“A woman who described herself as A little bit Bridget, a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex And The City and chose to call her baby boy Fred as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert.”
So… what do we know about Julian?
skyburstgandalf
The Julian Day Number (JDN) is the integer assigned to a whole solar day in the Julian day count starting from noon Greenwich Mean Time, with Julian day number 0 assigned to the day starting at noon on January 1, 4713 BC, proleptic Julian calendar (November 24, 4714 BC, in the proleptic Gregorian calendar).
9 July 2015
BRUMBISCUIT
Lived in Norwich…
9 July 2015
Bobby SVARC
Julian was an ardent supporter of Swindon Town Football Club and at times an arch critic of the team.
9 July 2015
THIS LEADEN PAUL
In his autobiography Some You Win, published in 1998, he revealed a rift with Peter O’Sullevan, his long-time colleague at the BBC, as well as saying that he had a strained relationship with Clare Balding.
9 July 2015
EXXO
Handy when it comes to Venn diagrams showing the interface between armchair Leicester City fans and Booker Prize Guys. Pearson out!!
9 July 2015
POP-TART MARK
Wikipdeia tells me his recording debut was with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1976 on their track “Fuck Off”.
After such an auspicious start it was all downhill from there to the infamous Jam Sketches.
I can vouch from bitter personal experience that agreeing to tolerate an outing to see his Big Band on one of their stately-homes-and-picnic-baskets tours will lead in quick succession to drunkenness, disharmony, fisticuffs, class war, police cars, etc.
9 July 2015
peter mcornithologist
Julian Joachim played for Leicester. Faster than a speeding bullet. Julian Dicks played for West Ham and Liverpool. As crazy as Razor Ruddock?
9 July 2015
gok wan acolyte
Saltwater wells in his eyes, apparently, when he thinks of environmental disasters
9 July 2015
bobby svarc
Joan Collins Fan Club and self confessed player of the pink oboe
9 July 2015
Warden Hodges
One of the crucial three. Saw Cope twice , first show electric with loads of Teardrop songs, second a bland acoustic outing, not so good.
10 July 2015
toastkid
The one time i saw Cope he did the best format for a gig that i’ve ever seen.
3 sets:
1st set with the full band, doing all the new stuff: get it out the way.
2nd set, solo acoustic set: spellbinding.
3rd set: full band back on for non-stop crowd pleasers.
10 July 2015
BRUMBISCUIT
Elvis Costello, please take note…
10 July 2015
Eric olthwaite
I’m not sure what your post means exactly Brumbiscuit, but, to briefly continue this tangent (related to Toastkid’s post)……one of the best performances I ever saw at Glastonbury was Elvis Costello. He did a full solo acoustic set. At the end, he swapped his acoustic guitar for an electric, said something like “now I’ll do a rowdy one” and hit a chord. The curtain behind him dropped, the lights blazed, and there were the Attractions, tearing into I Hope You’re Happy Now. A tear of joy fell from my eye. A further hour of EC and the Attractions ensued. Magical.
10 July 2015
brumbiscuit
Well, on the three occasions I’ve seen him in the 80s and early 90s, he was very self indulgent. Glad to hear you saw him how I would like to have seen him.
11 July 2015
Featureless tv producer steve
While always recognized as a fine name in Britain, the name Julian was virtually unheard of in the US for many years. When I was a youngster a boy named Julian would have been mercilessly ridiculed on the playground for having a girl’s name, but in the last couple of decades it’s evidently made a remarkable resurgence.
Still probably perceived as being somewhat pretentious here though, I’d reckon.
11 July 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Nicknamed “The Apostate”, the last non-Christian Roman emperor.
Given name of Jools (qv) Holland.
One half of Julian and Sandy on Round the Horne. @Steve, the name doesn’t have the cred in UK that you think it does.
11 July 2015
brumbiscuit
Indeed, I suspect very few C2DE families have ever given an offspring of either gender that name.
12 July 2015
Dr Desperate
@BB EC was quite good when I saw him at Lancaster University on the last night of the Stiffs Greatest Stiffs Live tour, Bonfire Night 1977. He played ‘Pump It Up’ for the first time, having written it on the fire escape of their hotel in Newcastle the night before.
13 July 2015