Stephen wrote:

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Btw, have just got 'round to adding the earliest known of performance of My Lighthouse following the recent airings - Crucible Theatre, Sheffield '83!

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I'm sure Wayne Furniss once mentioned it was played at the Crucible in Oct '82, and I'd guess it would have been a regular part of the set at the concerts thereafter, no?

Mark,

I hadn't seen a reference from Wayne saying that, unless there's one in your book that's not been picked up on yet? It was just a message I had from Paul Mills who, having enjoyed the clip of My Lighthouse at Brixton, stated that he'd seen it at the Crucible on that date.

Here's a WARFIELD FACT for you people who were lucky enough to go. I looked at the setlist and thought "My word! That seems a lot different to the one they did the other night" so I wrote and ran a little code through the spreadsheet where I've been noting down the setlists Pulp have been playing since their revival.

The % figure at the end is the % of songs played at that show that were played at the previous show. So something like Glastonbury is very low due to the fact that Isle of Wight was a Big! Hits! Festival, whereas Glastonbury had a lot of rarely played tunes. Likewise the Brixton gigs are low...but this Warfield gig is the lowest of them all. So yeah, count yourselves lucky.

And now I'll go back to my GEEK SHELL.

Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona 93%
Isle of Wight Festival 100%
Glastonbury Festival 57%
Open'er Festival, Poland 60%
Wireless, London 100%
Exit, Serbia 100%
Bazant Pohoda, Slovakia 91%
T in the Park 92%
Festival des Vieilles Charrues, Carhaix, Brittany, France 100%
Dour Festival, Dour, Belgium 71%
Melt! Festival, Ferropolis, Gräfenhainichen, Germany 93%
Bright Side 2011, Perth, Australia 92%
Hordern Pavillion, Sydney, Australia 63%
Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia 89%
Splendour in the Grass, Woodford, Queensland, Australia 100%
Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary 67%
Øya Festival, Middelalderparken, Oslo, Norway 67%
Way Out West, Slottsskogen park, Gothenburg, Sweden 85%
Festival Paredes De Coura, Praia do Tabuão, Paredes de Coura, Portugal 77%
Terra Vibe Park, Malakasa, Athens, Greece 56%
Reading Festival 93%
Leeds Festival 87%
Brixton Academy 61%
Brixton Academy 70%
Electric Picnic 86%
Royal Albert Hall 75%
Radio City Music Hall, New York, USA 72%
Radio City Music Hall, New York, USA 89%
Coachella, Indio, California, USA 90%
Warfield, San Francisco, USA 42%

Not really. It does involve doing this sort of stuff actually, but it is for a living. And is less based around Britpop bands.

I'm currently geeking away at 7,550 Greater Manchester Probation records for 2012. That's what I'm doing right now.

Is San Francisco generally judged to be a 'cooler and more Pulp-aware' place than New York then? I'm not being facetious or anything, I genuinely don't have a clue.

I think San Francisco is West Coast, but I'm not even sure about that for starters...!

Wow...what a set-list. Acrylic, OU, Glory Days and My Lighthouse! Delighted for you Twiggy, your dedication to attending all these shows, particularly now without Russell, deserved something like this as I know you were eager for more HnH stuff.

thats a great setlist. Of the 4 shows I saw last year I realllllly realllly wanted to heard Acrylic Afternoons...but didnt. BUT not too worry. and OU, f**k me.

yes its a little give and take....I got to see Pencil Skirt.... why dont they just play My Legendary Girlfriend and get it over and done with! wishful thinking...they did soundcheck it in 2002 didnt they so its not like its been completely banished....

Hi all,

 

What a great show last night. I almost didn't apply for a photopass because I wondered how it could possibly live up to their last SF show at Bimbos in 96. So glad I decided to go and cover it.

Review will be up at http://www.thecolorawesome.com  and http://icecreamman.com soon. In the meantime, here's a link to the pix that will apear in the reviews:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paigekparsons/7089982651/in/set-72157629480246648/

 

This was my favorite shot.

Pulp at The Warfield in San Francisco by gussifer | thecolorawesome.com, on Flickr

- Paige

Eamonn,

Glory Days apparently played 'solo'...erm...never! It was first played on 9th June '98 in Boston and last played 5/12/98 in Bournemouth. It was played a recorded 31 times during those 48 gigs (some gigs are lacking setlists, so don't take a percentage off that! Certainly every time Common People was played, Glory Days was before it though, which makes it likely it made an appearance at every one of those gigs).

i'm looking forward to pomona even more now :)

Seriously DYWMA, or are they playing Steven's version over the speakers...?