I'm not sure if this has worked - apologies if it's on here 3 times!  Apologies also if at the end of any of them you have my crappy weekend dating news!

Pulp guitarist Mark Webber tells us that members of the band are hoping to avoid murdering their own songs Mark Webber first met Pulp in 1986, when he was 15. He was interviewing them for Cosmic Pig, a Chesterfield fanzine. They were just the weirdest bunch of people Id ever met. Webber used to go over to the guitarist and violinist Russell Seniors house in Sheffield. He had a frieze of photographs of industry in Eastern Europe, and a display of cigarette boxes from Russia . . . He used to make a different flavour of tea for us and we had to guess the flavour. Webber spent the next six years messing around with music, until 1992, when Pulp asked him to play guitar at one of their gigs. While they were recording Different Class, released in 1995, Jarvis Cocker asked Webber to join Pulp. He had gone from fan to band member. Pulp are reuniting this summer with their six 1996 members. I dont think it would have gone down well if it had been the original 1978 line-up, Webber says. Cocker once stated that a reunion would be pointless. But Pulp have offered reasons for getting back together in the form of questions on the Twitter account 2011_Pulp: Is this a collective midlife crisis? Is this nostalgia? Each is rhetorical. Were not really talking about what were doing until weve done it in front of people. Its better to do something rather than talk about it, Webber says. Having forgotten chords and lyrics to many of their songs, Pulp have been turning to YouTube for footage of old live performances. Many people had uploaded their own versions of the songs. It made it much easier for us to work out the chords, he says. We were flattered that people had made the effort. At PulpTube, Pulps new website, fans can upload videos of themselves playing Pulp songs. The most popular wins a yet-to-be-decided musical prize. I have been putting the site together. The videos are all being watched, Webber says. One of Cockers favourites is the Argentine This is Hardcore by Los Vaqueros Paganos. They also like Manel, a Catalan folk group who perform La Gent Normal in a Barcelona market. Worse than someone doing a bad cover version is someone murdering their own songs years later. We hope to avoid that pitfall, Webber says.

SarahAWilson wrote:

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but no way am I going to fork out ANYTHING to subsidise that Australian tit.

-- Edited by SarahAWilson on Sunday 15th of May 2011 09:35:40 PM

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 He might be a 'tit' but 'tits' come in all nationalities...thanx!