#music #postpunk #hartlepool:Liver big as Hartlepool by Julian Cope.
And so it came to pass … it appears that it was on the 7th of May 1979 - just before my 17th birthday - that I went to Middlesbrough Rock Garden to see the acoustic punk troubadour Patrick Fitzgerald supported by the punk rock band The Wall, from Sunderland, and The Teardrop Explodes, from Liverpool, singer Julian Cope. As I remember, it was a bright sunny day outside the dingy music venue and quite appropriately, it was the bottom of the bill The Teardrop Explodes who stood out. I saw them again later that year at the Leeds Futurama, and they really were terrific. And I saw them at least once more, when they were well on their way to deserved commercial success. Since then, Julian Cope has had a very successful solo career, though he never launched DanceMong Records, as he once threateaned. Which is probablay for the best,
It now appears that Julian Cope has recorded a song that mentions my home town, Hartlepool, And it’s really good. And here it is.