Fuss Free wrote:

-The setlist was a little too heavy on Different Class, almost the entire album got played (exceptions being Pencil Skirt, Live Bed Show and Monday Morning). Not a bad thing but I would have gladly traded a few DC songs for some more earlier material.

Agreed

-Being at the very front was a harrowing and thrilling experience. I had to help security guards lift several people over the fence. A word of advice: if you don't have the constitution to handle thousands of people smashing together, you probably shouldn't stand anywhere near the front.

Agreed - always amazed at how people moan when someone stands in front of them, a couple of minor squabbles occured near me.

-Grace Jones was great fun, as were 'The Hives'. It's a shame 'TV of The Radio' had to go muck things up.

The Horrors were good in a Ramones meets Echo & The Bunnymen weird way, and I suspect I'll check their albums out.  The Hives were very entertaining, although I did come away with the feeing that the one single I have is probably represenatative of them as a whole.  But I did endure TV on the Radio and Grace Jones just to keep my spot.

Ultimately, it was a great show but would have been even better with some more Intro and HnH era songs. Perhaps Brixton Academy then?

Yeah!  Considering there is a pre-sale to the more hardcore fans, it may be a bit more wide ranging.  Just have to check my holiday dates.  Highly unlikely to be away on Wednesday 31st August, but as we are awaiting the kids' passports we may go later than planned.

 

Set lists are one of these things that are never going to be able to please all the people all of the time. I think it's especially difficult when a band has a vast back catalogue spanning many years. If they play too many hits. the hardcore fans feel cheated, and if they play too many obscure songs, the nostalgia crowd get bored and start chatting and ruining it. And even amongst the hardcore fans everyone has their own preferred 'era'. I've got my own list of songs I'd love to hear again (or even for the first time), but yesterday was the first time I'd seen them in 8 and a half years and they could have played hey diddle diddle and I'd have been beaming.

(hope I got the maths right there)

It was brilliant!
Sadly the crush was too much for me & I had to backpeddle early on, but once I found some space it was amazing.
A more varied set would have been nice tho'. & Jarvis messing up the timing on I Spy & the TIH intro was more than slightly jarring lol.
Oh, & an encore would've been nice...

ArrGee wrote:

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... If they play too many hits. the hardcore fans feel cheated, and if they play too many obscure songs, the nostalgia crowd get bored and start chatting and ruining it. 

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Agreed.  Was interesting that there seemed to be general bemusement near me when they played Sunrise and even Hardcore.  I suspect that for many, Pulp are Different Class plus a couple of other early hits (DYRTFT? + Babies).  The rest is a mystery to the less committed (however Pink Glove went down well).

I guess I really want Pulp to do every track from Separations onwards, and don't care if they have to spend all day doing it .  Well, there's no need for any remixes if that will save a bit of time.   

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I'm not complaining. Still, for instance, I think they could have switched out Underwear for Lipgloss or Razzmatazz to give the set a little more diversity without alienating anyone. I think the perception that DC is the only popular album is just incorrect. There are a lot of casual fans who think Pulp peaked with His n' Hers.

-- Edited by Fuss Free on Monday 4th of July 2011 11:11:09 AM

that was absolutely amazing! for those interested I filmed most of the songs (quite bad quality except at the beginning of I spy where his face is basically in the camera) also voice recorded it sound is alright as well so I'll find some way of sharing that. Was right at the front in the middle and Jarvis came down to the audience with a torch and shone it in my mouth (for some reason) am still completely hyped up!! was brilliant! shame they didn't play countdown but can't complain - especially when mile end was played!

For those wondering, yes I'm fine thank you! :)

Truth is that I had a SPLITTING headache by the time the band came on and was pretty low on energy, so when the pushing and crushing verged into "this is getting stupid now" territory I decided to make my exit. No way to move back, so I pretended that I had sustained a minor injury so that I could persuade people to let me through and over the barrier.

Had a much better time watching from the back and actually getting to listen. :)

were you the one who went off on a stretcher?

The first review....

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23966852-pulp-wireless-festival-hyde-park---review.do

Jarvis Cocker hails from Sheffield, but as he admitted at this reunion, a Pulp show in London is "a bit like a hometown concert" because this is where many of their classic songs were written.

The Britpop veterans wrapped up Wireless in front of more than 45,000 fans...

And worringly, especially given the comments of seeing everyone in three years time...

It was all the more special given that Pulp appear to be quitting while they're ahead.Reading Festival and a newly announced August 31 Brixton date may be the last chance to see them for some time

 

Quitting while they are ahead!  They've only just come back

-- Edited by ArrGee on Monday 4th of July 2011 01:53:03 PM

I was at the right of the stage a good distance back but could see the screen and hear the band perfectly. Russells Violin on Mile End was amazing and although it was pretty heavy on Different Class Era songs I think no matter what they played it would have been a brillant show regardless. Now that I am back In Dublin will have a very long nap and thank god I was not close to the stage for Grace Jones (nightmare!)

Fantastic stuff. Sorry I never got chance to hang out with any of you, only managed to get to the site about half an hour before Pulp played. It was a very DC heavy set, but then why not... if I'd been following them around on tour through 95/96 I'd probably be a bit sick of hearing those same songs every night, but enough time's passed for it to be a bit of a thrill getting to see them do all that stuff again.

In reply to Fuss Free, I thought there was quite a lot of violin from Russell - Mile End, Underwear, Bar Italia, start of Feeling Called Love and obviously Common People. It was nice seeing him hit his stride on the likes of Babies and Common People - the theatrical violin bow twirling on the latter took me right back to Heineken '95, the first and last time I saw this version of Pulp. After all this time it really did feel like coming home.

Other highlights... Jarvis was on top form throughout, leaping around possibly more than I've ever seen him do before. Lots of amusing daftness between songs too, notably the "back to the days of eighty niiiiiiiiiiiiinee!" sci fi intro to Sorted. This Is Hardcore has aged well too and provided a welcome flipside to the Britpop triumphalism of the DC stuff.

They clearly didn't want to leave the stage at the end, with Jarv left alone trying to entice the others back to applaud the audience, eventually succeeding with a cry of "Russell y'bastard! Get back ere!". The touching sight of him with an arm round Russ's shoulder and giving him a kiss on the forehead was an unlikely, slightly Spinal Tap moment and a fantastic note to end it all on. See you at Leeds...

Just got in, and it was an amazing gig. Loved every minute of it. Managed to get somewhere near the tent with the video camera in it, which was about as close as I could get. Good times, met some quality people (don't know if any are on here, if so hello).

-- Edited by salmon92 on Monday 4th of July 2011 03:28:06 PM

haven't got round to uploading all my videos yet but here is I Spy : pretty blurry after the intro but great close up footage of Jarvis - he was literally staring right at me! unbelievable