That's it, "Copendium" the 700-page treatise on music by Julian Cope is done. I thought PostPunkSampler was the finale but there is a PostPunkSampler2 and there are a few bands I know in that 26 extra songs but they are all part of my collection so it is an excuse to include "Ambition" from Vic Goddard's Subway Sect.
Next up is "Creation Stories" by Alan McGee (that's the record label, not religion or history)
Cope's writing at times goes absolutely but entertainingly mad by describing one band by roping in three, four or five others.
"It's Donovan being Nick Drake singing 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun' down a storm drain, as recorded as an out-take from the more outré moments on Nico's Chelsea Girls. Got me?"
The book is printed on thick paper so it is a fairly hefty tome.
I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est La Vie.
The music is "Ambition" by Subway Sect
Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories
I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:
- Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
- The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
- Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
- The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
- An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
- Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
- The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
- Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer and this is her Instagram
