I'd be happy to set up a Facebook page - as long as you don't mind it being fairly simple (I'm not an IT person)
Last year I set up a petition for Chris Kamara to commentate on the Royal Wedding - http://www.facebook.com/OfficialKamaraWeddingPetition - it got over 16,000 likes and was successful!
Just let me know what info you want added to it...
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If anyone thinks they can manage it, it would be nice to try and incorporate the overall aesthetic feel of WLL by using green and white, the green foliage etc. From a personnal point of view I think that the photo on the back of the booklet is a great one. Lets try and make it as professional as possible!
I think you'd need to get lots of people tweeting with say "#pulpwelovelifepetition" in order to start trending... You would need A LOT of tweets to be noticed though...
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Due to the character limit on twitter, its probably best to keep it at #welovelife
Also, with it being a bit ambiguous, some people would probably join in without realising what it even means, yunno? More people with the hashtag and the rest of the web would explain it. if it trends, people will wanna know what its about.
Oh, and as a third thought...aren't most people (certainly UK based) going to be very busy discussing things like Ken in, Boris out/Boris still in, Ken into wilderness / Lib Dem decimations etc. on the day? I think twitter might already be very busy. Not that I'm suggesting this project should compete with mainstream news (well, duh!) but I just thought that with stuff like twitter traffic on the increase, and possibly big, big changes in London (where media types all live) we could be ignored somewhat...
Boris and who?? It would take a LOT of tweets to get the hash tag trending. I think the tag should definitely be #welovelife. Do we need an actual account on Twitter? I'm happy to set it up, and I can post the login info so anyone on here can post. "WeLoveLife" is not available...any other suggestions for the username? "WeLoveLifeDeluxe"? "WLLDeluxe"?
If I may offer some feedback (I know it's early days so please don't take this as a dig) - where is the link to the petition? I can't see a single one on the FB page at the moment.
Hadn't seen yr reply when I wrote that Steven! And yes, a timer would be good. Am only on the mobile this wkend tho, but can't imagine it'd be too hard to google a free one!
Had another idea, could we have a mini-article about one of the unreleased songs each day?
This is a fantastic idea...what's the list of unreleased songs?
I've set up a Twitter profile, using the baritalia2007 email and pw (same login for the Twitter account). Feel free to change the name and anything else; everything has a character limit so I tried to keep it simple. Since most of you guys (and possibly most petition signers???) are in the UK, it might be more effective to post during peak UK hours. Please follow, post, RT, blablabla
Oh, and if appropriate we can link the Twitter account to the Facebook page, I think...
Very good indeed. The tone of the text is spot-on and is timed to the music fairly well.
I wonder at the end, instead of the last slide staying-up for a full minute (I know you want to have the pulpwiki.net address up as long as possible) it might also look nice with a pic of the group. It would be a good contrast to the colour-background up to then.
That shot of them in the camper van taken from the album sleeve notes which is on the petition facebook page is great. I also like this one below, taken from an NME interview prior to Leeds/Reading 2000:
Being super-critical, My Mistake belongs in the ''heard by only the most ardent fans'' category, though that's more of an anorak note. And in one of the opening slides there is a capital ''C'' for the word ''contained'' when there shouldn't be but again that's nit-picking. I'm just thinking from a making it look as professional, but lovingly fan-made, as possible, perspective.
Ooh, indeed it is. Or should be. Lovely, slight, little two minute thing. It was the first of the two songs that the infamous Trixy posted (After You being the other one).
I think weej or Mike would be the best people to do the mini-article thing on the songs as their Pulp song-blogs are excellent.
The same, I think. Also, I thought it might have been good for people to know which song is which. 'cos I've deliberately not listened to what's been made available over the years (bar Cuckoo) and so had no idea where the other two snippets originated from!
Oh yes, and make sure the name of the video is more attractive! "Pulp - We Love Life Petition" should do the trick.
I've got the three songs listed in order in the description underneath... I'm still working version three of the video, making bigger changes and fine tuning now I've got more time before the deadline.
Has anyone else done anything interesting?
Seems no one wants to do the mini write ups on each song... If Weej or Mike wanted to put links to their own web page under each article as a sweetener for them putting in the work I'm cool with that.
and i know you are still working on it, but i would like to put in my agreement with eamonn about a picture of our beloved band being a good idea at the end. :)
I'm actually considering a multitude of photos... can anyone point me in the direction of some decent WLL era ones? One's of individual band members as well would be cracking.
Stephen, how's progress with that email? Need any second opinions?
Email was going to be a distillation of the various bits that have been discussed thus far. Am being hammered at work today though, so might be tomorrow before I get to pull it together.
Just been looking at the Facebook, all starting to look rather cool, it's already having an effect: we're up to 304 votes now.
And there's a timer! Woo! Only problem is... people won't know what WLL DX Day is, if we can get the Facebook followers all promoting the cause on Friday as well that would be epic.
Also the Twitter pages looks AMAZING but only has 3 followers, can we promote twitter on Facebook? or is that just silly? Can we follow all the people claiming to be Jarvis Cocker?
Fred, we can follow all the people claiming to be JC, aye.
Twiggy posted the login details for Twitter above: baritalia2007 email and pw (same login for the Twitter account) which I'll try and use later to get more people involved.
I just got a bit of a shock when I looked at twitter, I thought we had 99 followers! But we're actually following that many people - someone's been very busy, Number of followers has gone up as well so it's had an effect. Then I went on Facebook and felt like a minor celebrity when I saw my name up in lights next to the video.
I've been busy inviting 90% of my Facebook chums to 'like' the Facebook page. If everyone on here did that, you'd all have lost five minutes of your life, but if even 50% of your Pulp fan friends (is it just me who has about 50% of friends that like Pulp?) turn up and click the buttons, it'll be a Good Thing!
Oh, I didn't realize we were supposed to wait until Friday. I thought the deadline was for Twitter.
I was busy yesterday following fans of Pulp on Twitter, most of them seemed to speak Spanish, wish I could understand them! Also: a few mentions of Jarvis on the tube, kind of surprised he would ride the subway. Anyway, @ mentions of people you follow do NOT appear in your timeline, you have to actually click on that user's name to see all of the posts they've been mentioned in. Unless you follow both users, then of course the tweet will appear in your timeline. The hope is that the user that you tag might see it, though, and RT (retweet) to all of their followers. Hashtags are only useful because they become automatic search tags, and they get saved in a list of hashtags that are easily accessible later. It's easier to get a topic trending if you use a hashtag. So we should all decide on a specific time on Friday to tweet using a specific hashtag, and maybe we can get the topic trending in each country for a minute or two?? Honestly, I'm not sure we have enough momentum yet. I don't think we've even convinced Eamonn to like our FB page.
Actually, on the official Pulp Facespace page (they're nearly up to 50,000 *likes* themselves) someone has posted a photo of a tattoo of their arm and it's the flower from the sleeve of We Love Life. I wonder could they be convinced to have "Petition@pulpwiki" stamped on their forehead...
Twiggy, my original idea was for everyone to do stuff on a certain day, because I thought people might not get round to doing stuff if it was just a general thing to do whenever, I didn't sign the petition for the first week just cause I didn't get round to it.
It doesn't have to wait till friday if you don't think that's the best way forward (I'm speaking office speak now...)
Have just realised a friend of mine works at Universal!! I have pointed him in the direction of the petition. He is only a small cog in the machine but it's worth a shot.
64 LIKES and counting.......
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Oops, sorry Fred! I jumped the gun. Oddly, I'm finding it difficult to get my friends to like the FB page, but most of them have signed the petition.
Is this the complete list of unreleased demos (that we know of)? Cuckoo Song The Quiet Revolution Grandfather's Nursery Roald Dahl After You Got to Have Love The Performance of a Lifetime Darren M'Lady St. Just Love You Baby Six String My Mistake Last Song in the World Medieval Owl Dream Galaxy
Just one thing, the message contains a link to the We Love Life album page, when I think you meant to take people to the petition page itself. I've just added a prominent link on the album page, so people should find the right place in any case.
-- Edited by Will on Thursday 3rd of May 2012 12:43:30 PM
I've got the email written - just waiting for a link to a passable youtube video...and then maybe some suggestions from YOU LOT about where to send these things. I have a few in mind, but other webzine suggestions wouldn't go amiss!
Pulp fans around the world are staging a 'day of action' tomorrow (3rd May) in order to drum up interest in a reissued, 'deluxe' version of Pulp's final album, 'We Love Life'.
The songs which originally appeared on the critically acclaimed album only tell half the story of the busy songwriting and recording period which the group engaged in between 1999 and 2001 under various producers, including Walker Brothers legend Scott and long time Pulp/Pink Floyd/Beatles producer Chris Thomas
Universal Music Group, in close collaboration with the group, issued two disc deluxe versions of Pulp's earlier albums His 'n' Hers, Different Class and This is Hardcore, offering up to the world the delights of songs such as Can I Have My Balls Back Please, Modern Marriage, The Boss...and Nick Cave fronting the band on a 'pub rock' version of Disco 2000.
Songs from the We Love Life sessions such as Cuckoo Song, the Quiet Revolution and Grandfather's Nursery have been leaked over the years to much acclaim from fans, but oddities such as The Performance of a Lifetime, M'Lady, St. Just and Medieval Owl have defiantly remained in the vaults.
A Youtube video continues the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=npHRo87Mpxw
Jarvis himself, not given to hyperbole has commented that "We could do quite a good one (reissue) of We Love Life".
So, if you like what you hear, sign the petition at http://www.pulpwiki.net/Pulp/WeLoveLife and 'like' the Facebook group at www.facebook.com/welovelifepetition
There's even a twitter account too: https://twitter.com/#%21/WeLoveLifePULP
Although Pulp continue to be a going concern headlining festivals and venues such as the Royal Albert Hall last month, there is as yet no indication of new material. And with an album's worth of music in the vaults, this could be the closest the world gets to 'new' Pulp.
Fantastic work by the pair of you. Love the video alterations, Fred.
I emailed a couple of DJ's on Irish alternative radio shows (but both on two of the biggest stations) about it. They've both played stuff like Sunrise and Bad Cover Version on their shows before so hopefully they mention it.
Someone on 6Music would surely mention it. Lamacq and Shaun thingy possibly.
-- Edited by Eamonn on Thursday 3rd of May 2012 06:49:13 PM
OK, I've sent this to a few ziney types. Drowned in Sound, PItchfork, God is in the TV being the main three. But if anyone can think of anymore, then please do something about it and email them :)
Hello!
I was hoping that you might find a place in your zine to run a summary of the below...
Pulp fans around the world are staging a 'day of action' tomorrow (4th May) in order to drum up interest in a reissued, 'deluxe' version of Pulp's final album, 'We Love Life'.
The songs which originally appeared on the critically acclaimed album only tell half the story of the busy songwriting and recording period which the group engaged in between 1999 and 2001 under various producers, including Walker Brothers legend Scott and long time Pulp/Pink Floyd/Beatles producer Chris Thomas
Universal Music Group, in close collaboration with the group, issued two disc deluxe versions of Pulp's earlier albums His 'n' Hers, Different Class and This is Hardcore, offering up to the world the delights of songs such as Can I Have My Balls Back Please, Modern Marriage, The Boss...and Nick Cave fronting the band on a 'pub rock' version of Disco 2000.
Songs from the We Love Life sessions such as Cuckoo Song, the Quiet Revolution and Grandfather's Nursery have been leaked over the years to much acclaim from fans, but oddities such as The Performance of a Lifetime, M'Lady, St. Just and Medieval
Owl have defiantly remained in the vaults.
A Youtube video continues the story: http://youtu.be/wOTQ9Zk8t-c
Jarvis himself, not given to hyperbole has commented that "We could do quite a good one (reissue) of We Love Life".
So, if you like what you hear, sign the petition at http://www.pulpwiki.net/Pulp/WeLoveLife and 'like' the Facebook group at www.facebook.com/welovelifepetition
There's even a twitter account too: https://twitter.com/#%21/WeLoveLifePULP
Although Pulp continue to be a going concern headlining festivals and venues such as the Royal Albert Hall last month, there is as yet no indication of new material. And with an album's worth of music in the vaults, this could be the closest the world gets to 'new' Pulp.
And in my experience, the NME are practically uncontactable! Feel free to give it a go someone, though...
Hello!
I was hoping that you might find a place in your zine to run a summary of the below...
Pulp fans around the world are staging a 'day of action' tomorrow (4th May) in order to drum up interest in a reissued, 'deluxe' version of Pulp's final album, 'We Love Life'.
The songs which originally appeared on the critically acclaimed album only tell half the story of the busy songwriting and recording period which the group engaged in between 1999 and 2001 under various producers, including Walker Brothers legend Scott and long time Pulp/Pink Floyd/Beatles producer Chris Thomas
Universal Music Group, in close collaboration with the group, issued two disc deluxe versions of Pulp's earlier albums His 'n' Hers, Different Class and This is Hardcore, offering up to the world the delights of songs such as Can I Have My Balls Back Please, Modern Marriage, The Boss...and Nick Cave fronting the band on a 'pub rock' version of Disco 2000.
Songs from the We Love Life sessions such as Cuckoo Song, the Quiet Revolution and Grandfather's Nursery have been leaked over the years to much acclaim from fans, but oddities such as The Performance of a Lifetime, M'Lady, St. Just and Medieval Owl have defiantly remained in the vaults.
A Youtube video continues the story: http://youtu.be/wOTQ9Zk8t-c
Jarvis himself, not given to hyperbole has commented that "We could do quite a good one (reissue) of We Love Life".
So, if you like what you hear, sign the petition at http://www.pulpwiki.net/Site/Petition and 'like' the Facebook group at www.facebook.com/welovelifepetition
There's even a twitter account too: https://twitter.com/#%21/WeLoveLifePULP
Although Pulp continue to be a going concern headlining festivals and venues such as the Royal Albert Hall last month, there is as yet no indication of new material. And with an album's worth of music in the vaults, this could be the closest the world gets to 'new' Pulp.
Hey,mate ran this can do a follow up tomorrow http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2012/05/02/petition-started-to-get-a-deluxe-reissue-of-the-last-pulp-album-we-love-life/
Got there via a google search. Good write up, seemed to have added some of his own knowledge I think? And Jazza's mock up gets a starring role! Like the term Day Of Action Stephen.
338 signees. That's 19% up from 285 twelve days ago. Not bad going...but we need more. A 1,000 figure would look pretty good I think. Certainly 500 should be the minimum target...
Can someone put this on facebook please? It's for the good of everyone that I don't do it cause I'd probably fuck it up, there's just something about me and facebook.
You can get details of email addys for all BBC 6 Music etc. presenters on the bbc website. Can someone please do this with the above email? I'm packing today and in meetings tomorrow...
Fred, NME does that with videos...I think it's some sort of video trawler? Certainly all the ones I made for my band ended up on NME without said magazine showing us much interest!
Are the twitterers tweeting away today? I don't really know how to help in that area...