And this accumulated debris of a lifetime reveals his creative process - writing and musicianship, performance and ambition, style and stagecraft. If Arctic Monkey Alex Turner is the semi-ironic Elvis of Sheffield, Jarvis Cocker is the citys Gainsbourg. Originally released in 2006, Jarvis Cocker’s first solo album available for the first time in US on limited edition split green vinyl, with a bonus 7' featuring 'Cts Are Still Running The World' and a b-side etching. Why are there so many pairs of broken glasses up here?įrom a Gold Star polycotton shirt to a pack of Wrigley's Extra, from his teenage attempts to write songs to the Sexy Laughs Fantastic Dirty Joke Book, this is the hard evidence of Jarvis's unique life, Pulp, 20th century pop culture, the good times and the mistakes he'd rather forget. He portrayed Myron Wagtail, the lead singer of The Weird Sisters, in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey, Founder Members of Pulp and Djs/ Record Collectors/ Music Lovers Extraordinaire have Said They Will Only Ever. When Jarvis Cocker starts clearing out his loft, he finds a jumble of objects that catalogue his story and ask him some awkward questions: Jarvis Cocker (born 19 September, 1963) is a British musician best known as the frontman of the rock band Pulp. We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawer. As the founder, frontman, lyricist, and sole consistent member of the band Pulp, he became a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s.
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963 ) is an English musician and radio presenter.