Aye, it was me. Not so much as a dicky bird yet. Their comeback gig is a fortnight away...you imagine there'd be a PR deluge any time now. Or maybe they won't do press until before the UK festivals.
A radio session would be mint.
As an aside, was there a Pulp poster in the NME last week?

Are they obliged to promote festival appearances?

If they had a record, dvd or tour to sell they would be all over the media but if they are just doing festivals do they need to do this?

Possibly not but I imagine the press would be interested regardless. The music press certainly will be itching for interviews.

Actually, just listening back to Lamacq's show today; he played Misshapes and said afterwards that he was with Jarvis at the Radio Awards the other night (Jarvis was pipped to an award by Ronnie Wood I think) and asked about Pulp, and how preparations were going. Promised Jarvis not to reveal anything about the set-lists but confirmed that Jarvis will be on his show soon to talk about the reunion and they would mention it on twitter beforehand.

I read somewhere that Nick was on Radio Sheffield the morning after the reunion was announced in November and spoke about the likelihood of a Sheffield gig. Don't think it was mentioned on here at the time, so I doubt anyone caught it/recorded it.

Exclusive news! Just dropped into my inbox! BBC6Music has a world exclusive interview with Jarvis Cocker and anothermember of Pulp to be broadcast on the night of the first show Friday 27 May. More news as we have it!

it will be russell. obviously.

Yeah, hope it is. He's the most outspoken and interesting so hopefully it is him.

Hmm, I proof read listings for Radio Times, including 6music, and I never saw anything. Will have a look on Monday and see if the detail has been updated at all to suggest they are.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011g8z1

bless! can't belive it's all happening again tonight!

That'll be Tim then, thought that might have something to do with it.

Ah, I don't work at the Radio Times as such, I work for PA. Which means you'll probably hate me now!

We're not popular among a lot of journalists!

Interview about to start. Lamacq's playing an old live version of "Lipgloss." The Butt Naked version maybe?

It took me a second or two to place the song, too!

Shout-out to Pulpwiki.net from Mark and Jarvis! They like it a lot. Congrats to Will!

I missed the bit at the end about the potential of recording new material and a tour - what was that answer?

scottfrazer wrote:

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I missed the bit at the end about the potential of recording new material and a tour - what was that answer?

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Lammers asked if they'd consider doing more shows or recording more songs if the shows worked out well. 

There was a brief hesitation, then Candida said 'yes' to more shows, and 'no' to more records.

They all sort of laughed and agreed so it sounds pretty definite.

it is almost 3 am over here, but i had to stay up and stream this interview online.

i love the bit:

"lyndhurst grove"

"lyndhurst grove? that's not in the set. we haven't played that in 15 years!"

hilarious!

does that mean that happy endings is in the set now or is candida just listening to her ipod during rehearsals? :P

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Cool! so maybe they know about this forum too...? *wishful thinking*

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They do. This forum or site is thanked in the deluxe editions. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011g8z1/Steve_Lamacq_27_05_2011/

From 1 hour in.

-- Edited by SarahAWilson on Friday 27th of May 2011 07:01:27 PM

Great interview. Nice to hear Mark being a bit more vocal. I think all those years hosting on the film festival circuit has made him a bit more forthright. But...8 YEARS! and he can still play like that? Wow...just wow.

Condensed interview here, 33 minutes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/76b2e842-5e85-4c97-ab62-d5bc315595b5#p00h7712 - it's just the heading media piece for the Pulp 6 Music page, it appears, so I don't know if it'll be there forever. I'll see if I can record and mp3ify it later on

 

- well, I'm buggered if I can find the option in Audacity to record the stereo mix in Windows 7 - will try to get it, but can't promise anything.

-- Edited by Ste on Saturday 28th of May 2011 07:26:57 AM

Joyriders! I have the full interview in high quality, but it's a 50MB file! I tried to reduce the bitrate from 128 to 64, but the quality reduced a lot and also the file remained large (22MB)... Well, I'll try to posting on 4Shared and provide the link here later ;)

(I consider 4Shared a good option because I believe it supports 50MB and thus allows those who wouldn't download the mp3, just to listen to. But if you have any other option, feel free to say ;)