My dad loves music - he always taped Top of the Pops off the telly so we had piles and piles of videos of old recordings throughout the 80s and 90s.
It was 1994 and I was 13 and I was watching an old recording of Blur from 1991 doing ‘There’s no other way’ and I thought it was cool.
I asked my dad if he had anything by Blue in his exhaustive vinyl collection and he either misheard me or ignored me and popped His n Hers on the record player.
Joyriders was unlike anything I had ever heard before - I felt that Pulp we’re letting me into a huge secret.
I was hooked from that point on. My dad bought Intro on CD and when I was there for the weekend, we would bond over Pulp.
I bought Different Class and all the singles on cassette and then on CD.
I have had a picture of Jarvis by my bed since 1996 and I take it everywhere I go.
I now have ‘I only went with her ‘cause she looks like you’ tattooed on my arm.