By Ian Youngs
Music reporter, BBC News
Jarvis Cocker is performing in the gallery for six hours a day for six days
"Anyone brought their instruments?" This, as Jarvis Cocker suggests, is no ordinary gig. The professor of pop is with his band on a small stage in the corner of a one-room art gallery on a Paris side street.
He asks those in the audience with instruments to form an orderly queue at the side of the stage. First up is a French boy called Michel, who plugs in his guitar. "You start," Jarvis tells him as his mum and younger brother look on. "We'll join in."
Michel looks dumbfounded and terrified. Jarvis eventually strikes up a rhythm on his keyboard and the boy gets into the groove. At the end of the five-minute jam, he gets a huge cheer from the hundred or so onlookers who have gathered in the gallery.
They have come to watch, and join in with, Jarvis' latest show, which is part musical experiment and part art happening. As his old Britpop cohorts Blur and Oasis prepare for massive outdoor gigs, the former Pulp singer is occupying the Gallerie Chappe in Montmartre, the French capital's artists' quarter, for six hours a day for six days.
He says he is trying to find out what happens when a rock group moves out of the concert arena and into the gallery, and when the barriers between a band and their fans are broken down. Jarvis welcomed young musicians to jam with him on stage
As well as inviting strangers to jam on stage, he is offering to make up songs based on suggestions, and is letting people watch his band's rehearsals.
To top it off, he and his band are performing impromptu soundtracks to yoga, pilates, aerobics and children's classes in the gallery.
"People say the music industry's dead, you see," Jarvis explains. "So I thought, maybe that means it should move into an art gallery because maybe that's somewhere it can survive.
"Music is still this thing I use to express myself, so to me it's an artform.
"It's just an experiment and it seems to have gone quite well."
Music reporter, BBC News
Jarvis Cocker is performing in the gallery for six hours a day for six days
"Anyone brought their instruments?" This, as Jarvis Cocker suggests, is no ordinary gig. The professor of pop is with his band on a small stage in the corner of a one-room art gallery on a Paris side street.
He asks those in the audience with instruments to form an orderly queue at the side of the stage. First up is a French boy called Michel, who plugs in his guitar. "You start," Jarvis tells him as his mum and younger brother look on. "We'll join in."
Michel looks dumbfounded and terrified. Jarvis eventually strikes up a rhythm on his keyboard and the boy gets into the groove. At the end of the five-minute jam, he gets a huge cheer from the hundred or so onlookers who have gathered in the gallery.
They have come to watch, and join in with, Jarvis' latest show, which is part musical experiment and part art happening. As his old Britpop cohorts Blur and Oasis prepare for massive outdoor gigs, the former Pulp singer is occupying the Gallerie Chappe in Montmartre, the French capital's artists' quarter, for six hours a day for six days.
He says he is trying to find out what happens when a rock group moves out of the concert arena and into the gallery, and when the barriers between a band and their fans are broken down. Jarvis welcomed young musicians to jam with him on stage
As well as inviting strangers to jam on stage, he is offering to make up songs based on suggestions, and is letting people watch his band's rehearsals.
To top it off, he and his band are performing impromptu soundtracks to yoga, pilates, aerobics and children's classes in the gallery.
"People say the music industry's dead, you see," Jarvis explains. "So I thought, maybe that means it should move into an art gallery because maybe that's somewhere it can survive.
"Music is still this thing I use to express myself, so to me it's an artform.
"It's just an experiment and it seems to have gone quite well."
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