Check the fucking set-list!!!!! I hope to feck this has been bootlegged.
Do You Remember The First Time?' 'Joyriders' 'Razzmatazz' 'Acrylic Afternoons' 'Something Changed' 'Disco 2000' 'Sorted For E's & Wizz' 'Like A Friend' 'Babies' 'Misshapes' 'Live Bed Show' 'This Is Hardcore' 'Sunrise' 'Common People'
nme.com reports:
Pulp returned to Glastonbury festival this evening (June 25) to play an epic set on The Park Stage, billed as 'special guests' at the event.
Frontman Jarvis Cocker made an impassioned speech about the festival during the show, which saw thousands of fans flock to the area at the most northern part of the Somerset site. It was the returning Britpop band's fourth appearance at Glastonbury, having played there in 1994, 1995 and 1998.
It was only fully revealed this morning that Pulp were due to play the bash, with Arctic Monkeys and The Killers some of the band names that had tongues wagging about potential star guests. Yesterday Radiohead played the 'special guests' slot at The Park.
When the band arrived on stage the sun was beating down on the site in stark contrast to the lashes of rain that had fallen there the previous day and night. "We couldn't think of anything to get you so we brought the sunshine," Cocker quipped before opener 'Do You Remember The First Time?' .
The singer later made reference to the news that police were hoping to test the sewage at the festival to find out which drugs, if any, the punters there had been indulging in. "They wanted to take samples from the toilets to see if there's drugs in there," he explained. "Firstly, who's going to take that sample? Secondly, fuck off. Everyone's in a field having a good time."
The band's setlist veered off course from their recent comeback shows, and included 'Acrylic Afternoons' and 'Live Bed Show', which the frontman explained the band hadn't played in a very long time. But they also found time for plenty of classics including 'Disco 2000', 'Sorted For E's And Wizz' and closer 'Common People'.
"Thanks Glastonbury, obviously it's been a very important place for us," the singer said near the end of the show. "When we played in '95 things took off for us and we went in a strange orbit around the earth, and now we're back home in one piece."
He added: "When we played in '95 I told a speech, 'If you want something to happen enough then it actually will.' If lanky misshapes like us could headline Glastonbury anyone could do it. Although that sounds corny it's true, it's in all of us. This is what this festival is about, it's bigger than a festival, it's a feeling.
"This is our fourth Glastonbury, who knows, it would be nice to do five."
Too right it would! Two years to write, record and release a new album to headline Glasto '13!
I don't think Live Bed Show was in those leaked set-lists after the Toulouse gig so potentially hope for other songs that haven't been mentioned. I was actually surprised that Live Bed Show was originally left-out of the summer setlists. It's always been a perennial live staple since Different Class, along with Sorted. I still think TIH should have a bit more representation - Help The Aged/Party Hard/The Fear...or seeing as it's the festival season, Sylvia would probably go down well.
I wonder did Russell play on Like A Friend. Tonight was its live debut I think? And did the amount of people who covered it on pulptube make the band take it seriously as a choice for playing live? Of course it was on the American edition of TIH, featured on a soundtrack (albeit to a shit film) and is the most viewed Pulp song on youtube after Common People, Babies and This Is Hardcore (Disco 2000 for some reason has only been up on youtube since last month).
My favorite. Why didn't they play it at Primavera?
It was probably the most popular Pulp song in America until Pitchfork listed "Common People" as #2 on their list of the top 90's songs last year. Surely they gotta play here and bring that one out.
-- Edited by Bort on Sunday 26th of June 2011 01:45:12 AM
I saw Pulp! Just got back to my tent and not much charge on my iPhone so will tell you more on Monday! Yes..! They did play 'like a friend' jarvis said "for the first & last time ever!" there were BBC 6 Music roadies onstage when they were setting up so I reckon they recorded it! Glad they mixed up the set! Massive crowd... Jarvis brought frizbees that he threw into the crowd! He said he stole the idea from derren brown! Just before 'common people' he read out his speech from glast 1995 "if a lanky get like me can do it..." and added a few more words of wisdom! That's all I can remember ATM! (time to go to sleep!) I'll write more on Monday when I get home if anyone is interested?!!
Just read back over a couple of previous posts... No RS not play on Like A Friend. Jarvis played guitar. They did it after sorted for es and wizz and said that the first time they ever played sorted was here so here's something that they were playing for the first time again! It took them a while to start the song because they didn't seem too confident with it!! In jarvis' words, "ok, here we go.. Like a friend...(laughs) I'm shitting myself!"