Jarvis Cocker To Speak On Lyrics, Discourage Looking At Program During His Lecture

 The man who kindly asked listeners to not read the lyric booklet while listening to his band’s masterpiece Different Class–perhaps because he was drunk while writing 90% of said words, and nursing a hell of a hangover whle penning the remaining 10%–may seem like an odd choice for a symposium on the art of the lyric, but let’s face it: I’d listen to Jarvis Cocker ruminate on the art of display-ad placement in phone books if I could. On May 23 he’ll hold a talk (complete with PowerPoint slides!) called “Saying the Unsayable” at the Brighton Festival in the UK, and it’ll apparently touch on the lyrics to “Louie Louie” as well as the words sung by the likes of Pete Doherty and Hot Chocolate frontman Errol Brown. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the talk’s already sold out, but surely someone reading can sneak their way in and give us a report? Please? [Brighton Festival via Guardian]

 
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  1. Anonymous  |   Posted on Apr 9th, 2008

    someone should speak to jarvis about updating that laptop. seriously.

  2. gofreescout  |   Posted on Apr 9th, 2008

    I thought he was gazing at the back of a bus seat.

  3. Anonymous  |   Posted on Apr 9th, 2008

    An odd choice for a symposium on the art of the lyric?

    He is only second to Stephin Merritt as the greatest lyricist to emerge from the 1980s onward.

  4. Maura Johnston  |   Posted on Apr 10th, 2008

    @NotPop: Just in time for EMP, at that!

  5. NotPop  |   Posted on Apr 10th, 2008

    @menyc:Ingredients: Jam packed with wriggly worms.

    and you just went and opened that can?

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