Black Sheep (anarcho-folk band)
| Black Sheep | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Avebury, Wiltshire, England. |
| Genres | Anarcho-folk, alt.folk, folk punk, psychedelic folk |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Labels | Invada, Fuck Off and Di. |
| Associated acts | Julian Cope, Brain Donor, Queen Elizabeth, Universal Panzies, Machineyfied. |
| Members |
Julian Cope Holy McGrail Michael O'Sullivan Acoustika Christophe F. David Wrench Big Nige Vybik Jon Antony Hodgkinson (Antronhy) Fat Paul Common Era Hebbs Randy Apostle |
Black Sheep are an English anarcho-folk band formed by singer/songwriter and counter-cultural activist Julian Cope. They are the most recent of Cope's ongoing side projects, which include Brain Donor and Queen Elizabeth.
The origins of Black Sheep lie in Julian Cope’s 2008 solo album Black Sheep, for which he assembled a varied group of contributing musicians both from his longstanding talent pool and from more recent associates. Black Sheep was a predominantly acoustic project, dominated by Cope’s vocals and Mellotron playing and by varied contributions mainly played on acoustic guitars and large bass drums. Besides Cope (who also played guitars, bass guitar, synthesizer and bass drum), the album featured long-term Cope sidemen Patrick "Holy" McGrail (synthesizer) and Doggen (guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, drums and backing vocals - also of Spiritualized), plus acoustic guitarists/singers/drum beaters Michael O'Sullivan and Ady "Acoustika" Fletcher. The album also credited a "blasphemous movie division" run by "Big Nige", and a "law council" featuring McGrail, Big Nige, and "Vybik Jon".
On 27 October 2008 Cope and various Black Sheep related musicians began the "Joe Strummer Memorial Busking Tour", a 3-day-long busking tour of UK cultural centres as defined by Cope. These included several locations in London (the statues of Emily Pankhurst, Winston Churchill and Thomas Carlyle; the Wat Tyler memorial on Blackheath Common; and Karl Marx's grave in Highgate Cemetery), the Eddie Cochran memorial in Chippenham, the site of the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, the King's Standing and Swanborough Tump barrows and Carl Jung's statue in Liverpool.
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