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JARVIS COCKER WEEK!
Part One. Jarvis on The Internet
13 Nov 2006

 
As you might have noticed, we're big fans of Jarvis Cocker and his solo works here at PlayLouder. So we thought why not have a week celebrating him in the newses.

PlayLouder recently spoke to Mr. Cocker about subjects diverse, including the internent, being a dad, France, and his thoughts on the current state of the British art school.

First up, the internet. When he first reappeared, with trademark specs peering over the top of his mySpace page, it was clear Jarvis was being entirely canny about getting new song 'Cunts Are Still Running The World' heard by a wide audience that were hardly going to discover it in the middle of Jo Whiley... But that's not all. Unlike many stars of his age and profile, Jarvis communicates with his fans through a blog, while he's been recording podcasts of short stories that sound like the much-missed Jackanory. Here's what he had to say about the flickering medium on which PlayLouder is builted:

Jarvis Cocker on: The Internet

"That was one of the good developments that's happened since I last relased a record. The internet did exist and people had websites and things like that, but there was none of that mySpace thing. It was a godsend for me, because I'd written this song that I'd kind of surprised myself with. I liked the song but I knew it didn't have a cat in hell's chance of getting played on the radio, so the fact that you could just put it up on mySpace and see what happened was really good.

"[On the internet] There just doesn't seem to be much coming between you and the people who listen to you, which I always think is a good thing. That's the thing I like about music. I've got friends who are painters and things like that, and they have to have a much more personal relationship with their dealer, who'll go and find someone to buy their paintings. You have to go to dinner and be friends with people. The thing I like about music is you do something, you put it out, I suppose you have to try and let peole know that it exists, but in the end people have to decide whether to buy it or not. It's reasonably democratic in that respect, it's not like all the taste is being made by other people. It seems fairly simple, your relationship with the people who listen to you."