Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker to return to BBC 6 Music this weekend with ‘The Sleeping Forecast’

Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker is returning to BBC Radio 6 Music this weekend to host the one-off show The Sleeping Forecast.

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From 2010 to 2017, the singer hosted the idiosyncratic Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service every week on the station, and on Sunday (October 26), he will return for a two-hour broadcast made up of his favourite sleep-inducing music.

The show will be on air from midnight on Sunday night and will close 6 Music’s ‘Slow Sunday’. Cocker will play selections from Brian Eno, Arvo Pärt, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ennio Morricone and Kate Bush and will intermittently read segments of BBC Radio 4’s legendary Shipping Forecast.

“I always used to use the Shipping Forecast to help me fall asleep at night, but now I’m looking forward to bringing you my personal selection of tracks for The Sleeping Forecast, Cocker has said. “Music I feel will help you access a new dimension. The dimension of sleep. This programme is intended to be a portal allowing listeners access to a restful night of slumber. Sweet dreams.”

The show will also be available on BBC Sounds here from 9pm on Thursday (October 23).

Pulp released ‘More, their first album in 24 years, earlier this year, and it went on to be nominated for the 2025 Mercury Prize. At that ceremony, the band told NME that there are “not itching” to make another album, with Nick Banks explaining that a full-length record is “a big undertaking”.

NME awarded ‘More’ four stars, writing: “Just as Blur did with ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ and Suede have managed on their immaculate run of post-reunion albums, Pulp have retained their original spirit and flair into a statement of middle age without feeling any less vital.

“As Cocker pines on the cinematic closer ‘A Sunset’, all things end, so just make the most of the time you have. It’s strangely beautiful, now they’re all fully grown.”

Cocker spoke to NME earlier about the possibility of a follow-up to ‘More’. “Maybe,” he said. “We tried to not have a concept for this record or think, ‘This is it, this is our last gas’. I used to think that a lot.

“I had this weird thing that when an album was mixed and finished where I’d think, ‘Oh, I can die now and it would be OK’. That’s a terrible way to think about your life, really. I didn’t feel that with this record. On the sleeve inside it says, ‘This is the best that we can do’. That’s all you can do at any point of your life. Hopefully not in another 24 years, but maybe in a couple of years, there will be something else to say.”

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