A shame. Checking through my hard-drive, I seem to have only the one live version (Leadmill Dec '84). It would be nice if others were out there.
It seems that, bar Don't You Know and Neverending Story, every song off Freaks has been played live and is extant in some form. That's quite good going!
No idea w/r/t any recordings, but it did inspire me to dig up this one quote from Candida regarding the song returning in their set;
Q: Did you enjoy rehearsing and playing some of Pulp's older songs like Anorexic Beauty and She's Dead in the last UK tour? Did the band find those songs easy to rehearse or had everyone forgotton how to play them?
C: (Yes!) I found Anorexic beauty funny because Jarvis sang in an odd almost out of tune voice to capture the spirit of him + Russell! And there's a story of how I found playing 'She's Dead' live, but it's too long to go into!
And not to hijack the thread - but does anyone know if there are any recordings of August/96-era Help the Aged? (ie: when Russell was still in the band) I noticed it appearing in the sets of their last few shows and was amazed to see he actually played on the song live.
A bootleg of V96 from Chelmsford is in circulation. Don't have it on this comp so can't send an mp3 of it to the yahoo account but will have a dig for it over the weekend if I think of it.
I do have it, but it's on tape. Not got the technology to transfer it, I'm afraid. The bootleg's not great sounding, but it's 95% the same song.
"She's Dead" was on the setlist for Birmingham NEC in '98, but they played "Something Changed" instead. Bah! Maybe they thought the audience wouldn't have been up for it enough?
They did do She's Dead a few times in '98 - at the Washington 9.30 Club (I have a truly awful sounding tape of this) and maybe at some of the Australian and Greek shows.
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