Good news for Pulp fans - JARVIS COCKER has hinted the band might reform for next year's Glastonbury.
The singer let slip they could be heading for the mud in June, saying: "Glastonbury means an awful lot to me, I would love to play there again. We've talked about it, there we go, there'll be a band reunion.
They wouldnt reunite for just one gig, i think. It would like Blur : Glasto, some big hyde park kinda week end, and a few warm gigs. There's hope, but yeah, i smell sarcasm too.
I suppose I should go to Glastonbury once while I still have some youth left in me.
I honestly believe Pulp are holding out for a big payday and this is Jarv's way of saying 'Ok. make us an offer, we're listening'. Hey, their kids gotta eat.
(And it's not selling out if you hold all the cards.)
-- Edited by Fuss Free on Monday 19th of October 2009 08:45:33 PM
I work on that said publication, I've just asked the journalist involved (she didn't know i'm a pulp fan) and that did come from the horses mouth. Apparently. I agree about the sarcasm though
Anyway, here's info on the dates for the exhibition thing he's doing, apologies if it's on here somewhere else
Jarvis Cocker
Makes an exhibition of himself again.
Following the success of his residency at the Galerie Chappe in Paris back in May (Google it if you missed it) Jarvis Cocker & his fellow musicians will install themselves in the Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, London EC2A 3PQ for 5 days in November. Happening between Sunday 7th November and Wednesday 11th November, the exhibition will run from 6pm each day and entry will be free. The event will culminate in a concert at 9pm on the 11th. Tickets for the concert are available exclusively via the following link and are priced at £30. www.clubtickets.com/gb/2009-11/11/jarvis-cocker-makes-an-exhibition-of-himself-again-live- As in Paris, during the course of the 5 days they will be inviting members of the public to participate in live musical improvisations (participants must bring their own instruments - amplification provided), they will provide live musical accompaniment to various exercise classes (including Yoga & hopefully, Aerobics) & they will be inviting guest artists to come & perform with them at various times during the residency. The whole event will be webcast via www.jarviscocker.net and you may wish to peruse the manifesto that accompanied the Parisian version to get a flavour of what its all about: http://www.roughtraderecords.com/files/makinganexhibitionofoneself.pdf Get updates on what will be happening through: www.jarviscocker.net, www.roughtraderecords.com, www.myspace.com/jarvspace
A bit embarassing this...I had my first Pulp dream last night. (At least I think it´s my first). For 10 years being besotted (not obsessed...important distinction innit) by them that´s not too bad I suppose.
Anyway, it was remarkably detailed. Basically, I literally saw the six of them, Russell too actually, in my local High Street (what they were doing there I never discovered), and naturally ran over to see what was going on. They all scarpered apart from Mark. (The sight of Webbo running...it´s just not realistic is it?) So I asked Mark were they reuniting and all he´d say was that they had been working on a We Love Life deluxe edition (!) themselves as Univeral wouldn´t put it out so they were going to do it independently. There was so many songs, some dating from Russell´s time hence his involvement he said, that ´´we just wanted to put the music out there for all the Pulp nutters´´, smiling.
Quite chuffed with this, I asked him was there any chance I could hear it, or could he tell me any more about the band possibly playing together again. He was coy, but told me he could blag me a ´´reviewers´´ job for some media outlet where I´d get an advance copy of the We Love Life reissue but I´d have to review a dozen other new albums aswell. I agreed without hesitation.
The final scene then was of me and a load of other (wannabe) journos, in a dark room, being given our lot of music to review. The editor was telling us what angle he wanted from each thing we were writing about. I could see the We Love Life album at the bottom of the pile and after what seemed like an age of him waffling about all the other shite (sNorah Jones´ latest effort was there I think) he finally threw me this thick album-shaped book, which had discs inserted on the interior. The cover was a bit incongruous, the floral green PULP letters of the origina artworkl being obscured by scrawls and graffiti.
And there were little blurbs plastered all over the front, gushing with praise for the album but clearly the quotes had been borrowed from something else. For example: ´´up there with Da Vinci´s other masterpieces, it´s astonishing that this has been kept from the public for so long´´ and a mention of ´´whoever thought that Kubrick´s genius could be not merely matched, but beaten?´´ and finally at the bottom, ´´It´s a lot of self-indulgent shite really´´ - Russell Senior´´.
Then I woke up. I never got to see the list of tracks or ´owt.
I was actually going to start a thread suggesting that 'I wonder if Pulp may just possibly reform for Glasto'. Afterall it is the 40th year when acts from the previous 40 years will be playing, and so Pulp would surely be the obvious '95 choice.
I have a tciekt anyway so will keep everything crossed. Whilst Jarvis' comments sound like sarcasm, maybe he was being sarcastic to tease? Or maybe that is just wishful thinking :).
If you are reading this Jarvis, I would love to see my first ever Pulp gig at Glastonbury, so please reform :D x
Sorry Barcoft, but I'm the opposite of all that. To me now the main stage has just about become the cabaret stage..which serves no other real purpose but to entertain office workers either trying to regain their youth or fancy abit of rough by fly some stupid flag.
I appreciate this a exaggeration, but I feel there is alot of truth in it.
All that is fine, but when it takes over..as I feel it has. It needs readdressing.
This year the main stage sounds like it's going to be even worse. If Pulp want to do a 'greatest hits' package..well whatever. After leaving for all this time..I think it would be a real shame to return under this banner.
I would love Pulp to come back, but at least with a sense of purpose...they have left it this long. Might as well do the job properly in my mind. New album e.t.c.
Glasto Pulp no fiction Pulp to reform for Glastonbury 2010
By Dan Wooton, 25/10/2009 GET ready for Disco 2010 - PULP are planning to reform to headline Glastonbury next year.
The Sheffield group, who had a hit with Disco 2000 at the height of Britpop in the '90s, are in reunion talks to get back together for the first time since 2002.
Lanky frontman JARVIS COCKER (right), whose band headlined the festival's Pyramid Stage in 1995, told me: "We are all talking about a reunion. It has to be Glastonbury - it's my favourite festival.
" I think it's my spiritual home so I'd love to play there."
Jarvis lives in Paris and a source said: "He is really happy with his solo career but wants to reunite the band for one last huge gig."
That last bit should read´´He wants to reunite the band for one last huge pay-day´´. I´ll still be a bit surprised if it happens. I would have thought a few more years, maybe when Jarvis gets to 50 and he has another record/other project under his belt...then again, singing about pink gloves and pencil skirts at that age would be a bit...
Fuck it, Russell, Nick, Mark and Candida deserve a few bob for all the good times they gave us. If it was a one-off and Russell wasn´t involved I´d be quite disappointed.
I don't get all the remarks about the money. We don't have to pay the 6 or 7 figure amount of money, we get the band together one last time and it's nice the band will get something out of it too.
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This is the sound of someone losing the plot, making out that they are okay when they are not. You're gonna like it, but not a lot.
as i said mmmmmmmmmmmm i knew it was bullshit as i spoke to Jarv about this very subject as there have been so many rumours going round,i also spoke to Candida in Dublin after the gig.......now i am NOT saying Pulp will never get back together BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY WILL EITHER.
But one thing i do know that the next two years at least are well busy for many of the band members so take from that what you will,fuck wits beware no one is saying the band are getting back together from this statement so go and find your nasty cheap little stories somewhere else drives me insane
I'd prefer Pulp to do some dates on the back of a new album if it ever does happen.....not just a trawl through the greatest hits.Having said that, I thought the Blur (greatest hits thing) reunion worked better than The Verve one (crap new album).Food for thought I guess, few bands make the grade with new stuff when they reform.