would you be kind enough to give more details for non uk people ?

new album this year, maybe ?

"...His Solo album was out 5 years after Pulp's final record and Jarvis told us..."

 Aw, man, don't say that... 

Hmm, I dunno. I'd say the possibility of Pulp working together can only be increased with this news. Remember the solo album started off with Jarvis thinking that if he was ever going to write music again it would be for other singers. Having resigned himself to performing whatever he writes ("it was the only way the songs sound the way I wanted" his quote [paraphrasing]), maybe now, after realising this, is the time to call his old muckers back.

He seems to have got a real taste for writing and playing live again. I don't know if his plans to help direct a film version of Haarland Miller's "Slow Down Arthur Stick To Thirty" or any other interests are as of much importance to him. The kick from playing your own stuff live can not be replicated in other art forms, film-making, dj-ing whatever and I think he's remembered this.

I was surprised to read him say that the performance of the Hits album was the final validation for retiring. After 25 years surely he was aware how fickle the record-buying industry is -  For fuck sake 'Honey To The Bee' by Billie Piper is back in the charts 8 years after its release, solely on a "Look how hilariously post-modern I am" Chris Moyles driven Radio 1 larf but now he's got his mojo back (Jarvis, not that halfwit Moyles), and respect ,if not quite sales yet (though a South Bank or Brit win, a likely Mercury nomination and a huge reaction to 'Cunts' when he plays it at Glasto/Leeds, Reading/whichever festival next summer should help there), maybe it's time to see if Zig is getting bored curating minimal art exhibitions or even better, get Senior out of Art Brut's studio and up to Axis studios asap.

I like that idea.

Eamonn, why are you so keen for Pulp to reform?

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For fuck sake 'Honey To The Bee' by Billie Piper is back in the charts 8 years after its release, solely on a "Look how hilariously post-modern I am" Chris Moyles driven Radio 1 larf

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I really, genuinely like "Honey to the Bee". It is a brilliant pop record, and almost - almost - justifies the existence of the rest of Billie Piper's career. I remember Luke Haines getting pissed off because people assumed his citing it - entirely earnestly - as both the inspiration and benchmark for BBR's "The Facts of Life" was a wacky ironic joke. It is superb.

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I like that idea.

Eamonn, why are you so keen for Pulp to reform?

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Because I still haven't given up hope of one day seeing "Message To (or is it From'?) The Martians" being performed live, or at the very least hearing Captain Sleep play 'Going Back To Find Her' on the keyboard...



Or maybe cos they're my favourite group, who proved (despite what many of their fans believe) that they could still produce something worthwhile when they last worked together. And a lot more recently their leader has shown he can do the same on his own.