{"id":6901,"date":"2015-05-14T10:39:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T17:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2015-05-14T10:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T17:40:17","slug":"julian-cope-ian-mcculloch-in-1978-louie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=6901","title":{"rendered":"Julian Cope &#038; Ian McCulloch in 1978 &#8211; LOUIE of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rare-Ian_McCulloch-tape.jpg\" alt=\"rare-Ian_McCulloch-tape\" width=\"459\" height=\"335\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rare-Ian_McCulloch-tape.jpg 459w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rare-Ian_McCulloch-tape-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rare-Ian_McCulloch-tape-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rare-Ian_McCulloch-tape-400x291.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another LOUIE LOUIE rarity discovered on YouTube:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the only copy of a recording of a band called &#8220;<strong>Uh?<\/strong>&#8221; which consisted of <strong>Julian Cope<\/strong> (vocals on this track), before he formed The <strong>Teardrop Explodes<\/strong>, and <strong>Ian McCulloch<\/strong> (playing a melodica), before he formed <strong>Echo and the Bunnymen<\/strong>, along with other band members (<strong>Dave Pickett<\/strong>, drums) and with former <strong>Spitfire Boys&#8217; Pete Griffiths<\/strong> also onstage that day..<\/p>\n<p>The gig was at Kirklands Wine Bar in Liverpool in July, 1978, and these two tracks are mentioned in Julian Cope&#8217;s book Head-On but this is the first time they&#8217;ve been publicly heard since then. Uh? were supporting another Liverpool band, <strong>Crash Course<\/strong>, that day. <\/p>\n<p>This recording is of &#8216;Louie Louie&#8217; and a snippet of &#8216;Jefferson Davis&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Reid<\/strong> owns the copyright to the sound recording and has consented to it being uploaded onto You Tube.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright attributions and descriptions of the photos used in this video can be found in the original article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombedoutpunk.com\">http:\/\/www.bombedoutpunk.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/swQ0_OHEaJw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/swQ0_OHEaJw\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/swQ0_OHEaJw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombedoutpunk.com\/history\/world-exclusive-audio-a-1978-julian-cope-ian-mcculloch-gig-which-preceded-the-teardrop-explodes-and-echo-the-bunnymen\/\">http:\/\/www.bombedoutpunk.com\/history\/world-exclusive-audio-a-1978-julian-cope-ian-mcculloch-gig-which-preceded-the-teardrop-explodes-and-echo-the-bunnymen\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another LOUIE LOUIE rarity discovered on YouTube: This is the only copy of a recording of a band called &#8220;Uh?&#8221; which consisted of Julian Cope (vocals on this track), before he formed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,52,33,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-international","category-louie-of-week","category-new-versions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6909,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions\/6909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}