Today, she’s still working in nightlife, and invited the Cut to her hosting gig at Paul’s Casablanca.
Cocker, who looked like your crazy economics professor from college, would show appreciation to the crowd multiple time, even climbing the side pillars of Radio City and dance his face off in platform shoes and a tacky brown suit as the band sounded just as pitch perfect as one would hope - especially after all this time and wait. Sophia Lamar is a 66-year-old trans actress, model, performer, Cuban émigré, and ex-member of New York’s famed Club Kid scene of the late eighties. While most singers lose the audience's attention with this much banter, Cocker only grasped the crowd more, everyone so curiosity about what he is going to say next. In between songs Cocker would banter from just about anything from Kurt Vonnegut, to Stephen Hawkins, to Brooklyn beer, to Radio City, to New York and so much more. While some in the audience were too young to even have had a first experience seeing Pulp, those that held onto the memory of seeing this band again got to relive that moment in a way no one would have ever thought. To massive applause, Pulp cunningly broke into 'Do You Remember The First Time?' and officially set at ease that they are back. As the scrim rose to reveal Pulp, a massive set of neon lights that spelt 'P.U.L.P.' shined. sharp, a laser light projection of random thoughts, sentences and commands to the audience displayed across the stage.
