Cosmo Jarvis

Cosmo Jarvis is a new kind of artist, for whom one world will never be enough. He’s a songwriter and a singer, but he’s also a filmmaker, storyteller, poet, iconoclast, Jessica Alba enthusiast and campaigner for the equal treatment of gay pirates. He’s an ordinary teenager with extraordinary talents and IVYLIVE are extremely proud to announce his return to the festival.

Cosmo’s debut double album ‘Sonofabitch / Humasyouhitch’ was never going to be a conventional affair. If the album is a compendium of what Cosmo’s learned so far, he’s also got a treasure trove waiting to be discovered that reaches even further out into the fantastical.

Rare gem ‘Little Wasted Angel’ is to be taken literally, it’s about an agent of God beaten down by the fecklessness of the people she’s sent to guardian, reduced to sitting, smoking on street corners wondering where it all went wrong.

And ‘Gay Pirates’, already a live favourite, is a tragic and poignant story of two men out of time whose forbidden love sees them forced to walk the plank. Cosmo wrote it because, though he’s straight, he thought it would be funny to write a song for rowdy, laddy-lads would sing along to with an openly gay agenda, but also because “there aren’t many gay songs, and I thought there should be one.”

Cosmo’s received early UK radio support from Annie Mac, Zane Lowe (R1), Mark Radcliffe (R2), Tom Robinson & Chris Dawkins (BBC 6 Music), John Kennedy (XFM) Geoff Lloyd (Absolute) and is guaranteed to be one of the most popular and entertaining performers at this years festival.