Julian Cope on Celts: my wild romance

Pictish stones, Viking ring brooches and the Celtic football strip … a new show at the British Museum ranges from the Norse world to the faux ancient rites of 18th-century England by way of today’s superheroes. What does Britain’s leading punk antiquarian make of it?Back in 1992, in a fit of neo-Celtic fervour, I set off for a tour of prehistoric Ireland armed with a hickory-handled wood-axe on which I had carved my name in rudimentary sub-rune style letters. Ten days later, t