Jarvis Cocker & Little Joy at The Wiltern Theater

I didn't pay too much attention to last winters eponymous Little Joy LP - after all, who needs another Strokes spin-off group that sounded a little like, well, The Strokes... Anyways, fast forward to summer and the band have been getting a lot of plays on SiriusXM U channel. The music does have quite a summery feel - the lazy vocal delivery of The Strokes but with a Brazilian flavor (singer Rodrigo Amarante was previously with the band Los Hermanos.) They sounded great live and the set included songs from their LP and a cover of an Os Mutantes/Gilberto Gil collaboration...



Jarvis was brilliant... After seeing him at Coachella after his first solo LP, I knew the new album would sound better live and so it proved... It's not that 'Further Complications' is a bad album but I'm not the biggest fan of this 60's garage rock revival that seems to be quite in vogue at the moment. Also, songs like 'Angela' sell one of the pop musics best lyricists more than a little short... Highlights were the two epic centerpieces from the solo LP's: 'Big Julie' and 'You're In My Eyes (Discosong)'. Discosong was a fitting last number - Steve Mackey and the rest of the excellent backing band ending with a crescendo of feedback more fitting of a MBV concert. Jarvis was on great form as usual, cracking jokes and turning back the years with his John Cleese/Kung Fu dance moves!

I wanna live like corona people... Jarvis handed his beer to Laura during the encore...