Live Review: Exit Festival
Maybe it’s the history that reverberates around Serbia’s Petrovaradin Fortress, but time does funny things when you’re at Exit . Even the clock tower overlooking the Danube has the size of its minute and hour hands reversed (originally so...
Live Review: Primavera Sound
This is not about ancient history,” states Jarvis Cocker flatly, eyeballing the crowd from behind his thick frames. “We are going to make history.” Here to rip reunion fatigue from your mind like a flimsy nightdress, Pulp[/a’s...
Jarvis Cocker: Running The World
Is it just us, or is the world a bit weird now? The fact that you can have Jarvis fricken Cocker as a virtual friend on MySpace, among all the Tom, Dick and Killersfan1275s you’ve added in an attempt to look popular? That you can see his ‘Top...
Pulp : Hits
While fellow urban diarists Brett Anderson and Damon Albarn wrapped their observations in swathes of arch detachment, Jarvis Cocker's wry, grubby-pawed musings were always gloriously accessible. Back when Britpop was the music du jour, Cocker was...
Jarvis Cocker And Friends /Lee Hazlewood :...
Jarvis is unwell. We know this because he smashes a bottle over his head before he starts this set of new solo material. The karate chopping of the balsa wood (twice!) is further evidence. When he bellows "bad monkey bad" at the close of a song,...
Pulp/Gonzalez/British Sea Power : Cornwall Eden...
For over a year, the Eden Project – an attempt to create an Amazonian rainforest in the depths of rural Cornwall - has been showing the public how paradise would have appeared before Eve and Adam started meddling. To celebrate, they’ve decided...
Pulp : London Brixton Academy
Junk shop King Of All Misfits, the four-eyed Peter Stringfellow and now the Alan Titchmarsh of rock. As flowers explode on the big screens, enter Jarvis Cocker: Messianical Gardener. He's here to sing of trees and birds and sunrises and water...
Radio One Live : Birmingham
After Monday's vigorous display from indie-masters from days of yore The Charlatans and future heroes The Cooper Temple Clause and The Music , Tuesday's line-up takes a slightly softer form. The Electric Soft Parade are hampered by singer Alex...
Pulp : We Love Life
You have to wonder if Jarvis Cocker wakes up in the morning and wishes that Britpop had never happened. It might have given his band the success they'd spent 15 years chasing, but the subsequent comedown has been long and agonising - and it...
Pulp : Trees/Sunrise
You imagine Jarvis Cocker enjoys conversing not just with trees, an activity he affectionately describes on Pulp 's sweet comeback single, but with most things which can't talk back: cars, lamp posts, rivers, frogs. You name it, he's probably...
