Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

I do wonder if Spectrum & Silver Apples would have been better?

I would have gone to see SA regardless, but after 10 or 11 earth pounds (plus booking fee/printing off your own ticket on own paper fee) + petrol driving up from darkest Worcestershire, the addition of Pram (who last time I saw them were fantastic) was uber-appealing.

There were plenty of folk who liked SA - which is great if it works for them. I hate to impose my negative view on them, but was confounded by some of their reaction. My co-gigger couldn't stop laughing and hard to think of as bad a gig. The closest I could get was the Tin Machine II/2 set gig on one of the worst days ever...

Something Warp was played before - either Selected Ambient Works 2 or Boards of Canada...juxatposed with SA it was very telling. Also, playing a tribute film telling us how great SA were and then one surviving member demonstrating how bad they can be didn't work...still, the venue is great and has the finest beer/ladies known to humanity....

Always good to support folk and some reformed bands I've seen have been great - TG, PIL, AMC, Stooges, Thorr's Hammer, Harmonia, Magazine - and I am open to what is good. But if Graham Fellows feels like doing a hippy-electronic pioneer style character...

If yr digging Pussy Galore, this may not work - am loving Exile, Dial M, and Historica... at mo