Pulp's Jarvis Cocker tells his life story through the contents of his loft - BBC Newsnight

Jarvis Cocker on the memorable contents of his loft, whether he’d write some of his Pulp lyrics about sex and consent now and growing up in Sheffield in the 80s during Thatcherism. Please subscribe HERE bit.ly/1rbfUog
Would Jarvis Cocker write some of the lyrics he wrote for Pulp back then about sex, consent and voyeurism?
The singer-songwriter has penned a memoir - Good Pop, Bad Pop - and put together an exhibition at the Gallery of Everything based on some of the contents of his loft.
He talks through some of the items with Victoria Derbyshire - from an exercise book with his Pulp masterplan to break into the music industry to used packet of Lemsip.
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[@thinkbeforeleap]

Met him outside Knitting Factory in NYC decades ago. A genuine friendly chap. Love his music, brilliant lyrics. My youth, my band .

[@cacaotocacao]

Absolutely love all of their songs, especially the ones in "This is Hardcore". Jarvis is a legend.

[@kevinkibble8342]

This Is Hardcore is a masterpiece, but so horribly overlooked.

[@kimbercole2438]

I'm fiall and tool of My double - stwould?P\ , ☆ ' ! I​@@kevinkibble8342

[@vandolmatzis8146]

The pic of Jarvis and Leonard brought tears to my eyes.

[@rmoalxa]

Who is leanord.

[@vandolmatzis8146]

@@rmoalxa Leonard Cohen,Singer Songwriter One of the pics on his wall,a cool dude from the seventies,imo

[@rmoalxa]

@@vandolmatzis8146 oh ye missed that

[@isitfashion]

Many years ago I went to Reading to see The Strokes, when I left all I could think of was how good his live was.

[@fionabrown4466]

My love for this man knows no bounds. One of the best song writers and front men of our time.

[@savannahglebe5165]

Fcuk me you need to get out more…

[@TheMisslisaemm]

Agree ❤️👌

[@meghancalahan4798]

Agreed and co-signed. He’s everything 💕💕

[@misssjustice3791]

In my 44 years of life he is the only famous person I would love to meet.

[@esranuryalcin5032]

⁠@@misssjustice3791 I was thinking the same while I was watching the video. I am from Turkiye, and I guess it’s amazing that he (Pulp) has such a big place in my adolescence and my heart.

[@mikeoxlong8522]

I remember nearly falling over Jarvis in GT news in firth park sheffield many moons ago, I think he was sat on the floor reading an article on Pulp in Smash hits magazine... proper rock n roll..🤣🤣

[@dessi894]

I wish I could come to UK for a concert... Jarvis, come to Sofia, Bulgaria, make a concert... It would be FANTASTIC!!! ❤️

[@misssjustice3791]

I wish they could come back to Atlanta Ga. I could go because I am in SC a 3hr Dr.

[@krystinemuring6205]

damn yt algorithm sure knows i love jarvis/pulp

[@daddypig.5796]

I’m still blasting “ a different class “ out at full volume. Will never get old.

[@whoozworldizthis4221]

Absolute legendary songs that were the soundtracks to my teenage years and some of the most memorable times of my life Saw pulp twice in Australia Jarvis owned the stage

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

Jarvis Cocker is what James Acaster will look like in 20 years’ time.

[@jamesjackson-df1hi]

HAHA, ALWAYS THOUGHT SO MYSELF.

[@elmatwomey9106]

His and English legend...... Great front man, guitarist, writer, actor and poet

[@S7tronic]

Blur or Oasis? Pulp.

[@stellaboracay8077]

Blur

[@miriamfahey1361]

He's such a dude, love him

[@helendorian]

Love Pulp

[@dylanharkin8198]

nothing but love for jarv

[@SunShine-dk6rk]

Great musician and loved his art focused travel program,I often see the Junkers house he features on one of his programmes,Best wishes to everyone.

[@SunShine-dk6rk]

@Tom Joshua , Hi Tom, cheers for that.

[@janewright2800]

Love Pulp!!!💚

[@esranuryalcin5032]

This man is one of the best songwriters of our time, respect and much love❤✌️🤘

[@Lazy_Sundae]

I hope it includes his appearance as Rolf Harris on 'Stars in Their Eyes' 🤭

[@nickmaher7169]

Cheeky.

[@gaz4840]

I Spy, brilliant lyrics... " Can`t you see a giant walks amongst you seeing through your petty lives"

[@enzo999eww]

So happy I got to see Pulp at Cochella

[@richard7645]

"Your house was very small, with woodchip on the wall!" 🏠🎵🎸

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

Rancid Tie LOL!! Gotta love Jarvis.

[@wallacelovecraft8942]

Him talking about his life is alright.

[@Agerskiold]

Oh Yes 😎🙏🏻 Cheers from Denmark 🇩🇰

[@Lifestyle_TP]

I look so different with makeup that people say I’m a ‘shape-shifter’ kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHzdqWCFd7B-e80

[@LostHatProductions]

Oh no, this exhibition is only on for half a month and will be gone by the time I go to London 😢

[@fiacradoyle7474]

Jarvus is such a likeable guy .

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

Loved it when he called out Michael Jackson.

[@cindywebster8167]

Jarvis Your The Best!😊😊😊

[@Davidbowiealt]

It’s amazing, I think it could be anyone, but Jarvis was lucky, he did it. Destiny ? I don’t know but, I love Pulp, probably in a parallel universe, if I born in the UK, I could be “Jarvis Cocker” C-137

[@Mike-rw2nh]

‘All hail the weed in tweed’ - Bob Mortimer

[@youarewhatyouare]

The name says it all

[@Christianna73]

Cool.

[@tompanoname3579]

Why o why did camera almost instantly zoomed on citric acid?

[@marisolromero3898]

Te quiero mucho Jarvis

[@lisazihrul588]

Happy Birthday Jarvis!!😎

[@zebedep]

Interesting interview.

[@McGrogansSchool]

Talented guy. Pulp weren’t bad either.

[@franciscojose6496]

Bbc news information all the time congratulation

[@AngelaBasson-tt6wq]

Something really sweet about this, fancy having a dream at such a young age and fulfilling it ❤️ minus the duffle coats on stage.

[@manmarutoufu]

0:19

[@thephoenix3155]

I just wish Moby and Paul Oakenfold produced Pulps tracks and did remixes of Pulp tracks.😊

[@Paulstrickland01]

How is he a massive social vacuum and music juggernaut at the same time.

[@705johnnyboy]

awesome

[@nba1942]

1 john haggett Fuk what you saying it here 😠 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqvVl4aBa9WhprM Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 😠 5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😠😠 Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖 los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer

[@michaelmole5435]

What's the music in the very beginning

[@titteryenot4524]

@@Lazy_Sundae No. I was pished.

[@titteryenot4524]

@@Lazy_Sundae 🤓

[@titteryenot4524]

@@Lazy_Sundae If yer gonna be persnickety, yer missing a ‘?’ inside those quotation marks. Just sayin’.

[@titteryenot4524]

@@Lazy_Sundae Wrong! It *does* have a question mark.

[@yoannam.2243]

Do you remember the first time? by Pulp

[@brucevair-turnbull8082]

Some may argue that culture is becoming more democratised with open access to the internet. That would, however, be to ignore the magic power of the artefact. Perhaps this is why there is a revolt against streaming and a partial return to analogue formats.

[@davegadge1]

She studied Sculpture at saints martins college that’s where I...........................

[@markgreet3543]

Interesting guy.

[@j.burgess4459]

BBC getting in their little dig at "Thatcher's Britain" (and, of course, forgetting to mention the inconvenient fact that Jarvis Cocker's own mum was a Tory Party member and elected councillor for that party.)

[@royfr8136]

...a this is when I stole Common people from that Spanish band Mecano, the song los amantes....

[@tt-du6vc]

Yeah, nobody seems to point that out to him in interviews.

[@eduardoalfonso4509]

Oooooh 😮😮😮😮 I didn't notice this. And I have heard these songs times and times and times and . . . One of these two songs, I just heard it, just because I could not get off the bus while it was moving 🙂

[@misssjustice3791]

I found an interview I believe it was real but it could have been the radio pretending. But they played him that melody. It's the same melody but he sounded genuinely shocked. I think I saw it Wikipedia.

[@gonnabeayogi1445]

Imperial leather 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@williamgoss4691]

Cool. (I remember that used to be a word, the Word even, but I hv a feeling things hv changed a bit since then …)

[@danaddleman1857]

Anyone know the tune at 3.23?

[@agilebeast186]

Sheffield sex city

[@MM-qv6fi]

Sheffield: Sex City by Pulp

[@melodianasiz6010]

Wauw

[@johndavies4919]

What is that music with the groovy base line?

[@yoannam.2243]

In the beginning? Do you remember the first time? by Pulp

[@johndavies4919]

I think the third tune. Somebody tell me I'm hooked.

[@yoannam.2243]

@@johndavies4919 I'm gonna tell you every song thay used in the video so you can find the one you want. Mile End, Babies, Mis shapes and the one that I already told you. I think these are all songs they used. Everything by Pulp of course.

[@johndavies4919]

It was babies. Great service, thanks

[@oldthudman]

Wow.....And he looks like someone you'd want to emulate........right?

[@titteryenot4524]

What you got against Geography Supply Teachers?😳

[@tobywilliams707]

Jarvis Cocker tells his life story through the contents of his pants

[@suryanaray7942]

Honble UPA Chairperson Smt Soniagandhi madum please fight for to implement Ballot Paper voting system in next MP elections in 2024and to save democracy in india and public opinion in favour of Ballot Paper voting system and right to vote is fundamental right.public opinion is foundation of democracy

[@suryanaray7942]

In karnataka state day by day fear of gujarat type communal clashes law and order is totally collapsed. Democracy in danger peoples are feared.please to impose the President rule in the state and to protect the peoples in karnataka state

[@fdrshravankumaryadav1834]

Ok

[@Nitebreed]

Two little boys comes across different now eh?! 😂😂

[@Johan10cruyff]

There’s only one J.C

[@sallyraynor8984]

Chief remoaner

[@christophercurtis2893]

Another lockdown book.

[@stoufer2000]

.faaa ryte echo chamber distraction story

[@lilmojgrc2024]

lol

[@meh3247]

Jarvis Cocker looks like a malnourished and slightly younger James May.

[@coolcat6103]

Don’t care tbh too busy working ten hours a day for the basic human needs

[@nepalgunjbanke9165]

Second comment reply for me wow🤗👍️🤗🤟

[@titteryenot4524]

Is this one of your lifetime achievements?

[@israeldiegoriveragenius2th164]

No to vaccine passports, no to mandates and no to lockdowns.

[@thomasriley4963]

His life story who the hell is hero looked him up and like I said never herd of him period but hey he's brit so

[@richardpoulton5161]

Oh yes let’s only have videos where only Thomas Riley knows what’s going on. What were you trying to achieve with that comment honestly?

[@thomasriley4963]

@@richardpoulton5161 I was really curiouse as to who the hell he is never herd of him ever

[@onlyme219]

Try Google, it will help you if you're struggling

[@richardpoulton5161]

@@thomasriley4963 it shouldn’t really surprise you that there are human beings out there that you’ve never heard of

[@thomasriley4963]

@@richardpoulton5161 it dont but when displaying life story kinda like to know who why

[@lfeb]

Never heard of them, it's my age and I am into music and alternative lifestyles... Where where they? Playing behind churches?

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Mmm he was vaguely famous for a second but I don't know about a public display of his life is warranted?

[@titteryenot4524]

Well, it’ll be ‘warranted’ if thousands of folk show up; and they probably will.

[@Beatmyguest001]

Why not? If it doesn’t interest you then don’t see it.

[@sturchshaneai5362]

Hi javis, just wondering if you are still in contact with your god daughter Emma lea as I was ingadged to her when we was 16. 👍#1 One World Unite 😎 🤓 🤠

[@titteryenot4524]

*Jarvis *we were *engaged

[@sturchshaneai5362]

Sorry I can't spell 😂

[@titteryenot4524]

@@sturchshaneai5362 Nae probs, son. I won’t charge you this time.👍

[@sturchshaneai5362]

Didn't mean to be intrusive. I watched this clip and it just reminded me of Emma-lea and when we went to see her dad and uni friends and what it was like in his house back then. That was 26 years ago.

[@richardhart9204]

I once looked up the word, "pretentious," in an illustrated dictionary, and the entry was simply a photo of Jarvis Cocker.

[@fazertace6837]

In my dictionary it also has a picture of Jarvis Cocker. With the words “unwashed” and “tw*t”underneath it.

[@Lazy_Sundae]

I looked up the word 'jealousy' and it had a picture of Richard Hart and Fazertace.

[@fazertace6837]

@@Lazy_Sundae you love Jarvis Cocker THAT much eh? I apologise for insulting someone you’ll never know and who couldn’t care less if you’re alive or not. Have a nice day.

[@titteryenot4524]

@@fazertace6837 Yeah, and like you don’t dig people you’ll never know and who couldn’t give a flying fuck whether you exist or not. Hypocrite.

[@Lazy_Sundae]

@@fazertace6837 The only thing for which you should apologise is your appalling grammar.

[@glengamble526]

So, essentially…he’s built a museum for himself ABOUT himself…in his own home? Ok.

[@Ms.gnomer]

No, he set up an exhibit in an art museum that looks like his old room.

[@happyjonn9242]

who? he had his 5 minutes of fame 30 years ago.

[@onlyfacts9969]

Yet he is respected by everyone within music and you are a nobody.

[@starwarssiths4316]

So you obviously know who then lmao

[@prappsy3028]

You have no idea who he is yet you knew exactly how many minutes of fame he had and how many years ago he had it.

[@ellie-tk4jy]

Why has he got that horrible long thumbnail? 🤮🤮🤮

[@hamstermuffin1294]

I recently fell in love again with Common People. I need more Pulp in my life.

[@thembill8246]

I recently fell in love again with Common People. I need more Pulp in my life.

[@jonathanhadley2555]

Its all safe & corporate now:-(

[@hopehefright7471]

could literally listen to him talk for hours

[@hmq9052]

This dude was the 90s

[@SmartStr33t]

As an introvert growing up in the 1990s I remember leatning about sex from seedy joke books, a suggestive paragraph in an action novel, and underwear pages of a clothes catalogue. I can't really imagine what it would be like to learn about sex as a young teen nowadays given the resources freely available to all. Is it better or worse?

[@z6ppa325]

Worse

[@ingmarvanderhoek6314]

He is so brilliant in his geekiness. Great artist.

[@lunarsabbatical7906]

Jarvis doesn’t seem to have a big ego and can talk freely about the things a lot of people are shy about like sex

[@GohAhweh]

He doesn't have a big ego except when he jumps on stage during Michael Jackson's performance like a goofball

[@brokarisbelmico]

@@GohAhweh but that's not ego, it was just recklessness

[@GohAhweh]

@@brokarisbelmico No, it's ego. Jarvis has an inflated one.

[@brokarisbelmico]

@@GohAhweh From what I understand, he regrets having done that, at the time maybe he would understand your comment, but nowadays he does not.

[@ronniep9272]

@@GohAhweh it was Jackson who had the ego, acting like he was some sort of Jesus like saviour to children.

[@marielalla]

He’s absolutely right! Culture is becoming less accessible to people. Art higher education even more so. It seems that now more than ever you need to be very wealthy to be able to afford it.

[@stompinknowledge3968]

Build your own culture around you and you decide that the whole of it is accessible. I think art, likely for the worse, has become structurally coupled with class and political strata in its themes and subjects and in a way thats the normalised and standard fair of the consumer zeitgeist - skewed to reflect the tastes and preoccupations of wherever the largest market capitalisation lies. Hopefully its due to be changing and some sort of renaissance is inbound to pick up where the thread leading back to Grecian ideal '(art)forms' got dropped around the 90s-00s as the generation shift beyond the Cold War set in. Maybe I'm a just some headcase on a trip about it, but I sincerely feel (far shy of knowing) it was around then that some critical vessel in the fleets of the popular mind listed into maelstrom of history where Western art, at least, is concerned. It might explain why so much of whats contemporary or new resonates with audiences as blends of affected homage and appeal to nostalgia. Mistaking it for a common heritage, the culture's audience at large is left stranded and hell-bent on the auto-cannibalism of 'their metanarrative' as a pale imitation of progress-in-continuum. However, being that society's polycentric and semiotically mediated, nobody can say for sure what in fact that narrative was as there is no singular point in our narrative past we share vantage looking back upon - we just think there is while we don't think about it too much. The tragedy is considering - without certainty but a decent hunch - that by finding the thread, we could pick up with the art works of looking forward.

[@stompinknowledge3968]

Its a tragedy because to pick the thread up we're compelled to look back, to clarify. The predicament reminds me of Lot's wife in the Bible, turning to a pillar of salt when she looked back at God's razing of Sodom and Gomorrha. Damned salt, the biblical inversion of the feminine.

[@martybyrnemusic]

I'd love to hear him say more about how Culture is becoming less accessible. I think of TikTok and meme culture and that seems to be how young people are expressing themselves now. Music, as an artform, has lost its relevance in a highly visual world, which is a massive shame (especially for me, who makes a living out of music), but I can also appreciate how young people are embracing these technologies because, like us, when we were young, they have this intense need to express themselves and be heard.

[@bosspig746]

Went to see him last night at at talk such a nice guy signed my book and had a chat with him.

[@Cire6609]

I genuinely don’t think that a memoir from Jarvis would be self indulgent people want more of Jarvis himself he’s such a relatable and interesting person

[@seanod7157]

I love how fearless he is.

[@satvrday3460]

That guy ( Jarvis ) who did funny thing and ran around the stage while Michael jackson was performing "earth" song on brit award 96 LOL

[@hanselmansell7555]

When he got his bum out for Jackson he transcended the king of pop and instantly became a god 🙏

[@parvuspeach]

The Velvet Underground and Marmite, cant go wrong with that.

[@onlyme219]

Velvet Underground, yes Marmite, no f , , , , , , way, hate it

[@titteryenot4524]

Marmite is very Marmite.

[@llengsuch3426]

The World's Oldest Gawky Teenager

[@curlyteeth3097]

Keep ending up in a bar at bottom of Leeds briggate because they play to much pulp at 4am class band!

[@stellaboracay8077]

Love PuLP EVER, and love this coolest Man

[@vampireboy3767]

I met him yesterday and he was sooo nice 😊

[@jakeshairdressing2110]

Your a proper legend Jarvis! I actually spent the year 2000 with all the famous FHM girls at a private party! Lisa Snowdan dumped my mate for George Clooney hahaha 🎉

[@Mike_5]

This brings a whole new meaning to Loft Conversions

[@SummerMcGaha]

Can't wait to read this!! :D