"Very special guestS"???

Can't see how much tickets are for this. In my opinion tickets for these type of events should be free or a nominal amount given it's effectively promo for the book which most of the audience will buy anyway.
The book should be good, though judging from the article for Q he did on Britpop which I typed-up here the other week.

It's being put out by Faber, I see. Wonder if Jarvis had 'owt to do with that.

A couple of other book asides - anyone see that Morrissey has pulled out of his deal with Penguin to release his autobiography? It was meant to suddenly come out tomorrow (sans reviews or promo after initially being pencilled in for late last year followed by months of silence).

So he's unable to find a record label who will work with him and now publishers are pissed off with him. Do you think he ever considers for even a moment that it's his personality which hinders his work from being released these days? Instead of pissing and moaning to his fansite why doesn't he just follow his convictions and self-release everything he does, now? His fanbase is large enough for him to cover costs and you imagine the autobiog would sell far beyond fans of his music.
Edit: Just checked his site and it looks like him and Penguin have kissed and made-up. "As of 13 September, Morrissey and Penguin (UK) remain determined to publish within the next few weeks".

And also, I see that Sturdy's publisher for Truth and Beauty, Ominbus, have put out a Blur biography. Clearly, cashing-in on their reunion makes more commercial sense than with Pulp. (Review here from a hardcore Blur fan - http://www.blurliveaudioarchiveproject.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/review-life-of-blur.html). Maybe if it sells ok they might consider giving Mark a better advance for a revised T&B.

The London one will probably be twice as much!

I wonder if Jarvis will ever write an auto-biog, or any art/music related book. A pity there's only a small bit of new writing in MotherBrotherLover.

Lazy get.

I'm pretty sure he mentioned in an interview not too long ago - may have been while promoting MuvvaBruvvaLuvvah, that he still takes notes when phrases come to him. Think the example he gave was something to do with being served food "on a tray" at a takeaway. So I imagine he's got at least some ideas for lyrics.

And if he continues the practice recently mentioned on here of sending himself a voicemail and singing a melody that has just come to him, in theory he could have a lot of those stockpiled but because he's not sat down and specifically put songs together, he may be making light of his recent musical creativity.

When I met him at his first book signing in Oct '11 and said to him that I hoped he would carry-on writing music with or without Pulp, he frowned for a second, getting momentarily serious and said something like "Oh yeah, of course".

Yeah, I prefer to think that he's just got a lot of "rough drafts", or something similar, rather than having written next to nothing for a couple of years.

Jazza wrote:

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I'm going to this

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 Sheffield or London?

funnily enough just after I bought tickets I tuned into 6 music and they were talking about it with the women who was organising it all

If i wasnt going to be in London I would have booked for this.

So, how was this? No one reported back on it. Candida have much to say for herself? Saw/Jazza?

I did briefly pick up the book for a quick scan in Waterstones the other day. Saw a dubious mention of Pulp at the end of one chapter, commenting on the commercial and artistic "disappointment" of TIH (think a different word was used, negative anyway, which surprised me as Stanley is clearly a Pulp fan. Would have thought he understood Hardcore) and how the public didn't want to hear about Jarvis singing about tour-life watching porn. They wanted Billie Piper and her smile and teenage rebellion he notes.

-- Edited by Eamonn on Tuesday 22nd of October 2013 02:19:26 AM

It was quite good but sadly a little unstructured. It took the form of a kind of roundtable chat chaired by Dave Simpson (author of the excellent The Fallen about ex members of The Fall). Bob and Candida were both quite quiet actually. However, there were a couple of highlights from Candida, the first was when Bob suggested to her that she wasn't a songwriter for which he got a frosty look and a firm word to the contrary and secondly she went into quite some detail about the Michael Jackson incident where she clearly admitted to egging Jarvis off, she then ruefully admitted that she felt partly responsible for what had happened. It was a wonderful moment of understatement because everything she had said about the matter would lead you to understand that she was wholly responsible for the incident. There was a book signing after, Jazza got her ticket signed by Candida but I was too shy to get mine, what a fool I am!

It sounded like Bob wasn't wholly aware of the group's songwriting arrangements, he was talking about songwriting (can't remember what!) then suggested that may be a side she hadn't been involved in, or words to that effect. Good that she put him straight. I think she also mentioned how they sometimes played each others' instruments too, when writing songs, which I think I'd read somewhere before. Unless I'm getting confused.

I was too shy to get ticket or anything signed by Candida either, or ask any questions during the talk, though saw a couple of folk speaking to her at the end, and Bob signed my book and was chatting to a few folk but wimped out again on that front. All I managed to say was how to spell my name!