liltman wrote:

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They've played in London more than anywhere since the reunion. It'd be nice for a band with strong ties to the North to play somewhere other than Leeds festival. And they ended their career last time in Rotherham, so why shouldn't they do something similar again?

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 Arguably, they are a London band...

(cue massive disagreement)

What I mean by that is Pulp 1989-present was formed by the experience of London.  Different Class is as valid a document of London as a Kinks, a Blur or even a Madness album. The Beatles are also more of a London band as well.  And Oasis 

All that said, a Pulp gig in the north is overdue.  We have been spoiled down here with Hyde Park, Brixton and now the Albert Hall.  My only fear is that the next Pulp gig in London will be the O2.

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Eamonn wrote:

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I think someone needs to take a trip to that pub in Leyland and ask the landlord for an update.

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Say what now?

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Remember that recent thread where a poster on here was drinking in a pub a few weeks back, got chatting to the owner who turned out to be from Sheffield and claimed that Pulp were recording new stuff. 

saw119 wrote:

That was my point exactly when I suggested that they didn't need some massive send off in Sheffield. It would be nice but why would they do it?

Down the years with a few exceptions (notably Glastonbury & Auto), the higher profile Pulp gigs have been in London, going right back to the Christmas shows at The Garage and Theatre Royal through to Finsbury Park and onto last year's dates at Brixton and Hyde Park. And now the Royal Albert Hall.

Unlike the Stone Roses who are indelibly linked with Manchester and for whom there was nowhere else they could have made their big comeback, Pulp are as much identified with London as Sheffield.

All that said, they should play a gig or two outside London.

Obviously there's a strong London connection but considering the band rehearsed last year in Sheffield, some of the band still live there and Jarvis spends a lot of time there, you can't say they're not bothered about the place!

liltman wrote:

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Obviously there's a strong London connection but considering the band rehearsed last year in Sheffield, some of the band still live there and Jarvis spends a lot of time there, you can't say they're not bothered about the place!

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 I think the whole rehearsing in Sheffield thing was due to Russell more than anything else. I don't think Jarvis spends that much time up here in Sheffield.

Is that the recent trixy/dixy thread (I get them mixed up), I remember seeing the deleted post and thinking I hadn't read it, but it does ring a bell now.

liltman wrote:

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... you can't say they're not bothered about the place!

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 Don't think anyone said that, it's just that Jarvis Cockney (sic) is more of a Londoner these days 

I know but at the Rough Trade event in Paris Jarvis intimated that they'd be playing shows in France this spring.

-- Edited by saw119 on Thursday 8th of March 2012 02:17:03 PM

I think they'll finish off this year of touring with a couple of big gigs, definitely including one in Yorkshire. This is what Jarvis said would happen in a Q&A last year- I think they've just taken the opportunity to play more festivals/tour America just because they could, cos they enjoyed last year so much. I don't think they're going to drag the reunion out past 2012.

We already know that Jarvis has been doing more recording by himself, due to that NME blog where the girl had played kazoo on a song. So I'm sure we'll get a third album at some point. There will never be another Pulp album.