{"id":153948,"date":"2025-11-22T15:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153948\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T15:49:12","slug":"pulps-jarvis-cocker-for-festive-solstice-service-on-bbc-6-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153948\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker for festive ‘Solstice Service’ on BBC 6 Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jarvis Cocker<\/a> is set to return to BBC<\/a> Radio 6 Music for a one-off festive special, NME can exclusively reveal.<\/p>\n

The Pulp<\/a> frontman will sit in for Iggy Pop<\/a> on the station with his Solstice Service show, airing between 4pm and 6pm GMT on Sunday December 21. He\u2019ll treat listeners to a handpicked selection of tracks to kickstart Christmas 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honour to sit in on Iggy\u2019s show on December 21st: the darkest day of the year,\u201d Cocker explained. \u201cBut I will be bringing some light with this special, one-off edition of Jarvis Cocker\u2019s Solstice Service. Be of good cheer!\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer-songwriter previously presented Jarvis Cocker\u2019s Sunday Service on 6 Music between 2010 and 2017, giving fans a weekly dose of his favourite music.<\/p>\n

He returned to the station last month to host a one-off broadcast, The Sleeping Forecast<\/a>. This programme will re-air on 6 Music on Christmas Eve, going into Christmas Day (between 12am-2am).<\/p>\n

Cocker\u2019s Solstice Service will form part of a special Christmas schedule on BBC Radio 6 Music \u2013 full details of which are yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

Pulp were named as one of 6 Music\u2019s Artists Of The Year for 2025<\/a> earlier this month, and called it their \u201cfavourite radio station\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"JarvisJarvis Cocker performs with Pulp at Glastonbury 2025. Credit: Andy Ford for NME<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Pulp have announced a huge outdoor show at Manchester\u2019s Wythenshawe Park<\/a> for next summer. It\u2019ll mark the Sheffield band\u2019s only major UK headline concert of the year. They have since been confirmed as bill-toppers at End Of The Road 2026<\/a>, where they\u2019ll deliver an \u201cunexpected\u201d set. \u201cThis will not be a typical Pulp show,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

Pulp were recently shortlisted for the Mercury Prize<\/a> with their acclaimed comeback album, \u2018More\u2019<\/a>, but lost out to Sam Fender\u2019s \u2018People Watching\u2019<\/a>. \u2018More\u2019 also earned Cocker and co. their first UK Number One album in 27 years<\/a>. In a four-star review<\/a>, NME wrote: \u201cPulp have retained their original spirit and flair into a statement of middle age without feeling any less vital.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cocker recently teased that Pulp \u201cmight write some more songs\u201d together<\/a>. It came shortly after his bandmates Nick Banks and Candida Doyle told NME that the group were \u201cnot itching\u201d to make another new album<\/a>. \u201cAn EP, maybe, or a single,\u201d Doyle added.<\/p>\n

When NME asked Cocker in the summer if there was a follow-up LP to come<\/a>, he replied: \u201cMaybe. We tried to not have a concept for this record or think, \u2018This is it, this is our last gas\u2019 [\u2026] Hopefully not in another 24 years, but maybe in a couple of years, there will be something else to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pulp are due to embark on an Australia and New Zealand tour early next year<\/a>. The shows will follow their UK arena tour this summer<\/a>, a\u00a0triumphant secret set at Glastonbury 2025<\/a> and a\u00a0run of North American dates<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0Pulp celebrated the 30th anniversary of \u2018Different Class\u2019 by hosting an album playback and Q&A in London<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jarvis Cocker is set to return to BBC Radio 6 Music for a one-off festive special, NME can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,636,60,278],"class_list":["post-153948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-indie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}