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Eamonn


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How would the fanclub still exist? It's been a decade, Alex has moved on, half the members have had kids and split-up etc.
At best it would be priority to mailing-list subscribers.



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Just considering the possibility for the above. And then I thought...would they be fan club only? But then I further thought...do Pulp even have a working fanclub anymore...?



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It's more likely to be people on the mailing list isn't it? Don't think the fan clip exists but I might be wrong. I'm surprised they didn't use the mailing list last week really.

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Maybe they'll ask us? ;)

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I just wasn't sure. Just wanted to check, but in case...!

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I don't really trust that mailing list. I never get emails from it, does anyone else?

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I imagine if there are any warm up gigs for Sheffield, they'll be in places they haven't visited in the UK on this tour (not including those you can travel to festivals and London from) so presumably Cardiff and Birmingham would be on there as warm up gigs

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saw119 wrote:

I don't really trust that mailing list. I never get emails from it, does anyone else?

I don't think I've had any emails from it since the Happy New Year one. I expect some hip media type who is in charge of PR type things probably assumes email is hopelessly archaic by now and only uses Twitter or Facebook or something I've never even heard of. I heard a news item recently about tickets only being available through those square bar code things smart phones use, on the grounds that absolutely everyone has one now! Well I don't for a start, but then I'm not between 18 and 30, so I probably don't count as a person. We'll be expecting personal letters in the post next!



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Last time I got anything from the mailing list was about the Brixton gigs

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Or it'll be like the Stone Roses one, announcing it hours before the actual gig and first come = first serve. (they even had to bring a CD / LP / Tshirt or something to show they were actual fans, otherwise they couldn't get a ticket). Which is an easy way to do it, but it sucks for people coming from far.

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I certainly don't live at the same address as I did when a member of PulpPeople. I found out about the Sheffield gig from an alert friend who happened to be on facebook that morning. It's frustrating that they didn't email us first. They should use Bar Italia to announce a fans show! I wonder if Jarvis ever peruses the forum...

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There was an interview, before the first recent shows, when he was asked about whether he was going to keep the beard and he said he wasn't sure, there had been forum discussions ...

It isn't obvious what the best thing is for them to do, those who did pick up last week's message were glad of avoiding the scrum that happens when everyone has been given plenty of notice, as did happen on Friday. But obviously for those who weren't able to pick up the tip-ofdf straight away, it's not a good thing at all. Even with that relatively low key announcement, it was on Radio Sheffield in about a day and I heard that interview with Nick replayed twice on 6Music news over the following day, not really feasible to keep things quiet these days. So the only other way is to have some sort of proof of fandom, like when football fans have to produce x number of match ticket stubs to get Cup Final tickets or some such thing. But that's not much help if you have to physically take that somewhere as someone has already mentioned, as with the Stone Roses techinique, or if you're simply not old enough to have acquired the requisite items back in the day.



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It's so hard to strike a balance between getting the fans yet not letting word get out to everyone. I like the ticket stub idea though! Some bands do ballots or twitter competitions but even those methods won't guarantee the hardcore fans. I guess Bar Italia is the best option, at least for a heads up!



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If the band were to take up your kind offer of announcing stuff here can you imagine the volume of traffic on the forum? That with all the trappings of the modern general public bringing with them their stupid points of view & a tidal wave of spam.

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So... prior to BLUR's big semi-final olympic Hyde Park gig they are playing no less than FOUR small venue warm up gigs as well as a BBC secret show and just announced today a 100 club warm up gig.

http://www.gigwise.com/news/74724/blur-announce-tiny-100-club-gig-in-london

It would be nice if Pulp could do something similar prior to Sheffield - as in a few announced, possible to get tickets for warm up gigs. Not sure how I feel about the 100 club/BBC style competition/ballot shows though.

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Perhaps they could do akin to what Foo Fighters were doing when promoting their last album, announcing last minute gigs at tiny venues via facebook and twitter.

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Didn't Foo Fighters also do a gig on the back of a lorry outside a venue they were playing? That would be good!

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They did, but it was to counter protest the Westboro Baptist Church's own protest at their show

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Please don't mention them!

I abhor violence but in their case I'd make an exception - horrible people, the world would be a better place without them.

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I fucking hate Foo Fighters.

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What have the Foo Fighters got to do with 'God hating fags' in particular? Kurt Cobain wore a dress? Or is just that 'all rock 'n' roll is homosexual'?

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Echoing the concerns about the mailing list, every time I've tried to sign up I get sent to a page that doesn't exist. I've always just assumed it didn't work for everyone but now people are mentioning a new years email I'm concerned!

The idea of needing a ticket stub or something is cool but I reckon a large amount of Pulps audience now are 25 and under and wouldn't really have had a chance to collect anything like that.

Regarding the Foo Fighters thing I think they wrote some sort of parody the "church" took exception too. I remember something about the lyrics heavily concerning "man muffins"...

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Think how many people have tickets from last years shows, surely you couldn't discount them for not being 'real' fans? As for me, I'm not really sure where my Pulp tickets are but I do know that there wasn't one for my first show and at least one other disintegrated due an excessivley sweaty concert of bopping. The only ticket I could lay my hands on is an aftershow party ticket. Maybe I could get away with a badge as I was never really a t shirt buyer and it definitely wouldn't fit me now if I had bought one 'back in the day'.

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I don't think I have any tangible memorabilia except for my RAH ticket, the Wireless ticket was a scraggy sheet of A4 paper I printed out at home, all the albums I have are on iTunes with the exception of a CD of Different Class that lives in the car and I don't know where the box is. I don't go for t-shirts and other such merch either. Why should those with lesser resources who can't afford to fork out for multiple concerts be excluded? I wasn't really promoting that as an idea, more thinking aloud about what possibilities there are for getting tickets to genuine fans.

On the ticket reselling question, I am clearly very ignorant here, not having been a gig-goer until the lure of Pulp overcame my fundamental anxiety about it all. I always thought ticket touting was illegal and those blokes outside football grounds have to go and hide round the corner when the coppers come along. Large companies reselling tickets on their website are obviously not being in any way furtive about their actions, so how is that possible?



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