News Archive
6 April 2012
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
9 March 2012
Wireless Nights
Jarvis Cocker is to present a new factual series on BBC Radio 4 starting next month. It will explore what Britons get up to during the hours of darkness. According to Jarvis, 'Wireless Nights' is "a nocturnal exploration of the human condition".
The BBC website reports that the first programme will feature: "a pub lock-in, a lonely prisoner at Wormwood Scrubs and a drunk who spends the night in an empty building."
There will be four half-hour programmes, starting on 5th April at 11pm.
More information: BBC News & Radio Times.
29 February 2012
NME Awards 2012
Tonight Pulp received the Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution To Music Award at the NME Awards. They then played a short set consisting of Babies and Mis-Shapes.
There will be television coverage of the awards this Saturday (3rd March) on Channel 4 starting at 23:55. Hopefully at least part of the acceptance speech and live set will be included.
28 February 2012
New festival dates in Romania and Finland
23 February 2012
Extra New York City date
An extra New York City date has been announced for Tuesday, 10th of April. This is in addition to the previously publicised date on the 11th. Both shows are at the Radio City Music Hall.
More info: Radio City Music Hall website
20 February 2012
Royal Albert Hall show for the Teenage Cancer Trust
Pulp are to play at London's Royal Albert Hall on Saturday, 31st March. The concert is one of a series taking place at the venue to benefit the Teenage Cancer Trust.
The official Twitter feed has announced a pre-sale of tickets this Wednesday (22nd February) at 9am - visit http://t.co/0wycPaaK. Tickets go on general sale on Friday (24th February).
7 February 2012
Pulp to receive an Outstanding Contribution to Music Award at the NME Awards
It's been announced that Pulp will be presented with the Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution to Music Award at this year's NME Awards. The ceremony will take place at the O2 Academy Brixton on 29th February.
Pulp will also play live on the night. Some tickets have gone on public sale for the event (but unfortunately seem to have already sold out).
7 February 2012
Mexico City
Pulp will play Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City on Monday, 23rd April.
Jarvis received a warm welcome when he played solo in Mexico back in 2008, which may have been a factor in Pulp deciding to play a concert there for the first now.
The publicity pictures apparently do not feature Russell Senior, suggesting that he will not play. Russell's fear of flying prevented him from attending most of the 2011 shows that took place outside the UK.
7 February 2012
Fire reissues finally
After repeated delays it looks like the Fire Records reissues of Pulp's first three albums are finally going to be released on Monday, 13th February.
The remastered albums will be available on CD, 12" LP and digital download. They have redesigned sleeves, which will contain liner-notes by Everett True.
Freaks
- Fairground
- I Want You
- Being Followed Home
- Master Of The Universe
- Life Must Be So Wonderful
- There's No Emotion
- Anorexic Beauty
- The Never Ending Story
- Don't You Know
- They Suffocate At Night
Bonus disc:
Notes:
- Sink Or Swim is released for the first time, as is an alternative mix of Blue Girls.
- It's not clear which version of Please Don't Worry will be included. The Fire Records website describes it as the Peel Session version (previously released), but the preview clip on sites such as amazon.co.uk suggest it's a different version. [EDIT - it is the previously unreleased It LP session version.]
- Death Comes To Town has only previously been released on a bonus disc that came with Martin Lilleker's 2005 book Beats Working For a Living: The Story of Popular Music in Sheffield 1973-1984.
More details on the Fire Records website.
23 January 2012
More live dates announced
New US dates in New York and San Francisco have been announced, plus a festival in Murcia, Spain.
From official email message:
The echo returns
Razzmatazz in the birthplace of
Razzle-Dazzle
Pulp at Radio City Music Hall: has anything of this magnitude happened since Ziggy landed there in '73?
“Dunno mate - fantastic sight-lines though”
Golden Gate? Gotta be great
Murcia, have mercy on us
Enough already.....
…are you sure you're ready for this?
- 11 April - Radio City Music Hall, New York, USA
- 13 April - Coachella, Indio, California, USA
- 17 April - Warfield, San Francisco, USA
- 20 April - Coachella, Indio, California, USA
- 4 May - SOS Festival, Murcia, Spain
It remains to be seen whether Russell Senior will take part in these shows. His fear of flying prevented him from playing most non-UK shows last year. The 'Can we conquer our phobias?' message on the official site might imply that it is at least a possibility this time.