Oh to live in New York. For the next week or so at least, especially if you're a Pulp fan. The band is visiting the city next week to play their first North American shows in over a decade; and in the build up singer Jarvis Cocker has arrived a week early and has a series of Jarvis-centered events planned around the city. Starting tomorrow, April 5, until Sunday, he's unearthing his Relaxed Muscle side-project for a series of shows at the Whitney Museum. As Art in America reports, Relaxed Muscle will "play live on Whitey Museum's fourth floor...alongside (British dancer, choreographer, artist) Michael Clark's dance company, organized as a part of the Whitney's Biennial." Tickets are required to attend, and advanced tickets are already gone, but the Whitney website encourages "anyone unable to get entry tickets to join the stand-by line which forms a half-hour before each performance." So that sounds promising. And while I normally don't get too excited about anything involving modern dancers, the chance to see Jarvis in a fairly intimate setting, let alone Jarvis as his hilariously named Relaxed Muscle alter-ego, Darren Spooner, barking the lyric "drugs, Mary, fucking drugs!" at an entourage of modern dancers would just be too strange to pass up.
Then, lucky New York Pulp fans, once we're done at the Whitney tomorrow night, April 5th, Jarvis and his Relaxed Muscle bandmate Jason Buckle will be performing a DJ set at the Tribecca Grand Hotel as part of an exhibition after party for the opening of photographer Jesse Frohman's Kurt Cobain exhibit at the Morrison Hotel Gallery. New York band The Virgins (remember The Virgins?!) will also be performing a live set at that event. Then, of course, Pulp takes the stage at Radio City Music Hall for two shows next week: Tuesday April 10 (with the Chromatics opening) and Wednesday April 11 (Jeffrey Lewis opening). Then they're off to do a couple of sets at Coachella as well as few other dates around the Golden State. After that, if appears the North American tour is finito
So enjoy, New Yorkers. The rest of us? Well, for now let's just listen to Relaxed Muscle track "Mary" after the jump and hope for more Pulp dates to be announced.
***Update April 5: While these aren't the tour updates I was hoping for, Jarvis has been in the news this morning. First, he is shockingly not a fan of the X-Factor and has some very sage views of why TV singing competitions are antithetical to "good music" (read about that here). Secondly, Gigwise is reporting that Jarvis has teased us with the possibility that there might be new Pulp material to-come in the future. The band's last studio record was the Scott Walker-produced We Love Life in 2001.
Relaxed Muscle, "Mary"
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