Pulp

[Rorschach08]

Pulp reform for Summer 2011 shows / Music News // Drowned In Sound

 

Brilliant news, probably my favourite band of the Britpop era, reckon they're absolutely nailed on to play Glastonbury as well.

 

You'd have thought we'd have all got quite fed up of bands from yesteryear reforming, even the good ones. Probably not this time, mind, as Pulp will be reuniting for some shows in the middle part of next year, i.e The Summer. A great way to start the week.

 

The band will play Primavera Sound 2011, as you can see from the festival's website. It also appears that it will be the Pulp's "original" line-up, so that's also good news. Primavera will be their first gig back since their 2002 split, but there will be British shows, specifically Wireless festival in London on Sunday July 3. Tickets for that go on sale on Thursday, click here for the link. It's the first time the "original" line-up will have been on stage together for over FOURTEEN years. Go to the group's website for more info when it appears.

 

So, with those two on the horizon next summer, you'd have to be an unoptimistic bastard to not at least hope that there will be at the very least a few more festival appearances, and at the very best some PROPER shows, like what Blur did. Fingers crossed, eh? Glastonbury?

[Teflon Don]

I'd seen/heard some rumours about this recently, but it's great to have it defintiely confirmed. As stated in the article, they'll hopefully play a few non-festival shows as well (I saw Blur at the Manchester Arena on the Friday night before they played Glastonbury 2009).

 

Presumably new songs and/or a new album are out of the question at this stage?

[Stu Monty]

Any excuse:

 

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Sublime.

[Fugitive]

Pulp were the band of choice for Art Students who frequently got off on the smell of their own farts.

[Rorschach08]

Pulp were the band of choice for Art Students who frequently got off on the smell of their own farts.

 

That was Belle & Sebastian.

[WaltonRed]

Pulp fucking rule.

 

One of the best bands ive ever seen.

 

Cannot wait for this tour, fingers crossed for Glasto!

[Paulie Dangerously]

I'm not going to Glasto but if they're touring anywhere near me I'll be on it like a fat goth girl on antidepressants

[AngryOfTuebrook]

OK, this is Jarvis on his own, but like Monty says "any excuse".

 

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[The Midnight Rambler]

Common people released 20 years ago today.

 

 

 

What a time to be alive

[stringvest]

I'm sorted for vitamin E and fizz.

[razor]

I heard some kid the other day say, "I like old films.  Films like Twelve Monkeys."  I laughed to myself until I realised it was 20 years ago I first saw it.  I felt old.

 

Pulp: Great couple of singles.

 

Saw them support St Etienne at the university once.

 

Not a fan.

[stringvest]

I heard some kid the other day say, "I like old films.  Films like Twelve Monkeys."  I laughed to myself until I realised it was 20 years ago I first saw it.  I felt old.

 

Pulp: Great couple of singles.

 

Saw them support St Etienne at the university once.

 

Not a fan.

 

 

Hang on.  St Etienne were/are shite.  Nothing at all to commend them, apart from Sarah Cracknell about 20 years ago.  How did Jarvis end up supporting that talentless load of airy shite dance cunts?

[razor]

Hang on.  St Etienne were/are shite.  Nothing at all to commend them, apart from Sarah Cracknell about 20 years ago.  How did Jarvis end up supporting that talentless load of airy shite dance cunts?

 

...was the reason I was in the audience.  I think it was likely 25 years ago.

 

It was before they were famous.

[stringvest]

they were still shit though.  They still make exactly the same music.  Actually I've just googled her pics.  She still looks pretty fit.  If only she didn't make the most horrible whiny tuneless racket.  

[Bjornebye]

bullshit. 

 

 

 

 

by the way, i was far behind them ot. i got this of youtube but..... they were class. wish id seen them in 96 when you were only 13334432 stringy. 

[Dr Nowt]

Saw them when I was 17 or 18. Fuck, that was a long, long time ago.

 

Sorted for E's and Whizz, Glastonbury. Seminal moment. Wasn't there.

[General Dryness]

95 were a good year.

[stringvest]

bullshit.

 

https-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNpLiRMf-Gk

 

 

 

by the way, i was far behind them ot. i got this of youtube but..... they were class. wish id seen them in 96 when you were only 13334432 stringy.

I was talking about St Etienne you daft twat. Pulp are fucking brilliant. Jarvis is a hero. I've seen them and him loads.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Better than Oasis who were the 1 direction of their time.

[Rico1304]

95 were a good year.

One of the best yrs of my life.

[General Dryness]

One of the best yrs of my life.

 

Certainly one of the better ones of mine. Not saying I've had a shit life, its just been generally quite average.

[Mook]

'95 was the year I started getting into Led Zeppelin and playing in bands, fucking 20 years ago.

 

Never liked Pulp although I have a lot of time for Jarvis Cocker and he was responsible for the best ever moment in the history of the Brit Awards.

[stringvest]

Different class was brilliant as was his first solo album

[Mook]

[Nightcat]

Is the mystery woman in Pulp's 'Common People' really Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis' wife?

 

Danae Stratou studied at St. Martins College of Art and Design between 1983 and 1988

 

One of pop culture's enduring mysteries may have just been solved. Greek paper the Athens Voice has revealed that the wife of Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek Finance minister, could be the rich art student Jarvis Cocker wrote about in Pulp's single 'Common People'.

 

Danae Stratou studied at St. Martins College of Art and Design between 1983 and 1988, the same year Cocker enrolled in a film studies course there during a break from the band. He told NME in 2013 that he met the Greek girl in the song during ‘Crossover Fortnight’, when St Martins students switched into another discipline for two weeks.

 

In a later interview Cocker remembered a conversation with the Greek woman who "wanted to move to Hackney and live like 'the common people'". He used this as the basis for the song. But the identity of the woman has never been discovered, despite a search launched by BBC3.

Stratou is the eldest daughter of a Greek industrialist. Her mother is an artist and sculptor and she started making small sculptures as a child before specialising at St Martins. Varoufakis is one of the key politicians in Greece's Syriza party - a radical left wwing group whose members are known for not wearing formal ties in solidarity with working people. Sounds like Stratou may have found her common people in the end.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/is-the-mystery-woman-in-pulps-common-people-really-the-greek-finance-ministers-wife-10232324.html