At about 12 or 13 my Dad started introducing me to stuff that was, to be honest, probably too mature for someone who was barely out of childhood. It was often by accident while he was trying to show me something he really liked, but couldn’t remember how explicit it was. I distinctly remember being shown Pulp Fiction (not related to my discovery of the other ‘Pulp’…) and him being horrified that they were doing heroin onscreen while his 12-year-old daughter watched on. I’d also discovered his bootleg copy of ‘This Is Hardcore’ in our big tall CD stacker (or whatever you call this now-obsolete bit of furniture) maybe a couple of years before that and I remember being really scared by the cover. Or maybe just scared that I’d get caught looking at something I really shouldn’t be looking at, which was a naked half-dead …

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My mom has been a big fan of Pulp since 1994, so the love just carried on to me. I started to get into pulp when I was 12. The first album for me to get was one of my moms CD’s, the “hits” compilation. I really wore that CD out until I got more of their discography. I was particularly obsessed with Babies, Disco 2000, and Underwear. Ever since, the obsession has just grown stronger, with me having a big collection of pulp albums/singles and a small collection of pulp merchandise.

My classmate lent me her tape with Different Class in 1995 and I made a copy of it. :-D I was 16 and only started to learn English at that time so I eagerly studied the photocopied lyrics with an English/Czech dictionary in my hand – despite the sentence "Do not read lyrics whilst listening" ;-) This music became the soundtrack of my teenage years in a small village in Eastern Bohemia. First saw them much later – in 2011 at Sziget fest in Budapest, Hungary. They did not make it to Prague in 1996 due to some problems at the border so I hope they will finally make it next year. ;-)

In 1994 when a 16 year old me and best friend Kathy cycled to where we knew Jarvis's sister lived in Sheffield and pretended to be collecting jumble for the college jumble sale. Jarvis's face came to the door but he didn't have any jumble - we were gutted - to make it authentic we had to do the whole street and ended up with bags full of jumble we didn't want that we then had to cycle with to the local charity shop!! 30 years on and we are both still Pulp's biggest fans.

I was a student living in a flat in South London. My boyfriend bought Different Class when it came and we played it a lot then. It was so different and exciting. It started there.

i first listened to pulp on the 2nd of april 2020 when i was 13 when my friend recommended disco 2000 when i was talking about my friend at the time called deborah and ever since then ive been obsessed with pulp. i never thought id get to see them live but thankfully i got to see them twice, at finsbury park and hammersmith night 2 and i was at barrier both times!!
and ive met jarvis(at his exhibition) and candida (in the queue for hammersmith, i gave her a plush toy of jarv’s dog i made to give to him) and ill be meeting nick in october!!

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.

It was Top of the Pops and I saw them performing Disco 2000 there was something different yet exciting about them. My Christmas presents in 96 were Different Class and the first two Oasis Albums. Even though I Love Oasis I connected with Pulp more and was also the band that helped me discover things as they say as a young teenager.

Never looked back since although the first time I did finally see them was the fateful Dublin Ambassador gig back in 2001. The less said about that the better. Thankfully the reunion gigs more than made up for it.

Although I remember seeing earlier Pulp videos on MTV as a kid, it really started when I saw them do Common People on TOTP (in my head, Elton John was on the same show doing Made In England, but I could be misremembering). I would have been 13. My dad was watching and said “look at the state of him” aimed at Jarvis, and from that moment, I was in love!

I do remember the first time….

I first entered the tunnel on 24 October 1982. Well, I say ‘tunnel’ but the reality was the complete opposite. I saw the light.

Me and my girlfriend had met a lad called Dave Kurley who, that October, put on a small run of concerts by local bands at the famous Crucible Theatre. Truth be told it was in the much smaller studio next to the main auditorium.

We had heard about a local group called Pulp and were keen to go see – we were really into the local band scene; playing and viewing. We had been doing a stint at putting local bands on above a pub (The Hallamshire) - that’s where we met Dave.

Anyways, we turned up and were completely – cliché alert – blown away by Pulp. Trouble is it was the direct opposite …

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