Julian Cope Interview Last Resort 23/01/87

[@JasmineSurrealVideos]

He's a very attractive man, odd, angular and slightly gothic, plays with toy cars and wears a turtle shell, and Northern, and makes amazing music. All making him eminently shaggable.

[@newsles2]

He's originally from Warwickshire I thought, but then his family moved to the NW.

[@gerrad1973]

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[@lucienlodger]

just getting into cope, and he brings me so much comfort. cant quite place why.

[@elberno4243]

I can only assume Jonathan had no idea who he was interviewing. It reminds me of Marshall Mathers & Stephen Colbert, but unstaged

[@Johnconno]

This is on a par with Chomsky debating Foucault.

[@plev10]

Fucking Wittgenstein vs. Neitzche!

[@garywood5882]

Lorraine Chase and Pythagoras

[@Johnconno]

Mark E Smith and Bono!

[@jiggersotoole7823]

@@plev10 that would be good

[@jiggersotoole7823]

spike milligan interviewing mark e smith

[@philipcurnow7990]

Cope is still watchable and listenable. Ross is just dated.

[@579enact]

Awww, I feel really sorry for Julian in this interview, I mean, having to play along with all this nonsense. The interviewer, although not a complete arse, sets it up as a kind of "let's all have a laugh at this weirdo" thing, and although Julian readily admits that he can be a bit of a plonker at times, he's a really great musician but he has no choice here but to go along with it and send himself up. It's always the way when you're a bit on the outskirts of the mainstream. What a crappy business it is to be in popular music. Never mind, Jules's music stands up for itself and 'Fried' is a very beautiful album, in fact it's so 'together' that I can only surmise that JC deliberately did the sleeve art in such a way as to detract the laughing herd away from it. Like, "here's the record sleeve - get past that, if you have a brain, and if you don't then I don't want you to buy it anyway".

[@mikejames6664]

You're right about the last bit, but Julian enjoyed this interview; he said so in his autobiography "Repossessed". You should check out his interview at the Earls Court Toy Fair in 1991 (on KZbin) where he talks about his collection of Barbie dolls.

[@arlingtonhynes]

It seemed to me that Ross genuinely liked him and they got along pretty well, considering how high Cope seems to be. When Cope put his feet on Ross’s desk, Woss pwayed wight awong.

[@spacemant4482]

well said

[@SamLowryDZ-015]

Proof if you were ever in doubt that Ross has always been a knob

[@khkartc]

Still in his all-acid-all-the-time phase.

[@themelted4614]

Smarmy smug Ross . Outcooled by cope

[@lamper2]

His peak(thanks to Don Ross Skinner!) was LIVE AT THE RITZ-oddly enough on MTV

[@gerrad1973]

His Label must have had some deal/Influence at MTV as a lot of his singles got a lot of airplay on there when I was younger and he wasn’t anywhere near as ‘big’ as the other artists getting a much airplay

[@appealinbanana]

Grew up with Johnafan Woss. Never really rated him. 2023 ‘The Masked Singer’ - yeah, I was right.

[@kpec3]

Really nice piece. An interview that is. I'm not in the studio with Cope, if that's what you're asking, you dirty hoodlum!😊

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Awkward. Poor Julian.

[@garywood5882]

He loved the Corgi model of the Porsche Carrera 6 ... remember where you saw it first ...

[@MrHoefnix]

Smug self-satisfied Jonathan Ross.

[@gaskellr44]

J R still learning his craft here. Can tell he is nervous as J C comes over quite unpredictable.

[@ROCKYBLUEDOGS]

Johnathon doing his best to take the pisss.

[@d.d.9498]

It's not remotely funny. Who would be laughing?