Thank you so much for posting this here! By "part of the show" it turned out that they meant - the *entire* show, just minus the encore... wow!

I thought it came out really well as a filmed show... now I'm hoping they'll consider releasing a video of the performance to compliment the album. The slideshow of hotel images towards the start was completely different to the ones they presented at the Barbican in London, though the rest of the show was the same.

Has anyone else thought that this show/album is really... well... Pulpy?! It's like the film/theatre/music extravaganza that Pulp would have loved to present in the mid-80s, fully realised with a budget to match their ambition

Ooh look!, There's a recorded version. I was out last night, so couldn't watch the live stream. I can't see anything saying if it expires after some amount of time.

 

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/jarvis-cocker-chilly-gonzales-presentent-room-29-arte-concert-festival

I finally managed to watch it properly myself, with the laptop plugged into the telly, and really enjoyed the whole thing. I totally get what they were saying in interviews about how they didn't know initially what format of thing they were even working on, then worked towards this type of performance, with the album itself being like a soundtrack of this stage production, rather than this being a concert of an album. With the theme of movies being by definition so visual, this is the perfect way to bring it to life. Jarvis is getting quite a taste for this soundtracking approach, also the Likely Stories themes and the Big Melt, which was driven by the images in the first place, and has obviously always had a strong interest in film and visual imagery.

I've got one coming, a mate bought it for me as I couldn't face queueing.

Hi All, I've just spend an hour reading all the posts on here from the last 2 or 3 months, as I have been AWOL for a while, and it's been really interesting reading.

I totally agree with the comments saying that an orchestrally accompanied version of Room 29, which I love anyway as it is, and the show of which I went to see twice, could be absolutely fantastic. Yes, there are echoes of TIH in it, definitely, and you can see the thread of Jarvis's favourite themes running all the way through from IT in 1983 to Room 29 in 2017.

Re the Room 29 preview night at Rough Trade: as Eamonn mentioned earlier in this thread, after a beer or two the idea of joining a massive queue to ask Jarvis about some of his old outfits seemed brilliant to me. Ha-ha! I think he (Jarvis) thought I was mad to want to know what became of his famous old black velvet suit (as seen in Eamonn's fab avatar) but he would be the first to agree that clothing has to matter if you are to be a pop-star. And besides, I have got through a lot of velvet in my time, long before I'd heard of JC, so I care!

Recently, I have been spending time up in Sheffield (for the snooker) and got talking to someone about the city in the 1970s/1980s, (which I did visit myself then), and I was struck by how his description fitted so well with the mood of Freaks, mentioned in another thread on BI. I love that album precisely because the atmosphere it conjures up is so dark and weird. And even though Sheffield is beautiful now, it seems to me that all the wonderful strangeness of places is being homogenised out of the world and it will eventually be one great big theme park.

I recently started playing the piano and finally found the envy to dig into Chilly Gonzales's work.

And... wow, he's got some very interesting records. His best ones are his "solo piano" records which sounds like preludes to Room 29. There's even an instrumental version of "Clara" called "Armellodie" on his record "Chambers".

For people who enjoyed Room 29 i highly recommend his solo piano records, they are fantastic and not at all boring for instrumentals. And i mostly hate instrumental records.

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Yes, have you tried playing Tearjerker on piano, Andy? The sheet music is available, it's one of my favourite pieces to play. I'm crap at playing by ear but can read music ok. I was hoping he'd do a songbook of Room 29 with all the sheet music (would love to have a go at "Belle Boy") as he's published piano-sheet books for a lot of his songs and records.

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Not yet, but i figured out "Clara" which is my favorite song from the record. Really cool to play too.

I'm a bit the opposite. I cant read music so its youtube tutorial for me where people film themselves playing and i go from there and figure out the notes if the tutorial isn't great or too hard. 

I'll try tearjerker next :) 

i'd love to play "Ice Cream" too. So many songs to learn. I've been playing guitar for 25 years but this is so different. You brain has to work differently right ?