Why are Pulp so unpopular now?

Haha yes one was me. I lost the disc but the songs live on! (Groan..)

I saw the NYC posters yesterday and did a doubletake re: Jeffrey opening. (He is friend o' mine though no relation, sometimes we draw comics together and talk abt The Fall). I think I will ask Jeffrey if he can wheedle any Scott Walker gossip out of Cocker for me...

BTW Haymarket Pizza in Boston is v v delicious, my wife took me there when we were visiting her fam

> I didn't find out about the whole Montreal having bagels to rival NY's until after we'd gone there. :/ Next time.

Ahh, St. Viateur in Montreal is the bagel capital of the world. NYC only thinks it is.....

x-post - Ha! I will look into it. Don't think I have had it before. :)

Okay folks this just got posted on my FB feed:

Tonight at the Albert Hall, Pulp performed "My Lighthouse" for the first time since around 1984, with Jarvis' sister, and one of his schoolfriends, on vocals.

I freely admit I would be bowled over if they did that out here. Now to search YouTube...

I was there. It was a fine night all round. Enjoyed Jarvis' comment before "I Spy" that he had been waiting his whole life to play that song in this venue, and the on-screen questions before they came on asking 'how many holes does it take to fill this place?'. Only disappointment compared to the London show I went to last year was no "Wickerman" this time.

Seem to be in the minority but I really like some of the early stuff. I wouldn't mind hearing "Blue Girls" and "I Love Love" too....

And indeed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrw3cMngNdo

Pulp were apparently on Fallon last night:
http://stereogum.com/996972/watch-pulp-play-fallon/video/

No sound on my work computer but I might just watch it anyway!

I may have just made a high pitched excitable noise and started flapping my hands with excitement as I heard the first couple notes of that. omg. Tomorrow. TOMORROW!! I honestly haven't been this excited to see a show since 1997.

Hahaha, me neither. I think there's something about bands you fall in love with as a teenager. Squee!!

Also bands you've loved for years and years and have never seen live before!

Right, of course! Jealous of those at tonight's show but at least we'll have an idea of when they'll be going on, for tomorrow!
Pretty much unable to concentrate today.

Yeah, same.

Compare/contrast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-aE0Vww_M

Ohh, that brought back memories for me. I think I had that on VHS once upon a time!

Hey guys, a show anywhere near the mid-Atlantic east coast area would be nice

NY was pretty mid-Atlantic last time I checked, dude. :/

yeah I'm coming from Toronto! Since they wouldn't come closer, I decided to..

opening act for tonight's is the Chromatics ... their new album is pretty great and they supposedly were great last night at Le Bain ... but I dunno how Chromatics at Radio City will come off. (probably said about every opening act at Radio City ever)

I am never going to see them again, am I? Bleurgh.

Where do you live, Nicole? I am bad at keeping track of these things.

Detroit. I just do not have the time/money to make a New York trip.

ah yes, that's too bad. Hopefully this will reawaken a forgotten love of touring on their part. I am not so sure..

> NY was pretty mid-Atlantic last time I checked, dude.

Still a 10-hour drive from DC, and I'm burned out from too many long drives lately

my high school boyfriend (for a VERY short time) who i unfriended on facebook for turning into a libertarian frat boy douche (well he was already a bit of a douce, just informed me (via facebook) that he is going to see pulp tonight and thanking me for introducing him to them.

finally a reason to be glad about seeing them tomorrow night instead!!!

sorry the second parentheses was supposed to be "(well he was already a bit of a douche in high school which is why it didn't last more than 3 weeks)"

i wonder how someone reconciles listening to "common people" with supporting drug testing for welfare recipients, haha i should probably call him out on that.

like pulp would have even existed in obscurity for so many years without welfare and drugs!

lol Pulp

Hah! Yes, the true/awesome/non-jocky fans will be there tomorrow :D

short of sleep or I'd go meet the tourists this eve, sorry

(I am not Hardcore)

> NY was pretty mid-Atlantic last time I checked, dude.

Still a 10-hour drive from DC, and I'm burned out from too many long drives lately

― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok New York is TOTALLY not mid-Atlantic (unless you're from Canada or something) but it is not a fucking 10 hour drive from D.C.! more like 5 hours with pee breaks.

and i will echo that it'd sure be nice if they played more dates up and down the coast. i only saw Pulp live when they did a few songs at the Tibetan Freedom Concert right after This Is Hardcore came out, that might've been the last time they played D.C.?

Pretty sure they only came to Toronto once (unless I missed a tour for His n Hers) if it makes anyone feel better!
Anyway I have invaded the city. Nineish hours! Sorry we'll miss you, Morbs!

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

A little something I wrote:

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/2012/04/five_pulp_obscurities_that_are.php

Rob Sheffield liked it.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/04/pulp_radio_city_music_hall_april_11_recap.php

goddamn so jealous of people who saw that show. is there any idea of the likelihood of a larger scale US tour?

I doubt it. Even back in the day they didn't tour the US very extensively.

well yeah but reunion tours in general draw bigger audiences, better money, i'm sure they'd be able to sell more tickets in the U.S. than they did in all of the '90s several times over

It was so damm good.

you are all monsters

I love you

and hate you

It's just the way of things.

A...bonus, I guess: turns out someone's finally put the one 'lost' Pulp song from the mid to late eighties on YouTube, "Silence" -- this is the one that Jarvis refused to allow on the Masters of the Universe compilation and reissues since, according to this:

That features the only Fire track which hasn't been reissued: "Silence", from demos recorded in an old karate studio, written at that first rehearsal with Russell. Oh, it's so depressing, a two-note keyboard drone, someone playing one of those hunting horns you have on the living room wall and me alternately talking and screaming this story about a love affair that doesn't work out. I banned it from going on the Fire compilation, because it's terrible - I couldn't live with it being out.

And yeah, can't blame him for that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o-8QOTEUOc

feeling like I missed the boat on these guys, Different Class came out when I worked at college radio but I was kinda down on Britpop at the time and never really got into them ... now friends my same age were all getting super hyped for the shows and posting camera-phone photos of the big PULP stage sign and I'm strangely jealous

Lol I totally posted a bunch of those last night.

it's an impressive sign

They opened the show with a drawing of a... dolphin? It was a little strange.