During 2000 Skinner played live in the band Fiji with Jamie Hince (Scarfo/The Kills).
Several familiar Cope cohorts contributed to the record - multi-instrumentalist Donald Ross Skinner, drummer/percussionist Rooster Cosby and keyboard player/onetime Cope producer Ron Fair.
It is technically Cope’s fourteenth solo album, but is also the follow-up to the earlier album Rite (released in 1992 and credited to "Julian Cope & Donald Ross Skinner") and is the second in the Rite series.
In contrast to the multiple overdubs, 1980s pop stylings and army of backing singers used on My Nation Underground, Skellingtons sound was extremely skeletal, mainly acoustic, and sparsely orchestrated by Cope in association with his two main collaborators - Donald Ross Skinner (organ, piano, keyboards) and Rooster Cosby (percussion, brass).
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