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Thanks to everyone for your patience. It's taken me a few weeks to get it together following the Christmas and New Year festivities. More updates coming later today, I promise.

I found this Julian autograph while going through some old stuff this week. I got this at a Cope gig in Lancaster. This was on the "World Shut Your Mouth" tour, his first tour following the demise of the Teardrops. It was supposed to be at the University, but got moved to a venue in central Lancaster called The Sugarmill because tickets weren't selling too well. He was absolutely brilliant as I recall. I gave him a lump of dope and he autographed my hanky. Fair's fair.

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Julian Cope - Repossessed

Long time visitors to Castles in Space and my previous blog, Spinster's Rock will know that I am a massive Cope head.

While going through some old photos earlier this week, I found a set of pictures I had taken at a Cope book signing/spoken word gig in support of the second volume of his autobiography, "Repossessed". I'm placing this around Winter 1999.

It was a fantastic occasion with Cope sporting his Odin makeup and espousing his Odinist/Shaman/Rock'n'Roller hypothesis (complicated, but basically, he's all three).

The space was small, being the basement of a Charing Cross Road bookstore in central London. There was a tiny crowd and so I was able to get within stalking distance of the great man. I also got him to sign a couple of copies of the book afterwards, natch. One of them to my daughter, who was a toddler at the time and will one day treasure this historic artifact. Probably.

Click the thumbnail below to see all the pictures.

Julian Cope - Repossessed