definitely will sell out quick...Bay Area people are good at selling out "reunions". I remember the first time Bauhaus reunited and played The Warfield, the show sold out quick...and Bjork in 1998 back when people are still lining up early to their tickets.com outlets...that one sold out in seconds....not to mention the well informed scalpers that will most likely get tickets.....

when does this stupid waiting room open up?

edit: I think it opened up as I was typing that...this system makes me more nervous than the frantic TM system...

-- Edited by twiggy on Friday 27th of January 2012 05:51:53 PM

I am not surprised if these shows sold out in minutes, or even seconds.

Pulp have an under-served fanbase in America and I think most American fans discovered the band via mp3/ file sharing, a half decade after Pulp's last American show.

-- Edited by Fuss Free on Friday 27th of January 2012 07:10:20 PM

Fucking bullshit waiting room. Finally got through only to be told not a single ticket on any level.

both my S.O. and i looked for tickets and he got 2 GA to come up but didn't buy them, and i looked for 1 GA. i bought the 1 GA in the event i decide to travel. (i live in NYC)

the virtual room was opened 30 minutes prior around 930.....wow

the best i could get was balcony.

beetlebum7 wrote:

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Bort i'm sorry you didn't get one... Stubhub obviously will have a ton.  All 3 of my laptop got offers and the best w/ lower balcony sec. 5 row J... the other two got sec. 7 and upper balcony somewhere.  I may break down and buy a floor ticket from stub hub next week.  If I do I'll sell you mine at cost if you're still looking.

-- Edited by beetlebum7 on Friday 27th of January 2012 06:20:43 PM

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I'm not saying that Pulp's American fanbase is necessarily young, just that most of them (young and old) discovered the band after mp3 made Pulp more accessible. 

There was no easy way to learn about Pulp in America before the internet. Pulp weren't played on the radio. American music magazines didn't write about them, and the average record store didn't stock their CDs. Even if a store did stock a copy of Different Class, they'd charge double the average CD price for it. There's a great chapter in Louis Weiner's book about how Sleeper had to whore themselves out to the American radio stations for airplay and the stations still didn't bother to play them. I'm sure Pulp probably went through the same thing.

A lot of artists think that file-sharing is theft, but it did introduce a lot of people to new music they never would have heard otherwise. The internet gave Pulp a lot more exposure, even if Pulp didn't profit directly from it.

The hipsters will always insist they were fans from the start, but most of them weren't.

-- Edited by Fuss Free on Saturday 28th of January 2012 08:32:29 AM

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I agree that file-sharing can be helpful for introducing new music to a lot more people these days (even if it is stealing), but I'm still not sure about "most" Americans discovering Pulp that way.  It was a small community back when Pulp toured the U.S. in the 90s, but it was a very dedicated fanbase--the type of fans who bought every single and album of their favorite bands, and would still pay to see those bands 16 years later (hopefully with more disposable income this time around).  And we did have the internet back then, I met a lot of other fans around the country that way.  Maybe it's an unfair comparison, since I grew up in L.A., but I heard a lot of new music on the radio (including Pulp singles before release, and Sleeper), watched the new videos on public access TV, and rarely had any trouble finding the magazines, CDs and records in stores (albeit at "import" prices).  It wasn't easy, and it was pretty expensive for a high school kid.  The point is, there were enough of us at the time that it was worth it for all of the British bands to tour the U.S., and for Pulp to come here twice. 

I think it might appear that the "newer" (such a long time to be considered new, I just mean relative to the "older") fans outnumber us, only because they are more vocal online.  ALL Pulp fans are great no matter when they discovered the band (except maybe that guy who broke Stephen's rib at Brixton), I'm just quibbling with your word choice to be difficult.

I lived in Okinawa, Japan ... during the britpop explosion... MTV Japan showed videos all day unlike the American one at the time. My brother got into blur and pulp this way, and then I discovered them through him. Had we lived in the states I doubt that I would have heard of them. The downside was I didn't live anywhere near where they toured in '96 or '98... but this makes up for it now.

Meetup in the year 2012, anyone?

I can't even believe how good this show was...

Setlist:
Do You Remember the First Time?
O.U.
Razzmatazz
Something Changed
Disco 2000
Sorted
Acrylic Afternoons
Pencil Skirt
Like a Friend
Babies
Underwear
This is Hardcore
Sunrise
Bar Italia
Common People
ENCORE 1:
Glory Days (!)
Party Hard (much better this time than in NY)
Mis-Shapes
ENCORE 2:
MY LIGHTHOUSE

It was incredible, I feel like I'm vibrating right now...

Wow! What a setlist! Even I'm impressed a Brixton veteran!