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Great Expectations. Tickets for both shows can be purchased here and here.Upon hearing the news, Izzard previously said in reply to a tweet by Billy Bragg: “Totally agree with Billy.

the iconic Sheffield venue and club told music fans of the “devastating news that in one year’s time, our Landlord is trying to evict us, forcing us to close” – leading to an outpouring of upset and support from the music world.The current bosses of Sheffield’s Leadmill then responded to the owners denying their intentions to close the venue. Leaders of Electric Group, the company who bought the freehold for the site of the Leadmill in March 2017, argued that they’d be removing the current management but keeping the building as a music venue after renovations.The current management then hit back, arguing that they were being “exterminated by the landlord”.“They are destroying our business by evicting us,” they said in a statement to NME.

Jarvis Cocker, Warren Ellis and PJ Harvey are among those set to appear at Southbank Centre this summer as part of its Summer Literature Season.The long list of events are set to take place from May to September, featuring a diverse range of musicians and authors, renowned thinkers and contemporary poets.Cocker, who releases his new memoir Good Pop, Bad Pop on May 26, is set to take to the venue’s Royal Festival Hall’s stage the following day (May 27), where he will talk through the text, which dives into his time with Pulp as well as his creative process.June 2 will see PJ Harvey read poems from her new book Orlam, the first full-length book written in the Dorset dialect for decades. She will also be joined by poet Paul Muldoon in conversation.Warren Ellis – who joined forces with Nick Cave last year for the album ‘Carnage’ – will be discussing last year’s autobiography, Nina Simone’s Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost And Found, on September 15.Tickets for all the events on Southbank’s programme are available to purchase here from Wednesday (March 30).Last month, PJ Harvey teased that she’s back in the studio working on new music. The iconic singer-songwriter shared a series of black and white photos of herself in the studio, taken by Steve Gullick.Dated 2022, the three pics show Harvey playing a guitar, fiddling with some guitar pedals, and sitting in front of a mic stand. No further information or context has been shared.

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Jarvis Cocker‘s JARV IS… recently composed the score for new BBC comedy drama This Is Going To Hurt and you can now listen to the full soundtrack below.The show, which premiered earlier this month on BBC1, stars Ben Whishaw as a junior doctor in the NHS. JARV IS…have written and performed the original soundtrack for the show, which is based on Adam Kay’s award-winning international multi-million selling memoir of the same name.The soundtrack, which Cocker described as “our love song to the NHS”, was recorded at Narcissus Studios throughout 2021 and most of the performances are live takes featuring the entire band – often recorded whilst they watched the playback of key sequences from the series.Each episode features at least one song with lyrics by Cocker, who had access to the scripts (adapted by Adam Kay from his own book) from an early stage in the production process.You can listen to the soundtrack here:JARV IS… This Is Going To Hurt Soundtrack  1: ‘This is Going to Hurt’2: ‘Visiting Hours’3: ‘Adam’s Nightmare’4: ‘Dark Wave’5: ‘Dare To Love’6: ‘Shruti’7: ‘Job Description’8: ‘Difficult C Section’9: ‘Fuck This’10: ‘Just Another One of Those Days’11: ‘All I Have is Yours’12: ‘Shruti (The Golden Thread)’Elsewhere, Jarvis Cocker is set to release new memoir Good Pop, Bad Pop later this year.Set to arrive on May 26 through Vintage Publishing, Cocker describes the book as an “inventory”. It’s centred around the former Pulp frontman coming across “a jumble of objects that catalogue his story” while clearing out his loft, with the various ephemera used as a jumping off point to reflect on Cocker’s life and career.

Jamie xx, JARV IS…, and Freddie Gibbs.The three-day event, which was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, will return to Helsinki, Finland between August 12-14. It’s set to host around 150 artists at the historical Suvilahti, a former power plant area in the city.Today (March 16), organisers have unveiled a bevy of new names for the festival.

Jarvis Cocker‘s JARV IS… have composed the score for new BBC comedy drama This Is Going To Hurt – listen to its self-titled theme tune below.The new show, which premiered earlier this month, stars Ben Whishaw as a junior doctor in the NHS.Its soundtrack includes indie classics, from The Maccabees, Radiohead, Florence + The Machine and more, as well as original music by Cocker and his band.Listen to JARV IS…’s ‘This Is Going To Hurt’ as the first track on a new BBC Radio 1 playlist here. Cocker’s full score for the show is set to be released later this year via Rough Trade.Elsewhere, Jarvis Cocker is set to release new memoir Good Pop, Bad Pop later this year.Set to arrive on May 26 through Vintage Publishing, Cocker describes the book as an “inventory”.

Jarvis Cocker and Riton have shared a new collaboration based around climate change and billed as “the world’s first sustainable banger” – listen to ‘Let’s Stick Around’ below.The song arrives to mark the end of the COP26 climate change conference, which has seen world leaders converging in Glasgow over the past month to tackle the environmental issues facing the planet.“‘Let’s Stick Around’ is the world’s first sustainable banger,” Cocker said of the song, with Riton adding: “I’m really excited this track is coming out during COP26.

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Jarvis Cocker has discussed his cameo in the fourth Harry Potter film, revealing that he chose his own wardrobe as he wasn’t a fan of the clothes given to him.Cocker performed at the Yule Ball in Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire as part of fictional band The Weird Sisters alongside Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood and Phil Selway.Speaking to Stereogum in a new interview, Cocker spoke about how the opportunity arose, and how he ended up taking matters into his own hands.“There’s the big Yule Ball scene so the word went out asking people to write songs so I submitted and they liked it,” the Pulp frontman explained.“I thought they were just going to have the song playing in the film, then they asked me to be in it.

David Bowie helped to "save" him after his famous stage invasion of Michael Jackson during the 1996 Brit Awards.The Pulp frontman walked onstage during Jackson's performance of Earth Song leading to his arrest where he was held by police on suspicion of assault.The singer said in a statement released at the time that his actions were "a form of protest at the way Michael Jackson sees himself as some kind of Christ-like figure".Cocker, 56, explained to The New York Times: “There was an accusation that I’d knocked some kids off the stage. I’d been arrested.

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