Jarvis Cocker

2022 - 6 - 26

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Jarvis Cocker on the cave art that moved him to tears (The Guardian)

The profound impact of a carving of a horse's head in a cave at Creswell Crags.

And the thought of someone doing that: going to all that trouble to make marks that another person could then look at and understand in some way – in other words, someone learning to communicate what was on their mind – that felt like I was somehow looking at the beginnings of human art. I suddenly got a strong mental image of somebody, back in prehistory, probably laid on their back in this cramped, dark space, using whatever was at hand to make these marks on the wall. As I was looking at a small carving of a horse’s head, something strange happened to me.

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Glastonbury 2022: Jarvis Cocker criticises Roe v. Wade verdict (Far Out Magazine)

Former Pulp frontman, Jarvis Cocker, criticised the Roe v. Wade verdict during his set at Glastonbury this weekend before 'Cunts Are Still Running the ...

Cocker and band were performing on The Park Stage prior to Aussie rocker Courtney Barnett dazzling the audience with her hazy melodies. Today we’re changing it to pricks are still running the world.” But we changed the words the other day because they wouldn’t allow it to be on telly.”

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Jarvis Cocker speaks out on Roe v. Wade at Glastonbury 2022 (NME.com)

Jarvis Cocker expressed his outrage at the Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade during his Glastonbury set today.

Today we’re changing it to pricks are still running the world. In a four-star review, NME‘s Alex Flood called the JARV IS performance a “forward-looking set”. He added on the change of lyrics: “The comments spark huge cheers from the crowd, who only get louder as Cocker conducts them through a raucous singalong of the catchy chorus. Usually it’s c-words are still running the world. But we changed the words the other day because they wouldn’t allow it to be on telly. You wanna know a secret, girls? “We keep trying to stop playing this song and then things happen in the world and we have to keep playing it.

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The surreal film that Jarvis Cocker likened to Donald Trump's America (Far Out Magazine)

“This is not a question of being wrong or being right,” Jarvis Cocker recently sang on the environmental anthem 'Let's Stick Around' based on the recent ...

It is a strange testimony to how bipartisan America has become and it is an almost surreal sign of that in how clearly the times reflect a comic work of fractious fiction. Batman attempts to stop him, reasoning: ‘If our national leaders were elected on the basis of tricky slogans, brass bands and pretty girls, our country would be in a terrible mess, wouldn’t it?’ Hmmmm.” And there is one film amid Jarvis Cocker’s all-time favourites that he says offers up an eerie reflection of modern America in the wake of Trump’s presidential tirade.

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