Born OTD in 1963, English musician, actor, presenter; and the founder, frontman, and sole consistent member of the band Pulp, Jarvis Cocker. A new release in the Rough Trade Editions series sees two speeches made by the Pulp mainman in 2017 see print. We find the word Br**it hard to say, so let’s just say that these two speeches are concerned with leaving the European Union. Witty, erudite and made to make you think. Oh, and the design by Craig Oldham, in the yellow and blue of the EU, is a pretty nice way to frame them.

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If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty ‘Common People’, for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving his arse at Michael Jackson at the Brit awards, for being part of a non-movement called ‘Britpop’, and for disappearing almost without trace shortly after.

They made a few good tunes, they did some funny videos, and while they might be National Treasures, they’re nothing … More