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3 years

Here’s a bumper thread about Pulp’s logos and typefaces, and how together they’ve defined the band’s visual identity for over 30 years. 1/47

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2 years

Jarvis Cocker dressed in the style of British Rail tickets. A thread🧵… 1. Northampton (Rail Day Rover)

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Phenomenal night #pulp2023

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11 months

On this day in ‘93, Pulp appeared on The Word and delivered this brilliant performance of Lipgloss.

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2 years

Hard to find words to express the sadness of Steve Mackey’s passing. The news fills our hearts with sorrow, but he leaves us with heads full of the most joyful sounds and memories 🖤🤍

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No idea what the line-up will be, but 3,828 days later, we’ve finally got our Pulp back. Overjoyed! #pulp2023

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1 year

What a night! #pulp2023

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Pulp took us into 2024 in style. Stomach in, chest out…

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1 year

Pulp’s second Sheffield show had the same set as last night except for the surprise addition of ‘Hymn Of The North’ - a song Cocker wrote for the play ‘Light Falls’.

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1 year

It’s frustrating to see people sell setlists on eBay so soon after a concert. If you want a replica of mine to print off then reply below with either Bridlington, Finsbury Park, Dublin, Scarborough, Cardiff or Sheffield and I’ll make some PDFs this weekend 👍

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A glamorous-looking Pulp perform Something Changed on Top Of The Pops, originally broadcast on 4 April 1996 #totp

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Here we go! Nine setlists from Pulp’s summer tour. They’re in a handy PDF document for you to download, print and proudly display. Thanks for the phenomenal response: a reminder that the band are almost as brilliant as their fans!

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🎈 Happy 60th birthday Cocker! 🎈 Jarvis has made it this far without turning into a “right bastard”, so I think his National Treasure status is finally deserved.

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1 year

The Elysian Collective strings made an incredible difference to Pulp’s sound last night. Here’s their intro to This Is Hardcore

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1 year

This weekend sees Pulp’s first concerts since 2012 and it feels like the night before Christmas. Anticipation is all part of the fun and below are some of the BIG questions that tomorrow we’ll finally get answers to. Thread🧵1/11

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Here’s one of Pulp’s more surreal TV appearances. They’re miming along to ‘Inside Susan’ on Sean’s Show, broadcast on this day in 1993. I can spot all of Pulp except for Nick Banks.

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1 year

Wow Cardiff….That was one of the best Pulp concerts I’ve ever seen. May have cried a few times too!

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2 years

Here’s Jarvis’ account of Pulp’s first #TOTP appearance and that Wet Wet Wet protest:

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1 year

Pulp fever hits Bridlington! This amazing postbox topper has appeared opposite @bridspa . Thanks to @sharon_hacker for the picture (she still needs a spare ticket if anyone has one).

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First night of the tour in Chicago and we get a brand new Pulp song called ‘Spike Island’. Not only was it a belter but it felt like a full band composition. Exciting times!

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1 year

On this day in 1995, Jarvis Cocker and Pulp were headline news. You’ve likely seen the front page before, so here’s a look at the rest of that day’s paper. The parallels with September 2023 are striking. 🧵Thread 1/11

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1 year

Always felt the end of Britpop was like a slow puncture with these four helping to usher in the new era…

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1 year

So here it is. The 25th anniversary of the end of Britpop. 7th of September '98 saw Pulp release the last single "Party Hard" from the album "This Is Hardcore". This was the day Britpop finished (there's more new music being released but the zeitgeist ended). #britpopisdead

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10 months

That was so mental I tweeted the wrong setlist! Here we go!

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1 year

First night in Sheffield!

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2 years

Resplendent in blue, here’s Steve Mackey performing with Pulp at the Highbury Garage in London 💙

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4 years

“Brit Faced!”: a thread about Jarvis Cocker, Michael Jackson and the media frenzy that followed the 1996 Brit Awards. 1/31

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2 years

At 49 days, Pulp’s ‘Help The Aged’ had a longer continuous run on the UK Singles Chart than Liz Truss had as UK Prime Minister #pulpfact

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10 months

A decade of Pulp. Satisfying spine alignment too.

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Pulp in Uruguay! Incredible venue and with Tom Wright standing in on guitar for Mark Webber. Jarvis said Tom had just one day to learn the parts 👏

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18 days

You can stick your dynamic pricing and VIP lanes, your Live Nations and Ticketmasters, your Viagogos and StubHubs in the bin. This is what live music is about.

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1 year

5 hours to go…

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9 months

2024 shares the same calendar as 1996, an occurrence that won’t happen again for another 28 years. If you still have one, now’s the time to rehang your 1996 Pulp calendar #pulp2024

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2 years

2. Chelmsford to London (Gold Card)

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10 months

A beautiful tribute to Steve Mackey:

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Con video en la Cordillera de Los Andes, Pulp hizo un emotivo homenaje a Steve Mackey en Fauna Primavera 2023

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Fantastic opening line from @mrdiscopop in his review of Pulp at Latitude: “In animation, there's a golden rule that characters should be recognisable by their silhouette alone.”

Pulp: Jarvis Cocker celebrates the band's comeback at Latitude

The band headline Latitude festival with a set that breathes new life into their old hits.

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1 year

Friday night Pulp at the Hammersmith Apollo! We had Marley Mackey join for Common People and Lisa O’Neill for Hymn Of The North.

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2 years

This will be our year #pulp2023

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2 years

Here’s the moment from Monday night that Jarvis Cocker casually announced the Pulp reunion in 2023

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1 year

Anyone for a cuppa? #pulptea

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1 year

Razzmatazz back in its rightful place!

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1 year

I will never be the same again, thank you @welovepulp AND I GOT THE SETLIST

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The only sombre note was Jarvis telling us that his mother is very poorly and unlikely to live for much longer. Jarvis recorded a video message for her with the whole audience shouting out her name #proudmum

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One of my favourite moments from last night: during ‘Glory Days’ Candida is framed by an archive photo of herself standing behind the same Farfisa organ the best part of 4 decades ago 🥰

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2 years

6. North Woolwich to Stratford

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3. Rugby (Platform Ticket)

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Pulp in Toronto. No words. They were just brilliant and we got *another* new song. This band are going somewhere!

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1 year

Pulp slay Manchester! Thanks to the kind person for the tickets and to Toni for sharing the moment with me.

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A celebratory Pulp concert on the night of Jarvis Cocker’s birthday. There was cake, balloons and the band came out to meet the fans afterwards. A memorable night.

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4. Gloucester to Holyhead (Return)

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5. Season Ticket Holder’s Railcard

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Happy birthday to Candida Doyle! 🥳 I went in search of her Different Class sleeve location in July. I found the exact spot (Regent's Park) but was sorry to see that the bench had been removed.

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1 year

That’s a wrap! Normal life beckons again. Same set but better sound and lots of end-of-tour good vibes #lovepulp

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Pulp debut another new song at their first of three LA concerts. Titled ‘Farmers’ Market’, it’s a slow-paced love song which Jarvis dedicated to his wife.

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1 year

Warrington you are in for a treat tonight! How many Pulp fans will be wearing their original V96 festival t-shirt?

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2 years

Of all the odd places I’ve found Pulp records, the most unexpected was at a council rubbish tip. I was allowed to go behind the barrier and save this beauty from the landfill heap. #luckyfind

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2 years

Happy Birthday Cocker! This shot of a restless-looking Jarvis captures the feeling of waiting for Pulp’s 2023 tour dates to be announced. 📷 Daiske

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11. Sheffield to Blackpool (Return)

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8. Sheffield (Monthly RailMaster)

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13. Dawlish to London Paddington (Seat Reservation)

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7. Nuneaton (Debit Card voucher)

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Reminder: tonight’s archive Top Of The Pops from August 1995 is presented by Jarvis Cocker. Never mind Blur v Oasis, Cocker’s shirt and tie combination will steal the show #totp

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1 year

30 minutes to go: this is some set up

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A night off from Pulp, and my first thought after a brill night with Blur is ‘did Pulp play Razzmatazz in Scarborough?’

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Five portraits of Pulp recording Different Class at the Town House Studios in July 1995. Photos by Philippe Garcia who has captured the band (minus Mark) brilliantly. 1/5: Jarvis Cocker - posing as a reluctant drummer.

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10. Pangbourne to Reading (Gold Card)

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The incredibly kind @mrperou has uncovered these previously unseen photographs from his photoshoot with Pulp in 2001. 🧵1/4

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9. Bradford to London (Return)

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So many incredible memories from when Pulp last played Finsbury Park in July 1998. If you’re going today then be sure to soak the whole lot up! #theparkismine

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Jarvis: “Before Different Class came out we came down to John Peel’s and played some tracks off the album. It was good that the first play of tracks from this record were on the John Peel show.” #timstwitterlisteningparty

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2 years

Next question on THAT Instagram post from last week. JC: “It was deliberately cryptic. It’s a line from This Is Hardcore… Next year Pulp are going to play some concerts!” HUGE APPLAUSE!!!

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Vive La Revolution! Pulp perform Common People on Top Of The Pops, originally broadcast on Christmas Day 1995 #totp

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2 years

It’s Friday! Look out for a special Pulp moment on tonight’s Top Of The Pops #TOTP #15fuckingweeks

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Pulp back with a bang! Joyriders and Glory Days only for the second encore and Jason Buckle a new addition on percussion.

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2 years

So Pulp’s Razzmatazz turns 30! 🎉 Great song, great video, great artwork and a thematic collection of b-sides. What more could we ask for?

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Jamie Hewlett’s illustration of a Hardcore-era Jarvis Cocker. Alongside is David Sims’ portrait that I suspect Hewlett used as his guide. Both rather brilliant in their own way.

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Pulp’s ‘This Is Hardcore’ is 25! Let’s hope we hear many of these songs on the upcoming tour. You can read some of the press reviews from 1998 in the thread below ⬇️ 🧵1/6

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Common People becomes Pulp’s first multi-platinum certified single. That’s 1,200,000 UK ‘sales’ of which streaming becomes an increasingly bigger share.

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POLL: That photo of the Pulp keyboard has got me thinking 🤔 If we assume most of the singles and Different Class are performed at Pulp’s summer concerts, which of the lesser-played songs would you love to hear? Vote in the thread below #pulp2023

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12. Pangbourne (Receipt)

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Pulp's Primavera Festival performance is being live streamed right now. Get on it!

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It’s June 1995 and Smash Hits magazine bump into Jarvis Cocker at Blur’s Mile End concert.

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Pulp’s first cover feature in the Melody Maker was published on this day in 1994. 📷 Stephen Sweet

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Ticket, keys, money, ID and blueberries. First time seeing Pulp perform in a country they’ve never visited before. Excited is an understatement 🇺🇾 #pulp2023

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Morning Pulp People. While we await the news of the first concert dates, here’s a reminder of the songs they rehearsed last time around ⬇️ Excited?

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Pulp's 2011 rehearsal song list: the '8 Essentials', the 'A-list' and the 'B-list'. Impressive stuff.

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Pulp in San Francisco! ‘Joyriders’ makes its tour debut and the brilliant new song ‘Spike Island’ gets another airing.

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On this day 10 years ago Pulp played their homecoming concert at the Sheffield Arena. This clip captures a spiritual moment when Jarvis called out the Sheffield suburbs: 🎶 Anybody Jordanthorpe? Anybody Walkley? Anybody Crookes? Anybody Broomhall? 🎶

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Many years ago Jarvis Cocker was asked to write about three things, however abstract, that shaped the way he sees the world. Here’s the first instalment: the ‘Hole In The Road’ in Sheffield.

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🚨PULP NEWS🚨 Photographer Paul Burgess and designer Louise Colbourne today launch a campaign to publish ‘Hardcore’ - a lavish document of Pulp during the ‘This Is Hardcore’ era. (Thread 1/4)

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Reading this article about how Candida navigates life with arthritis brought to mind this moment from Pulp’s Hogmanay concert in Edinburgh. She’s the Queen of the keys alright 🎹✌️

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The utterly wonderful, legendary, much-loved Candida Doyle talks to the Guardian about her experiences of arthritis. 🩷🧡

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It’s always a thrill to find this in the wild. Was tempted but already have it so this copy is for someone else to love.

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1 year

Come on Pulp! We’re ready for you.

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10 months

Been admiring Damon’s Fila polo shirt for a while and now I understand why

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blur's final shows of 2023. Muchas gracias! 🇲🇽 🇨🇴 🇨🇱 🇦🇷

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On this day in 1994 Pulp played at Manchester University as part of the His ‘N’ Hers tour. It was notable for including the first live performance of the album-closing song ‘David’s Last Summer’… (1/2)

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Pulp grace the cover of the Christmas 1995 edition of the Melody Maker. Press darlings of the year!

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1/4 🧵A walk up Primrose Hill to find another Different Class sleeve location. Taken by Donald Milne, this one features all of the Pulp cutouts. On the right is the original 1967 photo from Nova magazine.

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The infinite tones in the locked groove of Pulp’s Hardcore LP are mesmerising 😵‍💫🎶♾️

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The Pulp tour shows no sign of slowing down. The Brooklyn audience were treated to the debut performance of their 1999 song ‘Got To Have Love’ ❤️

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Adore this clip of Jarvis Cocker and “the wall”. Originally broadcast on The South Bank Show (2007).

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Jarvis Cocker LP sleeve shot at Tour Rive Gauche, Paris (2006). Dodgy paint job still there in 2016!

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This must be one of the most Pulpy-looking Pulp sleeves ever. It’s an almost perfect 90s time capsule: ✅ fashion mag ✅ futon throw ✅ hair clip ✅ striped top ✅ retro BT telephone … only items missing are an ashtray and an empty bottle of Beck’s

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Weekend reading (and listening) in preparation for an interview with Jane Savidge. Published on 7 March, I hope her book helps reshape the way we understand and relate to Pulp’s awkward yet beautiful masterpiece.

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Home from work to find Pulp tickets on the doormat 😄 It’s been *far* too long since we last enjoyed this feeling #pulp2023

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