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1) Primavera Sound
2) Primavera Sound.. Just because I'd been waiting since 1996 for that moment and it was amazing. I was up front (though at the side) and my partner, he was towards the back mainly watching from monitors. As he's from Sheffield (though opposite parts of Jarvis has lived and, supposedly, he used to babysit one of the neighbours kids) and said listening to a mainly Spanish/Catalonian crowd sing as loud as they possibly could in a Sheffield accent was the most surreal thing hed experienced. He loved it.
2A) Wireless - because I got to hear Mis-shapes.



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Best: Highbury Garage Fan Club gig. I loved the absolute intimacy of it. I was right down the front. It was mad. Still kicking myself that I forgot my camera. Did a lengthy and rather through right up for Pulp People.

 that's the gig i was on about (keep calm/garage london) there used to be a picture on the old pulp people website of jarvis cockers crotch that id taken with a throw away camera and Alex wrote "'rachel S.  had the best seat in the house" - i just tried to find it through google, i must have been near you at the front, it was such a small gig.!

 

edit - i always call it the 'keep calm' gig cos thats what you had to say when ordering tickets? pulp people only lol



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That's 2 seperate questions.

1) which/ when was your first Pulp gig?

2) Which is your favourite? (if you can pick one)

Since I am but a mere child, my first concert was the wireless last year and my favourite was probably 31st August - Brixton (Because of the songs they played, the atmosphere etc. I was in tears by the end). Mind you the wireless was special being my first pulp gig (and Jarvis shone a torch in my mouth biggrin)



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1. V96 (Warrington branch)
2. Glastonbury last year for the whole thrill of "OH MY GOD, THEY'RE BACK! AND RUSSELL'S HERE, TOOOOO!" but Brixton night #2 for the amazing setlist and performance.

Wireless was, to be honest, the least enjoyable of all my Pulp gig experiences I think. But I've never really enjoyed either of the two Wireless things I've been to. Horrible events.

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1. Reading last year
2. The Albert Hall back in March, because it felt so wonderfully intimate and a stark contrast to being in a field with 90,000 people!

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1. Wireless
2. Wireless again, it was just the sheer emotion of seeing them after waiting for so long, I was crying as the confetti came down at the end...manly.

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The first night in NY was the first time I saw them and I would say it was the better of the two nights there.

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Leeds 2000 (pathetic given that I'm from Sheffield).

Not sure about favourite.. it's a toss up between Magna or Brixton on the 31st last year (for the atmosphere and the setlists). I suspect the Arena in December might overtake them though!

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v96 (warrington same as steve!) was my first pulp gig.

my favourite gig? i dont know. ones that stand out are v96, royal court Liverpool 98, London keep calm gig 2000?, Sheffield octagon 01?.

Leeds 2000 is a good call i converted alot of friends during that gig.

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yeah id put glasto last year too except i was too far away than is normal for me, i didn't see Jarvis at all through the entire set. Im just too short. The surprise, and excitement = AMAZING. but not actually seeing the band at all, at any point makes for not a good gig. I had fun in the mud and the set list was truly beautiful. But it took youtube for me to find out if Jarvis was still wearing his beard.

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First: Wembley Arena 1st March, a few days after my 15th Birthday. A couple of weeks after THAT incident.

Best: Highbury Garage Fan Club gig. I loved the absolute intimacy of it. I was right down the front. It was mad. Still kicking myself that I forgot my camera. Did a lengthy and rather through right up for Pulp People.

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First: Heiniken festival in Leeds, 1995. First ever performance of 'Live Bed Show'. The bill also included Sleeper, Powder and Menswear, ultimate Britpop lineup, and on my birthday too!

Best: Not sure, but Reading in 2000 and Brixton Academy in 2001 are the ones that spring to mind. To be perfectly frank my memories of each are based around personal circumstances as much as the band's performance, so it's really hard to say.

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1. Newcastle Arena, 1996.
2. I was very excited at Wireless. I couldn't believe they were really back amongst us. But overall, the atmosphere wasn't as electric as the Blur gig there a year or two before. Not many people around me seemed to know the words to many songs at all. But great night regardless. For me, Magna maybe just edges this one. But I'm hard pressed to choose between it and the RAH & the first night at Brixton last year. It's all good.

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1. Sheffield Leadmill Nov. 93 (with Elastica and Echobelly supporting) It cost £5 to get in on the door (no advance tickets!). I decided to get right on the front in the middle and for some reason shook Jarvis's hand when he came onstage. The crowd was wild and I had bruises across my chest for the whole week afterwards. It was actually a genuinely lifechanging experience for me.
2. Sheffield Octagon April 94 Just simply the best I've ever seen them, pretty much perfect in every respect. The setlist was just brilliant, Jarvis was brilliant, heck the whole thing was brilliant.

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1. Brid Spa, Dec 1995. 2. Tough one! Out of the nine times I think the most notable are that first one (it was also my first ever gig), stood in the mud at Glasto 98, Magna and Glasto last year, though like Rach says it was a weird one as I could only see half the band and playing in daylight felt wrong. I reckon this Dec could eclipse some if not all of these though

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Liltman, I *loved* the fact Pulp were playing in daylight at Glastonbury last year! it made all the lovely details, especially Russell's lovely white suit, show up so well.

It wasn't too hard to get there early either, really. All you had to do was be prepared to stand throughout Graham Coxon, The Walkmen and some other band I can't even remember. Two of the acts put on really good shows and we'd have almost certainly seen them anyway, regardless of Pulp being on or not. Managed to get to the barrier during Graham Coxon if memory serves, and didn't have to budge 'til I unpeeled myself from it after Pulp.

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1. Leeds 2002
2. Brixton (2nd night) 2011

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We were too shattered for Coxon. Went and sat on the hill with our wellies off! Got down for Tame Impala, who I thought were dull, and the Walkmen, who were ace, but it got really cramped where we were stood so we moved back and I ended up having to give the evil eye to some fucker complaining about us daring to move out of his way!

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glastonbury 94, they were on in the afternoon but i couldn't stay to watch it all as bossy friend was making us pack up to leave for drive home to aberdeen at midnight!
probably toulouse last year. technically not brilliant, but oh my god one of the happiest nights of my life! and keep calm. and loads of others. leeds 2000 yes that was fantastic. paris when white stripes supported too, can't remember the year

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I also loved Hull Ice Arena in 96, Leeds 2000 and 02, Dalby forest and Wireless. In other words, every gig of theirs I've been to...

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1) Wireless 2011. I had always wanted to see Pulp live, but never thought I'd get the chance to.
2) RAH 2012. They played 'My Lighthouse'...What else is there to say?

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I'm so jealous of people who saw them in 94 and before, but then again I suppose there will be some newer fans jealous of us who saw them when they hit big

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first show.....The Beehive, Sheffield, July '84....A largely messy affair, the poster suggests a double set? I dont remember a particularly long show but maybe i left before the 2nd half? Favourite sshow....The Subterrania, London, Nov '91....From the opening 'Space' with Jarvis doing his Kraftwerk-Pocket calculator impression with the stylophone to the last song 'My legendary girlfriend' it was a magic show. probably the best live versions of 'Dont you want me anymore & Separations' that i know of. A charming version of 'she's a lady' complete with synchronisation issues, and the crowning glory, an in tune and prominent sounding Russell throughout..Happy days.

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I missed out in the 1990s because I was busy with small children and in the early 2000s I was living in Belfast. So my first gig was Wireless last year. Also went to the first night at Brixton, which I really enjoyed because it felt much more intimate and full of 'real' fans. And, as I've said before on this forum, really special for me personally as my own celebration of surviving breast cancer. I remember saying during chemo in 2008 that one of my regrets was never having seen Pulp live (I got back into them in the many months I had off sick from work) and that I didn't think I'd ever get the chance now, even if I survived... Seeing them live at last was totally life affirming. And as of this month I'm officially in remission so Sheffield will be another personal celebration for me.

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First - Heineken '95.

Best - also Heineken '95. Or maybe Birmingham '01. Or Wireless. Hmmm.

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My first was Brixton Academy in 2001. I think it was the 2nd of the three dates there. My favourites were both nights of the recent Brixton ones. I preferred the setlist on the first night, but I was sitting in the circle. Was downstairs for the second night. Swings and roundabouts!

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Can't remember the first, but I think Edinburgh in August 2000 was my favourite. Not only did I get to hear stuff like "Weeds" for the first time but the reworked versions of "Common People" and "FEELINGCALLEDLOVE" were a treat too.

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1. way out west 2011 easily the best concert I ever been to.

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PS. Wireless definitely my least favourite. No fault of the band though!!

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1. Cardiff International Arena 1998 TIH tour - I was 15 and my mother was making amends for dragging me away from Glastonbury before they came on (this was in the days when Glastonbury was free on a Sunday and we live nearby).

2. I've seen them 13 times now (6 pre and 7 post). The Brixton shows and Glastonbury return were immense but I think the best has to be Primavera for the sheer euphoria of having waited 10 years for that moment. I came close to a heart attack.

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I was actually in shock for the first couple of songs at Glasto last year. It just wouldn't sink in!

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Glasto 2011 was such an emotional concert. My 8th Glastonbury and favourite band. It felt like an unofficial homecoming. My sister (Deborah) cried during Disco 2000.

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Being the nerdy indie girl who only listened to strange music late at night on the radio in her bedroom, the whole idea of live music was something I never experienced or contemplated. I lived in the middle of nowhere and none of my friends shared my strange tastes. So live music was a habit I never developed, and even when I did contemplate it later on, the tales of tall people crushing you in mosh pits drowning you in liquids that may be beer if you are lucky only served to convince me this was something other people did.

So it took Pulp to overcome this at all with the admittedly rather sanitised Wireless experience last year, but for me, that was an accessible entry point, so I am very grateful for it and was quite overwhelmed to just see them even from so far away, but I was determined that I was going to be near enough to see them with my own eyes and not just via the big screens, which seems like an especially pointless thing to do.

My only other, and better, experience was at the Albert Hall, which was a) more civilised for my sensibilities and b) not so new and overwhelming, so I could really take it all in and enjoy it and c) I was by myself, not worrying about whether my husband was bothered about how carried away I was getting with the whole thing and d) I got to meet several people from here and actually feel a part of something which is not something that has happened to me very often.



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First - (and my first gig of any notable sort, fittingly enough) was their Dublin gig to promote We Love Life in December 2001. Went with my sister. She, despite being older, got IDed. Thankfully I didnt as I wouldnt have got in!). It was great, top venue (an old cinema which is currently housing the Human Bodies exhibition which I went to recently and was the first time Id been back since the Pulp gig). Apparently they cut their second 3-song encore on the night due to some pissed-up members of the crowd throwing Guinness on-stage but i wasnt aware of that until the report on the official site later.

Best - Either Primavera or Brixton#1. The former as it was fascinating to see Pulps official comeback - the quintessential English band in many ways, being lapped-up by thousands of foreigners. The latter as the set was so varied and full of anticipation and I got to meet some fine folk off here.


Im in Italy at the moment for the gig theyre playing tomorrow night actually so hopefully that will live up to the previous two. Apologies for the punctuation, I cant remember where the apostrophes are on Italian keyboards.

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This got me on PulpWiki to try and remember when I've seen them! I've been at:

RAH 2012
Wireless 2011
Auto 2002
Reading 2002
Birmingham 2001
Reading 2000
Birmingham 1998

Birmingham 2001 was brilliant - Jarvis was on form but from what I remember the set wasn't too long. I must admit I absolutely loved the RAH gig. Auto was ace too but I'd say RAH gig was the best....just.



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seductivebarry wrote:

This got me on PulpWiki to try and remember when I've seen them! I've been at:

RAH 2012
Wireless 2011
Auto 2002
Reading 2002
Birmingham 2001
Reading 2000
Birmingham 1998

 i think ive been to 11 gigs?

 

v96.

royal court 98

queens hall Edinburgh 99?

London garage 2000

Leeds 2000

Nottingham rock city 01

Sheffield octagon 01

Manchester apollo 01

Dalby forest 01?

Leeds 02

glasto 2011

*  not in the right order/or year possibly :s

 

Ive seen Jarvis twice at manchester (07?) and glasto (2010?)

 

 

 



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liltman wrote:

I also loved Hull Ice Arena in 96, Leeds 2000 and 02, Dalby forest and Wireless. In other words, every gig of theirs I've been to...

 i was at Dalby forest!! i had a spare ticket! my ex, sister, and best mate couldn't/wouldn't come to!! (literally world letting you down moment)

my dad came in the end cos he felt sorry for me ...lol

That gig is special to me cos i was right at the front with my dad. he'd dragged me to a few Joe strummer and the mescaleros gigs previously, so it felt good to show him my favourite band. (he absolutely LOVED the gig)

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My first gig was Edwards No. 8 in Birmingham in 1993. The gig that changed my life. The stage was so tiny with a really low roof and every time Jarvis did his red cordoroy kick jumps he half-brained himself.

I've seen them 30-plus times since then and loved every one of them for a different reason. In true Glastonbury style, the last gig I saw - Royal Albert - was the best ever. The way everyone in the seats leapt to their feet and bounced and sang non-stop for 2 hours. The twinkling This is Hardcore. The unbelievable luck of getting choir seats overlooking Candida, and Candida toasting us with her plastic champagne goblet. The sheer joy of being part of the best fandoms ever (everyone I've ever spoken to at a gig has been lovely), for the best live band that has ever existed.  I literally could not stop smiling for a week.



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I was on the front row at Dalby as well Rach! To the right of it. Great gig but Jarvis was a bit grumpy if I remember right. They played I Want You. Jarvis's solo Glasto gig was 09. Saw him at Plug in Sheffield too whenever that was, 06? 05?

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1. Newcastle Arena 26th February 1996
2. I think Leeds 2000 set a new bar for the band but I can't put my finger on why. I think I was just exactly the right age for it (18)

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Glasto 2011 should really be my favourite but I still can't believe it actually happend!

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First time V96 - Chelmsford.

Favourite, i just don't know! Certain gigs have been special to me for different reasons - the first time is always special of course; the last time before they 'split' (Auto) special for that reason (and the first time I was down the front); the first time I saw them after the wilderness years (Wireless) felt like a dream; and the Brixton gigs last year were special for hearing songs I never believed I'd ever hear live. But I really can't decide which type of special is the most special.

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