“That damp and lonely Thursday years ago”: Pulp and the spectre of Philip Larkin

“Songs contain stored energy from your past life,” Jarvis Cocker says, “that is released when you perform them again.” Some of that energy that is released in Garth Jennings’ documentary, What Do You Do for an Encore? (MUBI, 2026). The film is based on Cocker’s scrapbook-memoir, Good Pop Bad Pop (2022), and maps the development … Continue reading “That damp and lonely Thursday years ago”: Pulp and the spectre of Philip Larkin