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seven-seas-digest      Thursday, October 12 2000      Volume 05 : Number 334




Ye Olde Seven-Seas Digest and Gazzette

  seven-seas Julian Cope is not Dead            [Mark_Silver@CYPHERGROUP.COM]
  seven-seas Julian Cope - Guardian             [Mark_Silver@CYPHERGROUP.COM]
  Re: seven-seas Julian Cope is not Dead   [Anne Gleeson <anneg68@yahoo.com>]
  seven-seas OT: Free Barfly Sessions (incl. JJ72)  ["Rajesh Patel" <r.patel]

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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:10:03 +0100
From: Mark_Silver@CYPHERGROUP.COM
Subject: seven-seas Julian Cope is not Dead

This is part of an email I sent to someone about seeing Julian Cope on
Monday night. I just didn't know what to make of it or what to say. I have
to say I really enjoyed it, so don't take it too negatively. Just ask me
for any more details, but it was a pretty unique event:


Neil made a bad mistake. His girlfriend bought him a ticket for his
birthday, and a spare one for me. He decided she should use it. She isn't a
Julian fan at all. Poor girl was nearly in tears. She had to go and stand
in the corridor after about 2 and a half hours.

Thing is, Julian cancelled the interval.

The whole evening was very bizarre. I'm only just beginning to form words
to describe it. But it's probably everything you think a Julian show is
going to be (i.e. unpredictable) with Donald Ross Skinner, the boots, the
flourescent mellotron, the humour, the self-obsession and attention
seeking.

The show could be summed up by all these words in equal amounts:

Incredible, majestic, boring, naff, funny, entertaining, arsey.

It didn't help much that it lasted for about 3 hours. We had to leave at
10:30 (at a point where Julian was lying on the floor faced-down, staring
at the audience chanting something).

The man is brilliant and he amazes me with his wit, humour, charm, and also
musically it was great most of the time. Donneye was bloody marvellous, but
I think it lasted way too long and, after about two hours he really started
losing the plot (around about the time the audience were losing theirs).

Good in moderation.

Neil says he's never gonna see him again.


M






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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:34:34 +0100
From: Mark_Silver@CYPHERGROUP.COM
Subject: seven-seas Julian Cope - Guardian

Here's the Guardian review of Julian Cope at Leeds City Varieties if it
interests anyone.

M


Julian Cope has nothing to promote. No new book; there hasn't been a new
album for four years. He's touring, he tells us, because people at his
sporadic book-signing sessions said he should. On one hand, this sums up
the eco-warrior author's now seemingly irreversable marginalisation as a
pop performer. But almost three marvellous hours in his company demonstrate
that Cope's unlikely success is something far more cherishable.

He doesn't even have a record company, never mind kowtow to one, but
creates an intimate, magical antidote to rock's current sterile, corporate
excesses. Cope has spent the past 20 years trying to convince us that he's
weird, but seems to have finally accepted that he's just extremely funny.

This year's model wears stack heel boots (which render him 8ft tall),
ladies tights, a camouflage jacket, make-up and about three tons of matted
hair. With his neck dyed blue, he looks like neanderthal man reincarnated
as a larger than life glam rocker. His appearance may well render this show
unsuitable for small children (who would certainly run away), but at least
it's impossible to look elsewhere.

Half the show is aided by Donald Ross Skinner on bass/keys and normal
haircut; the rest is just Cope, a guitar, a synthesised drone and wit. The
stripped-down, ghostly voices lean towards Cope's Fried period, and there
are few hits - but plenty of visits to the back catalogue's political wing.

Like Frank Zappa, Cope appears to have realised that the best way to
deliver a serious message is with humour. Promised Land, he says, was
designed to get rid of Thatcher. "It didn't work," he sighs. "I needed two
or three other songs."

Sunspots is mauled, Me Singing is spellbinding, but there aren't any new
songs. Three years in the making, his Citizen Caned album remains
uncompleted. However, for the moment it is enough for Cope to remind us
that he "rocks" (as he puts it). Thus, for Sleeping Gas, he crawls
Iggy-like on his belly, clambers over the theatre's seats, and finally
stands precariously aloft on two chairs. "I'll be back next time with
bigger boots!" he howls. And he probably will.






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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:32:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Anne Gleeson <anneg68@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: seven-seas Julian Cope is not Dead

I would give anything to have seen this, actually.

:)

Anne

- --- Mark_Silver@CYPHERGROUP.COM wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> This is part of an email I sent to someone about
> seeing Julian Cope on
> Monday night. I just didn't know what to make of it
> or what to say. I have
> to say I really enjoyed it, so don't take it too
> negatively. Just ask me
> for any more details, but it was a pretty unique
> event:
> 
> 
> Neil made a bad mistake. His girlfriend bought him a
> ticket for his
> birthday, and a spare one for me. He decided she
> should use it. She isn't a
> Julian fan at all. Poor girl was nearly in tears.
> She had to go and stand
> in the corridor after about 2 and a half hours.
> 
> Thing is, Julian cancelled the interval.
> 
> The whole evening was very bizarre. I'm only just
> beginning to form words
> to describe it. But it's probably everything you
> think a Julian show is
> going to be (i.e. unpredictable) with Donald Ross
> Skinner, the boots, the
> flourescent mellotron, the humour, the
> self-obsession and attention
> seeking.
> 
> The show could be summed up by all these words in
> equal amounts:
> 
> Incredible, majestic, boring, naff, funny,
> entertaining, arsey.
> 
> It didn't help much that it lasted for about 3
> hours. We had to leave at
> 10:30 (at a point where Julian was lying on the
> floor faced-down, staring
> at the audience chanting something).
> 
> The man is brilliant and he amazes me with his wit,
> humour, charm, and also
> musically it was great most of the time. Donneye was
> bloody marvellous, but
> I think it lasted way too long and, after about two
> hours he really started
> losing the plot (around about the time the audience
> were losing theirs).
> 
> Good in moderation.
> 
> Neil says he's never gonna see him again.
> 
> 
> M
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:35:12 +0100
From: "Rajesh Patel" <r.patel@virgin.net>
Subject: seven-seas OT: Free Barfly Sessions (incl. JJ72)

Following the Channel 4 series the Barfly Sessions, Channelfly has 
compiled a CD full of great music featured on the show or of a 
similar ilk.  Audio tracks include JJ72, Action Spectacular, the 
delgados, Elbow and Soulwax.  The CD rom bit has loads more music and 
information on the bands.  To get hold of a copy go to 
www.channelfly.com and fill in the online form.





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