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Date: 20 June 1998
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Event: Rockpalast Festival
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Location: Loreley, Germany
Jarvis:
Hello! Er, guten tag, er. Yes, we are Pulp, yes. Good evening. It's gone a little bit cooler but you are not safe yet, ok? You are going to die in pain real soon! It's going to be very horrible and very painful...
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The Fear
Jarvis: I'm getting on a bit, you know, and the memories start to fade and things that you held dear one time start to... you can hardly fucking see them, you know what I mean? But I remember the first time.
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Do You Remember the First Time?
Jarvis: Yeah! Double right! [presumably in response to the final lyrics of Do You Remember the First Time?]
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I'm a Man
Jarvis: Danke schon ??? you have to be careful. Only two hours ago, I had my feet in the Rhine. Feet in the Rhine is all mine, all mine. This is Loreley, this is Saturday evening, this is quite hot and This is Hardcore.
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This is Hardcore
Jarvis: Das ist Hardcore. Yeah. Hello anyway, er, my name is Jarvis, hello, nice to meet you. We now are going to play a song about this kind of event but you've got to imagine it's dark, right. Imagine it's dark and you've had 5 tablets of ecstasy and you're staring right into a strobe light, yeah? Buzzing!
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Sorted For E's & Wizz
Jarvis: Alright. Everybody wants to star in a Hollywood movie, yes? Yeah, alright, you're the star, ok, go to the premiere, do exciting things, alright but let me tell you: no! You're going to be in a TV miniseries written by Jeffrey Archer. Rich Man, Poor Man was good but this is the follow-up, Rich Man, Poor Man 2, your life has become a TV Movie.
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TV Movie
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Party Hard
Jarvis: Someone left a cake out in the rain which is stupid! They really spoiled the birthday party. There were lots of children there who were really fucked off! To spend all that time with the icing and everything, to get all the right ingredients and to make a cake right is difficult, you have to mix all the stuff together right and they left it out in the fucking rain. Stupid. They are probably senile, probably fucking senile!
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Help the Aged
Jarvis: Please, alright we'd better get straight... These monitors are so good I've just got to fucking run all over them because I can really hear what I'm doing, it's fucking brilliant! I can hear it loud from the side but I can hear fuck-all from the front!
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Glory Days
Jarvis: Well, it's been an experience and we're going to leave you now. I want to say thank you very much to Sonic Youth for allowing us to play at this time because our equipment was stuck. Our equipment was stuck in Moscow, I've never been to Moscow, you know what I mean? My fucking amplifier has, you know! My amplifier is more interesting than I am. My amplifier is more better travelled than I am. It don't make no sense, it don't make no sense.
1, 2, 3, 4...
Quick on the draw there, Mark, are we?
[At this point, Mark starts playing late]
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Common People
Jarvis: That's it, ta-ra, thank you!
[Jarvis proceeds to push the monitors over and smash the microphone stand]
Jarvis opens the set by telling the audience that they are going to "die in pain". This sets the tone for what is to come. Jarvis is clearly in a filthy temper. This had been precipitated by having to play with borrowed instruments because the band's own equipment was flown to Moscow by mistake ("I've never been to Moscow ... but by fucking amplifier has ... My amplifier is more well travelled than I am."). The fact that Jarvis was unable to hear himself through the monitors during the set aggravated things further. At the end, Jarvis shows his displeasure by smashing the microphone stand and tipping over the monitors.