Pulp: C.L.A.S.S.I.C.O.R.D.U.D?

oops for some reason i forgot that mark webber was called mark webber, blame the F1 driver

but wait, he didn't play on his'n'hers

my whole world is scrambled

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I never saw them first time around but I would see them if they came to my town. I hope this reunion lasts.

Richard Hawley wasn't a member until after "Hardcore", was he?

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I rather like this cryptic website they've set up.

http://pulppeople.com/faq.php

Metro this morning said they haven't played for 15 years. Which is odd, cos I could've sworn I saw them a couple of times around 99-01

This line-up has not played for 15 years.

Who else left apart from Russell Senior, who isn't even listed as being in the reformed band in Metro?

Dunno but they're wrong, he is in this reunion.

See, I was right, Metro IS wrong.

There's no way they won't headline Glastonbury next year, right?

first gig for 9 years tonight in Toulouse apparently. funny place for a comeback. chatter about the gig, setlist etc here:
http://baritalia.activeboard.com/t43039550/spoiler-2505-setlist-in-le-bikini-toulouse/

That setlist is surprisingly narrow in it's scope. What, 95% His'n'Hers and Different Class?

So like.. 100% what people want to hear? I kid, I kid. I can't believe Manon didn't make it either.

I am so sad that there are people out there getting to see them live and that I'm not one of those people. :(

Agreed.

Me too. I made a joke last night that we should go to Europe and see Pulp for our honeymoond and fiance was like... yeah, no. Then told me *maybe* if Arcade Fire were also there, because he's always trying to get me to turn around on them. Sadly they are together in Ireland a week before his vacation. And he probably wasn't serious anyway. Le sigh!

two months today until edwardo and I see them in Sydney Sex City!

I am working on a placard saying "Play fucking She's Dead, you cunts" as we speak.

(I will send them an A4-size version of this placard to them beforehand, so they can rehearse it first, as it'll be shit otherwise).

It's never coming back to the setlist. Face it. It's gone.

I don't know, I think it's pretty awesome that they played fucking Countdown in their comeback set.

Still, I'll be the one in the crowd at Wireless chanting "Tun-NEL! Tun-NEL!"

Even better, "Silence".

two months today until edwardo and I see them in Sydney Sex City!

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Was going to say/ask:

Has Jarvis lost the bins/had a shave for this?

All these big festivals are fine but now it’s time to take things indoors ...
We’re very excited to announce a show of our own at
London’s O2 Brixton Academy on Wednesday 31 August 2011.

There'll be three or four more of them announced when Brixton sells out in 30 seconds.

weird that yesterday didn't sell out at all though.

Text received last night:

"Watchinbg Pulp at Wireless. It's 'Different Class' plus other bits :( "

I concur... 'Different Class' put me off them completely after adoring 'His 'n' Hers'..which I still adore. I barely checked 'This Is Hardcore' but I did buy 'We Love Life' which I'm kind of meh about (and not on my own, I guess).

Not tempted by the reformation shows..and if they're doing mostly DC...I'd not be arsed at festivals either.

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Not that weird when you consider how damn expensive it was.

went yesterday, & they sounded *great* but yes - too expensive, too much different class & too many drunken festival packs just out for a push and shout in a park.

Hmm. I didn't think the crowd was as bad as for Blur two years ago. Not quite so aggressively lary at least.

Where I was they weren't aggressive but fucking annoying. Singing along where appropriate is one thing, but accompanying every line (including instrumental parts) with high pitched yapping is quite another. Much more civilised crowd when I saw them in Barcelona.

Personally think 55 quid for a day ticket to a festival isn't too unreasonable.

Personally think 55 quid for a day ticket to a festival isn't too unreasonable.

Maybe. Day festivals tend to pitch lower than that I think don't they? Isn't Field Day about £30?

I smirked at a friend's comments yesterday:

Today Pulp are playing Hyde Park, in association with Barclaycard. £55.25 not including booking fee for the common people

Or £155.00 for the less common people. For this you get a private entrance away from the scum, a chill-out area and hot & cold BBQ platters

If you're not common at all, VIP tickets are £235.00. For this you also get a private bar and a special grandstand viewing area.

And from there, you can sing along: "you will never understand how it feels to live your lives with no meaning or control..."

They get to sing along with the common people...

Heh, they can do role playing between the areas. Awesome.

That "VIP" enclosure towered over the area for disabled people, which I thought was a lovely touch.

Not tempted by the reformation shows..and if they're doing mostly DC...I'd not be arsed at festivals either.

Russell's not coming to Australia, so be interesting to see if they play more Hardcore/Love tracks here.

They're also doing their only other two non-festival shows apart from the warm-up, so hoping very hard that they do the amount of pre-DC stuff from that setlist...

Field Day may be cheaper but it doesn't have headliners of the same level and is by all accounts the worst organised festival in Britain.

Heavily-skewed towards Different Class (and to a lesser extent His N Hers) but if you're going to play a limited number of comeback shows then why not draw heavily from the records people love the most?

Actually the epic This Is Hardcore -> Sunrise was one of the best bits about last night but I can't claim that I was holding out for much more from the last couple of albums.

Crowd were fine from where I was standing.

If you're not common at all, VIP tickets are £235.00. For this you also get a private bar and a special grandstand viewing area.

Was quite amusing to hear people singing "shit ground no fans" at that area.

Hmm. I didn't think the crowd was as bad as for Blur two years ago. Not quite so aggressively lary at least.

Didn't see Blur, so that's v possible, and I think maybe I was a bit unlucky with geezer-packs. Enjoyed it once we'd manouevred away a bit.

& upt011 otm, worst for me was a deafening version of Something Changed (verse, chorus, breaks) shrieked behind my left ear.

£55 is ok for a big-name day festival I guess (Field Day is £40) – I was just v hesitant to buy and grouchy because I was basically treating it as a one-band big gig.

Just to sicken all of you folk who went to wireless, amazingly I saw them last week at the St Martins College closing party, they played unnanounced in the common room in front of a few hundred. Was insane, one of the most magical gigs ive been at.
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All the London summer day fests are horrible, its all a bit 'dave from accounts has had an e'. Field day should be half the size and have half as many folk playing as its ran by chancers, i spent all of last year sitting outside tents struggling to hear what was going on. There was also about twice as many people there than there should be last year, the door staff were taking peoples tickets and touting them out the front

To be fair to Pulp, that VIP business, loathsome though it is, is standard for Wireless so I doubt the band had any say over it. Hyde Park events always have a high chattering-twat quota, getting worse with certain bands. I had to see Kings of Leon there for work and it was a real come-Armageddon-come moment.

Was it only Sunrise and This Is Hardcore from the last two albums? Love Sunrise - saw them on the We Love Life tour when they were also playing a krauted-up version of Common People and that was the highlight.

Yup, just those two. The rest of it was most of Different Class (+ Do You Remember The First Time, Babies, Pink Glove, Mile End).

OMG YOU PEOPLE GOT TO SEE PULP STOP COMPLAINING AND SHUT UP.

I am so jealous.

:(

hmpf

ha! ok fair enough.

though we can all unite in jealousy at straightola.

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twice iirc.

and as they're now playing at the bottom of my road at the end of august, i'll prob go to that as well. if i've nothing else on.