Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales PAPER THIN HOTEL / Volksbühne, Berlin / 27 March 2017

Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales w/ Kaiser Quartett PAPER THIN HOTEL (Leonard Cohen) / Room 29, encore / Volksbühne, Berlin / 27 March 2017 … Do you believe in ghosts? What if a room could tell you the life-stories of the people that have inhabited it? Better still – what if it could sing you those stories? In Room 29, Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales give a voice to those ghosts, using music, theatrics, clips from classic Hollywood movies and more to reveal the secrets of Room 29 of the Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood. For the duration of one evening the entire audience will be occupants of Room 29. Featuring contributions from film historian David Thomson and the stories of famous former occupants of the room such as Jean Harlow and Howard Hughes, the show was conceived during Jarvis’s own stay at Room 29, using one of the room’s more unusual features – a baby grand piano. More than just an account of the countless dramas the Chateau Marmont hotel has played host to since it opened its doors in 1927, Room 29 is, to quote the subtitle of David Thomson’s book The Big Screen ‘the story of the movies and what they did to us’.