I only post on here, twitter and Facebook.

Shall we all mob twitter and see how many of us can get it retweeted? We can agree on a joint message beforehand...

I'm up for mobbing last.fm and twitter, but I'll be flying from Beijing to London with a toddler that day, so probably no-can-do, I'm afraid.

I would/can also do Last.FM. That seems to be my mode of transport these days..... what about emailing blogs like The Quietus, Drowned in Sound etc. Surely there has to be some interest in this due to the Scott Walker connection?

Jazza had the right idea printing out those flyers she made when Jarvis was reciting some lyrics from his book across the country before Christmas.
Probably something we should have organised for the RAH gig, or given the lighting technician a pint to project the flyer on-screen for 17 seconds.

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Have we decided what an impressive number would be?

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When we started I think 2,000 was mentioned, that seems overly optimistic now. Ideally, I think we should still be looking to go over 1,000.

the 27th is also my 22nd birthday happy birthday me!!!

i will see what i can do :)

I'm going to post on any sites I'm a member of in the hope that someone on there will be a fan, can't do any harm.

Are there any impressive youtube videos of any of the songs being performed live?

Fred,

I'm afraid there's only been three gigs were unreleased WLL material was aired.

10/6/99 at a private party in Venice saw Roald Dahl, Duck Diving, Quiet Revolution and Cuckoo. The band recorded this, but it's not in circulation.
31/8/99 at Flux, Edinburgh. Again, Roald Dahl, Duck Diving, Quiet Revolution and Cuckoo were played. There's an audio of this, but no video.
2/9/99 at Liss Ard Festival in Co. Cork. Again, Roald Dahl, Duck Diving, Quiet Revolution and Cuckoo were played to a few hundred people and some bad reviews. No audio even exists of this.

Duck Diving also exists as the 12/8/01 Peel Session too, of course.

There might only be 115 signatures on the petition without it.

How's about a pimped up version of what's on PulpWiki?

How's about this? I'll probably read it in the morning and shudder but I'll post it anyway. I'm off to bed:

In October 2001 Pulp released their seventh studio album We Love Life, it had been two years in the making and it would prove to be their last.

Making the album proved difficult, there were various stops and starts, there were four aborted recording sessions before the band entered the studio with Scott Walker as producer and the album finally started to take shape.

Unfortunately some of the bands finest songs fell by the wayside, some were played live a handful of times, some were leaked as demoes, only heard by the most ardent fans, a few others have never been heard at all.

In 2006 the band's other three albums with Island Records (His n Hers, Different Class and This Is Hardcore) were released as deluxe versions, each with a bonus disc of rare and unreleased tracks.

We Love Life Deluxe was never released and based on what has been heard, it would have been superb. 

These songs deserve to be heard.

Please sign our petition

Er, and what is wrong, or much different to the above for that matter, with what I put on the wiki?! *sniff*

Nah, Jazza has been the most creative with the flyer and video. Interesting, as when me and Will put the idea of a deluxe petition together one suggestion we had was putting a video on youtube with snippets of the demos and live stuff that is out there. Our concern was over the inclusion of demos in circulation, being as they shouldn't really be, and that Universal could well take a dim view of the whole thing if they knew about it.

I think Jazza's video is great, maybe if we could make one with bits of the live ''Flux'' versions of The Quiet Revolution and Cuckoo aswell as the Grandfather's Nursery demo (which was actually released, albeit in a curious way). And then put a bit of meat on the thing by adding in bits of My Body May Die and Born To Cry too and then have text similar to Jazza's on-screen. Stuff like the bit about Quiet Revolution from Jarvis' book.

one thing that might help is a proper stand alone link for the petition, rather than a page on the wiki site. I personally feel that having the link on the wiki feels like its just a bunch of fans trying to get songs released , whereas a new link would feel more professional. The new link could always lead people back to the wiki to 'learn more about PULP'.

Facebook page, and twitter would work too.

 

 

 

I could do the video...but I've not got anything like the time required between now and the 27th to be able to pull it off, sadly.

The blurb could contain links to stuff like Jazza's video?

Even then I'd struggle with a video. I have a big extra-curricular project about to arrive on my doorstep this very evening, I think...

I think we should go with the text with a link to any relevant youtubes, such as Jazza's.

Best of luck with the exams. Is it A Levels?

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I think we should go with the text with a link to any relevant youtubes, such as Jazza's.

Best of luck with the exams. Is it A Levels?

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Thanks yeah it is - well IB which is an equivalent

Maybe the petition page should have links to 20 second snippets of the choruses from the available songs...?

Ha, no - I don't know! I'm at work and don't get to download stuff here.

Or else they'll put me in a suitcase. In a bath.

After seeing what is in the massive blur box set coming out. I wonder if Pulp's record co. would consider doing something like this? We would surely get all the We Love Life stuff if they were to do a box set that in depth into the back catalog.

It's odd though, isn't it. Pulp seem to be more universally 'loved' than Blur...but they never really had the record says or commercial longevity. I mean, look at the various similarly placed bands of that era's best ofs. Blur's 2000 Best Of got to No. 3 (with 43 weeks on chart), Suede's 'Singles' comp got to No. 31, and even Dodgy's 1998 best of got to No. 55. Yet Pulp only managed No. 71 with 'Hits'. I don't think Island would have the confidence that a box set would sell very well at all...

Yeah,
Those are both good points.

I think that blur boxset looks brilliant and I would buy without a second thought if I could afford it. Modern Life is one of my favourite albums.

Without wanting to sound like a complete dick (unavoidable) can someone give me some feedback on my audio sample?

I'll make the video if someone can point my in the direction of some instruction in how, unless you need some sort of special equipment that is.

Try using Windows Live Movie Maker Dominic. I've always found it very easy to use, you just need a series of photos on a slideshow with the music added on top and it's very easy to do.

Eek, don't ask me then sorry.

Yes I think so, just never used it. I'll investigate.

I have a youtube account, will it be easy to upload?

Job's a good'un. Surprised you didn't throw in a bit of the old Fredthe3rd humour though!

Slide show humour is a tricky path to navigate. Unless you're Dave Gorman.

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one thing that might help is a proper stand alone link for the petition, rather than a page on the wiki site. I personally feel that having the link on the wiki feels like its just a bunch of fans trying to get songs released , whereas a new link would feel more professional. The new link could always lead people back to the wiki to 'learn more about PULP'.

Facebook page, and twitter would work too.

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 Just throwing in my 2 cents that I like the idea of a Facebook page as well.  People who are too lazy to click the link to the petition might be willing to at least like a page on Facebook (or click "like" because their friend did).  Also, not sure how it is in the UK but US companies looooove looking at Facebook stats.

I posted the video last night and it said it would take a few minutes to several hours before it appeared on the site. I thought it would have appeared by now! I was thinking of tweaking the video but that's not an option if it takes so long to upload.

Fred, with the video containing copyrighted material there's a chance it mightn't appear at all I'm afraid. Hope that's not the case, though!

I've created Facebook events, but never a group before, so can't really help there I'm afraid.

ONE DAY TO GO THOUGH!!!!

I was going to email God is in the TV Zine. I have a contact there. Dunno about Drowned in Sound. I worry that one day before the event is getting too close to get these things 'published'. Maybe put it back by a week?

Well, if you want to make webzine editors aware of it and give them time to find somewhere to publish it, I think we'd need more than 24 hours between now and 'the day'!

Well, I think a webzine such as God is in the TV Zine (where the editor is a big Pulp fan) would run the story as a story - i.e. would happily link to the petition, but I don't really know the make up of any other webzines.

I went to a party many years ago which the editor attended. I have compromising photos. Thus I tend to get to plug things I want to :)

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Well, I think a webzine such as God is in the TV Zine (where the editor is a big Pulp fan) would run the story as a story - i.e. would happily link to the petition, but I don't really know the make up of any other webzines.

I went to a party many years ago which the editor attended. I have compromising photos. Thus I tend to get to plug things I want to :)

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 Could just go straight to the top, the NME are always very Pulp-friendly, e.g. one of their "interesting" lists recently:

http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=61&title=the_most_memorable_non_hologram_moments__2012&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Why do I need to remove it? Was it released?

D'oh!

Oh, so you did! How'd I miss that? I don't know how to embed links but I'll find out how. And wondering if I should have pictures of the albums rather than their names?

So happy this is happening. I'm going to spread some word myself. I tried to start #welovelife on twitter earlier but to no avail naturally haha. I do think such a topic would trend though, despite if people thought it meant something else.

Going to spread the promotional video over a few forums now. Perhaps the stone roses/blur and any other bands that were around at the same time as pulp forums would be good calls too, I know a few have pulp threads.

Targets: Youtube comments, link the WLL Petition video to other videos as a related video or a response video, Radio Text-ins, Related band forums, Facebook, Myspace, flyers, contact with ANYTHING related to all Pulp members.

I may be going over the top here, but screw it, I've been thinking about this all day at work!

That's brilliant Lego! How about #PulpLoveLife? And we put some sort of pass it on message in the forum posts? Then we might end up on hundreds of forums potentially. Does anyone dare post on a Smiths forum?