Edit: Just after watching it. The presenter reminded me a bit in looks and a lot in voice of Chris Evans. Then, halfway through he introduces Jarvis as ´´the man who killed Michael Jackson´´ and he reminded me of him a bit more.
Hmm...Still, he seemed a genuine Pulp/Jarvis fan. And there were a couple of stories I´d only read about in Truth And Beauty - Jarvis falling into a puddle with one contact lens in when performing Common People in Birmingham the day it went to number 2. And wearing a gorilla costume so he could wander around incognito at the V´96 Festival, despite giving himself away by having a security guy having to shadow him.
And the three song session is great. Strong performance of Further Complications by him and Tim, tender rendition of Cohen´s Tonight I´´ll Be Fine. And the version of Babies is definitely the best performance of a Pulp song I´ve heard Jarvis play since going solo.
-- Edited by Eamonn on Saturday 21st of November 2009 05:22:33 PM
A bit off topic but scene being a swede, i noticed our blue and yellow flag i the studio plus the guy is wearing a t-shirt with the name of the store where we buy our alcohol..! (to me it's a bit weird that someone would fancy having that on a shirt)
Anyway FC is quite a good track when it's more stripped down!
nice one thanks! Was any of you at that V festival he was talking about? which year was it?
I was there! It was the first ever V festival, and the first gig I'd been to since my youth. It was Pulp that got me back into music in big way, so getting back into that place where music means so much in your life, and seeing Pulp for the first time, was a pivotal event for me.
I was thinking about the first time I saw Pulp at V96, when I was right at the front, inches away from Jarvis sitting on the steps at the Village Underground gig. The gig at V96 was huge - I could barely see the band through the density of the crowd and the distance, but the excitment was massive. So it was felt a bit surreal that 14 years later, I was seeing Jarvis at a gig that was almost the complete opposite of the first time I'd seen him, and yet it still felt as good.
nice one thanks! Was any of you at that V festival he was talking about? which year was it?
I was there! It was the first ever V festival, and the first gig I'd been to since my youth. It was Pulp that got me back into music in big way, so getting back into that place where music means so much in your life, and seeing Pulp for the first time, was a pivotal event for me.
I was thinking about the first time I saw Pulp at V96, when I was right at the front, inches away from Jarvis sitting on the steps at the Village Underground gig. The gig at V96 was huge - I could barely see the band through the density of the crowd and the distance, but the excitment was massive. So it was felt a bit surreal that 14 years later, I was seeing Jarvis at a gig that was almost the complete opposite of the first time I'd seen him, and yet it still felt as good.
Oh that is totally wicked Anet! How wonderful! I saw Pulp for the first time live at Glasto 98, and it was almost the same as you describe it, I was at the front, but very very far away from the band, it was amazing, and a couple of weeks at the village underground, so intimate! So happy Jarvis is still making amazing music... he is so talented, bless him!
