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Do you remember the first time?

To celebrate Nick Banks' upcoming autobiography So It Started There we would like you to tell us where 'It Started' for you. What was your first Pulp single or album? Do you still have it? Where did you first see Pulp play live? What other memories do you have of how you discovered Pulp?

We have created a dedicated page where you can share your memories. Read other people's contributions here, including one from Nick Banks himself.

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15 April 2025

Pulp to perform two exclusive sessions for the BBC in May

Pulp will be performing two exclusive live sessions for the BBC in May. The announcement was made by Jarvis during a live interview on The Scott Mills Breakfast Show on Radio 2 shortly after 8.30am on Tuesday 15th April.

For BBC Radio 2, the band will perform both classic hits and new songs from their upcoming album More to an audience of lucky fans at the BBC Radio Theatre on the evening of Wednesday 7th May. Tickets will be randomly allocated via an online ballot currently open for registration until 11.59pm BST on Tuesday 22nd April. The concert will be recorded in sound and vision, initially airing on Jo Whiley’s Radio 2 show from 7-9pm on Thursday 29th May, before being televised on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer in June.

Meanwhile, BBC Radio 6 Music will broadcast a separate, intimate session called "6 Music Session: Pulp Live" as part of Nick Grimshaw’s show on Thursday 29th May (7-10am), alongside an interview with the band. The 6 Music performance will also be available to view in-vision on BBC iPlayer on demand for a limited time.

Words from Jarvis:

“We are really looking forward to this. From my time at 6 Music, I remember that the BBC Radio Theatre is a very intimate venue. As long as we can fit all our equipment in there it’s going to be great to play some songs for Radio 2 and 6 Music.”

The full BBC press release can be found here.

10 April 2025

Pulp announce new album 'More' and single 'Spike Island'

After almost a quarter of a century, Pulp will follow up 2001's We Love Life with the highly anticipated album More to be released Friday 6th June 2025 by Rough Trade.

The album, officially announced on Thursday 10th April, will be comprised of 11 tracks, 7 of which have already received their live debut on recent tours:

  1. Spike Island*
  2. Tina
  3. Grown Ups
  4. Slow Jam
  5. Farmers Market*
  6. My Sex*
  7. Got To Have Love*
  8. Background Noise*
  9. Partial Eclipse
  10. The Hymn of the North*
  11. A Sunset*

*performed live during 2023/2024

Additionally, the Japanese release will feature an exclusive bonus track titled Open Strings, according to a listing on Amazon Japan.

The album is available to pre-order on several formats including 12" vinyl, CD, cassette and digital download. The Rough Trade online store features a number of bundles and special offers, including a store exclusive First Edition White Label LP with MP3 download and sticker which is available to pre-order this weekend only (until late on Sunday 12th April).

Jarvis, Candida, Nick and Mark joined Lauren Laverne live on her BBC 6 Music show for the first airplay of new single Spike Island, alongside the release of a somewhat controversial AI-generated promo video on Thursday morning. The news also briefly made the 6pm and 10pm bulletins on BBC One.

On Friday 11th April, BBC Radio Sheffield joined in the celebrations with two big interviews. A pre-recorded Jarvis popped up throughout Ellie Colton's Breakfast show from 6-10pm, while Nick called in on Toby Foster for a chinwag on the Afternoon show. Jarvis was also interviewed by Absolute Radio.

Words from Jarvis via Rough Trade:

“This is the first Pulp album since “We Love Life” in 2001. Yes: the first Pulp album for 24 years.

How did that happen?

Well: when we started touring again in 2023, we practiced a new song called “Hymn of the North” during soundchecks & eventually played it at the end of our second night at Sheffield Arena. This seemed to open the floodgates: we came up with the rest of the songs on this album during the first half of 2024. A couple are revivals of ideas from last century. The music for one song was written by Richard Hawley. The music for another was written by Jason Buckle. The Eno family sing backing vocals on a song. There are string arrangements written by Richard Jones & played by the Elysian Collective.

The album was recorded over 3 weeks by James Ford in Walthamstow, London, starting on November 18th, 2024. This is the shortest amount of time a Pulp album has ever taken to record. It was obviously ready to happen.

These are the facts.

We hope you enjoy the music. It was written & performed by four human beings from the North of England, aided & abetted by five other human beings from various locations in the British Isles. No A.I. was involved during the process.

This album is dedicated to Steve Mackey.

This is the best that we can do.

Thanks for listening.”

Selected media coverage:

BBC News
NME
The Guardian

5 April 2025

Pulp to appear on The Jonathan Ross Show (UPDATED)

Pulp are coming to a television screen near you...

The Jonathan Ross Show
Series 22 Episode 7
ITV1, Sat 12 April, 21:20-22:20

Joining Jonathan this time are award-winning actor Martin Freeman, star of the global smash-hit drama The Last of Us Bella Ramsey, and legendary frontman Jarvis Cocker with Pulp.

Recording took place at Television Centre, White City on the evening of Wednesday 9th April. A few lucky fans in attendance have shared their thoughts ahead of broadcast via the Bar Italia Forum discussion thread.

29 March 2025

Pulp... Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Following the announcement of festival shows in France and Spain, Pulp have announced two co-headlining shows taking place at the Hollywood Bowl on 25th and 26th September 2025...

Pulp in social media:

You’re seeing double ... & it’s all okay.

Pulp and LCD Soundsystem. Together, for two nights at the Hollywood Bowl in September 2025.

This is what dreams are made of. Bring your dancing shoes.

Tickets go on general sale Friday 4th April (PT), with various presales beginning Tuesday 1st - you'd be an April fool to miss out.

Band's Instagram post
LCD Soundsystem's Instagram post
Fan presale for seated tickets (2nd April)

14 February 2025

Pulp announce UK and Ireland tour dates

Pulp will be playing a UK and Ireland arena tour this summer...

Pulp in social media:

“You deserve more – & we have more.

In fact, we have More – (but that’s a whole other story… you’ll have to wait a little more time to hear that one)

In the meantime: see you this Summer!” – Jarvis Cocker

TOUR DATES

Saturday 7 June: Glasgow OVO Hydro
Tuesday 10 June: Dublin 3Arena
Friday 13 & Saturday 14 June: London The 02
Thursday 19 June: Birmingham Utilita Arena
Saturday 21 June: Manchester Coop Live

Tickets go on general sale Friday 21st February at 9.30am (GMT), however fans signed up to the official Pulp mailing list can purchase tickets early on Tuesday 18th February from 9.30am (GMT).

12 December 2024

Pulp signs a record deal with Rough Trade Records

Yes. It's Happening.

Pulp in social media:

Pulp are pleased to announce that they have signed a record deal with Rough Trade Records.
“Rough Trade have managed Pulp for over 30 years so it feels great to be finally on the label. We did it!”

X band's post
Instagram band's post
Instagram Rough Trade Records' post

13 June 2024

I'm With Pulp, Are You? - a visual history of Pulp

Do we really need another book about Pulp? OF COURSE WE DO.

“I’m With Pulp, Are You?” promises to be the definitive visual history of the band featuring all manner of archival objects, ephemera and images from its long history, collected and curated by none other than guitarist and former fan club president Mark Webber. Featuring a foreword by Jarvis with text and essays by Mark, Simon Reynolds and Luke Turner, the 288-page hardcover is now available to pre-order from Hat And Beard Press ahead of its September 2024 release date.

Pre-order - UK & Europe
Pre-order - US & Rest of World

Press blurb:

When Mark Webber discovered Pulp as a teenage music fan in 1985, the band was on first-name terms with most of their limited audience. Over the next few years, Mark began to help out with stage sets and light shows, eventually becoming the group’s first tour manager and running the fan club. After being called upon to play guitar and keyboards at live shows, he began to contribute to songwriting and recordings before being asked to join the band in 1995. This incredible backstory—from being a fan to joining his favorite band—provides the unique perspective of I’m With Pulp, Are You?

The book gathers material from Mark’s extensive collection of ephemera and objects accumulated over the last five decades of his involvement with the band. The lavishly illustrated pages combine images with Webber’s reminiscences to chronicle a history of the band told from the inside. It includes photographs, flyers, record covers, set lists, stickers, posters, press clippings, merchandise, and masses of promotional material. I'm With Pulp, Are You? also features a foreword by Jarvis Cocker, and newly commissioned essays by music writers Simon Reynolds and Luke Turner.

You can follow Mark and receive updates about the book via @imwithpulp on X (formerly Twitter).

15 February 2024

Intro remastered on blue vinyl for Record Store Day 2024

Intro: The Gift Recordings is to be re-released as an exclusive limited edition blue vinyl for Record Store Day 2024, Saturday 20th April 2024.

Remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London, the classic album - long out of print on vinyl - features the three singles released by Pulp on Sheffield indie label Gift Records during 1992/93, O.U., Babies and Razzmatazz.

Tracklisting

  1. Space (5:12)
  2. O.U. (3:44)
  3. Babies (4:05)
  4. Styloroc (Nites of Suburbia) (3:10)
  5. Razzmatazz (3:39)
  6. Sheffield: Sex City (8:32)
  7. Stacks (2:42)
  8. Inside Susan (5:35)
  9. 59 Lyndhurst Grove (3:32)

18 January 2024

New book - This Is Hardcore (33 1/3 series)

Another book about Pulp's sixth studio album This Is Hardcore will be published on 7th March. This one is part of 33 1/3, a series of short books focusing on music albums by a wide variety of artists. It is written by Jane Savidge, co-founder and head of the legendary PR company Savage & Beast, who has represented Pulp since 1992.

The book is described as a "unique insider/outsider’s guide to the record that destroyed Britpop, written by one of the key instigators of the 90s Britpop movement".

It is published by Bloomsbury in paperback and ebook formats.

Here's the publisher's description:

This Is Hardcore is Pulp's cry for help. A giant, sprawling, flawed masterpiece of a record, the 1998 album manages to tackle some of the most inappropriately grown-up issues of the day – fame, ageing, mortality, drugs, and pornography – and still come out crying and laughing on the other side. The subject of pornography dominates the record – from its controversial artwork to the images conjured up by songs like "Seductive Barry" and the title track – after Pulp's main man, Jarvis Cocker – who'd spent most of his teenage and adult life chasing celebrity, only to be cruelly disappointed when it finally arrived in spades – hit upon the grand notion of using pornography as a metaphor for fame. The album's commercial failure as a follow-up to the band's Britpop-defining, Different Class, also symbolizes a death knell for Britpop itself.

Dark, right? Except just like Pulp themselves, Jane Savidge's book is playful and sometimes very funny indeed. Kicking off with an imaginary conversation between Jarvis Cocker and the people who run the Total Fame Solutions helpline, Savidge expertly guides us through the trials and tribulations of an album that begins with the so-called Michael Jackson Incident, when Cocker got up on stage at the 1996 Brit Awards and waggled his fully-clothed bum at the King of Pop. Pulp's This Is Hardcore may be a sleazy run through porn and mental demise, and an album that chronicles Cocker's continuing disillusionment with his newfound lot in life, but Savidge's book assesses the cultural and historical context of the album with insider knowledge and a sharp modern lens, ultimately making a case for it as one of the most important albums of the 1990s.

More details and ordering on the Bloomsbury website.

15 August 2023

Nick goes back on the road...

The majority of Pulp may be enjoying a well-earned rest for the next few months, but not our Nick...

Nick Banks:

Well lookie here. I’m off round the country yakkin on about myself.
You can come along if you want. It will be a blast. What yer reckon?

Full info and tickets here.

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