Meltdown Festival: Seventies robo-popsters Devo cavorted like embarrassing uncles, but Iggy defied the years with a blistering display of defiant punk attitud.
Paris match
Jarvis Cocker moved to Paris four years ago in search of anonymity and a new life for his French wife and baby son. Returning to Britain to curate the Meltdown festival, he tells Lynn Barber about fame, fatherhood and his alter-ego, Darren.
Jarvis Cocker: Pop is dead
Creating chart toppers has become an industrialised process, with reality TV churning out stars without personality or good voices, says the Meltdown festival curator.
April 2007
Jarvis takes over the asylum
Jarvis Cocker mixes Motorhead and Disney
March 2007
Cocker promises high and low culture as Meltdown curator
Jarvis Cocker, national treasure and former Pulp frontman, is to curate the Meltdown festival at the South Bank Centre in London this June.