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Just added the following to the yahoo 2006 account:

Great performance of Bar Italia, interview with John Peel, Jarvis and Steve, award acceptance speech, band interview with Eno, post award discussion. Recorded from Radio 1 in September 1996.



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Nice, thanks for that. Maconie and Collins don't half go on at times but lovely to hear John Peels thoughts on Different Class. The mention of them being one vote away from pipping M People to the award in 1994 reminds me of something that I don't think I've seen mention of before - In 1994, when the judging panel were deciding on the winner, Irish DJ Dave Fanning (Irish equivalent, kind of to Steve Lamacq in a way...though he also did movie review shows on telly), was phoned and asked whether he'd choose Pulp. I'm only going on memory of reading this in his autobio in a book shop a year or so ago but I think he said he thought there was a bit of filler on His'n'Hers and that Pulp would make a better album in the future. So you can blame him for M People's win!

Another random aside of Pulp-mention (which I'm reminded of from the mention of Oasis in the interview you posted), a few months back there was an interview with Liam Gallagher in Mojo I think, talking about his new Oasis outfit, Beady Eye. They close their gigs with the World of Twist song, Sons Of The Stage. Liam was quoted as saying - quite astutely for him if not quite right(!) -''World of Twist were a top band. They were Pulp before Pulp were Pulp''.

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So much to say and I haven't even listened to the interviews etc yet!

1 I haven't heard of WOT but I'll look them up.

2 PJ Harvey's become the first person to win twice but are Pulp the only band to be nominated three times (and for consecutive albums at that)?

3 has anyone heard that M People album and is actually good? I grew to hate her voice from hearing it on the radio so much.



-- Edited by fredthe3rd on Friday 16th of September 2011 01:33:49 PM

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I think PJH deserved to win much like His 'n' Hers which would have been a genuinely alternative choice. M People were so worthy, conservative and dull- just very MOR soulful contemporary pop. They got it right the year after when Portishead won. I'm really surprised Liam went for WOT. Don't know much about them but they were very much of their time musically and not that exciting.

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It's 15 years ago, almost to the day. The full stop on Different Class and Russell for many years...

http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1996/09/11/BSP110996033/?s=cocker&st=0&pn=1



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Haven't seen that footage since the time. Brilliant!

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Poor Mark, what a horrible year he had after that....

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Ok, I'm taking the bait, what happened to Mark?

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He touched the award and was cursed! That's what he said anyway. It hasn't done PJH any harm.

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He was madly in love with a girl who left him, I think he had bought a house that he was ready to move into with her or the house purchase fell through, can't remember exactly. And for whatever reason, he felt a fair amount of guilt over Russell's departure.


That ITN site has quite a few Jarvis/Pulp clips that aren't on youtube btw.



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From what I can gather from various sources:

His girlfriend left him. He was going to marry her, and then she left him for Danny Mcnamara from Embrace.
He was trying to buy a house, which fell through.
He got hate mail from Pulp fans blaming his inclusion to the Pulp line-up as one of the reasons Russell left.

It got worse a few years later. Around about 2000/2001 I heard his house got burgled and suspicion fell on one of his house mates. I can't quite remember, but I think also around this time he contracted a nasty case of Chicken Pox. I can't remember where I read this, probably an issue of Pulp People. I did remember being very worried for the poor guy.



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Yeah but Sarah, since when have you not worried for Marco?wink



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That does sound like a fairly shit year...

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