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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