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“It’s not as if Jarvis cracked Michael Jackson on the head with a baseball bat, which is what I woulda done.” Oasis had a lot of fun annoying everyone at the 1996 Brit Awards

The 1996 Brit Awards was Oasis' night, even if Pulp's Jarvis Cocker versus Michael Jackson became the front page story

Louder

The 13 most iconic Glastonbury Festival performances ever

As Glastonbury 2024 approaches, we run through the 13 sets that have defined the festival over its lifespan

Louder

“Steve should have been here for this festival, and it would be nice if you all think of him”: Pulp and PJ Harvey pay tribute to Steve Albini at Primavera Sound

The Spanish festival also named a stage after the late producer and noise rock provocateur

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More than 100 acts quit Great Escape music festival in solidarity with Palestine

Brighton event’s opening showcase scrapped after performers join Massive Attack and Brian Eno in boycott of sponsor Barclays

The Guardian - UK

"It was a perfect moment of rock’n’roll bedlam”: the inside story of the night Jarvis Cocker wiggled his bum at Michael Jackson at the Brits, by the man who took him

The Pulp singer took exception at Jackson's messianic act and one of the most famous stage invasions ever occured

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Inside the rental secretly transformed with mythical beasts and murals saved from landlords by Jarvis Cocker

Outsider artist Ron Gittins incredible home makeover was kept a secret until his death. Now it’s been preserved for posterity by fans including Jarvis Cocker

Evening Standard

Ron’s Place: Birkenhead flat of outsider art granted Grade II listing

Victory for campaigners and conservators as elaborately decorated property is honoured with protected status

The Guardian - UK

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“So, the encore continues": Pulp share dates for their first North American tour since 2012

Jarvis Cocker's reunited BritPop misfits announce first shows in the US and Canada for over a decade

Louder

From Dylan to Ishiguro: can song lyrics ever be literature?

A new book of lyrics by Kazuo Ishiguro joins collections by Kate Bush and Jarvis Cocker. But can songwriting ever work on the page?

The Guardian - UK

‘It was a dark time’: Pulp’s keyboardist Candida Doyle on being diagnosed with arthritis at the age of 17

Diagnosed as a teenager with rheumatoid arthritis, the musician hid her condition from her bandmates and friends. But as the pain subsided after the menopause, acceptance of her body grew

The Guardian - UK

‘I’d sell a kidney for a Jarvis Cocker Spitting Image puppet!’ The collectors who’ll do anything for a TV treasure

They trawl auctions, hunt through archives – and sometimes end up with a decomposing latex head. Meet the people who will stop at (almost) nothing to get a legendary prop

The Guardian - UK

‘The story tells itself’: Richard Hawley, Sheffield’s greatest export, gets city’s biggest honour

The acclaimed singer and composer is ‘mind-blown’ after receiving the coveted maker’s mark

The Guardian - UK

If the idea of Shane McGowan, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and Pete Doherty singing Disney classics together sounds like an acid-fried fever dream, trust us, the reality was even weirder

Three of alternative music's leading forces (and Pete Doherty) delivering a night of avant garde Disney classics? If it sounds weird, that's because it was

Louder

This is Hardcore: new book explores the visual world of Pulp’s seminal album

Through unseen photography and exclusive interviews, the book documents the band’s creative processes

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Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls: ‘I’d like to collaborate with Mozart. I know chords he’s never used’

The bass player legend, played by Harry Shearer in the film This Is Spinal Tap, talks facial hair, courgettes and how to break out of a cocoon

The Guardian - US

‘His work seems endless’: music stars pay tribute to the incredible life of Moondog

The eccentric musician, dressed like a Viking playing songs on the streets of New York, is being celebrated by names such as Rufus Wainwright and Jarvis Cocker on a new album

The National (Scotland)

Pulp announced as headline act for Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations

PULP have been announced as the headline act for this year’s Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Wes Anderson is the most overrated and self-satisfied director

Anderson’s tics of stars playing two-dimensional oddballs, doll’s house design, and a confected mournfulness create work that feels superficially deep, and deeply superficial

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‘Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher’ – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme

Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?

Louder

A beginner’s guide to Britpop in five essential albums

It was an indie phenomenon that changed everything: here’s five classic records that defined Britpop

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“For three days we had people screaming at us as if we were The Beatles”: Jarvis Cocker on the time that Pulp and Radiohead formed a supergroup to appear in a Harry Potter film

Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker enlisted Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and drummer Phil Selway for a scene in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

Louder

"You will remember this show for the rest of your life": Pulp's triumphant homecoming sees Jarvis Cocker's BritPop heroes shoot for the moon

Pulp's spectacular Sheffield set may conjure up BritPop nostalgia, but their epic, dramatic homecoming also delivers so much more

The Guardian - UK

Shake, rattle and write: why the music memoir is booming

From Bono to Jarvis Cocker, Bruce Springsteen to Cosey Fanni Tutti, the last decade has seen an explosion of books by artists from every walk of musical life. Why is this once-rare genre striking a chord with stars and readers alike?

Wales Online

Pulp in Cardiff review: Britpop favourites prove nothing's changed as they thrill original fans and new generation

Jarvis Cocker and the rest of the band were at Cardiff International Arena as part of their latest string of dates

The Guardian - UK

‘On best behaviour, he was a joy’: the lost archive of English pop eccentric Vivian Stanshall

The man best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band was brilliant but volatile, and met an untimely end. Now his unfinished work has been rescued

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