Cope at the LunarFestival inTanworthin-Arden, June2015
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“I
DON’T talk to the press at almost any time. What made the Teardrops successful early on was Bill Drummond saying, ‘You’re not playing in London until you’re headlining the Nashville.’ Robert, my literary agent, he’s the same – he’s quite dynamic. He only does what he terms ‘singular authors’, people like Michael Palin and Ray Mears, and he’s in charge of Stephen Hawking’s estate. He says, the less [press] you do, the more people think it deep.