various artists

this splendid little comp celebrates Cocker’s tenure on the exemplary and much-missed Sunday Service radio show on BBC 6music.

From listener suggestions that became personal favourites such as Nina Simone’s ‘Baltimore’, unusual cover versions like Antony & the Johnsons’ stunning performance of Beyoncé’s ‘Crazy In Love’, and the Katzenjammers’ rendition of Gary Numan’s ‘Cars’ as played on steel drums – a record so irresistible, it remains the only time Jarvis has ever felt compelled enough to ask another DJ what they were playing. We revisit the Radiophonic Workshop bed that made the intro to each show and a special reading from Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood, read live on the show by Jarvis and accompanied by David Cunningham from the Flying Lizards on kalimba.