Guardian Music — Tony Christie's career has taken innumerable twists, from years spent singing to chickens in their baskets to a Comic Relief-led comeback, but this must be the weirdest yet: a gig on a ferry across the Mersey. Jokes in the audience about the Titanic ... more info

NME — Tickets for Jarvis Cocker's UK tour are available now. more info

NME — Tickets for Jarvis Cocker's UK tour are available now. more info

The Lipster — With the news that Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn are to perform at Drifting and Tilting: The Songs of Scott Walker, we ask: why, God, WHY? more info

Guardian Music — When Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker is presented at London's Barbican next month, Scott Walker is not going to sing. The acclaimed experimental singer-songwriter is alive, he lives in England, and his band is going to play the three... more info

Pitchfork — As we mentioned way back in July, Scott Walker will decidedly not be lending his voice to Drifting and Tilting: The Songs of Scott Walker, a new orchestral production "conceived" by Walker and focusing on the former boy wonder's gloriously weird Tilt... more info

Idolator — In case you didn't make it out to the In The City festival in Manchester, where the ever-dapper Jarvis Cocker gave a talk on song lyrics called "Saying The Unsayable" earlier this week, a Pulp fan site has helpfully put up notes on the lecture (from ... more info

XFM.co.uk — Former Pulp leader Jarvis Cocker gave a lecture at Manchester's In The City music conference and festival yesterday (October 8) on the 'function of lyrics in popular music'. more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Jason BergmanYou'll want to bring three things along with you when you hit up Feist's forthcoming tour of Canada: a hot date, a sign reading "PLAY 'ONE EVENING' PLZ", and a non-perishable food item of your choosing. Feist will team with the ... more info

All About Jazz — Los Angeles - R.E.M., Modest Mouse, Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie, Jarvis Cocker, The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, and Fleet Foxes are just a few of the artists whose handmade signs featured in Under the Radars... more info