I think he should present us with new music.

Certainly is! 

Tomorrow, isn't it? Hasn't he said that he just wants to forget that it's happening?!

I remember when Weller turned 50 one of the music monthlies released a special magazine on his career to mark the occasion. I wondered at the time if Jarvis would get similar treatment but I guess his output is only about half that of Weller's and anyway those kinds of publications are more dad-rock friendly.

There might be a bit more Pulp than normal played on the radio tomorrow - I'm sure there are other DJ's who do a On This Day/ Famous Birthdays Today kind of thing.

I hope there's something in some music magazine...I will always remember Jarvis's birthday because it falls on the same day as my geriatric Jack Russell Terrier, Chance, who is turning 16 tomorrow...

Well I tried to get a Pulp earworm on Shaun Keaveny, possibly because I only sent it in when I got up at 10 to 8, 10 minutes before they do the feature. 

triciathetree wrote:

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I'd say he's doing pretty good for 50. Maybe we should all chip in and get him a bottle of shampoo.

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 Brilliant. 

Yes, happy birthday, Jarvis.

You are right, Eamonn, Jarvis did say he didn't want to think about it but I think he will embrace his fifties once he's got that milestone birthday celebrated and out of the way. He still looks young for his age (underneath that beard and the glasses) and, assuming he's managed to kick the fags, he'll probably make 100. So he's only at the half-way point... (This is what I tell myself, too).

Happy Birthday Jarvis.

NME have done a feature on their site btw - 50 Jarvis quotes which is nice.

He's talked about quitting smoking on the radio. I think he has had some sort of respitatory problems. He has also talked about taking winter holidays in warm countries for the same reason, apart from being very pleasant presumably. Sarah on here got cross with him for having a go at Mark about summat in one of the reunion gigs and I later heard him talk about that a bit sheepishly but blamed it on steroids. I have a friend who had to take a course of steroids for something a while back and he went quite strange on them, so it's not entirely implausible. Even Richard Hawley has given up apparently.

Myron Wagtail wrote:

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Panther, did you just say he has quit smoking? I'm surprised.

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Myron, I don't know that he has, I am just guessing. I understand he has tried to several times and it strikes me that the beginning of a new half-century, psychologically speaking, would be an ideal time to quit. Also, no one's luck goes on forever and that scares a lot of people into stopping at around Jarvis's age.

Personally, I hope he lives to a ripe old age, as I always like to see what he is going to do next...

 

 

Oh, if he did that's brill.