Paul says: Here's another album from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. This time, it's the British band Pulp.
Once again, I'm posting this because of the poll I made about this festival. But in this case I'm happy to do it because I already like Pulp.
There's a lot I could say, but I want to keep this short so I can quickly post more from this festival. If you want to know more about the band, here's their Wikipedia page:
I found a high quality video file of this performance, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s. So this is probably the first time it's available as an audio bootleg. The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from the BBC. Everything here is unreleased.
This album is 59 minutes long.
01 Sorted for E's and Wizz 02 Disco 2000 03 talk 04 Spike Island 05 talk 06 O.U. [Gone, Gone] 07 talk 08 Acrylic Afternoons 09 talk 10 Something Changed 11 talk 12 Do You Remember the First Time 13 talk 14 Mis-Shapes 15 talk 16 Got to Have Love 17 talk 18 Babies 19 talk 20 Common People 21 talk
Nuff said, a favourite reformed for Glastonbury! Jarvis rools!
TRUCK STORE remind me (they’re my local Record Store!) keep vinyl local!
You could say this week's new releases are in a Different Class.... In fact I Spy something for pretty much everyone, both His & Hers and the Mis-Shapes, hitting the shelves this weekend! So put on your Lipgloss, prepare for the Razzmatazz and let's Party Hard and celebrate the Glory Days!
Sorry got carried away there...There's a new PULP album out!
But that's not all, we've also got a new one from Brit-Rap icon Little Simz, the highly anticipated new album from Baltimore hardcore shapeshifters Turnstile, a gorgeous alt-folk record from Chloe Foy (catch her in-store on Tuesday!) plus loads more!
Read on for full details...
Pulp - More
£10.99 - £22.99
The long and winding journey of one of the UKs most beloved bands continues, a mere 24 years after their last album, as Pulp return to give us More!
Recorded rapidly in just 3 weeks, the album is a triumphant return, energised and anthemic but not afraid to reflect on ageing and facing a new phase of their lives... Jarvis wryly noting at one point “you’ve gone from all you that could be to all that you once were”. The band's unique place alongside their peers, having plugged away for over a decade before reaching seeming over-night mega-stardom in the early 90's, always cast them as the slightly world-weary older-siblings of the Britpop Brats and it's a trait they lean into brilliantly on More. From zippy, disco-tinged anthems to reflective nostalgic meditations, to some of the most lushly beautiful arrangements of their career, the album delivers on every front; musically, lyrically and most importantly in reinforcing their legacy as atruly great band. Can we have some More please?
Looks like someone left the good news tap running! We're stoked to announce the Sheffield icons are returning with their first new album in nearly 24 years! Some words from Jarvis:
"These are the facts.
We hope you enjoy the music. It was written & performed by four human beings from the North of England, aided & abetted by five other human beings from various locations in the British Isles. No A.I. was involved during the process.
You say you’ve got to go home Well at least there’s someone there that you can talk to And you never have to face up to the night on your own Jesus, it must be great to be straight
And yet another from Alice over at O My Soul . . .we really enjoy Richard Hawley and my what a voice. I didn’t catch him in the bands Treebound Story or The Longpigs and was only vaguely aware of his joining with his pal Jarvis in his brief incarnation with Sheffield band ‘Pulp’ to his leaving and then the solo work (we may not have even associated the two here I am ashamed to say - he first burst upon the scene in my head unbidden and unheralded and I was blown away by this Yorkshireman with the rich voice) to enjoying his every appearance on Jools Holland etc. This one is a classic
PULP - Sorted For E`s And Wizz (Jools Holland 2002)
Saturday, March 04, 2023
PULP
for Steve Mackay
10 November 1966 – 2 March 2023
Steve Mackey, the bass guitarist for Pulp during the band’s most successful years, and exceptional musician, producer, photographer and filmmaker as his wife stylist Katie Grand described him, has died aged 56.
Mackey joined Pulp in 1989, first contributing to their third album Separations. He went on to play on all their subsequent studio albums, including the likes of Different Class and His ’n’ Hers which are regarded as high points in the mid-90s Britpop scene.
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With his sharp tailoring, drooping quiff and model good looks, Mackey brought raffish cool and driving, disco-influenced rhythm to the Sheffield band, whose first two albums, recorded with different bassists in 1983 and 1987, had been minor cult hits in the British indie scene. Mackey, who was born in Sheffield and went to school with another of the city’s future music stars, Richard Hawley, played in other local bands such as Trolley Dog Shag but started following Pulp and befriended frontman Jarvis Cocker. “They seemed quite self-contained, quite aloof, and I was in really noisy bands, garage bands, and Pulp were like an art band,” he said in 1996. “It didn’t seem very welcoming.”
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As well as joining Pulp’s reunion gigs, Mackey collaborated with an impressive range of musicians as a producer, co-writer and mixer. He co-wrote and produced songs on Florence + the Machine’s debut album Lungs; co-produced the breakthrough MIA single Galang; worked on early recordings by the Horrors; and continued to collaborate with Cocker on the latter’s solo recordings. He later partnered with Daft Punk producer Thomas Bangalter to produce tracks on Arcade Fire’s album Everything Now, and worked with Spiritualized on 2018 album And Nothing Hurt.
In later years – sometimes in collaboration with his wife’s magazine Love – Mackey took on high profile fashion photography and film-making projects for clients including Miu Miu, Giorgio Armani, Moncler and Saint Laurent. He collaborated with Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele on music direction for the label, whom he hailed as “a true dreamer and always fearless, inquisitive, inspiring and fun to work with” when Michele stepped down from the role last year.
The Sheffield musician was best known for his success with the band during the 1990s. Mackey joined the alternative rock band in 1989 alongside frontman Jarvis Cocker, and fellow musicians Russell Senior, Candida Doyle, Nick Banks and Mark Webber.
His devastated wife,Katie Grand, today (Thurs) confirmed the news on social media, saying: "After three months in hospital, fighting with all his strength and determination, we are shocked and devastated to have said goodbye to my brilliant, beautiful husband, Steve Mackey.
"Steve died today, a loss which has left myself, his son Marley, parents Kath and Paul, sister Michelle and many friends all heartbroken. Steve was the most talented man I have ever known, an exceptional musician, producer, photographer and filmmaker.”
She added: "As in life, he was adored by everyone whose paths he crossed in the multiple creative disciplines he conquered. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all the NHS staff who worked tirelessly for Steve. He will be missed beyond words. The family has asked for privacy at this time."
Pulp at their very peak and we have discussed them many time before especially my favourite album 'His n Hers' from which this track comes but is a scorcher of a version from the BBC studios and The John Peel Sessions.
TURN IT UP!
Jarvis (Cocker) made thrift shop chic a thing (again?) and shopped for his clothes and accessories from what we call Charity Shops (thrift stores?) here in the UK and even the band seemed to use equipment from that ethos and old style computer keyboards and such but it was Jarvis who took it so seriously in his daily life ( and still does it would seem)
We have mentioned Pulp and Jarvis Cocker before and how the Sheffield born (?) Bookseller Sharon Murray turned me on to several bands I hadn't heard of when she came to Oxford. . . not least Pulp and 'His and Hers' became a constant feature on my Walkman whilst working in the book trade in Oxford I literally must have played nothing else for months (Sharon's recommendations also included the Irishman Neil Hannon and everything 'Divine Comedy' - so I bought everything then and since by him too!) I think I bought all the Pulp stuff but it still stands that His/Hers is my favourite album and is Cocker's writing at it's very peak IMHO
I don't know why I haven't featured more on Pulp and Jarvis Cocker as I listened to listen else when their fourth album came out and I pretty much have everything (thanks largely to legendary then Oxford based Bookseller Sharon Murray who turned me on to them - the Divine Comedy too, she's got great taste ) I consider His n Hers right up there with the very best of Britpop so called and it regularly features in my top thirty albums at least and is extremely special to me. So today's sound of the day is from there and is 'Babies' Highlighting as it does Jarvis' writing at its narrative best.
Love Jarvis and loved Pulp, loved stand in guitarist and fellow songsmith Richard Hawley too!
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Great article today from the now legendary Aquarium Drunkard on one of my favourite albums of all time, Pulp's 'His 'n' Hers' by a regular contributor J. Neas.
"There are a number of stories of artists that took the long road to commercial success, but the story of Pulp is an especially curious one. This is a band that spent significant time in the artistic wilderness — nearly 15 years. And then, suddenly, one album permanently set them into the firmament of Britpop elder statesmen – Blur, Oasis, and Suede in particular. That album, His n Hers, turns 25 today, and its sharp, calculated fission of a decade and a half’s worth of preparation still sounds like a chart-topping album, albeit one from some alternate timeline where some very different things happened in terms of commercial music."
Really worth a read . . . . . . as always J. Neas(Contributor) — Greensboro, NC
