Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

You can easily see how it would upset a fan from Belfast, though, right?People who live there day-in, day-out, who are suddenly told that what's good for them just doesn't cut it for can't Cope.

Personally, I think the reason for his excuse is hooey. I cancel appointments fairly often out of fits of artistic pique, or because for whatever reason I'm just not feeling up to seeing anyone that day and putting on a sharp and entertaining front. I'll usually pluck a half-baked excuse out of the air to make myself seem a bit less of a misery-guts. A hunch tells me Cope's been through that same mental process a fair few times in his career.