SINGER, poet, occultist, autobiographer, cultural commentator and photographer Julian Cope is in York on Wednesday, playing Fibbers on his Trip Advizor tour.

Described by his Bloomsbury book publishers as a “visionary rock musician and musicologist, hip archaeologist and one-time front man of the Teardrop Explodes”, Cope has released more than 20 solo albums, countless collaborative projects and six books.

These include his autobiography Head-On and Krautrocksampler and his first-hand studies of the occult and mythology of Britain in The Modern Antiquarian and mainland Europe in The Megalithic European.

Cope has performed live with Sunn0))), appearing as lead vocalist on their album White One; recorded three albums with his proto-metal power trio Brain Donor; and lectured three times at the British Museum.

In 2009, Cope formed the band Black Sheep, releasing the double album Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse; last June, Faber & Faber published his debut novel One Three One, reviewed by the Irish Times as “Beckett on a bender”; in early 2015, he released Trip Advizor, a Best Of compilation covering the years 1994 to 2014.