Pulp: 18th November 1993 - The Roadmender, Northampton (live)

Beaten to a Pulp!
Pulp are just too clever and too good for modern audiences!
The Sheffield sextet brought their blend of council estate pop, 70s sounds and philosophy to the Roadmender last week.
Wiry frontman Jarvis Cocker and his cohorts hail from the same school as Suede, The Smiths and Furniture with songs about the seedier side of life - street songs if you like. What puts Pulp at the top of the class is Cocker's Wildean ramblings between songs about cross dressing and other odd obsessions.
Unfortunately, the Roadmender audience turned up to hear the hits Razzmatazz and Lipgloss and dance and cheer - and Cocker's dry wit was lost among it all. Live, Pulp are a jagged combo with half-serious, catchy pop tunes and Jarvis Cocker remains one of the sexiest frontmen.