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Nine page cover article on Jarvis in the new issue of Under the Radar, and it's a good one. Provides quite a lot of perspective on the new album.

It was a bit surreal to read for me though, because there's a big bold quote in the center of the article from my old Chicago roommate. He didn't like Pulp when I lived with him. Now he's gushing about him in print. Heh.

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Cool. I'll have a look for it but I'm not sure if we get that mag on this side of the pond.
And only one post to your name?! Please, stop deleting your account, you'll never get near my post-count now cry

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Fuss Free wrote:

Nine page cover article on Jarvis in the new issue of Under the Radar, and it's a good one. Provides quite a lot of perspective on the new album.

It was a bit surreal to read for me though, because there's a big bold quote in the center of the article from my old Chicago roommate. He didn't like Pulp when I lived with him. Now he's gushing about him in print. Heh.


Picked the new issue up this past weekend. Very good interview and photos.  I liked how he addressed the critics and reviews of the new record. I esspecialy liked what Torquil Campbell and others had to say about Jarvis. Very good read. I know he had been featured in two previous issues, but I was ecstatic to see him make the cover.

Which quote was your ex roommate, Fuss Free? The one about being cool with Jarvis taking a girlfriend was quite fun.

Eamonn, back issues are available if you can't find it.  

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The Legendary Girlfriend of Troy Truelane wrote:
I esspecialy liked what Torquil Campbell and others had to say about Jarvis.

Which quote was your ex roommate, Fuss Free? The one about being cool with Jarvis taking a girlfriend was quite fun.

Eamonn, back issues are available if you can't find it. 

Eamonn, I might scan the article if you ask me nicely (provided Acrylic Afternoons doesn't beat me to it). I go through phases of never wanting to post ever again, then I delete my account to try to cement my apathy. Then something crazy happens like my friend appearing in an article about Jarvis, and I get pulled back in. Gah! I tell you, the Gods are conspiring against me.

The sidebar of quotes by various 'cool' bands on Jarvis kind of annoyed me. I don't remember many bands championing Pulp 10 years ago. Telling someone Pulp was your favourite band back in 1999 was likely to inspire eye-rolling. Now it's all: "Oo! Oo! Jarvis is my God! I've loved him since I was 12!". Right. I recall a time not long ago when it seemed the only Pulp fans left were the 5 or 6 regulars on this messageboard.

My only other problem with the article is that it once again reinforces the cliche that Pulp's good material starts with His n' Hers. This is, as we all know, utter bullshit.

I'm not going to out my friend, for the sake of humility and anonymity. It won't take much more than a google search to figure it out though.



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My only other problem with the article is that it once again reinforces the cliche that Pulp's good material starts with His n' Hers. This is, as we all know, utter bullshit.
-- Edited by Fuss Free on Wednesday 15th of July 2009 01:14:12 P

I thought the same. I've read some where they start off with Different Class, which is even more maddening.

I hope those quotes were sincere. What do you think has sparked this...I guess I could call it a resurgence? I hope it wasn't merely because they were asked.  I know what you mean about eye rolling. I don't think anybody in Northern Ontario likes Pulp. I recall having girly conversations about Beck and then chiming in about Jarvis. "Who?"

 



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let me start by saying that, Under the radar is a great magazine! However, over the years I've noticed that they have pulled shit out of no where to make up articles. The magazines become nothing but filler in many cases. I believe Jarvis has been featured before, so it amazes me that a magazine out of North American (where it seems only 3 people know Jarvis) can fill 9 pages worth.
 
The original editor was a big britpop fan, so the magazine has been a bit bias. Although I love it :)
What other North American magazine covers Neil Hannon as much as they have. Now we have 9 pages of Jarvis!





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Proving the point regarding Jarvis' lack of popularity in America, his NY show was just moved to a smaller venue. See here.


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i think that just proves that Jarvis shouldn't just play Terminal 5 or New York City every bloody year.

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Wonder if its better for an artist to do festivals, where the chance to get a larger audience is better then trying to sell out their own show?

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Terminal 5 = capacity 3000
Music Hall of Williamsburg = capacity 550

For fans going the the Music Hall, that very is good news, a rare intimate show in NYC (unless it's so crowded you can't move your arms). As for Jarv's management, that's terrible news. They priced and sold all the tickets according to the larger venue. They won't be able to cover costs.

Consider:
US TOUR DATES
MHOW: 550 cap
Fillmore: 1250 cap
Wiltern: 2200 cap

Total capacity: 4000

If each venue sells out, and the band earns $10 on every ticket (a liberal estimate, I think), the band only gets $40,000 (about 20,000 quid) before expenses/taxes etc. And then, aren't 15% of all tickets typically reserved for industry?

Unless he adds more dates (in other cities?!), the American tour is going to lose a lot of money. And that will probably be the last North America is likely to see from Jarvis.



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The Wiltern show only has a few hundred tickets left, according to livenations pick a seat option.

Don't know what New York's problem is.  Jarvis played both venues in NY last year without a problem.  Probably a combination of him just playing NY twice in both 07 and 08, Terminal 5 being the most hated venue in the city, and him not being at the All Points West festival the following day instead.

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The Wiltern show only has a few hundred tickets left, according to livenations pick a seat option.

Don't know what New York's problem is.  


New Yorkers are a fickle crowd and they've had ample opportunities to see Jarvis recently.

These tours mostly serve as publicity, right? So, maybe his handlers thought it would be better to play to a small but enthusiastic audience rather than a large but disinterested one?

I've always thought it was kind of a dick move the way Jarvis refuses to play shows between the coasts when he's in North America. The man wears his working class Sheffield up-bringing on his sleeve, yet when it comes to playing North America, he's an ivy league snob. This is made even more annoying due to the fact that all the music he's been championing lately has its roots in the American midwest.


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Was in Dublin today and managed to pick this up in one of the bigger newsagents. A good read as has been said. The bit where various artists praise JC makes for interesting reading, however genuine, as FF has argued, it is. I know the geezer from Maximo Park is telling the truth though. Where do you think he got those scissor-kick jump moves from?!
Florence, from, y'know...remembering listening to Underwear when she was 12 and marvelling on that's how sex would be like was quite amusing.

Good to see Jarvis down-right refuting the ''mid-life crisis'' tag the album has gotten. It's just a mid-life album apparently. As he points out, TIH was the ''crisis'' one. And I'm glad he brought up the fact that too many Pulp songs were too long considering he'd always wanted to be a 'three minute pop song' artist - which is why Angela pleased him so much. A song which I pointed out before, is the first in his canon to clock under the three minute mark since Stacks! (Unless we're counting the very likely unfinished demo, 'My Mistake', beautiful though it is).

It's the newest full-feature Jarvis interview - most others were done in the weeks leading up to the release of FC. This was done when he played in Barcelona at the end of May so he gets the chance to give his reactions to reviews of the album which makes for interesting reading. The thought of Jarvis reading reviews of his own stuff is a bit weird. I would have imagined him likening it to Russell Senior's analogy - that of listening to your own songs like being caught masturbating!

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