"Sacred and Profane" at Nick Cave's Meltdown, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 20 June

Jarvis took part in a spoken word performance, reading aloud from a book by Outsider Artist Chomo. The piece he wanted to read was in French, and Pulp Person Margo kindly translated it into English for Jarvis, then went along on the night to see how he coped: 

It was really good, really interesting. It had turned out that the bit he wanted me to translate was was an extract of a book about / by Chomo, you know, the crazy guy who lives in a forest outside Paris from "Outsider Art". It was really interesting stuff though - why do men need sex education, the importance of sexuality in one's life...Jarvis being Jarvis one wouldn't expect anything less, but being Chomo's opinions made it, I think, kind of fascinating 'cos he's got some special and interesting theories...Jarvis also read another thing from a book by Ed Liedskal, who was also featured in "Outsider Art" - the man who built the Coral Castle in the States. Both texts went down really well; everybody got to laugh a bit, especially during the Liedskal bit, with some hilarious theories, again. He didn't change a lot of things from what I'd translated, which, you know, thinking about it now, makes me kind of proud - silly but true! So that was all very exciting. (Margote Mercier)