Why are Pulp so unpopular now?

Bee: I tried to bump another Pulp thread! But no one saw it and then this was bumped and now this is our current Pulp thread ;_; But I am pretty sure running the Pulp poll is a large part of why I decided a ticket was worth me travelling to NYC in the event they do not add a Toronto show! Heh. Revived my love just in time. <3

(inveterate NME reader for decades)

in high school i read NME, melody maker, and select magazine despite growing up in the US.

uhm i am totally going to be jumping up and down and shouting all the lyrics too FFM!

i didn't see anything about the camera policy in my ticket email, but maybe when i receive the actual tickets in the mail?

My parents are divorced, so every other week when Dad picked me up the first stop *had* to be the bookstore so I could pick up Select, Q, Melody Maker and NME. Glory days! Even better to know you will jump & cheer with me! Toronto concert-goers can be such losers. I got pushed once for whistling at a Belle & Sebastian concert, and come to think of it, a spitball thrown at me at another B&S show! Maybe Toronto B&S fans are the losers.

though i have no interest in this band, ya'lls enthusiasm is making me smile. have fun girls!

:D

uhm i am totally going to be jumping up and down and shouting all the lyrics too FFM!

HI, SO WILL I.

i also saw belle and sebastian in toronto once! i think we are sisters from another mister FFM

yeah this show is going to be fangirls gone wild

I saw Belle and Sebastian last year though admittedly that was mostly because I wanted to see Dean and Britta play Galaxie songs as the opening act. It was still good but I haven't gotten into the last several of their albums. I saw them one other time. I think it was 2003 in London and that was amazing. They played my favorite song! I may have teared up. OK, I totally did.

I read all that stuff too as often as I could get my hands on it at least. Hell, when I moved to England I still read a lot of them just because I could even though they weren't nearly as good.

Oh and one of my closest friends got a ticket this morning so I might have a ride down if he chooses to drive. Don't worry though Lex, I have already informed him I'm staying the night.

wooooo for Toronto B&S shows! Was it at the terrible, large hallway of a 'Sound Academy,' out on the water? B&S were the only band I've ever enjoyed there, and I think that might be because I love them so much I would listen to a symphony of their burps. (I'm a classy broad.)

I never liked the stuff after Boy With The Arab Strap until I met my husband, who didn't like anything before Fold Your Hands.. - we worked on each other until we both fell in love with the whole catalogue! /teamwork

Jumping!! I am going to practice my jumping in the air. Gotta get my legs in Pulping shape! I also have to figure out how to become cool by April, so as not to let you guys down since you seem to think I am alright. Heh.

Ian: expect to see our shiny, excited faces all pressed together in a gleeful April WDYLL, coming soon!

i think it might have been there, it was down by the lake, definitely. there was a maze of fences within blocking off different parts of the club. we were supposed to get to go backstage because my friend new the trumpet player from the SINISTER LIST, but we couldn't make it anywhere close. they played electronic renaissance though so i was happy.

this thread title is particularly funny in light of them selling out radio city in about 2 minutes.

Wait they did?

WOAH.

well, i was trying for tickets again because so many of my friends didn't get tickets and i didn't want them to have to go through scalpers. i started exactly at 10 and did not get through once. i tried the second presale yesterday and the same thing happened. basically, we got super lucky!

Wow, that's amazing. I am so excited about this! I will buy you drinks after the show, if you're up for it!

Sounds like you were at the concert I was talking about - too bad you couldn't get backstage! That venue is notoriously horrible, but B&S were so great they transcended its shittiness.

FFM and ENBB: here's an update on tickets! eeee we are one step closer!! Let me know if you want me to mail them to you ahead of time or meet up before the show, I'm happy to do either!

Hello LINDSAY,

The ticket(s) you ordered on January 25, 2012 for PULP have been printed! They will be shipped to you shortly via US Mail.

Order Number: 3-31102/NY5

PULP
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Radio City Music Hall
1260 6th Avenue
New York, 10020

also this is happening:

Recinto: Recinto Ferial La Fica
Dirección: Avda Primero de Mayo S/N, , Murcia
Fecha: 04/05/2012, viernes Hora: 12:00h
Planta-Zona: 1 localidades en ABONO 2 DIAS

I don't know what "Recinto Ferial La Fica" means but google translates it as "The fence Ferial Pussy"

Knowing no spanish whatsoever, ABONO 2 DIAS looks threatening. Heh. I guess best if you keep the tickets, and maybe we can all have dinner or something first? I don't want to chance them getting lost in the mail JUST in case!!

I spaced on this in the two days of the presale/actual sale, so if anybody has an extra ticket to the NYC show, or has any good suggestions as to the most economical way to find one at this point, plz reply!

I've been told my middle-aged NY connections might have one for me... hesitating

Do it!

Don't hesitate . . . DO IT!

they were amazing here last year, don't deprive yourself

(except that a seated venue sounds a bit stupid)

Shut up, showoff

:)

/deprived, angsty Canadian

it was only the 5th or so show show they've ever played on this continent!

BILLL jeez how is this even a question?

xp to sic: fair enough, sorry. I assume all Pulp fans are Britishers and that Jarvis plays in their backyards, if they ask him too :)

Just finished Owen Hatherley's Uncommon. Very insightful and passionate, though I wish he appeared to like any music apart from Pulp. He tends to use them as a stick with which to bash every other band of the past 20 years. But then it's the intensity of his fandom that makes the book work so maybe you can't have one without the other.

I AM SO EXCITED GUYS.

I am probably getting ahead of myself here but what time does the show start? If possible do you think it would be cool to organize a post work pre-show FAP? Also, Lex and I are staying over night so I assume we'll go out afterwards but I know it's a school night for most people. I CAN'T WAIT. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

People keep saying "lex" ITT and I keep thinking "wait, the Lex at a Pulp gig??!"

THIS LEX AT A PULP GIG!! :D

The show is 8pm IIRC but yes, we should arrange any FAP time possible!

Going to have to look into this Uncommon book - hadn't heard of it.

Total Megabus ticket price: $2.50 (round trip, taxes included)

YAY!

:DDDDD

Had my phone on shuffle this morning and Babies came on at which point I got insanely excited and sorta started dancewalking my way into the building. I wish we didn't have to wait so long!!

Hah! I tried to introduce Andrew to the glory of 'Separations' and he just got hung up on the snippet of Vivaldi(?) that is played on the fiddle as it begins.. pfft.

Seriously, $2.50, ridiculous. A Toronto bus fare will run you $3!

Yeah, that's nuts. In a good way, of course.

I guess buying the ticket way in advance helped.. the other day, they didn't even have April dates up but I thought I'd check since new month and.. yay! Sorry, I love saving money. Especially when it means I can buy a Pulp shirt or something! /15yearold

I also ordered 'Uncommon,' the book mentioned upthread, for the bus ride! ~$14 on BookDepository.co.uk!

jeez how is this even a question?

maybe cuz I saw them in the mid '90s and don't remember a damn thing about the show? (I wasn't sorted for E's and wizz, either)

hey ladies....
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Hy161r33bzE/TytIRNbRYeI/AAAAAAAAASI/JTQawOgH1-A/s640/Photo%2520on%25202012-02-02%2520at%252021.34.jpg

It's allllll happening!

YAY!

don't worry, they were placed in a very safe drawer as soon as i took this photp :D

Second show just added. Just sayin, for all those who didn't get tickets first round..

you could have re-migrated it to the C or D thread this time! don't fall for Morbz' tyranny

Heh! I figured since recent concert discussion had gone down here I'd keep it here. The "second" show is the day before the one we got tickets to; bastards inadvertently relegated us to sloppy seconds. I was looking forward to the "first North American concert in 14 years" or whatever. Poop. I am sure it'll be fine, but it still irks.

Hmpf - Yeah!

*ponders Jarvis' sloppy seconds for a while..*

plz just consider thread title a pleasant irony

Has anyone picked up the recent reissue of Freaks? I'm wondering if the sound quality is terrible like the last CD version (all muffled & distorted - ugh)...

Wish I could go see them in NYC - lucky bastards.