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17 June 2011

Nick Banks interview

There's an interview with Nick Banks in The Star (Sheffield) today.

Links: Back in Pulp position at last and Pulp Diction.

He confirms rumours that Russell Senior, who has a fear of flying, will not take part in the Australian live dates in July.

15 June 2011

News roundup

Guardian article

Interesting article on the Guardian website (15th June): Pulp matter more than ever in today's cowed popcultural landscape

The author, Owen Hatherley, has written a book called Uncommon to be published on 24th June. This looks likely to cover the same area: class as a theme in Jarvis' lyrics.

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Jarvis to DJ at Rock 'n' Roll Dodgems

Jarvis is to DJ at the Rock 'n' Roll Dodgems at Carters Steam Fair in Eel Brook Common, Fulham, London on Friday, June 17.

The traditional travelling funfair is hosting a special charity event in aid of the National Autistic Society.

The event will run from 4pm until 9.30pm. To enter you must purchase a charity wristband. Price £15 (children under 10, £10). Advance booking recommended, though a limited number will be available on the night.

More information

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This Is Hardcore with the BBC Concert Orchestra

As previously reported, Jarvis performed This Is Hardcore with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Centre) on 9th June. This will reportedly be broadcast on BBC radio in the coming weeks.

15 June 2011

Glastonbury '95 TV repeat

BBC4 are to rebroadcast Pulp playing at Glastonbury '95. The hour long programme will feature almost the complete set, with only Pink Glove missing.

Broadcasts:

  • Friday, 17th June 2011 at 23:30
  • Monday, 20th June 2011 at 02:05

This was previously broadcast last December.

Details on the BBC website

2 June 2011

Fire to reissue Pulp's first three albums

UK release: 8th August 2011
North American release: 13th September 2011

Formats: CD, 12" vinyl

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Tracklisting as for previous Fire releases

Freaks

  1. Fairground
  2. I Want You
  3. Being Followed Home
  4. Master Of The Universe
  5. Life Must Be So Wonderful
  6. There's No Emotion
  7. Anorexic Beauty
  8. The Never Ending Story
  9. Don't You Know
  10. They Suffocate At Night
    Bonus tracks
  11. Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)
  12. Simultaneous
  13. Blue Glow
  14. The Will To Power
  15. Dogs Are Everywhere
  16. The Mark Of The Devil
  17. 97 Lovers
  18. Aborigine
  19. Goodnight

Separations

  1. Love Is Blind
  2. Don't You Want Me Anymore?
  3. She's Dead
  4. Separations
  5. Down By The River
  6. Countdown
  7. My Legendary Girlfriend
  8. Death II
  9. This House Is Condemned
    Bonus tracks
  10. Death Goes To The Disco
  11. Is This House?
  12. Countdown (extended version)

All three albums will apparently come with new artwork and liner notes from music journalist Everett True. But they won't be remastered. The 'bonus tracks' have already been released on various compilations in the past.

Links: Fire website

1 June 2011

The Beat is the Law: Fanfare for the Common People

A reminder that this superb documentary DVD was released today (Wednesday, 1st June). Visit the Beat is the Law website for more details. It includes four hours of material, including lengthy interviews with band members and previously unseen footage.

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 DVD disc release.

Made with the full cooperation of the band, 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.

‘Fanfare for the Common People’ is a four-hour double disc set presentation with a cover and 24-page colour booklet by The Designers Republic.

Disc one contains the 90 minute feature film plus extras including a new sit down with Jarvis and Richard Hawley.

Disc two presents another two hours of extras, including ‘The Lost Tape’ – a newly discovered Pulp performance from 1985, previously unseen footage of Pulp at Sheffield’s Leadmill in 1991 plus brand new featurettes from The Designers Republic, Moloko’s Mark Brydon, ClockDVA’s Adi Newton, Parrot and Winston (FON/WARP) and Longpigs’ drummer Dee Boyle – as well as the complete and previously unreleased documentary ‘The Beat is the Law Part Two’.

1 June 2011

New book - Uncommon

A new Pulp-related book written by Owen Hatherley will be published on 24th June 2011. The 135-page paperback isn't really a biography, rather in the author's words "an extended essay on class, mainly, through Pulp records".

Publisher's description:

If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People', for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving his arse at Michael Jackson at the Brit awards, for being part of a non-movement called 'Britpop', and for disappearing almost without trace shortly after. They made a few good tunes, they did some funny videos, and while they might be National Treasures, they're nothing serious. Are they? This book argues that they should be taken seriously - very seriously indeed. Attempting to wrest Pulp away from the grim jingoistic spectacle of Britpop and the revivals-of-a-revival circuit, this book charts the very strange things that occur in their records, taking us deep into a strange exotic land; a land of acrylics, adultery, architecture, analogue synthesisers and burning class anger. This is book about pop music, but it is mainly a book about sex, the city and class via the 1990s finest British pop group.

26 May 2011

Le Bikini, Toulouse

Pulp played the first concert of their reunion tour last night in Toulouse. The concert was an intentionally low-key affair, a warm-up for their festival appearances in the coming weeks.

It is 8 years, 5 months and 12 days since Pulp's last concert in Rotherham in 2002.

The setlist and other details can be found here.

Videos

Do You Remember the First Time? (high quality)

Disco 2000 (high quality)

Pencil Skirt

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.

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