nme.com
review
- The nme are taking great delight in calling this
"Jarvis' first solo show..." - are they blind? It's hard to miss
Richard Hawley even in a bad light, and the noise the two fat truckers were
making made it pretty clear that Jarvis was anything but alone. Jarvis and
Hawley have played together before, and various members of Pulp performed in different
combinations in the past, so this really isn't anything to get excited about.
It takes a robust sense of humour to see the
point of Jarvis Cocker's new band
(They aren't his new band! Ed) with one-time Pulp guitarist Richard Hawley,
an electroclash pastiche that does no credit to either. The synthesised drums
buzz angrily, industrial guitars squall and spit, and Cocker's voice is so
heavily distorted it is unrecognisable. They almost redeem themselves with a
sleazily atmospheric take on Hazlewood's The Cheat featuring jangly guitar, but
when Hazlewood later remarks, "That Jarvis Cocker is a gas, isn't he?"
few in the audience are inclined to agree. (Maddy Costa, The Guardian)
This performance found it's way on to a limited
7" on Rough Trade - see discography
for details.
Not a Pulp performance, just Jarvis and Richard Hawley,
together with Jason and Ross from the Fat Truckers performing a short support set
at Lee Hazlewood's London concert. There were four
new songs, one of which was sung by Richard (pt 2 of Oh My Child will appear on
Richard's next record), followed by two Hazlewood covers -
Pour Man, from Love and Other Crimes, and A Cheat, the song Jarvis and Richard
covered for the Total Lee tribute album. The new songs were more electronic jams
than finished material, and probably won't be performed again.