Jarvis Cocker steps down from 6 Music show to write new music

Jarvis Cocker has announced that he will be stepping away from his BBC 6 Music show and editorial work in favour of spending the year writing music.

A rather busy man, Cocker has been spending his time DJing for 6 Music, working as an editor at large with Faber and with his band Pulp, who reunited in 2011. This year the group will also release their first film, an extremely well received documentary about the group's reunion. After that Cocker has promised to return to music, saying that he is "100% committed".

Speaking to the Guardian, he said that he intends to spent the rest of 2014 writing music, because despite everything else, it remains his main focus. "Whether it's to impress girls, or whatever, music is the thing that has become my means of self-expression," he told the newspaper.

"So this year I'm taking a break from the radio show to find out if I've got any interesting songs left to write or whether I've written them all." 

Moving on to discuss Pulp, Cocker also said that he deemed the band's reunion to be successful: "It was quite good because we had some distance from the songs and we weren't trying to flog them to people," he said.

"We spent a lot of time standing in horrible dirty rooms with no heating trying to write songs, flailing around in the dark basically, and somehow in that process we wrote some stuff that still sounds all right. So it was good to realise that we hadn't wasted all our youth – that we'd done something that had a bit of life and energy in it." 

The film which documents the band's return, will receive its premiere on 7 June with a showing at Sheffield's City Hall as part of Sheffield Doc Fest 2014. There will also be numerous cinemas across the country simultaneously broadcasting the film for fans.