, "Children, tell your grandchildren that people like me once walked the earth." No wonder, I suppose, that he hasn't played a festival in years. Cope is tonight unveiling a new configuration of his sound. The band might feature old hands like Donald Ross Skinner and Holy McGrail, but initially, the musicians are playing three acoustic guitars, a drumkit, a marching band bass drum, and two Mellotrons. The repetitive, hypnotic jangles and drones are as dumb and gonzoid as the glam metal he's been playing live these past few years, but somehow more intense and witchy. The band, by the way, mostly look like '80s Budgie roadies; a delightfully nuanced detail. Anyway, after a couple of these songs, they reorganise slightly for a brilliant drone-funk version of The Teardrop Explodes' "Sleeping Gas", with Cope leading the way bullishly on bass. After about ten minutes, he smashes his bass, sacrifices it the gods (I am paraphrasing here), goes into some absorbingly garbled rant about religion, playing with his brother and some other stuff. By now, the band are pulsing barely audibly, and Cope is hanging off his ancient climbing frame of a mic stand and appearing to start "Reynard The Fox". This tapers out into another rant and, fantastically, he starts mimicking the crowd by aggressively heckling himself. Appearing to relent, he decides to play "Pristeen", when the band lose power, and he's left proclaiming his own legend to a half-cheering, half-baffled crowd. I loved it of course, not least because while Cope often talks about his music being necessarily confrontational, he rarely takes that music to an audience that isn't immensely tolerant of his digressions. There's a tension here that illuminates the mythological clowning, and an imagination to the rearranged music - even in that vast Jim Morrison-esque breakdown - which elevates it even further. But of course I might be in the minority thinking that. John Mulvey ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:17:28 +0100 From: "Keith" Subject: [idealcopy] wire on marc riley On the off-chance that there are folk here who don't pop over to PF forum, someone posted the below. Just listened to the playback of Marc Riley's 6music show from Thursday (Jul 17). After playing Perspex Icon, Marc revealed he'd been talking to Colin Newman and they've arranged for Wire to do a live session on the show on September 2. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:41:53 -0700 (PDT) From: elektrolad Subject: [idealcopy] elektrolad remix on iTunes - Ionic Vision - Sleep The track I did for Ionic Vision. http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=285170891&id=285170650&s=143441 __________________________________________________________ Not happy with your email address?. Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #430 ********************************