01.07.09 Question Time

Jarvis will be a pannelist on tomorrow night's Question Time which is being filmed in Cambridge. He'll be joining the likes of Harriet Harman, Iain Duncan Smith and Charles Kennedy. The show will be broadcast on BBC2 at 11pm.

27.06.09 Glastonbury Festival

BBC 6Music are playing Pulp's set from the 1995 Glastonbury Festival tonight at midnight. Tune in an hour earlier and they'll also be playing highlights from Jarvis' set at this year's festival.

11.05.09 Jarvis to Perform In-store Gig at Rough Trade

Jarvis will be performing an in-store gig at the Rough Trade East record shop in London this Saturday at 7pm. Entry to the event is by wristband only, and these'll be handed out to people buying his new LP which'll be on sale at the shop two days before its official release. Rough Trade are also promising that Jarvis will be helping out behind the shop's counter from 4pm onwards which means you should be able to buy your Jarvis record directly from the man himself!

05.05.09 Jarvis Roundup

At last Jarvis now has his own official website - www.jarviscocker.net - which is offering a free download of Angela and features a great introductory video clip of Jarvis arranging the letters of his name (see right). Each afternoon from today until Sunday they'll be broadcasting Jarvis' residency at the Galerie Chappe in Paris where punters can drop by and join in the various musical activities. The NME report that as well as soundtracking yoga and pilates classes, activities will include a relaxation session, musical improvisation and various guest performances.

Jarvis interviews are also hitting the news-stands this month as part of the promotion effort for his new LP. Worth checking out are the interviews for last Saturday's Herald Magazine and the June edition of Q Magazine. Bizarrely GQ have passed off their editor's 1998 interview with Jarvis as a new interview (almost word-for-word!) in their June edition. They've interspersed it with a handful of new quotes and a few leading political questions which Jarvis has since distanced himself from having been quoted selectively.

And finally, The Sun tactfully reported Jarvis and Camille's marriage split under the headline 'Jarvis' Marriage Pulped'. None of our business of course, but it does seem to have influenced a number of the lyrical themes on his new LP.

24.03.09 Jarvis' Underwear Up For Auction

Jarvis has donated a signed pair of briefs for an online charity auction in aid of destitute asylum seekers. They're currently fetching £133 on eBay having attracted a staggering 20 bids - and there's still another seven days before the auction concludes! Other celebrities who've agreed to take part in the fundraising efforts by customising pieces of underwear include Ricky Gervais, Nick Cave, Helen Mirren and Nick Hornby. Proceeds from all 39 auctions will go towards buying food and other essentials for those supported by the New North London Synagogue's Destitute Asylum Seeker Drop In. [Update: the auction finished on 31 March and after 28 bids his briefs fetched £227.]

17.03.09 New Jarvis LP and Live Shows

While we've been fiddling with the cables at the back of acrylicafternoons.com as part of the switch to a new server, a tonne of welcome Jarvis news has emerged.

A week last Thursday saw the announcement that Jarvis' new LP, Further Complications, will be released on 18 May. Produced by Steve Albini and recorded in Albini's Chicago studio in January, 15 tracks were recorded in the sessions. The full song list - though not the final running order - appears to be: Angela, Apparently, Caucasian Blues, Fuckingsong, Further Complications, Girls Like It Too, Homewrecker! Hold Still, I Found Myself Looking For God, I Never Said I Was Deep, I Told You Twice (Leftovers), Pilchard, The Night They Left Me Out Of The Home, Slush and You're In My Eyes (Discosong). Jarvis explains the inspiration behind many of these songs in a rather entertaining press release he appears to have written.

May also sees the start of a UK and European tour which stops off at: Barcelona Primavera Sound Festival (29 May); Copenhagen Vega (31); Hamburg Fabrik (2 June); Luxembourg Rockhal (3); Paris Bataclan (4); Brussels Ancienne Belgique (6); Amsterdam Paradiso (7); Blackpool Empress Ballroom (10) postponed; Glasgow ABC (12); Nottingham Rock City (14); Brighton Dome (16); London Troxy (17); Athens Ejekt Festival (19); and Glastonbury Festival (27). Later in the summer he'll be playing the Huntingdon Secret Garden Party Festival (24 July), Los Angeles Wiltern Theatre (27); San Francisco Fillmore Theatre (28); Brooklyn Music Hall of Williamsburg (30); Festival Paredes de Coura, Portugal (1 August); Berlin Festival (8); Frequency Festival St. Polten Austria (21); and the Green Man Festival Wales (22).

Prior to the tour, he'll be performing an unplugged set at the John Lennon Imagine Appeal Concert on 16 April at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. With any luck, he may be tempted to play some of the Pulp songs he performed acoustically on the recent Songbook documentary on the Sky Arts channel (where he played Joyriders, Babies, Sorted, Something Changed, Shakespeare Rock and From A to I).

Finally, this week also sees the release of Marianne Faithfull's new LP of cover versions, Easy Come Easy Go, produced by Hal Wilner. Jarvis and Marianne duet on a song called Somewhere from the West Side Story musical. If you don't want to buy the entire LP, you can download the single track from both iTunes and Amazon.



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