Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley play tiny immersive London gig to celebrate Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’
nme.comJarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley celebrated the release of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City last night at a tiny, immersive gig in London.Cocker and Hawley have written two songs for Anderson’s new film, in which they play as the group Gauchos Calientes.“Welcome to the Asteroid City diner,” Cocker told the crowd by way of a welcome at an immersive exhibition dedicated to the film at 180 Studios on the Strand on Wednesday June 22. “You didn’t realise, but as soon as you walked into this place, you travelled back to the year 1955.”He continued: “A lot of things happened that year, didn’t they?
I wasn’t alive, but they did happen. We are a group called Gauchos Calientes, and in the film we get stranded in Asteroid City and we’re going to play you two songs that are featured in the film.”Opening with the western-inspired croon of ‘You Can’t Wake Up If You Don’t Fall Asleep’, Cocker told the crowd of its title: “This is a phrase that gets repeated a few times in the film, which you can think about whilst you listen to the song.”At the show, Hawley and Cocker were joined by banjoist Jean-Yves Lozac’h and double bassist Perè Mallén, both of whom appear in the film, while Anderson himself was also in attendance in the front rows of the crowd.Before playing the newly-released Asteroid City song ‘Dear Alien (Who Art in Heaven)’, Cocker said: “Another potential plot spoiler now.
This is a song written by a young child that has seen something that visits the town and changes the course of human history and the destiny of all the people within the town.”The band then went on to play three more tracks, including covers of Elizabeth Cotton’s skiffle track ‘Freight Train’ and Ricky Nelson’s ‘Lonesome Town’.
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