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Jarvis Cocker has revealed that he will be taking a year-long break from his weekly BBC 6 Music radio show.
The Pulp icon and solo star has become a regular fixture and 6 Music favourite since he first started presenting Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service back in 2010 - and right so, it's bloody brilliant.
But now, Cocker has told the Radio Times that this Sunday (29 December, 2013) will be his last for the year ahead, as he is hoping to return with a 'stronger and more vigorous'.
"Crop Rotation has long been recognized as a way of preserving the fertility of the soil," said the ever whimsical Cocker. "Every now and again a field has to be left fallow for a year in order to make sure it has time to recover. In 2014 I will be that field. T'is done with the firm conviction that it will lead to a stronger and more vigorous Sunday Service when I return to 6 Music's pastures."
Cocker went on to say that he wouldn't be leaving the station totally over 2014, adding: "Oh yes - and of course I'll keep popping up on 6 Music from time to time just to make sure that you haven't forgotten me. We wouldn't want that would we? Just call me the 'Turnip Townshend of the Airwaves'."
It remains to be seen whether or not there is any future for Pulp, or if Cocker might make another solo album. However, he will be keeping busy when he takes up his position as Editor-at-Large at book publishers Faber and Faber for the title Singing from the Floor by JP Bean - a book about the history of British folk clubs. The book will be published in April 2014.
Below: Photos of Pulp live at Brixton Academy, London
