My first experience of Julian was on the BBC Radio
2 'tron documentary I made available to the list a while back. After only
hearing the 10 or so seconds of 'Land of fear' I tried to find out what album it
was on.
As look would have it while I was in the town
centre looking for it, the local theatre had posters up advertising his show.
The poster advertised "floresant Mellotrons", so guess what I did? I
booked.
Having only know about Julian as somebody who used
to be in Teardrop Explodes, I had no idea what to expect.
Pride of place on stage, and with an Apple Mac
monitor sat on top of it, was what I'd come to see. Though I was expecting a
painted 'tron, not day glow paper stappled onto it!!!!!!!!!!
As I say, not knowing Julian from God at the time,
I didn't know if he was going to play the song or not.
Then he introduced the 'tron as one of the first
samplers, stood infront of it and for minuets I was in Heaven.
It was the most pure thing I'd ever seen. Seen him
twice since. The guy is a true God.
Glenn