Jarvis Cocker is a God

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Postby Kounelaki » Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:02 am

Plugging his book on Start the Week this morning
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0167zjy
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Postby the ghost of guitarplayer » Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:29 am

Aah, have a listen to that... off to meet the man himself later and no VIP meet and greet, money exchanging hands, other than the price of the book.
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Postby Ocean Rain » Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:31 pm

black francis wrote:Has he heard of the next one, Iris by Goo Goo Dolls? He gives a blank look, has a read, and shakes his head in despair. "I wouldn't be surprised if that had been written by a lyrics generator on the internet or something like that. 'You bleed just to know you're alive'? I mean, really."

BTW I am prepared to call Jarvis Cocker the greatest lyricist of all time.

I Googled the article, and I'm still wondering why Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls was in the Top 3 that week.
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Postby Voodoo Billy » Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:50 pm

the ghost of guitarplayer wrote:Aah, have a listen to that... off to meet the man himself later and no VIP meet and greet, money exchanging hands, other than the price of the book.


And?
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Postby the ghost of guitarplayer » Sun Oct 30, 2011 6:54 pm

And... it was good meeting Mr Cocker. We exchanged sleazy anecdotes about pink quilted eiderdowns and pulling knickers down, before I went on my merry way.
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Postby Voodoo Billy » Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:00 am

And how was it for Jarvis, to finally meet one of the truly common people?
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Postby the ghost of guitarplayer » Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:40 am

Don't known if he'd meet many of the common people down south. Probably more like the girl from Greece wanting to be a common person methinks.
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Postby Kounelaki » Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:43 am

Jarvis Cocker answers your questions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/no ... -questions

His description of Britpop is memorable.
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Postby Voodoo Billy » Sun Nov 27, 2011 5:25 am

Thank you Kounelaki, I enjoyed that.
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Postby Voodoo Billy » Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:19 pm

Didn't mention his evening with Ghostie in that interview though.
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Postby black francis » Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:27 pm

I actually :lol: at this one

I don't get up in the morning and think, "Oh, look at you, you national treasure, you! You're really shiny today!" But it's nice.
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Postby the ghost of guitarplayer » Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:16 pm

Voodoo Billy wrote:Didn't mention his evening with Ghostie in that interview though.


:eek:
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Postby the ghost of guitarplayer » Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:48 am

There, Kounelaki can spend an evening with our national treasure, if she so wishes, as he is going to do the same Mother, Brother, Lover signing and a talk at a temp Rough Trade shops tour thing in Paris on 14th December. This place:

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/content.lasso?page=agnesb.html
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Postby Kounelaki » Mon Nov 28, 2011 7:58 am

Thanks, Ghostie. There was an exhibition of Joy Division photos at that place when Control came out.
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Postby the ghost of guitarplayer » Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:20 am

Aah, you know of the place. Jarvis is also doing another talk/signing session in London next week, but I don't know if I will go to that - I was considering it because he is including a powerpoint presentation to accompany a talk, which wasn't done at the Foyles signing that I went to. He looks like a geography teacher these days or an academic off Open University so I can imagine it might be quite amusing.

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