Newcastle, 'eh? I played the something and Parrot there once. That was fun. Used to be friends with the Colt .45s who hailed from nearby(ish) Durham. Wonderful clatterpop band. Do you know of them...?

Re: promoting. Be original! Make something eye-catching looking that someone, somewhere, will want to open if they receive it in the post. One bit of airplay on one reasonably well listened to radio station will make things far easier than getting a dozen amazing reviews that make you think "They really think this?" Sadly, it's always going to exposure rather than amazing reviews that get the success. Well, I presume it is. I only ever had the latter, never the former. So I presume it's the former you need. Yeah!

As for what I'm up to. Well, currently working about £10 grand over my supposed paygrade and really struggling at times. Applying for so many jobs it'd make you cry and worrying about the place I work going under. I also haven't touched My Amazing Book in about four months now or written a song in even longer. I want to do something else with my band again. Something final? I don't know. Something, though. I'm sure I used to have more interests than this! Having just come out of a gruelling period of a couple of months of working every night on job interview presentations/applications I thought I'd just start back again on my various hobbies and suchlike, but in a way it almost feels as if I've forgotten what they were.

And that feels weird!

I'm a university lecturer and at the moment I'm desperately trying to get prepared for my undergraduate students starting back next week. I also have a book to finish on the design and decoration of the suburban house in England in the 1920s and '30s. It's much delayed as I've been battling a serious illness over the last 4 years but am on the mend now (which is wht seeing Pulp meant sommuch to me this summer). In terms of helping others, well I can write. I'm also always on the lookout for potential PhD students and can supervise across history, theory and practice of art, design and popular culture.

fredthe3rd wrote:

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Are we setting up a highbrow A-Team?

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 You have encapsulated my idea beatifully in one sentence!

Yes -Stephen. I used to put bands on at The Dog & Parrot in Newcastle. I now The Colt 45s too very well. I put them on a few times. I wonder if they still together? (as I'm organising a bit of show at the moment) - You see we have already helped each other out!

 

Fredthe3rd - Scripts for what? Let's have a look!

Deborah - what have you written so far? it sounds facinating. Can you send it to me?

If anybody needs or wants anything - then post it here!

I study English Language and World Cinema at the University of Manchester, and play in a band back in Newcastle. Not much else to me, really! The things I do mainly consist of listening to music, writing songs, going to the cinema and sitting on buses.

Moving Down Under in January.

If any one of our Aussie fans knows nights out in Sydney where I might hear a bit of Pulp then let me know!

Weed, if you send me your email address I can send you something from the book. I've written about half of it. I also have an essay coming out in the catalogue to accompany the V&A's exhibition British Design, 1948-2012, which opens next spring. The objects I wrote about include some very groovy 1970s Wharfedale headphones and a rather fabulous Lecson amplifier, which are very Pulp! I'll see if I can post some links to pictures when I'm back on my computer rather than my phone.

Have lots of contacts across universities in the UK and very happy to advise on courses if anyone's thinking of taking the plunge and getting hugely in debt... On the latter point, I was so pleased to hear Jarvis speaking out against tuition fees in the summer. There's a book to be written about art colleges and music. Michael Bracewell's book on Roxy Music is good in this respect (particularly on Eno at Ispwich). I'd be interested to hear if anyone has come across anything else. Jarvis, of course, made a radio programme about this a year or so ago, which I'd love to hear again.

I'm at Brighton but am applying to do veterinary science at uni (hopefully Liverpool) for 2012 - which means I'm looking at £45 000 debt (yay). Hmmm... not much else really. I play trumpet in a Funk band at college so if anyone in the Brighton area want us to play at any parties/ events... haha!

Attempting to write songs on the piano in between job-hunting.

I am a freelance journalist so more of the same. Though I am thinking of writing a book too on architecture. I see that Owen Hatherley also writes about architecture and I am slightly worried that he might have an idea similar to mine. So I'll need to start pretty sharpish. I am another Geordie though London based now.

I'm a Quality Coordinator at the Press Association, boring eh? Anyway, it's not over for Pulp according to Candida!

That could mean so many things...

Can't say I'm ever upset when brutalist buildings get knocked down! They're a real blot on Newcastle.