7th May 2025 - BBC Radio Theatre, London (live)

Details

  • Date: Wednesday 7th May 2025
  • Venue: BBC Radio Theatre
  • Location: London
  • Tickets: Free (limited number allocated by ballot)

Line-up: Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar), Nick Banks (drums), Candida Doyle (keyboards), Mark Webber (guitar, keyboards) plus Andrew McKinney (bass), Emma Smith (violin, guitar, backing vocals), Richard Jones (keyboards, acoustic guitar, backing vocals) and the Elysian Collective (strings, backing vocals) - possibly others.

Setlist: Radio 2 In Concert

  1. Spike Island
  2. Something Changed
  3. Tina* (live debut)
  4. Dishes
  5. Sorted For E's & Wizz
  6. Disco 2000
  7. Got To Have Love
  8. Do You Remember The First Time?
  9. Farmers Market
  10. Sunrise
  11. Common People
  12. A Sunset

* The setlist showed a choice between Tina and Grown Ups. Tina was chosen.

Earlier in the evening a shorter live session was performed for BBC 6 Music in front of only a small audience:

Setlist: 6 Music Session

  1. Babies
  2. Spike Island
  3. Seconds
  4. Slow Jam
  5. Acrylic Afternoons
  6. Partial Eclipse (live debut)
  7. This is Hardcore
  8. We Are the Boyz

Notes

Several classic songs were played live for the first time in many years: Seconds (last heard in 1994), We Are the Boyz (1998) and Acrylic Afternoons (2012). Dishes also returned after a two year absence. Tina and Partial Eclipse both made their live debut, and Pulp performed Slow Jam for the first time. Whilst performing Sorted For E's & Wizz Jarvis sang the more radio-friendly lyric "Got the tickets from some screwed up bloke in Camden Town".

The initial BBC iPlayer version omitted Sunrise and A Sunset, running to approximately 52 minutes.

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