It looks as if they will stick with the same set and just vary the encore depending on time available and which songs they want to play to different crowds. Maybe also dependant upon how many songs they can physically perform in the early hours of the morning at their ages!

One special moment happened for a couple at the front when Jarvis came down to talk to them and announced that the guy had a question to ask. I presume she said yes! Jarvis also made comment about a protest in Barcelona where the police had apparantly gone in with batons. There was a big ´Spanish revolution for the Common People´banner, or something similar being held up throughout the set.

 

Sorry...I keep forgetting that "gig" isn't really a "Pulp" word. Have to get into the habit of calling them "shows" or "concerts". :)

Check out this amazing picture from last night.

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Check out this amazing picture from last night.

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Wow! Hope Jarvis can keep his energy up like this all summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikudK0pHdWU

goose bumps i want more footage

Wow...been away from internet land since Thursday night, avoided the Toulouse talk so had no idea what to expect at Primavera.

Met up with Dave (Deebs) from this parish on Friday evening. We decided to stay after Belle & Sebastian even though there was a 90 minute wait for Pulp at the main stage. I thought we'd be able to inch forward to the front but dozens of other people were happy to play the waiting game too. Nevertheless we had a good vantage point, about ten rows back in-line with Russell. As we waited we decided to rehearse ''Happy Birthday'' for Mr Senior. Started to spread the word among people beside us and I thought we had enough voices to be heard. Myself and Deebs also started singing Pulp songs much to the amusement of people around us, and we even took requests at one stage!

The build-up consisted of laser-light messages beaming across a curtain in front of the stage, in a similar vein to those expressed on theofficial webstie (Is this a hoax? Are you ready? etc.), also translated into Catalan which was a nice touch. As the iconic neon P U L P letters were being erected the crowd began to get excited. The tension in the build-up was really something...and eventually at 01.45 am the band emerged, behind the transparent curtain that the messages had been displayed on (not quite the Venetian blinds at Edinburgh 1999 but a nice effect), and as the band became visible, it really was quite a sight. Russell, smartly attired as usual in natty white jacket, in particular.

The crowd were ready to go absoloutely ape and as DYRTFT began, the jumping up and down began in earnest. We lost all our new friends as the moshing caused mass dispersal so I knew the birthday singing would probably be a lost cause now. There was no let-up during Pink Glove and as the hits kept coming the crowd just went ever more mental. Having relocated Deebs we attempted the Happy Birthday song, and could hear a few new acquaintances join in but unfortunately not loud enough for Jarvis to stop and pick-up on it.

The set has been discussed a lot on the Toulouse thread, expecting to hear anything but a DC-heavy show was naive I suppose. Party Hard/Help The Aged and maybe one more from We Love Life would have been nice but reunions at festivals = hits and everything Pulp played sounded fantastic. Couldn't believe it when Bar Italia came on, I never would have expected to hear that. The one downside was the sound quality at the start wasn't the best, not loud or clear enough, especially Jarvis' vox. Then again, with thousands screaming along to ever word, perhaps that was just how it appeared to me.

The 90 minutes (and there was a tight curfew in place on every act unfortunately) went by far too quickly. Between being over-whelmed at seeing them all together after so many years and the moshing for most of the first half of the set, it was hard to take it all in really.

One interesting thing that I hadn't considered was the production values involved. Very high-end. The PULP neon letters as mentioned before, but also the screens at the back which began to display a stripey-stockinged pair of legs with roller-skates as Babies began, and periodically repeating other stills from the promo (David combing his gel-sodden hair, the boy and girl slurping the milkshake etc.), and Disco 2000 had the dancefloor lighting-up tiles effect going on....really quite astonishing to see, especially after watching a black and white Pulp live clip the other day from 1985 of a pub's stage in Chesterfield being draped in toilet roll.

The end of the line intro into This Is Hardcore was Russell's queue to take a breather, great to see a Hardcore song (THE Hardcore song) get quality recognition and equally to see Sunrise being given a deserved run-out and reaction (and Russell returning during it).

Jarvis' stage movements were even more 1995 than '95. At one point I thought it was a bit over the top, but fuck it, the man was enjoying himself and deservedly so. I was a bit surprised by the extra guitarist (Leo Abrahams who wrote and played on Brett Anderson's last solo album). Perhaps selfishly I thought that it should just be the six of Pulp on there. Seeing 3 guitars and bass on certain songs seemed far away from the Intro/HnH set-up of the band. But for a live festival sound I suppose it was necessary.

As ever with Pulp and Jarvis the only shame was that they couldn't play for longer. Really, a night to cherish and I'm glad I saw them here especially among other mad Pulp fans from across the world. Myself and Deebs chatted to people around us who had come from Russia, Japan, Italy and even York, especialy to see them. And when I woke-up in my hostel yesterday morning (or was woken-up more accurately) I met a Mexican girl, only 18 who had come especially to see Pulp and had even joined in with our Happy Birthday singing!

Quite shattered now (other highlights of the weekend included PJ Harvey, Battles and The National), too much to check this post for typos but hopefully it's ok.

JEALOUS JEALOUS JEALOUS!!!

Great write up Eamonn. Can´t wait to watch the clips when I get home, it won´t let me see them from the hostel PC. I´ve got a little of my own footage to upload when I´m back in the UK.

What is the difference between Man United and Pulp?

Pulp won over Barcelona easily!

Been reading some articles about this. The guys are wowing both critics and fans alike.

One thing though, all the articles seem to confuse Mark and Steve about the Tim McCall thing.

Just as a small note of interest... I saw Belle and Sebastian at The Roundhouse this evening, and Stuart Murdoch spoke briefly about how he had seen Pulp at the weekend in Barcelona, and about "how much they had learned from Jarvis" and that everyone can try, including them, but will always live in his shadow. A nice little tribute I thought!

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hey guys, i'm new on here, but have been following pulp around since i moved to london from toronto in '97.

i was also there.  being back in london today makes it all seem like a big dream, it was so surreal.  like Eamonn i thought it was over in a second and it was a bit hard to take it all in.  it was just incredible to see them again, i don't think i have ever been so excited for anything before!  

being only 5'2" makes festivals like that a bit rubbish for me, unless i'm a bit further back i can't see anything.  so unfortunately i wasn't close to the front, but had a good view of the whole stage from further back.  the sound back there was i thought good, and i also had space to dance around and sing loudly without having to worry i was singing badly in someone's ear!!

it was amazing, the only complaint i would have is that they didn't play enough, which is always going to be the only problem!  it would have been great to hear anything from separations (gutted to hear they played countdown in toulouse..), or bad cover version, or like a friend, or, or......  but saying that, it was so exciting to hear i spy and bar italia.  i also thought jarvis maybe didn't speak as much as usual, but that could have been down to the strict time slot or also because he didn't want to alienate the spanish crowd by speaking too much in english...?  i think it will probably be different at the uk festivals.

anyhow, i'm so glad i went, and now cannot wait for wireless, and then reading!  and maybe somewhere else in between!

-- Edited by debi on Monday 30th of May 2011 05:56:21 PM