Tag: Jarvis Cocker
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Zarelli and Leonard Nimoy
Just heard this on Jarvis Cocker’s return show on 6Music, and it seems a great tribute to Leonard Nimoy who died yesterday to post a track from a new album featuring him from Zarelli called Soft Rains. Zarelli is Carwyn Ellis, frontman for Colorama and collaborator with Edwyn Collins, amongst many things. I’ve just bought…
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Singing Together
Schools musical programs are amazing, and one of the longest running in the UK was ‘Singing Together’ on BBC Radio, where kids sang along with songs live across the country. Jarvis Cocker presents this fascinating elegy for the live music show that taught children songs but without National Curriculum nor testing, just a joy of…
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The Nest of Giants
And from Norway to Iceland, where Vice has this interesting documentary about Icelandic Strongmen, including my favourite Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (can’t think why *cough*), more famous as The Mountain in Game of Thrones. Really I MUST visit Iceland some day…but maybe when it’s less cold? 😉 And if you have a taste for Iceland and…
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You’ll never work in television again
A friend posting the infamous Orbital video lead to a journey into those musical moments where bands not only rebelled, refused to do as they were told, or just plain failed and created classic moments of TV. In the case of Orbital – Chime this is where a dispute over miming lead the Hartnoll brothers…