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Just arrived back home in sunny Newcastle after a pretty awful train journey home! Mega delays meant a long wait at Kings Cross. They were about to cancel our train due to lack of train guard but thankfully I had the sense to take my other half to see Pulp who is a Train Guard and volunteered to work the train back to get us home!

We went to the Canterbury Arms before the show but due to our late arrival at around 7.45 I didn't see any familar faces still in there. Got into the venue at around 8.40 and took position around mid-crowd. Great view from anywhere in the Brixton Academy so was happy there. Great crowd (around us anyway) everybody singing along with enthusism and we had at least 3 hardcore fans nearby who we had a little brief chat with - probably mutual respect for signing along to every word od 'Sheffield:Sex City'!

Nothing else to say really that hasn't already been said. Thanks for posting all your bits and pieces as I have been reading them on my phone on what became a rather long train journey! - They killed at least an hour.

I must say that having watched Pulp twice this year stone cold sober I decided I should have a few drinks for this one! I was watching my manners and being a rather well behaved drunk when very near the end someone knocked me which in turn made me spill a portion of freshly poured cold beer down the kneck of the young lady in front of me. I did spend about 20 seconds trying to drunkenly apologies to her (knowing she'd also rather watch Pulp than have some man begging for forgiveness at her!) but I think she was ok in the end as we had a little joke about it. If you are that lady - I'm sorry! If it is any consolation I was by that point already covered in beer from an earlier incident where the male responsible was not being quite as well mannered as I was espiring to be!

I attempted to make a recording on my iphone of the show (sometimes works sometimes doesn't) Most of it is of such poor inaudible quality that there is no point in uploading it. I have captured Jarvis' between song banter and perhaps I may have one track that is ok. I haven't listened through it all yet. However, I did note by this recording how long they played for I pressed record at the end of the intro track and stop after wickerman. 2 hrs 15! Thank you Pulp!

The set was totally amazing. I could only have wished for O.U. in addition to what we got. Sheffield Sex City was hoped for but 'Wickerman' came out of the blue! Quite simply one of the best shows I have ever seen and reafirming my faith that this band are by far my favourite band in the entire world!

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Oh my GOD, that security guy's head in the lower right hand corner is so creepy.

 Now if Mark had hit that guy with a soggy t-shirt, he would have been shredded!



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weed wrote:

Just arrived back home in sunny Newcastle after a pretty awful train journey home! Mega delays meant a long wait at Kings Cross. They were about to cancel our train due to lack of train guard but thankfully I had the sense to take my other half to see Pulp who is a Train Guard and volunteered to work the train back to get us home!

 That is quality!



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Eamonn wrote:
weed wrote:

Just arrived back home in sunny Newcastle after a pretty awful train journey home! Mega delays meant a long wait at Kings Cross. They were about to cancel our train due to lack of train guard but thankfully I had the sense to take my other half to see Pulp who is a Train Guard and volunteered to work the train back to get us home!

 That is quality!

 

hahaha seriously?! That's amazing, are they allowed to do that?! I just imagine it being like some sort of train version of Airplane..



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I'm FINALLY back home, after having to travel to Manchester for a uni resit, then get the coach back to Newcastle..done 9 hours traveling today! But it was worth it, both gigs were AMAZING. I think I enjoyed the first one a little bit more, just cos there was more banter and the crowd were better, but both of them were equally as great, really.

So, SO glad we got Sheffield Sex City. Obviously there are always gonna be songs that I wanted them to play (A Little Soul would have been lovely), but those setlists were better than I could have ever hoped for. Have You Seen Her Lately was a big surprise!

On the first night, did anyone notice Jarvis getting really angry during the start of OU? He was shouting at one of the tech guys and pointing at something, whilst banging the bass drum with a face like thunder..I wonder what the problem was. It looked like he was pointing at the stylophone, but I didn't see anyone go over to it.

I had a pretty good view during both the gigs, right at the front in the middle, as this (pretty scary) photo I took during Sheffield Sex City shows..

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The only people to annoy me was a woman on the barrier with her husband/partner standing behind her, "protecting" her from the crowd. He obviously didn't like Pulp, and didn't smile or sing along at all. I don't know why, but it just wound me up! But I've got a thing about people who try and protect other people at the front of a gig. If you need protecting, you shouldn't be standing at the front! I remember once going to see the Flaming Lips, being right at the front and then this guy shouting at me for "dancing too near" his pregnant wife!! Jeeeez.

Anyway, two amazing nights. Let's hope it's not the end, but if it is, it was a great way to go.



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That's a beauty of a photo Callum! - I can't do being at the front anymore as I am quite fragile! I sometimes really wish I could for moments like that! Also if I was pregnant I probably wouldn't go to see the Flaming Lips! They do warn people before their shows that it's pretty intense! Funny you should mention The Flaming Lips as I was trying discuss on the way home how that Pulp show sat in my top 5 best ever gigs! I'm yet to put them in order... but 1,3,4,& 5 are Pulp and number 2 is The Flaming Lips!

On a side note about getting home! Even though it took ages and one of our party ended up working - we were still very well fed and watered on the train and 1000x better than Megabus! I did offer you free train travel to Newcastle Callum!. 3 out of 5 of us there work on the railways and I think any of us would have stepped up to get us back home if needed. There were about 800 of people on that train and it would have been cancelled! So thank god for Pulp... otherwise those people wouldn't have been able to get home. (can you believe they still complained at my other half for being late?!)

The whole show is just a strange blur to me now. I'm hoping someone has bootleged it so I can fill in the gaps.

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anet wrote:
I have to say, I left the gig with the gut feeling there was to be no more Pulp. Hope to god I've got it all wrong, but these two comments made by Jarvis, and something about the way bowed out at the end, definitely looked to me like he was saying goodbye on a greater scale than just for the end of the night.

I don't want to put a downer on all the excitement of an amazing night, and I've probably been one of the most optimistic on this board about the prospects of a new album, another tour etc, but at the end of tonight, I came away feeling it was the last time I'd seen Pulp. 

Was it just me?

 

I've had a very long plane ride back to L.A. and 3.5 hours in traffic (had to pick up our little pug) to think about it, and I agree with you...it did seem like a good-bye.  I thought Wickerman was a very strange choice for a second encore, even if Russell did play on it (I could not hear him at all, by the way, and he was practically hugging his monitor through most of the song). 

The only mention of any future appearance was Jarvis' plug for his Literature Festival appearance in October.  They do seem to like being mysterious though, so I hope I'm wrong and they announce a massive U.S.(and U.K., I guess) Tour and knock Russell out like Mr. T to get him on the plane. 

Anyway, the shows were incredible.  I'm sorry I didn't get to the pub on either night--Eamonn tried to help me after the show on the 1st night but I have a very bad sense of direction and an even worse sense of timing.  I enjoyed the 2nd show more, probably because I was much closer to Mr. Senior, and the sight of a ticket pocket drives me wild.  London crowds are so much more polite than American crowds; I expected the big push when the show started but everyone stayed in their places and we barely got smooshed at all.  Hearing "Countdown" both nights was an indescribable pleasure (even Russell was singing along), O.U., Sheffield Sex City...it was all wonderful.  I even had "Trees" (of all songs...) stuck in my head all the way to Heathrow this morning (or whatever day that was, at this point).  biggrin.gif



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calumlynn wrote:

On the first night, did anyone notice Jarvis getting really angry during the start of OU? He was shouting at one of the tech guys and pointing at something, whilst banging the bass drum with a face like thunder..I wonder what the problem was. It looked like he was pointing at the stylophone, but I didn't see anyone go over to it.

I noticed this, we were on that side of the stage. He wasn't happy, was he. It did nook like he was pointing at the stylophones. Maybe he wanted the levels adjusted?



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Some ace photos here:

http://www.front-rows-pits-and-pavements.com/images/pulp_london2011/index.html



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I've noticed there is a bootleg of 2nd night on dimeadozen but alas I can't get at it! Can someone download it and share please??!

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Does anyone have any bootlegs from either of the shows? I was at the Thursday night show, and it was amazing! After waiting 11 years to see Pulp in the flesh, I had an absolute blast of a time! Despite missing the last train, and wandering the streets of London at 1.30am looking for a hotel, and being exhausted to near the point of collapse, it was the best show I've ever been to, by far!

BTW, just curious...anyone else from America make the trek over the pond for the show?

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weed wrote:

I've noticed there is a bootleg of 2nd night on dimeadozen but alas I can't get at it! Can someone download it and share please??!

 

Doing it now! Why can't you download from there? Try downloading uTorrent if you're having difficulty torrenting stuff.



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Do you have an account? Just be patient and f5 the signup page a lot, they really DO open once in a while ...

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I did have an account but they banned my ip address! Not really understanding the rules on there - I had a clearout of all my utorrent files and had nothing to share anymore so my ratio dropped so I could not download. I tried to ditch the account and start again from fresh and they got a bit shitty about that and banned me. We're not on speaking terms now.

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Any sign of a recording of the first night appearing?

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going over my videos of Brixton - anyone else notice Mr.Cocker's smooth roly poly back on stage? biggrin



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I'm still trying to take Thursday night in. One of the best days of my life - I met every member of Pulp (plus Richard Hawley)... it's still not sank in properly....

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really? Thats amazing! how come?

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A lot of patience waiting at the stage door :)

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cunning :P nice one

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Jazza, you put my video efforts to shame!

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kopite83 wrote:

BTW, just curious...anyone else from America make the trek over the pond for the show?

 Yes!  aww.gif



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Eamonn wrote:

Any sign of a recording of the first night appearing?

 Any luck?



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Right, sorry for posting on a pretty old thread but looking over my photos from Brixton this one did make me laugh.

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Showed it to my mum who said "Oh my God, it's like the devil" - bit harsh! (though I suppose the red eyes don't help)



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nice (rare) smile but it made me think for a second: "how come the red is at the sides of the retina?". Just movement I suppose, but cool effect!

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