Jarvis Cocker

Giles cut up the Jarvis Cocker suit and sold the individual pieces to raise money for Crisis.

“I cut up Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker’s suit - but for a good cause”
Pulp fan Giles stepped in when he saw a Jarvis Cocker suit donated to Crisis by the musician hadn’t found a buyer.

Standing out from the crowd, the magnificent York Minster seen from the winding path of the York city walls

'I moved to York aged 11 - but I can still be a tourist in the city'

Rock N Roll Circus returns with its biggest and boldest edition yet

Jarvis Cocker of Pulp PIC: Getty Images

Pulp's Jarvis Cocker to return to BBC 6 Music as Iggy Pop takes break

Vice Versa in Ken Patten's home studio. Photo: Mark White / Stephen Singleton.

Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield council house that shaped 1980s music

Kasabian’s Serge, dominated the stage for the Sunday headline slot on The Sarah Nulty Main Stage

Sheffield shows up in style as Tramlines confirms 2026 return

Jarvis Cocker of Pulp performing at Tramlines Festival, Hillsborough Park, Sheffield. Picture: Scott Antcliffe

Pulp shine on first day of Tramlines Festival, Sheffield

‘Laggy’, owner of fish and chip shop, Two Steps, on Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield.

Popular Sheffield chip shop that counts Jarvis Cocker as a customer

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Pulp: 'I just said, Tramlines would have us in a heartbeat'

Library image of Chris Martin of Coldplay. Sheffield’s famous Leadmill music venue said it is a “heartbreaking moment” as it announced it will have to leave its premises within three months after losing an appeal against eviction. The Leadmill opened its doors 45 years ago and has played host to countless bands including Pulp, Coldplay, Arcade Fire, Muse, Oasis, Stone Roses, The White Stripes, Jorja Smith and Michael Kiwanuka. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Wire)

The Leadmill: 'Heartbreaking' announcement from Sheffield venue

Learn, or relive, the moment Pulp went from small stage cult heroes to main-stage Britpop heroes 30 years ago this year.

Remembering Pulp's iconic Glastonbury 1995 performance and set-list

The All Seeing I, from left, Dean Honer, Richard Barratt and Jason Buckle. Picture: Rankin

The All Seeing I: 'It was never really a band'

The Leadmill in Sheffield. PIC: Simon Hulme

Protracted battle over The Leadmill is not going to do the venue any favours

Farsley is for hipster Dads

Two Yorkshire places have the coolest postcodes according to The Sunday Times

Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker pauses for a cigarette during a press conference following the Metropolitan Police's decision not to take any action against him following his outburst at the Brit Awards when he leapt onto the stage during a performance by American superstar Michael Jackson. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA.

'The wrong kind of fame': Pulp's 90s publicist remembers This Is Hardcore

Reverend and the Makers frontman Jon McClure calls on public to join Unite campaign to save UK steel

Ad Feature Reverend and the Makers hit right note with Unite to save UK steel

Pulp at Sheffield's Utilita Arena

Legendary band Pulp bring joy to 27,000 fans across two shows this weekend

Jarvis Cocker. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Sheffield-born Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker to release book this year

Lorna May Wadsworth next to her portrait of Margaret Thatcher, part of her retrospective, Gaze, at the Graves Gallery in Sheffield.

Sheffield artist Lorna May Wadsworth on her homecoming exhibition and what it wa...

Harry Hutchinson has more than 50 years experience as a sheep trials handler.

Meet the sheep trials champion handler with more than 50 years experience

Elizabeth Armitstead, left, of Great Britain, passes Anna Van Der Breggen, right, of the Netherlands and Megan Guarnier, center, of the United States to the line to win the Women's Elite road circuit cycling race at the UCI Road World Championships in Richmond (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Opening ceremony plans revealed for Yorkshire's UCI Road World Cycling Champions...
The opening ceremony of the UCI Road World Championships 2019 will take place in the Harrogate Fan Zone, hosts Yorkshire 2019 have confirmed.
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Jarvis Cocker. Picture by Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Jarvis Cocker, The Pigeon Detectives and The Feeling to perform at UCI Road Worl...

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker at the National Trust BE KINDER walking trail preview in Erdale with Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller.
Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe

Jarvis’s art trail helps to reveal a different class of history in Peaks

Kinder Scout

Why Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is inspired by Peak District mountain Kinder Sco...

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Jarvis Cocker is unhappy with planned BBC cutbacks. Picture: PA

Anthony Clavane: Jarvis Cocker sounds right note on BBC’s Late Junction cut

Right to left: Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Bargain Hunt presenter Charlie Ross, Rowetta and Bez. Picture: BBC

Sheffield's Jarvis Cocker and Pulp bandmate Candida Doyle to take on Happy Monda...

Jarvis Cocker, as he told the tree protesters: 'I salute you'. Picture: Dean Atkins

'I salute you,' Jarvis Cocker tells Sheffield tree protesters as they march on c...

Jarvis Cocker will be among the speakers at a tree-felling protest rally in Sheffield this Saturday.

Jarvis Cocker to speak at major Sheffield tree protest rally this weekend

Jarvis Cocker on stage. Picture: Louise Wilcockson.

Sold-out concert raises Â£11,500 for Sheffield tree campaigners

Jarvis Cocker opposes the felling of Sheffield's street trees

Jarvis Cocker hits out at 'daft' felling of Sheffield street trees

Postman and writer Kevin Boniface. Picture by Bruce Rollinson.

My Yorkshire: Postman, blogger and author Kevin Boniface on his favourite people...
Kevin Boniface is a postman and a writer. A book of his best postings from his mostdifficultthingever.com blog is due out this month. He lives in Huddersfield with his wife, Georgia, a fashion designer, and his two children.
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Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker and the Everly Pregnant Brothers will join forces.

Sheffield legend Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley team up with Everly Pregnant B...

The Pulp frontman will step down fromJarvisCocker's Sunday Service at the end of December.

Sheffield's Jarvis Cocker announces end of his BBC Radio 6 Music show

VIDEO: BBC Radio Sheffield celebrates 50th birthday with remake of Pulp classic ...

Jarvis through the ages.

VIDEO: As Jarvis Cocker celebrates 54th birthday, here's a look back at his life...

Kelvin first arrived in Sheffield in 1967.

PICTURES + VIDEO: 50 years of Sheffield's loved, loathed and now long-lost Kelvi...

Allen Capes at Rare and Racy in the city centre

End of an era as iconic Sheffield shop, Rare and Racy, closes its doors

David Bowie could be given a posthumous nod at this year's Hyundai Mercury Prize.

From speed merchants to music's greats, here's who will be making the headlines ...

Remain supporters demonstrate during the March for Europe rally in Parliament Square, London, to show their support for the European Union in the wake of Brexit. Photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA Wire

Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker films video message as thousands join anti-Brexit rall...

Russell Senior, guitarist in Pulp.

Pulp non-fiction: Why I walked away from band that made me a rock star

Martin Bedford, one of the founders of The Leadmill, pictured at the music venue in Sheffield.

Uncommon people: Still live and kicking at Sheffield’s Leadmill

Steve Davis (left) with Dennis Taylor following their epic world championship final in 1985. (PA).

Still snooker loopy after all these years

The Bouquet of Steel record store in Sheffield is owned by Jamie Headcharge and his partner Zowie Carr.

Pulp’s history remastered as wheels of Sheffield Steel City spin again

Jarvis Cocker, singer in Sheffield band Pulp. Below: Deborah Bone, pictured on her family's blog

Deborah Bone, inspiration for Pulp’s Disco 2000, dies hours after MBE announceme...

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A Different Class of music for Pulp frontman Jarvis

Filmmaker Michelle Heighway filming Yorkshire eccentric Jake Jonathan Zebedee Mangle-Wurzel

Sheffield’s diverse line-up of the world’s best films

Jarvis Cocker of Pulp on stage at the 2011 Leeds Festival

How Yorkshire has inspired wealth of musical talent

Julian Bean in the Greystones pub in Sheffield.

Back to the roots of British folk clubs

Neil Antcliffe is using Sheffield's famous Henderson's sauce to paint pictures. Picture: Ross Parry Agency

Piquant portraits

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World-beating squash player to join city’s walk of fame

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Art donations go on display

Roasted Seabass

Restaurant Review: The Mediterranean, Sheffield

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Yoko Ono ‘honoured’ to curate Meltdown Festival

Saviours of indie rock are rolling into Sheffield

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Writer joins celebrities in city’s walk of fame

Different class of lyric writer in print debut

Cocker takes literary role

Video: The complete and utter history of pop music in Sheffield

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Remember the first time? Pulp return to rock Leeds

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