The following songs were recorded live at Brixton Academy (21 December 1995):
The tour diary was filmed on Pulp's 1995-6 tour of Europe and Japan.
The tour diary parts are narrated by Robert Hulse.
Most warts-and-all concert documentaries make for shit viewing. See too much of your favourite star farting and swigging Tizer and the mystique is lost, too little and it's merely a publicity exercise. Pulp have taken a different tack. Sandwiched between footage of their Christmas '95 Brixton gig are six short films, each scripted by one band member. So, we get Nick on schoolgirl underwear-dispensers in Tokyo, Steve on postman Chaval (he built a palace from pebbles!) and Jarvis comparing post gig and post coital cigarettes. Revealing, while leaving the Pulp appeal intact, it will entertain even those not in awe of all things Jarvular.
3/5