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