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21 Listen to Jarvis' show on BBC 6 Music
The lovely people at BBC 6 Music have created a widget so that you can listen to Jarvis’ latest radio shows:
56 Thank You For Your Participation
Thank you to all of the people who helped make Jarvis’ curation of the Village Underground venue a success.
Here is the video for “Further Complications”, which is released as a single this week. The 7” is now sold out but it’s available to download here.
9 Jarvis In London - Exhibition Schedule
As previously mentioned Jarvis Cocker & his fellow musicians will install themselves in the Village Underground in East London next week, and we’ve now got the running order so you can figure out exactly when you want to pop down:
MONDAY 9th NOVEMBER
NOON – 1pm
REHEARSAL – The band make sure that all the technical bits & pieces are working
1pm – 2pm
BRING AN INSTRUMENT – Bring your own instrument & work on some music with the band. Amplification is provided.
2pm – 3pm
LIVE GRAFITTI – Charley from the nearby Pure Evil gallery will work on a large-scale piece (which may or may not reference the fact that today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall). Live musical accompaniment.
3pm – 4pm
BRING AN INSTRUMENT (PART 2)
4pm – 5pm
POLE-DANCING WORKSHOP – Lucy Misch will perform a routine & also provide instruction for those wishing to learn a few basic pole-moves. Appropriate dress...
13 Jarvis Cocker Makes an Exhibition of Himself - Again!
Following the success of his residency at the Galerie Chappe in Paris back in May (Google it if you missed it) Jarvis Cocker & his fellow musicians will install themselves in the Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, London EC2A 3PQ for 5 days in November.
Happening between Monday 9th November and Wednesday 11th November, the exhibition will run from 12pm to 6pm each day and entry will be free. The event will culminate in a concert at 9pm on the 11th.
Tickets for the concert are available exclusively here and are priced at £30.
As in Paris, during the course of the 5 days they will be inviting members of the public to participate in live musical improvisations (participants must bring their own instruments – amplification provided), they will provide live musical accompaniment to various exercise classes (including Yoga & hopefully, Aerobics) & they will be inviting guest artists to come & perform with them at various times during the residency.
The whole event will be webcast via www.jarviscocker.net and you may wish to peruse the “manifesto” that accompanied the Parisian version to get a flavour of what it’s all about.
Get updates on what will be happening through this website and
25 Further Complications Announcement
Just to further complicate things Mr Jarvis Cocker is releasing a highly limited (1,000 copies only) 7’” 45 rpm single on the 9th of November this year. It’s a double-A sided affair featuring “Further Complications” (from the Rough Trade album of the same name) on one side & “Girls Like it Too” on the other. Both tracks were recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini earlier this year. “Further Complications” you may already familiar with, “Girls Like it Too” probably not – & there’s a bit of a story behind that song…..would you care to hear it? You would? Splendid – well, the song’s title comes from a speech made at John Peel’s funeral by his brother Alan. It seems that the younger Ravenscroft asked his big brother John for some advice on how to deal with the lustful thoughts that were beginning to stir in his teenage body & John replied “Just remember: girls like it too” – a pretty good piece of sex education in anyone’s language. This anecdote made a great impression on Jarvis at the time & now it has finally found its way into a song, almost 5 years to the day since the great...