Meant to post this sooner so I hope the links still work - Anachronism, a forum member who recently gave away his Pulp collection of bootlegs to fellow-forumite Freek, also kindly sent me download links to the Leeds Heineken Festival performance from July '95.
It's an audience recording and at times there's a bit too much conversation and squealing but in general it's decent quality. Set-list is similar to Glastonbury the previous month, with a rare 1995 rendition of OU (the last one?).
Best thing is the between song talk when Jarvis explains the inspiration behind new songs Disco 2000 and Live Bed Show. The story behind the latter is great, one I'd not heard before.
yes he did. it is new to me that he preferred to keep them lossless though.
since I got the cdr's from Anachronism I put them on my computer as 192 kbps mp3's and that was finished recently. I meant to let people make requests and then through megaupload, mediafire or some site like that let people download them. also as a sort of thank you, not keeping it all to myself. but putting all those cd's on my pc as lossless takes up too much of my space and time, I'm simply not that fussy about sound qualities (I don't hear the difference when live bootlegs are concerned).
now I'm a bit hesitant, reading that he wouldn't want that to happen apparently. on the other hand, he never gave me specific instructions like that.
I agree with you about the sound qualities...mp3 is fine by me, just passing on what he said in his PM to me. Maybe have a word with him about the stuff he gave you.
Aaaah! My first ever Pulp concert. An absolutely amazing day. 16 years old and suddenly every other person in the glorious sunshine in this massive park seemed to have an I'm Common T-shirt. That would be living the Britpop dream then.
I've had a grotty cassette of this since '95 so hopefully this will be an upgrade - thanks!
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The Glastonbury set from '95 was played in it's entirety on Jo Whiley's show on Radio 2 on Thursday night. If there's anyone on this forum who has never heard it (I'd be surprised!) do yourself a favour. It's up on their website for the next couple of days.
Beforehand, on the same show, a quite brilliant, imo, female artist, called Anna Calvi, is in session playing a couple of songs. Would be great if she opened for Pulp in one of their own shows. Anyway, she is well worth a listen also.
Personally I vote for getting them online in as high a quality as possible. If WAV files are too cumbersome, FLAC is a good alternative and dead easy to use once you've got the encoder (see http://flac.sourceforge.net/). In a way, sharing stuff in a non-lossy format actually matters more with old bootleg recordings - if the original signal isn't great to start with, when you convert to MP3 you stand to lose a lot more of whatever's still there under all the hiss and distortion than you would do with a pristine studio recording.
Equally Freek, of course whatever format you wanted to share this stuff in would be most welcome!
I've actually spent the last few weeks doing 24/48 digital transfers of all my cruddy old bootleg cassettes at the recording studio where I work. Of course they still sound like cruddy old bootleg cassettes, but at least they're not going to get any worse!
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Can't wait to hear this and relive my first ever Pulp gig! I was 14 and queued for about 4 hours in an attempt to meet Pulp in the signing tent - it wasn't meant to be. Absolutely one of the best gigs ever and the first ever 'Live Bed Show', of course.
Those are great! It does rather spoil my memory of everyone there having an I'm Common T-shirt though ;)
They look a bit early in the day to have been taken during Pulp's set - my memory is that they came on just as it was getting dark. Presuming it was the same day, maybe during Sleeper? If so, I'll be sitting somewhere on the concrete steps opposite your vantage point, enjoying my first taste of Heineken Export...
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You were three?! God I feel old now. I was sixteen and it should have been my first Pulp gig as a mate and I got tickets, but his dad refused to let him camp so we had to get the last train back - FIVE MINS before they came on!