In 2003, Cope performed at the Glastonbury Festival as well as launching his own three-day "Rome Wasn't Burned in a Day" event. A tie-in album, also called "Rome Wasn't Burned in a Day", was released to mark the event and included an "eight-minute long Armenian epic" called "Shrine of the Black Youth (Tukh Manukh)". The album was recorded by a trio of Cope, synth player Christopher Patrick "Holy" McGrail and Donald Ross Skinner (returning to work with Cope after seven years). The year also saw more Brain Donor activity via the "My Pagan Ass" single and the album "Too Freud To Rock'n'Roll, Too Jung To Die" and an appearance on Sunn O)))'s collaborative album "White1" with Cope reciting occultic druid poetry on the opening track, "My Wall".