Cosmo Jarvis

Even if he wasn't such a cunt his "rapping" is hysterically inept anyway.

england: shut it down.

I guess kudos to him for making money off of embarrassing the shit out of his mom...?

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.

That Dean Heslop thing is a joke, right

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

Lest we forget.

"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."

Just noticed that myself! Have to ask Angus more about that.

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.

The actual full songtitle is even worse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhPi7ejrzWE

"I like to hitchhike," he says.

good, do more of that; maybe Rutger Hauer will pick you up

Oh the joys of PR announcements:

COSMO JARVIS

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

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?

Only if you throw one at whoever wrote that 'manufactured popstrels' phrase.

that was the point where me knuckles whitened, yes

saw something about manufactured popstrels One Direction stanning for this guy a couple of days ago, thought this revive would be about that

i'd forgotten all about him until i was checking to see if i wanted to go to the Adelphi tonight

The video below was posted over on Cook'd & Bomb'd (British comedy forum). Cosmo Jarvis seems to be in some kind of Youtube sitcom now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM-3vjuKl9g

After about 30 seconds I skipped forward to the very wonky credits at the end, and amazingly they reveal that the children of Rik Mayall and The Comic Strip Presents' Peter Richardson are responsible for this.

Wait wait hold up, so this guy became an actor and now is doing the Richard Chamberlain role in a remake of Shogun? Did I fall into a wormhole or something?

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/shogun-trailer-hiroyuki-sanada-fx-hulu-1235776974/

I have no recollection of any of this but I applaud my solid LJ burn

I listened to a few seconds of “Gay Pirates” and hooooooboy

I dare someone to be the interviewer for this who only asks him about that song.

I've since learned that Cosmo Jarvis is also in a Barry Levinson-directed/Nic Pileggi-written film where Robert de Niro is playing Vito Genovese AND Frank Costello. MY FUCKING BRAIN. Are they long lost twins or something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_Knights