RIght, just in from the pub and tried to get this working but the bastard thing is on the blink. I checked earlier and Dizzee Rascal was in full flow on a decent-quality stream. Don't know why it's not working now...

Not sure if anyone else has been sad enought to stay up for this aswell, if so, are you able to view it ok?

'kin hell, he's belting out the new ones. And they're rockier alright. First one has a mantra of 'Do you follow me?', possibly the name of it aswell. Playing the second one now, 'Caucasian Blues' it's called. Upbeat but fairly pedestrian sounding on a first listen. Lyrics, sex (but of course) for a more adult Nick Cave audience judging from the phrases "find a wife and fuck her til your hair falls out" and ''hung like a white man". Nice dig at Eric Clapton while introducing that one.

...followed by Fat Children (preceded by an amusing talk on the accuracy of Wikipedia). And now, 'Angela' who, in true Babies & Your Sister's Clothes fashion, is a sister of Big Julie apparently!

Black Magic and now Running The World are bringing the gig to a close. "Hopefully we can stop playing this one soon" Jarvis introduces the latter. Followed by 'Go Obama Go!' spiel. Or more accurately, anti-Bush. "A 5 year old could have done better", no doubt thinking of little Albert, (he must be 4 or 5 now, right?).

They come back for 'not an encore' but because they "played the songs quite fast and still have 5 minutes". So what do they play? Er, a house track from 80's Chicaco outfit called Master C & J. Lots of electronic bleeps and sustained synth noises, and bits of guitar feedback with repetitive lyrics from Jarvis but quite a downbeat track, given the genre, and really a bit of a strange way to end...


And that's that. So a good sprinkling of new songs, missed the start so I can't fully comment on the first track performed. But that, Caucasian Blues and Angela really do seem quite meat and potatoes rock. Again, more listens (particularly of the 'proper' versions will bear out their quality or otherwise) I Want To Be Your Lover has more subtelty about it but Girls Like It Too is still the one to emulate. The songs performed from the first record sound quite jaded to me, maybe cos I've heard them a lot over the past 18 months or so. The band still seem like hired hands, shuffling in the background perhaps because that's what they are, or because Jarvis is such a natural front man but I always thought the rest of Pulp, especially when Russell was in the group, had a real presence about them when performing live.

Anyway, the crowd really seemed to enjoy it and Jarvis was in great form. I'd be interested in seeing what the attendance was, seemed like a full football field (or similar size), which would probably be the biggest crowd he's performed to as a solo artist I think?

Seems strange, that the sun was shining brightly on Chicago when Jarvis was just getting into his stride less than an hour ago but now it's all gone dark. As it has been here for several hours. And on that note, my bed calls.

shite, i missed it

anyone recorded it ?

thanx

i dont know, they didnt sound that good to me. But I dont quite like hearing songs live before i hear the studio version, so i wont watch these more than once.

This site has an MP3 of that house music cover. Pleasingly "My Legendary Girlfriend"-like.

http://creamteam.tv/?p=217

-- Edited by Mike at 14:39, 2008-07-21