BRIGHTON & READING SHOWS + LONDON FOR JULIAN COPE'S BOOK LAUNCH

It's October. It's turning cold. Christ. The long johns are out. I'm getting obsessed with heat. Considering inventing a body suit that works like an electric blanket. Powered by a car battery kept in a rucksack slung over my back. Still in the blueprint stage on that one.

OK, here's the smoke - we're in Brighton next week, cranking some fuzz with some great bands, CARLTON MELTON and JUNGFRAU, then at the end of the month we're playing with GOOD THROB and HUNGER at the start of their tour. They're two of my favourite UK bands at the moment so check out the tour if you can. Last time I saw them either of them was the Marginal Music all dayer and they were both rattling skulls. Serious power. You know what I mean. I think GOOD THROB might even be playing some new tunes too, which will be a real treat. That one's in Reading, benefit house party show, with the donations going to Oxfam. 26th October.

OK, here's the flamer - we're playing Julian Cope's book launch in London. November 8th instore at Rough Trade East. Black metal DJ set, youtube clips, all that visual and not to mention the tall chat. Shit, maybe we'll even bust out that cover of OUTTA MY MIND ON DOPE N' SPEED if we wanna really get up. Tear the peaked leather caps/ey-vee-ay-tour shades out of our bumbags and that's about right. It's nice to be asked. I don't know if you've read JAPROCKSAMPLER or KRAUTROCKSAMPLER but maybe you should. I've gotten into a lot of bands through those books & various arch-drude recommendations. You ever read his words on RANDY HOLDEN? I've been listening to POPULATION II and tried to find out a bit more about him via the internet search engine machine. What comes up but a Julian Cope article, extolling his virtues with some heavy poetry. I got an information buzz. The man has a hot brain. What else explains the cap?

Here's yr blurb for the Cope gig anyway. Peace out, cruise it. See you there maybe.

An Expedition into the Rock 'n' Roll Underwerld with Julian Cope, including live set, DJ set, and film screening. Julian Cope and Lee Brackstone, author and patron, discuss the worldview of his new book COPENDIUM, a feast of obscure and neglected masterworks which takes energy, originality and heaviness as its bearings. The Black Sheep's Fat Paul presents Blakk Metal, a half-hour set in the inimitable style of Fat Paul's recent album for Fuck Off & Di. Workin' Man Noise Unit - Reading's hardest-working combo - play a live set of tinnitus-inducing tantrum rock. Julian returns to present Copendium as revealed through YouTube. We conclude with a screening of Fido's Blues - 'awesome', wrote Jon Savage, upon viewing this highly disorientating Black Sheep road movie.