There was a concert in London. Jazza was in the audience, because I saw her and said hello. Anyway, the concert went underway and all was well and good, until they were playing a new song. Mark, who for some reason was back on the right-hand side of the stage, was playing keyboard, sitting down and was messing up the intro to the new song. Jarvis was looking daggers, but Mark just shrugged and said that the problem was with his keyboard.
It gets a little bit kinky here. You have been warned. Skip the to the next paragraph if you are of a nervous disposition.
Mark jumped into the audience and was walking around. I walked over to talk to him, but he was angry with me. Then someone poured double cream over my head and Mark was licking it off my face, but being really sarcastic about it. (Do you want me to do this! Do you want me to lick it off! Do you!) Weirdly, I didnt want him too, as I knew he was angry and his girlfriend was in the audience, so I started to cry, so now Mark was licking my tears as well as the cream.
Anyway. they made it through to Common People, and then a scientist with a beard turned up and Jarvis said he was from MIT, but he had an English accent. Jarvis then thanked the scientist, who had brought a robot, without whom the concert would not have been possible. Then the MIT man got angry because something had gone wrong with the robot, because someone had poured water on it. He knew this because there was ice crystals on the mainframe.
Then the whole band trooped outside to the street have an argument, but came in a few minutes later. Mark was in front, and as the doors opened to let them in, Candida swiped Mark across the back of the head, really hurting him, much to the horror of the audience.
Then the band were seated at a boardroom table with the MIT guy, discussing what went wrong and who was responsible. Mark was drawing on a poster, but Jarvis reached over and tore it up. Mark looked really sad, so I held his hand and told him everything was going to be alright. Then I began to wake up, but as I did, someone whispered at me,
"Mark IS the robot..."
-- Edited by SarahAWilson on Saturday 24th of December 2011 10:56:00 PM
I had one last week where I was overseas for some big, corporate V-like festival, except it was inside some unnamed city and I was waiting up on the rail for Pulp on a surprisingly small stage, as was the girl next to me. And for some reason, I decided to check out the festival's app on my smartphone (which is an impossibility since Verizon phones won't work over there), and saw that I was at the wrong stage. So I had to leave and walk very far to the other end of town in hopes of making it to the other stage on time, and also had to catch a train, and I arrived at the station and the train just left and I had to wait around for the next one, and then I woke up.
Yeah, Scott Tenorman Must Die. I found out something intriguing about this episode: turns out it's based on Titus Andonicus by Shakespeare! Except I read the plot summary of TA on t'internet and it seems South Park toned it down considerably. He was a sick bastard that William Shakespeare
I had one last week where I was overseas for some big, corporate V-like festival, except it was inside some unnamed city and I was waiting up on the rail for Pulp on a surprisingly small stage, as was the girl next to me. And for some reason, I decided to check out the festival's app on my smartphone (which is an impossibility since Verizon phones won't work over there), and saw that I was at the wrong stage. So I had to leave and walk very far to the other end of town in hopes of making it to the other stage on time, and also had to catch a train, and I arrived at the station and the train just left and I had to wait around for the next one, and then I woke up.
Mexico City? They are wildly rumored to be heading there 2nd week of April. Dun dun dun!!! (then head towards California on the 13th, weee).
Eh, some overzealous dj just said that. Nothing confirmed. Highly unlikely.
Who knows if that is true but I've had an inkling for a while that the spring activity will be an American jaunt (parts of North, Central and South) before they bow out.
In 2008 when Jarvis played in Mexico, Argentina and Chile solo for the first time (Pulp never ventured to those territories) he would have seen (and likely been pleasantly surprised at) the cult following he and Pulp have there. Likely big enough to make a few dates there feasible.
It is indeed but in fairness, it would be a bit of an obscure prank to pull! Certainly not up there in terms of mass hysteria-inducing such as the Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas posting on his facebook that he was leaving Real Madrid next summer after 15 years.
If that is the case then these new dates will almost certainly be without Russell.
Finish it all off with a last hurrah at Sheffield Arena on his 51st birthday.
Oh god no, I'd hate that. The Arena is such an un-Pulp venue it would be horrific. Magna was wonderful for the band but it was so bloody cold that night. I really don't know where they'd play in Sheffield.