As previously mentioned, Jarvis Cocker is guest editing the next issue of Observer Music Monthly (out on 15 October). Jarvis was in Ireland this week, to perform at Hal Willner's 'Came So Far For Beauty: An Evening Of Leonard Cohen Songs', part of Dublin Theatre Festival. So OMM nipped over with a bunch of proofs for him to cast his eye over...
Jarvis had also assembled a panel of assorted pop stars and associates in Dublin, including Nick Cave, Antony Hegarty and Paul Morley, to debate the vexed question of what music is for. Most of the artists were staying at the Morrison hotel, and OMM ended up having breakfast next to Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. A toddler in a high chair at the next table threw a half-eaten banana in Reed's direction, which quietly amused OMM given Andy Warhol's artwork for the Velvet Underground's debut album. The notoriously curmudgeonly Lou disappointed by picking up the banana and gently returning it unbruised. The afternoon was spent holed up in Jarvis's dressing room at the Point, working through the pages of the magazine. Apologies to Teddy Thompson - son of Richard and Linda Thompson, who was sharing a dressing room with Jarvis - for the intrusion.
