All portraits by Maria Jefferis In the first of our subscriber-exclusive Low Culture essays, Adelle Stripe opens her battered copy of Julian Cope's The Modern Antiquarian and argues that this guide to ...

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 ...

Neolithic space minstrel, world authority on the use of the Mellotron 1959-73 – it’s easy to forget that Julian Cope was once famous for his easy way with a pop hook. Split over two cds ...

Julian Cope has arguably had one of the strangest, most varied careers in rock’n’roll (and academia, as an expert in ancient history), and while his experimental output in recent years has ...