Richard Hawley

We have a great day of live music lined up for you this Saturday at Rough Trade East. To get things started at 12 noon we have indie pop darlings Help Stamp Out Loneliness & The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart then continuing later we have Jarvis Cocker.
Rough Trade East In-store - HELP STAMP OUT LONELINESS / THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART - Saturday 16th May, 12 noon

NO WRISTBAND OR GUEST LIST NEEDED, JUST COME DOWN AT LUNCHTIME

Rough Trade East are proud to announce a special lunchtime double header from Help Stamp Out Linelinees & The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart from 12 noon. No wristband needed just get down for 12 noon & enjoy.

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
Rough Trade favourites The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are a New York four-piece who play genius noisy pop songs with boy/girl vocals, blissful melodies, fuzz guitar and blistering drums. Despite only having been together for just over a year, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are - along with their fellow Brooklyn scenesters The Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts - one of the buzz American bands of the moment. Indeed, their self-titled debut album on Fortuna POP! was named by Pitchfork as one of the five most anticipated releases of the year and their single "Come Saturday" featured on Rough Trade's prestigious Counter Culture compilation for 2008. Thrilling and insouciantly cool, they might just be the most exciting indiepop band on the planet right now.


HELP STAMP OUT LONELINESS
Fresh out of nowhere and featuring Colm and Bentley from indie popsters Language Of Flowers, Help Stamp Out Loneliness - named after a Nancy Sinatra song, of course - are, in their own words, "a lounge-gaze-krautpop band". It's singer D. Lucille Campbell who's the real star here though, her Siouxsie glamour and Nico-esque vocals make a unique mix when coupled with the band's poppy Stereolab-ish tunes. New single "Pacific Trash Vortex" is out soon on WIAIWYA records.

Rough Trade East In-store - JARVIS COCKER - Saturday 16th May, 7.00pm
DON'T FORGET TO PURCHASE THE ALBUM ON THE DAY OF THE IN-STORE AT ROUGH TRADE EAST AND COLLECT YOUR WRISTBAND FOR THE INSTORE PERFORMANCE AT THE SAME TIME, OR COLLECT YOUR WRISTBAND 1 HOUR PRIOR TO GIG, FIRST-COME-FIRST-SERVED BASIS- ONE PER PERSON

YOU CAN BUY THE RECORD & PICK UP A WRISTBAND FROM THE MAN HIMSELF, FROM 4PM ONWARDS (JARVIS IS HELPING OUT BEHIND THE COUNTER).

Jarvis Cocker has been making music for two-thirds of his life. Two dozen of these years (1978 - 2002) were spent in Pulp, a group with whom he enjoyed most of the experiences you can have as the singer in a band. First feted by John Peel and then ignored during the long Dole Years, the group eventually became the country's slowest overnight sensation during a heady period book-ended by 'Common People' becoming a touchstone anthem at their Glastonbury headline slot in 1995, and Jarvis invading the stage during Michael Jackson's performance at the Brit Awards eight months later.

With hindsight, most things that happened to Pulp before or after can be defined in their relation to these twin events, as emblems of sought-after success and its darker cousin, over-bearing fame. The early, striving under-achiever albums ('It', 'Separations', 'Freaks'); the gradual pop awakening ('Intro', 'His'n'Hers'); the commercial culmination ('Different Class'); the comedown ('This Is Hardcore') and the final, bittersweet swansong ('We Love Life').

Over this time, Jarvis went from being the quintessential outsider to being one of the most recognised and cherished figures in Britain. He brought a rare, bookish wit to the pop charts, and cut an original dash in a rock'n'roll world of dominated by reductive clich.

After Pulp, Jarvis consoled himself with semi-retirement, moving to Paris, making occasional media appearances to talk about Outsider Art, Scott Walker or other personal crusades, and sometimes writing songs for others (Marianne Faithfull, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nancy Sinatra and Air). No longer identifying with the 'Jarvis Cocker' of the public imagination, he tried an alter-ego band (the electro-Goth Relaxed Muscle), in an effort to try and rid himself of some of the un-parental thoughts coursing through his ever febrile imagination.

He wrote three songs for, and briefly appeared in, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', and took part in the 'I'm Your Man' tribute to Leonard Cohen around the globe, as well as appearing on an album of Serge Gainsbourg songs.

Sooner or later - as he himself recently observed (in another song written for Lee Hazlewood) - the big stuff comes around, however. And Jarvis was forced to confront the fact that he was, in fact, ill equipped for life outside the performance arena. And so, he started writing songs to be sung by himself again. One of the first to emerge was the sensational 'cunts Are Still Running The World', written in response to the rock-cum-politics love-in of the G8 summit in Glasgow. The song enjoyed a protracted life as a firm download favourite, given its unsuitability for the delicate sensibilities of radio.

The appearance of his debut solo album 'Jarvis' at the end of 2006 was greeted with an open-armed goodwill it is hard to imagine being reserved for many other singers.

After picking up these raving reviews, he toured with his band around Europe, USA and Australia in 2007. Jarvis also guest-edited the Observer Music Monthly, curated the Southbank Centre's Meltdown Festival and performed a duet with The Gossip's Beth Ditto for the NME Awards. They covered fellow Sheffield band Heaven 17's 'Temptation', which was later released to profit Shelter, a charity which battles homelessness.

In 2008, Jarvis premiered his lecturing skills with 'Saying The Unsayable', a talk about lyrics at the Brighton Festival. He repeated it at In The City later that year, just after returning from a two week long trip to the North Pole with Cape Farewell, an organization which takes a few select artists and scientists on a journey through the Arctic each year to see the affects of climate change firsthand. He also celebrated Rough Trade Records' 30th anniversary with the 'Looking Rough at 30' tour and guest-edited BBC Radio 4's prestigious 'Today' programme. All this between recording his anticipated follow-up album, 'Further Complications', with Steve Albini in Chicago, which Rough Trade will release on May 18th (UK)/ May 19th (US).

We have the album to sell exclusively early for this in-store.

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Hey Ho, Let's Go!

Nice blurb.....I see the record company has got the press machine rolling for Jarvis....I also know a bit about Jarvis in the early Pulp years too...I've seen him drunk ..smoking a roll up and coughing at the same time after gigs and in the Leadmill....(you had to be there !!) ..getting out the back of a van after doing a gig in the middle of the night to do a NME interview at a motel room north of Watford Gap on the M1 (dodgy, but all above board one hopes...)...and then asking the guy for a lift back to civlisation....Good days and massive nights on Division Street in Sheffield....Seeing Jarvis struggling to keep a straight face when I asked Russell what the fuck being a DADA member was all about and was it legal ? seeing Magnus going wild on the drums for a finale of a song and as he stood up he knocked the seat top off the drum stool then sitting down heavily in the pole sticking up where the seat cover should have been....and letting out an enormous yell...which frightened half the audience (the other half had closed their eyes and ears in anticipation by this time)....and the young lovers the Romeo and Julliet of the Sheffield Band Scene... Candice and Manners (pete mansell).....it was a band who had a little bit of everything for everyone with all tastes included....even Tim Allcard who I later thought of as my Dress Sense Guru..he had an calming aura which made you feel good about yourself.....who used to be the caretaker at the old band rehearsal studios down the wicker....I was sorry to see it split....the later band didn't have the same enthusiasm, ambiance or atmosphere...(taking nothing away from them muscially)... maybe they'll get a crazy idea to have a reunion night of old band members one day...Mr Morality with Steve Genn were always good for a laugh..their famous gig at Reading University ended with Wild Thing by the Troggs....after 5 encores along with plumes of mist from a dicky smoke machine that was enough for anyone...Terry and Jane will live forever...as a long Dogs are Everywhere...

There's more from Jarvis here:

Friends of Jarvis,

Have you all seen the video to new single Angela? If not, simply click
the following blue button to acquaint yourself: http://bit.ly/8yXQX.

For anyone wondering, the footage was taken from a series of Jarvis curated
events that took place last week in a Parisian art Gallerie. Over 40,000
tuned in live to a feed of the proceedings, but thankfully for those who
missed out an assortment of best bits has assembled itself here:
http://bit.ly/7rt1A

But thats all in the past now, lets hear about the future! We have an
exciting Saturday planned for you, but it is perhaps a prelude compared to
Mondays happenings, but then theres always Tuesday... So in handy
chronological order, heres what were talking about:

Saturday 16th May

Rough Trade East
4pm Jarvis will be serving behind the counter! If you buy a vinyl record
from him youll get one of his special carrier bags to take it home in.
7pm Jarvis will be giving a live in store performance.

Loose Ends on Radio 4
6:15pm Jarvis will be giving an interview and performance, you can of
course, listen live or digest at leisure via listen again:
http://bit.ly/t5nMN

Monday 18th May

00:01am Further Complications. is physically released! Though it is
also available digitally from Sunday.

HMV Oxford Street
Midday Jarvis will once again be attending to your musical needs from
behind the counter, same rules apply with the bags.

Resident Records Brighton
5pm Your last chance to catch Jarvis behind the counter and grab yourself
a one off vinyl carrier bag.



Tuesday 18th May

6Music
5:45pm Live acoustic session and interview with Steve Lamacq, once again
you can decide to listen live or again: http://bit.ly/tAGh

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First You Tube video - not bad, only took them 2.5 hours to get it on line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mMxXfn82Gs

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There's a raven in the distance, his inscription's all around you, you can't hide

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https://cousteaux.com/music

The 'carrier bags' are fairly sturdy tote bags, white fabric with the album cover printed on them and long handles.

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There's a raven in the distance, his inscription's all around you, you can't hide

https://www.facebook.com/LiamMcKaheyandtheBodies
https://cousteaux.com/music

Serious jealously!!!

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I didn't get one though as I bought the CD - keep your eye on e-bay as I bet a lot of them get sold on there.

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There's a raven in the distance, his inscription's all around you, you can't hide

https://www.facebook.com/LiamMcKaheyandtheBodies
https://cousteaux.com/music

Ahh, good idea

Longer video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpiMVGFZchg

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Blimey, any more tales from seeing Pulp in t'80s?
Great stuff!