Do you want me to ask Mark next Saturday?

That's impossible!! *Tenth Doctor*

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.

The time seems right to do it now if ever.

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.

God, I feel a bit dirty now.

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

And it sounds good, but "Oasis is no longer" and Pulp too...

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."

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/showbiz/xs/566445/Pulp-set-to-reform-for-Glastonbury-2010.html

We'll have to see, we'll have to see.

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.

At least the press are having a fucking field day!


http://www.teletext.co.uk/planetsound/news/581de2a8baf0f33822868fbf53985d81/Pulp+deny+reunion+rumours.aspx

-- Edited by weed on Tuesday 27th of October 2009 03:26:42 AM

http://www.nme.com/news/pulp/48079

Jarvis denies it flat out

Agreed, I want new material if anything. I'm sure they will do something eventually.

Worst news ever.

I agree with you there... Glasto is really commercial, tickets are really expensive and it's sold out... It would be very disappointing for most of us who are not going!

Would be much better to have something nicer like the Magna gig back in the days...

He said he wont be doing any music stuff for a year? I wonder what ever happened to directing 'Slow down Arthur, stick to 30'

I think there's more chance Mark'll direct a film then Jarvis will.

Arrrgh you total bugger, Havenhand!

-- Edited by SarahAWilson on Thursday 29th of October 2009 12:15:58 AM

Only slightly, but I forgive you. Teach me to use the quote button next time

I'm pretty sure Pulp will play again

"Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow.
Or even the day after...but sometime soon..."

Okay, maybe not "soon" as such ;)

I think they should go similar to the Blur thing, in that it should be their own show, not part of a festival. That'd leave enough room for 'hits' (both of them!) & more obscure & important fan favourites.

Hopefully a much longer & more varied set than Auto. Varied as in era, I seem to remember Auto being almost entirely His'N'Hers, with nothing pre-Island & TIH particularly under-represented.

Hear it from the horse's mouth!

A Pulp reunion of every line-up they ever had...now that would be interesting...




No one´s dead, are they?

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The surprise song at Auto was 59 Lyndhurst Grove. Did the recording of that song ever turned up? I believe it's the only song they played that hasn't been broadcast on BBC.

 

 
I've often wondered that too. I've kinda spliced the broadcasts together to make an almost complete concert but ths one is the missing link! It'd be good to hear how it sounded after all that time as well.

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A Pulp reunion of every line-up they ever had...now that would be interesting...

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Sadly, I heard recently that Peter Boam died in 2006.

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Eamonn wrote:

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A Pulp reunion of every line-up they ever had...now that would be interesting...

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Sadly, I heard recently that Peter Boam died in 2006.

 

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Sad to hear Peter Boam has passed way. The first Pulp album is the one I've played the most over the years. I think that's because I played it incessantly when it was first released. I believe Peter played on that album, it's a good one.

 

-- Edited by Havenhand on Saturday 31st of October 2009 12:28:49 AM

I had this weird dream a few weeks ago. It was a photoshoot to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Different Class and was set up like a school photograph. So, you had the DC era Pulp (including Russell) where the teachers would go in the middle, ex-members and associated persons ie Richard Hawley and your good self, Stephen, partners and kids and associated family members, people who have strong connections to the band ie Alex Deck, Geoff Travis, Richard Priest on the surrounding tiers. Then there would be a few "Pulp People" scattered about. I remember being stuck on an upper tier about 3 people away from Mark Sturdy.

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A Pulp reunion of every line-up they ever had...now that would be interesting...

No one´s dead, are they?

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Sadly, I heard recently that Peter Boam died in 2006.

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Sad to hear Peter Boam has passed way. The first Pulp album is the one I've played the most over the years. I think that's because I played it incessantly when it was first released. I believe Peter played on that album, it's a good one.

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Yes, he's all over the It album, playing guitar and piano mainly. He did a lot of the vocal arrangements too. His most notable contribution is probably the piano on Blue Girls.

I got to know him fairly well at one point while I was doing the book. He was a lovely guy, couldn't have been more helpful and supportive. I'm going to post something a bit more substantial about him soon.

i was quite distressed to find this message concerning the supposed passing of peter boam, because peter and i were involved in a serious relationship approximately ten years ago and he remains a very important person in my heart, if not in my life. i was a bit relieved to read you believed he had passed in 2006, however, since i know for a fact he has been both quite well and quite employed in recent months. please do not post reports of the demise of persons you have no personal knowledge of unless those reports have been confirmed. peter was very close to my children and this claim was extremely unsettling to them. thank you.

Blimey...most unexpected ressurection of a year old thread... Did you post more about him in the end Mark?