Julian Cope

"Promo shot of Julian Cope wielding the doubleneck Firebird / Thunderbird for his CORNUCOPEA festival at the South bank Centre, April 2000." - Fly Guitars.

Julian is shown here kicking his feet up on an orange Mellotron M400. The image comes from this article from The Wire.

Cope can be seen playing a Fender Jazz Bass at :58 in the music video for "When I Dream".

Cope can be seen playing a 12 String ES-335 at :14 in this performance of "The Culture Bunker" by The Teardrop Explodes.

Cope can be seen playing a Fender Villager 12 String in this photo.

While record industry giants grappled over the Cope contract, the man himself carried on writing new material. Most of the songs themselves started in Julian's music room, at home in Tamworth, either on a Casio MT40, his Gibson 335/12, (strung as a 9 string, with high notes doubled), or his newish Hohner Clavinet.

"I wrote a whole load of stuff on that — the clavinet sound makes you use rhythms differently. I also used my Fender bass piano, like the one The Doors had. That changes bass lines — you use a lot more thirds and fifths.

"I stick everything through my Vox AC30, and record it onto a Pro Walkman. I sing while playing, then play the tape back through a ghetto blaster, recording it onto the Walkman again with an overdub on top. After that I have to go into a studio. I'm still not technically minded enough to record on portastudios and things, either I overload it to fuck, or under-record, and it sounds so wimpy. With a portastudio you spend ages getting these wonderful sounds, and a lot of it sounds very antiseptic if you're not very good..."