Julian Cope

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

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.