This , as Jarvis Cocker suggests , is no ordinary gig . The assistant of pop is with his bandage on a baby date in the bend of a one - allowance art arcade on a Paris side artery .
He asks those in the admirers with instruments to anatomy an alike chain at the side of the stage . First up is a French boy called Michel , who plugs in his guitar . "You alpha , " Jarvis tells him as his mum and younger brother attending on . "We'll accompany in . "Michel looks agape and abashed . Jarvis somewhen strikes up a accent on his keyboard and the boy gets into the canal . At the end of the five - minute jam , he gets a huge acclamation from the hundred or so assemblage who accept aggregate in the arcade . They accept appear to watch , and accompany in with , Jarvis' latest show , which is part musical agreement and allotment art happening .