Jarvis Cocker

Pulp to receive Outstanding Contribution to Music award

Music Gossip

7 Feb 2012

Pulp will be presented with the Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution to Music prize at the NME Awards. The 'Common People' band - who reformed last year for a series of shows including Glastonbury and the Leeds and Reading festivals - will…

Jarvis Cocker joins The Strokes onstage

Music Gossip

28 Aug 2011

Pulp's Jarvis Cocker joined The Strokes during their co-headlining set at Reading last night (27.08.11). 'Common People' singer Jarvis appeared with the New York band to perform a version of The Cars' 'Just What I Needed' toward the end of their…

T in the Park - Balado, Kinross, Fri 8–Sun 10 July 2011

Beyonce, Pulp, Lady North and Tom Jones among highlights

21 Jul 2011

A city-sized piss-up spread across seven stages, T in the Park has grown to almost incomprehensible proportions. With the territory comes an obligation to please everybody some of the time, something which inevitably has a habit of leaving fans of…

Jarvis Cocker likes tight underwear

Music Gossip

27 Dec 2010

Jarvis Cocker only wears tight-fitting underpants. The Pulp star refuses to wear baggy boxer shorts as he hates the lack of support they offer. He said: "I'm wearing American Apparel Y-fronts. Not boxers. I find that boxers provide insufficient…

Jarvis Cocker's Christie collaboration

Music Gossip

20 Jul 2010

Jarvis Cocker is to feature on Tony Christie's new album. The former Pulp frontman and the singer - who both hail from Sheffield, North England - will collaborate to rework the theme from classic British gangster movie 'Get Carter', which starred…

Pulp to reform for Glastonbury?

Music Gossip

28 Jun 2010

Jarvis Cocker wants Pulp to reform for next year's Glastonbury Festival. The singer is keen to follow in the footsteps of fellow Britpop band Blur and reunite for the world famous music event. He told BANG Showbiz: "I still speak to the boys, and…

Interview with Sum author David Eagleman

4 Nov 2009

Brian Eno composed a score for it. Stephen Fry sent sales rocketing when he mentioned it on Twitter and Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and Miranda Richardson have been recorded reading from it. Kirstin Innes meets David Eagleman, author of Sum, one of 2009’s…

Jarvis Cocker

25 Jun 2009

One lanky, raised arm appears through a cloud of smoke, and the packed-out ABC goes nuts. I’m struggling to think of another UK performer who commands such instant, indulgent devotion – and naked lust, actually, as the room is thick with sex, and Our…

Jarvis Cocker

11 Jun 2009

While many of his Britpop contemporaries are content to drag their increasingly saggy posteriors around the country – reforming for money-making purposes and trading solely on nostalgia – Jarvis Cocker can’t seem to stop re-inventing himself. It’s no…

10 Best gigs in Scotland

July-August

1 Jun 2009

We Were Promised Jetpacks, Jarvis Cocker, Emiliana Torrini, Malcolm Middleton, Come On Gang, The Cat Empire, The Wilders, Bruce Springsteen, Orkestra Del Sol and Frightened Rabbit.

Singles and Downloads

14 May 2009

Take four kids from Northern Ireland and force feed them AC/DC from birth and you’d create The Answer, a scarily authentic gonzo rock outfit who create a fun fluster of riffage and shrieking on ‘ Tonight’ (Albert Productions) ●●● Brainless fun…

Jarvis Cocker won't bring back Pulp

Celebrity Gossip

10 May 2009

Jarvis Cocker won't reform Pulp. The 'Common People' singer admits he has been offered large sums of money to reunite the group but refuses to contemplate joining his former bandmates on stage. He told Q magazine: "We live in an age where…

Video: Jarvis Cocker installs himself in Paris gallery

8 May 2009

Jarvis Cocker has installed himself as an exhibition at the Galerie Chappe in Paris. The musician has been appearing between the hours of 12 noon and 7pm this week in the gallery. One highlight so far has been this video in which he dances with…

Profile - Jamie Johnson

30 Apr 2009

Name Jamie J Johnson Born 14 September 1976, Hammersmith, London Background The son of a painter, Johnson initially followed in his father’s footsteps before deciding that moving pictures were more to his liking, and started creating flick…

Trade secrets

27 Nov 2008

Five months before Margaret Thatcher’s landslide 1979 victory, and with Britain’s city streets still retaining the air of a depressed bombsite, highbrow arts programme The South Bank Show appeared to have been hi-jacked by a cell of musical terrorists.

Freshly squeezed - support for Edwyn Collins

19 Jun 2008

The great and good of the music glitterati have come out in force to support former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins' new single, Home Again, which hits the shelves on Monday 23 June. Franz Ferdinand, Jarvis Cocker, Bernard Butler, Graham Coxon and…

Jarvis Cocker's Winehouse praise

Celebrity Gossip

1 Jun 2008

Jarvis Cocker has praised Amy Winehouse for her clever lyrics. The 'Common People' singer praised the 'Rehab' star and the Arctic Monkeys for their inventive use of language and lyrical themes in their records. He said: "Rap music has stayed in…

Connect Festival: Music, massages and mud, glorious mud

3 Sep 2007

Connect Festival, Inverarary Castle, Sunday. Festival gossip has it that Mike D from the Beastie Boys took a shine to the castle and challenged the Duke of Argyll to a duel. Jarvis Cocker is acclaimed as the best thing about Friday by fans still…

Jarvis Cocker

23 Aug 2007

During the heady days of Britpop I was a Jarvis Cocker obsessive; following Pulp around from town to town, skipping school to buy concert tickets and waiting outside venues and hotels for autographs and photos until all hours of the morning. Once the…

Jarvis - live review

Jarvis

28 Feb 2007

INDIE POP ‘Did we pass the audition?’ enquired Jarvis Cocker (for it is he) towards the end of this well-received debut Scottish solo show. He gets to paraphrase John Lennon, to be fair, because over an hour-and-a-bit he proved just how flaccid most…

Various - Songs for the Young at Heart - album review

Various

29 Jan 2007

KIDS COMPILATION Nostalgia might not be what it once was, but in the Staples and Boulter households, the past is far from imperfect. Stuart and Dave, the guys from the Tindersticks, have lovingly recreated the songs they remembered from their radios…

Jarvis Cocker - album review

Jarvis Cocker

14 Nov 2006

INDIE From the punchy pop of The Long Blondes to Arctic Monkeys’ seedy subject matter and dapper showmanship of Franz Ferdinand, the influence of Jarvis Cocker is everywhere in modern music. Yet after the demise of his old band the Sheffield indie…