Jarvis Cocker Is Back
Posted Mon 18 May 2009 6:25PM BST by Johnny Famethrowa in Touching The Void
In his near 20 years as a ‘pop star', Jarvis Cocker has often been on first name terms with eccentric behaviour. With the release of new album "Further Complications", the former Pulp man and national treasure looks to have been reliably busy on the peculiar front. This morning, he could be found manning the tills at HMV in Oxford Street, London, shifting copies of his second solo work. Then this afternoon, it was reported he is to make his movie debut playing a puppet in a big screen adaptation of the Roald Dahl story "Fantastic Mr Fox", directed by Wes Anderson.But none of this has got anything on the antics of last week, when he curated a six-day art installation in Paris' Galerie Chappe. The get together was themed around the tough to answer question "What is music?" and included soundtracking a yoga class, a public jam session and one day devoted to children, which saw him leading a bunch of French kids through some spectacularly entertaining choreography. He and his band also recorded the following lo-fi video to new single "Angela" outside the gallery, seemingly at a cost of about €1. Welcome back, Jarvis.
