Where's the bit about drumming for Gay Dad.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
Cosmo first began making films at home on VHS when he was barely twelve. The technology might have been primitive but his storytelling already bore a level of sophistication – he would film the television and then film out of the window because that way he knew that he was telling a story.
fucking epic lols
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
Even if he wasn't such a cunt his "rapping" is hysterically inept anyway.
― You treat your step-mother with respect, Pantera (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
england: shut it down.
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
I guess kudos to him for making money off of embarrassing the shit out of his mom...?
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
BTW this is the kind of shit that my oldest boy will ask me if I've heard in 2 months time and then tell me he's awesome.
― You treat your step-mother with respect, Pantera (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
That Dean Heslop thing is a joke, right
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
I've listened to some of his other songs and he doesn't seem like the sort that would use as important an artform as pop music for something frivolous
― an hesher (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Lest we forget.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 17:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
"I just think that my generation is gonna be the worst," he says, finally emerging from his thicket of contemplation with the idea he has been chasing. "I know the current generation is unlike the one before, and there'll never be anything like it, but I just think that it's gotten further than it's ever progressed before."
― 'what's puzzling you' is the name of my dog (DJ Mencap), Friday, 12 August 2011 14:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just noticed that myself! Have to ask Angus more about that.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 August 2011 19:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
The reggae-fuelled She Doesn't Mind is another obvious single: witty, emotive and summery, but Jarvis has said, when introducing it on stage, that its catchy singalong hook is a reference to anal sex.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 August 2011 19:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
The actual full songtitle is even worse!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 August 2011 20:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I like to hitchhike," he says.
good, do more of that; maybe Rutger Hauer will pick you up
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Friday, 12 August 2011 20:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh the joys of PR announcements:
COSMO JARVISPremieres Lead Single ‘Love This’ (July 2)From New Album ‘Think Bigger’Out July 9 2012 (25th Frame)Track Stream - http://soundcloud.com/cosmojarvis/love-this-radio-edit-1Cosmo Jarvis is this week premiering a new single, ‘Love This’ (July 2), the first cut to be taken from his new and third album, Think Bigger (out July 9), released via his own music and film label 25th Frame in the UK. If releasing your third album wasn’t enough to be getting on with, Cosmo Jarvis- still aged only 22- has just completed his first full-length feature film, entitled ‘Naughty Room’.Cosmo’s music and films have made him an online phenomenon. His YouTube shorts, usually observational comedy skits about small town life, have been viewed over two million times – his contagious shanty single ‘Gay Pirates’, beloved of Stephen Fry, picking up in excess of a million Youtube hits alone. His last two albums, 2009’s Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch and 2011’s Is The World Strange Or Am I Strange?, have seen him hightail between many musical styles, but with his new album, Think Bigger, Cosmo’s decided to adhere to a singer-songwriter template tinged with alt-country sensibilities and a string section sourced from Ebay. This is Cosmo Jarvis, though, so it’s never straightforward or predictable- everything is imprinted with his personality and imagination.Whilst the tone of the album maintains a steady musical course the subject matter on Think Bigger is intriguingly varied. There’s the roaring folkabilly of free preview track ‘Sunshine’, about contemporary society’s damaging sense of entitlement; the poignant elegy for ‘The Girl From My Village’ (“about my loathing at the fact she was taken when others who I am certain will do less good with their lives are allowed to keep on breathing”); whilst single-in-waiting ‘Train Down Town’ is about a dystopian future akin to one of Charlie Brooker’s ‘Black Mirror’ satirical drama. Even the love song ‘Lacie’ is revealed as an ode to Cosmo’s computer’s external hard drive - “because I am unable to express how thankful I am that while I sleep the contents of my brain are being guarded.” A down-to-earth maverick talent, Cosmo Jarvis was born in New Jersey to an Armenian-American artist mother and an English sea captain father. The family moved to the UK when he was very small and Cosmo spent his formative years with his mother in Totnes, Devon after his parents split in initially acrimonious circumstances. His teens were spent sparring with her and getting up to all manner of small town trouble. He also developed a sideline in writing songs and making films. By the time he was in his late teens local appreciation had bloomed into a MySpace and Youtube following. Now a one man word-of-mouth industry who might just be about to receive the recognition he deserves, Cosmo’s work is unique, forthright, human and involving. He’s an artist, in other words, who’s proving truly exciting to follow.Praise for Cosmo Jarvis:‘He is a very interesting example to me of a new kind of person; a new kind of artist’- Brian Eno‘Inarguably gifted with imagination overload’ - Mojo‘One of the most potentially important and fascinating new artists around at the moment’ – Guardian
Premieres Lead Single ‘Love This’ (July 2)
From New Album ‘Think Bigger’
Out July 9 2012 (25th Frame)
Track Stream - http://soundcloud.com/cosmojarvis/love-this-radio-edit-1
Cosmo Jarvis is this week premiering a new single, ‘Love This’ (July 2), the first cut to be taken from his new and third album, Think Bigger (out July 9), released via his own music and film label 25th Frame in the UK. If releasing your third album wasn’t enough to be getting on with, Cosmo Jarvis- still aged only 22- has just completed his first full-length feature film, entitled ‘Naughty Room’.
Cosmo’s music and films have made him an online phenomenon. His YouTube shorts, usually observational comedy skits about small town life, have been viewed over two million times – his contagious shanty single ‘Gay Pirates’, beloved of Stephen Fry, picking up in excess of a million Youtube hits alone. His last two albums, 2009’s Humasyouhitch/Sonofabitch and 2011’s Is The World Strange Or Am I Strange?, have seen him hightail between many musical styles, but with his new album, Think Bigger, Cosmo’s decided to adhere to a singer-songwriter template tinged with alt-country sensibilities and a string section sourced from Ebay. This is Cosmo Jarvis, though, so it’s never straightforward or predictable- everything is imprinted with his personality and imagination.
Whilst the tone of the album maintains a steady musical course the subject matter on Think Bigger is intriguingly varied. There’s the roaring folkabilly of free preview track ‘Sunshine’, about contemporary society’s damaging sense of entitlement; the poignant elegy for ‘The Girl From My Village’ (“about my loathing at the fact she was taken when others who I am certain will do less good with their lives are allowed to keep on breathing”); whilst single-in-waiting ‘Train Down Town’ is about a dystopian future akin to one of Charlie Brooker’s ‘Black Mirror’ satirical drama. Even the love song ‘Lacie’ is revealed as an ode to Cosmo’s computer’s external hard drive - “because I am unable to express how thankful I am that while I sleep the contents of my brain are being guarded.”
A down-to-earth maverick talent, Cosmo Jarvis was born in New Jersey to an Armenian-American artist mother and an English sea captain father. The family moved to the UK when he was very small and Cosmo spent his formative years with his mother in Totnes, Devon after his parents split in initially acrimonious circumstances. His teens were spent sparring with her and getting up to all manner of small town trouble. He also developed a sideline in writing songs and making films. By the time he was in his late teens local appreciation had bloomed into a MySpace and Youtube following. Now a one man word-of-mouth industry who might just be about to receive the recognition he deserves, Cosmo’s work is unique, forthright, human and involving. He’s an artist, in other words, who’s proving truly exciting to follow.
Praise for Cosmo Jarvis:
‘He is a very interesting example to me of a new kind of person; a new kind of artist’- Brian Eno
‘Inarguably gifted with imagination overload’ - Mojo
‘One of the most potentially important and fascinating new artists around at the moment’ – Guardian
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cosmo Jarvis does what he wants.
In an age when musicians either seem to be manufactured popstrels, media-trained to banality, or self-consciously blog-hyped ‘underground’, the 22 year old from Devon is a breath of fresh air. Cosmo speaks his mind and, musically, he’s a magpie who’ll go anywhere, regardless of ‘cool’ ,from hip hop to punk hoedown to gorgeous ensemble orchestration.is music and films have made him an online phenomenon. His YouTube shorts, usually observational comedy skits about small town life, have been viewed over two million times, his contagious shanty ‘Gay Pirates’, beloved of Stephen Fry, has almost a million Youtube hits, and he has tens of thousands of fans around the world, especially in Australia where his shows sell out fast.
Tonight. Hull Adelphi. Do I hard-boil a pan of eggs y/n?
― drier than a Charles Grodin quip (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 February 2013 14:15 (3 months ago) Permalink
Only if you throw one at whoever wrote that 'manufactured popstrels' phrase.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 February 2013 14:42 (3 months ago) Permalink
that was the point where me knuckles whitened, yes
― drier than a Charles Grodin quip (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 February 2013 14:51 (3 months ago) Permalink
saw something about manufactured popstrels One Direction stanning for this guy a couple of days ago, thought this revive would be about that
― Julian-Joachim Roedelius (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 17 February 2013 15:13 (3 months ago) Permalink
i'd forgotten all about him until i was checking to see if i wanted to go to the Adelphi tonight
― drier than a Charles Grodin quip (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 February 2013 15:29 (3 months ago) Permalink