Four hundred and thirty pages through "Copendium" the 700-page treatise on music by Julian Cope, and we are finally into this Millenium. It is the final decade in this book that goes up to 2010, I have bought three albums so far based on what I have read. I wrote about it in this Vocal Post
Since the blog became about the books I am reading, this has been the most commented book, and it will be finished this month.
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 very 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 "The Way Down" by Comets On Fire
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