Yes, both of these are around - although every copy of Stage One I've seen has been in pretty bad quality. One of these days I'll get a capture card and put some of this stuff on YouTube.

The real holy grail would be the New Sessions programme from 1991. It's the earliest Pulp TV appearance (filmed at the Leadmill in March '91) and would be great to see - not least because there are a few songs (like My Legendary Girlfriend) that don't exist in live video form elsewhere. However, I've never had so much of a sniff of a copy of it.

ITV do have it in their archives - I rang them up once and asked! They wanted rather a lot of money for a copy though...

I'm sure someone around here could sort you out with a copy of Stage One if you asked in a sufficently plaintive way - I have a copy myself, but unfortunately I don't have the facility to copy videos, and to be honest the quality is so bad (it's a tape of a tape of a tape of a...) it's barely worth watching anyway!

About £150 I think, and it was probably about six years ago. Granada Sales if memory serves. I have a vague memory of ringing Central too - think that must have been about the Class of '91 programme.

As an aside, there is a vauge possibility of some 1983 Pulp content in one of these local news reports:

http://www.itnsource.com/en/Entire-Archive/Search/ShotListNonDigitised/?ref=/GranadaClips/1983/02/16/15005.htm&links=CHESTERFIELD%2cCABARET&thumb=/img/assets/no_preview_available.png&duration=
http://www.itnsource.com/en/Entire-Archive/Search/ShotListNonDigitised/?ref=/GranadaClips/1983/02/21/64581.htm&links=CHESTERFIELD&thumb=/img/assets/no_preview_available.png&duration=
http://www.itnsource.com/en/Entire-Archive/Search/ShotListNonDigitised/?ref=/GranadaClips/1983/02/21/39853.htm&links=CHESTERFIELD&thumb=/img/assets/no_preview_available.png&duration=

Pulp played at the record breaking non-stop cabaret referred to above, you see - indeed, I think it was organised by Peter Boam. Then again, there wre 165 acts playing, so there's a good chance of them not getting a mention! Anyone going to order it and find out then?

World Remains Skint - I reckon we're trying not to think about it!

Well, I signed up to that ITN website pretending to be from a new media company, but it's making me go through about eight pages of order confirmation questions before telling me how much it would cost to get a DVD of any of those clips... Ah, it's now threatening me with a courtesy call from their sales team. I don't really want some ITN telesales gimp pestering me for the rest of time to pay £200 for a thirty-second report featuring some shaky footage of some band #113 on the list who happened to be playing behind the reporter.

Bother.

The site does offer you the choice of high-quality broadcast-quality footage or a low-resolution "screener", and offers all its clips on DVD now. Sadly, even if we did all want to chip in for the New Sessions thing, I doubt they would accept "to put it on Youtube" as a valid reason for purchase...

I don't think the BBC has anything similar online, although I may be wrong.

There is quite a lot of Pulp related TV and radio material listed in the British Library's sound and video collection.

They appear to have a copy of that New Sessions programme. Not that it is a lot of use, because it is not possible to borrow stuff from the British library, but only to listen to/view recordings in the library, and that involves going through considerable bureaucracy.

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I was thinking that Fire Records ought to release a deluxe edition of Separations with the News Sessions and Stage One footage on a bonus DVD. Not at all likely, I suppose.

Mark - thanks for digging up that info about the non-stop cabaret appearance. It's a shame there isn't a straightforward way to view that news footage to see whether they appear.

I'm surprised that their reply was that positive, I assumed they would only be interested in licencing the footage for commericial use.

Anyway, if you order a copy of that 'New Sessions' programme I'd certainly be interested in paying a share of the cost for a copy.

Recordings of Pulp's appearance on The Warehouse in 1993 are in circulation already, so it's not really worth paying £198 for it.

I should probably point out that the 'Licence Argreement' mentioned above in the email to Calumn will almost certainly include a clause that says he's not allowed to pass out copies to, say, people off internet messageboards who've chipped in part of the cost. That would be naughty.

(Having said that, put me down for a copy too...)

Well if everyone did chip in then I could copy it onto DVDs for everyone who had put some money in and send it to them in the post, that would be no problem at all.
Because it will be watermarked and very obvious that it was me if someone put it on the internet, and I'd have Granada "on my ass", but we could just mail it to each other, and anyone else who wanted a copy could send me a stamp and a blank DVD or whatever.