ARCHIVED NEWS: 1999  

JARVIS HEADS SOUTH FOR HOLS  The same newspaper ran an article on the new popularity of seaside town Whitstable, in Kent. Jarvis, as well as minor celeb Ulrika Jonsson, have been spotted there recently. "A waitress commented, with a slightly bored air: 'Oh yes, we had Jarvis Cocker down here in the summer. He was sitting with a piece of string tied to his foot. He was pulling the string to make his leg move up and down'."

Slightly more interesting was the article in the Guardian Weekend (Dec 11), in which Jarvis wrote a piece for a feature called "My Favourite Things". Entitled "The Rivers Porter and Don", Jarvis told of his teenage trip down the river Don,  Sheffield's largest river-cum-sewer that runs through the city centre and on to Rotherham. If you'd like a copy, send me an A5 sae - there's a nice photo of Jarvis and a not-quite-so-nice one of the concrete banks of the river.

333 CLUB Continuing their series of low key appearances, Steve and Jarvis accompanied glass harmonica player Alisdair Malloy for a twenty minute set at the 333 Club in London on Nov 31st. It wasn't advertised on purpose, so don't start shouting at me for not telling you.

DJ DATES Jarvis and Steve DJ-ed in Barcelona on 10th December, at the Mond Club Sala Cibeles (Crcega 363, Barcelona) from 12.30 am until 3 am. (Thanks to Pulp Person Sandra Benet for the extra info re. prices). Not only that but they are also jetting off to Greece for two DJ dates:  17th Dec - The Camel Club, Athens, and on t he 18th, The Mylos Club, Thessaloniki. I am reliably informed that both of these dates were fun, and went really well, the celebrity DJ's had a good time although some of the records they played were met with some confusion, especially in Greece....full report in the next newsletter.

CANDIDA VISITS CORONATION STREET!

Been meaning to put this up for a while, for the few of us who don't subscribe to the Coronation Street magazine, here is Candida, pictured during a recent visit to 'The Street', where she was probably more excited than the cast!

LEEDS & DUBLIN FILM FESTIVALS Mark has worked with the organisers of these annual festivals and come up with a programme for Dublin and Leeds. 

PULP IN IRELAND Sep 2nd

 I can tell you that everyone found the Liss Ard experience very strange, but also very interesting. Mark is planning to move out there as soon as he can. They played in a tent to about 500 people and the rest of the time was taken up with walking, tree planting (Jarvis), and staring at the stars (the ones in the sky).

• Click here for Pulp People Netty & Mike Davenport's account of the day...

• and here for Cormac Flynn's...Thanks very much for those, guys. Better than the music papers any day!

The concert is over...I think it's fair to say that Pulp triumphed, if only in a small fan club type way, in Edinburgh's Queen's Hall on Tuesday night.  Reviews are already winging their way across the isdn lines and I'm sure there isn't much I can write that hasn't been said already. But for the benefit of those of you who don't belong to any of the Pulp mailing lists, click:

• On the photo above for the Pulp People photos and review
• and here for the Melody Maker one

As if making records and being on stage with them at Reading and Leeds wasn't enough, Jarvis is also working on a web radio station type thing with them, which will run from the (rather fantastic) ASI site at www.theallseeingi.com. Will keep you posted on that.

We've had lots of letters and emails about the current NAT WEST UK advertising campaign, which features a cartoon Cocker (left) doing his pop star thing in and around the London streets.  Not of course his first brush with advertising, as claimed by the NME, he did that one for a well known sportswear manufacturer a few years ago; but it is, I suppose, his first virtual advert...now he doesn't even have to appear in person to be on our screens! 

JARVIS was a guest on Steve Wright's Saturday Show on Radio 2 on June 19 - those of you who tuned in will have heard Jarvis chatting about astrology, smoking, new songs... Wright also played ''Disco 2000' and 'Born To Cry'. Link to transcription available soon!

It was a busy week for Jarvis; on Sunday 20 he took part in a spoken word extravaganza at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, again as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown (a fiver says next year it'll be "Jarvis Cocker's Meltdown").(Oh, ok, so it wasn't - maybe next year?)  It is called "Sacred and Profane", and Jarvis read from work by 'Outsider Artists' featured in his TV series.

Then on the 2nd July Jarvis is taking part in Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project with Nick Cave, Van Dyke Parks, Bryan Ferry, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Beth Orton and others, at The Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm. The evening was intended to be a tribute to the "Anthology of American Folk Music" which was assembled by Harry Smith in the early 1960s. Jarvis doesn't like the record so he performed two of his own compositions ! One was a new Pulp song that was previewed at the Venice concert a month before, the second was "Conversation With A Cockroach", which Jarvis wrote especially for this event. Cocker was backed by the house band, and Mark Webber made a last minute appearence playing guitar on the Cockroach song.   There is a chance that Jarvis will be working with Nick Cave soon on another project - I don't have any more details but it should be an interesting combination.

He's also done a Jimmy Webb song with Alpha - should be good.

RUSSELL SENIOR'S band VENINI will be releasing their first single on June 21st on Russ's Bikini label. It is called "Mon Camion" ("My Lorry" en Anglais), B side "St Tropez". They played Blow Up at The Wag Club, London Saturday 15th May, Sheffield The Boardwalk on June 10th and Glastonbury New Bands Stage on June 26th. We here at Pulp Towers went to see them at Blow Up, it sure was nice to see Russell on stage again, shades and all - they played a short, sharp set...see them if you can or contact: VENINI, PO Box 1471, Sheffield, S6 1UN.  

PULP recorded a song for the sequel to Four Weddings And A Funeral, "Notting Hill". The song, "Born To Cry" will feature on the soundtrack with artists such as Al Green and Elvis Costello. For some mysterious reason though, the song isn't in the actual film - only on the soundtrack CD. At least we don't have to sit through Hugh Grant & Julia Roberts to hear it.

CANDIDA did a short interview for the Sunday Telegraph about what it's like working in an all male environment, which appeared on April 17, with a nice photo (not the one illustrated here).   If you want to read it, let me know and I'll put it up.

JARVIS' 'Outsider Artists' series was broadcast in February/March to great acclaim. There were features on it in the Sunday Times Magazine on16th January, and interviews with Jarvis in the Independent on Sunday (31/1) The Times (31/1), The Guardian (1/2), and new magazine Heat on the 8 Feb. It's fascinating stuff and was great to see Jarvis back on our screens.

A single will be released from the album soon - more info as we get it.