News Archive

26 May 2011

Full list of live dates

The most recently announced dates are in bold.

All currently announced dates are at festivals, except two in Australia: Hordern Pavilion, Sydney (27 July) and Festival Hall, Melbourne (29 July).

26 May 2011

Steve Lamacq interview

Friday, 27th May - Steve Lamacq
16:00 - 19:00, BBC 6 Music

Steve Lamacq's show will feature Pulp's first interview in almost nine years. It was recorded on Monday 23rd May and will apparently feature Jarvis, Candida, Mark, Steve, but not Nick or Russell.

Website

25 May 2011

Jarvis to perform This Is Hardcore with the BBC Concert Orchestra

Electronica III with the BBC Concert Orchestra

Date: Thursday, 9th June 2011, 7.30pm
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Centre), London

As well as Jarvis performing This Is Hardcore, the programme will also include:

  • Graham Fitkin, K1
  • Javier Álvarez, Overture & Pyramid
  • Nico Muhly, Seeing is Believing
  • Patrick Nunn, Fata Morgana for electric cello, orchestra & live electronics
  • Aphex Twin arr. Patrick Nunn, Nannou
  • Eduardo Miranda, Sacra Conversazione
  • Andrew Poppy, Revolution No. 8: Airport for Joseph Beuys
  • Edward Williams, Suite from Life on Earth

Hearing is believing – Jarvis is your host, and plays Pulp’s This Is Hard Core [sic] with the BBC Concert Orchestra…

Hearing is an illusion – Andrew Poppy’s Revolution No. 8: Airport for Joseph Beuys wires the orchestra inside a box of electric delights designed to scatter sound to the outer limits. Patrick Nunn connects an electric cello into shape shifting electronics that manipulate instrumental sounds into shimmering reflections in his Fata Morgana and gives Aphex Twin's Nannou an acoustic-twist. From South America, Eduardo Miranda and Javier Álvarez demonstrate the alchemy of transmuting acoustic tones into electric gold…

Hearing is not believing what you see – Graham Fitkin’s Kaplan reminds us of the menacing antihero of Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller North By Northwest, a man who definitely doesn’t want you to know who he is. Also hiding in the acoustic undergrowth, Edward Williams’ Suite from Life on Earth, music conceived for David Attenborough’s Life on Earth…

And Seeing is Believing: the title of young New York superstar composer Nico Muhly’s concerto for electric six-string violin and orchestra – electronica evoking celestial clouds and telescopic, foraging insects.

More details

12 April 2011

Festival des Vieilles Charrues

Another festival date announced:

  • 14 July - Festival des Vieilles Charrues, Carhaix, Brittany, France (website)

7 April 2011

The Beat is The Law – Fanfare For The Common People

From the makers of Made in Sheffield and The Beat Is the Law (Part One) a new documentary DVD will be released on 24th May. It will follow Pulp's long journey from 80s obscurity to fame in the mid-90s.

From the Beat is the Law website:

Taking as its focus the story of seminal pop misfits/messiahs Pulp over the course of their journey from the darkest industrial depths of Sheffield to the pinnacle of pop, this is an entirely new premium double disc release from the team behind The Beat is the Law.

Fanfare… tells the band’s story in their own words through specially filmed interviews with members of their classic (and reunion) line up including Jarvis Cocker and Russell Senior – as well as contributions from the likes of Richard Hawley, Moloko’s Mark Brydon and WARP’s Rob Gordon.

This is a four-hour, double disc DVD presentation featuring sleeve design and 24 page colour booklet by The Designers Republic

The DVD also features previously unseen footage of Pulp filmed in Chesterfield in 1985.

The Beat is the Law website

6 April 2011

Further dates announced, including Leeds & Reading Festivals and a French warm-up show

Festival dates:

Plus:

23 February 2011

More festival dates announced

24 January 2011

Melt! Festival - Pulp announced as headliners

Pulp have been announced as one of the headline acts at this year's Melt Festival, which is taking place between the 15th-17th of July. This will apparently be Pulp's only German show on their re-union tour this summer.

Melt! Festival website

13 December 2010

Pulp at Glastonbury 1995 - BBC 4

Pulp at Glastonbury 1995 - BBC 4 - Friday, December 17th, 2010 - 22:30 to 23:30

The whole set was broadcast, except for Pink Glove. More details here.

It is available to watch on iPlayer until Christmas Eve (UK only).

8 November 2010

Pulp Reunion!

It was been announced that Pulp will reform to play headline slots at two festivals next year.

The two festival dates are:

  • Sunday, 3rd July 2011 - Wireless Festival, Hyde Park, London
    Tickets go on sale Friday 12th November at 9am and are priced at £48.50 plus booking fee. Tickets available at www.wirelessfestival.co.uk. Barclaycard customers can buy a limited number of advanced tickets from Wednesday, 10th November.

It has been hinted that more dates could be announced soon.

The shows will apparently feature the classic Different Class era line-up of Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior and Mark Webber.

The Pulp People site has been relaunched: link. There is also an official Facebook group: link.

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