Arno wrote:

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I'm fine with it. First of all, I checked the prices and the cheapest rooms are genuinely cheap, even with booking costs. Considering it's a cruise, most cruises are more expensive. So the "uncommon" issue is a bit overrated. I think it's a pretty neat idea, having a festival on a boat. I'd want to go, sitting in the sun all day and then some cool artists in the evening. 

I don't get all the commotion.

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Are you kidding? I checked the prices too. The cheapest room you can get is if you share with 3 other people, and each person has to pay $700 ($500 + $200 booking fee).  Good luck finding 3 mates with $700 burning a hole in their pockets.  Between the 4 of you, that's just $2800.

Want a room to yourself? You'll have to buy two tickets at $750 each, but at least you only have to pay 1 booking fee, so that's a discount at just $1700. (mind you: thats for the worst room on the ship)

Then there's travel expenses to Florida. 

These prices would be acceptable for a week long cruise, but this is only 3 nights.

One of the big questions is: will the bands mingle with the guests? If so, that might be cool. But my guess is the bands will have their own exclusive area of the ship if they even stay on board. Surely Coachella would promote the chance to mingle with the bands if that were the case, which leads me to beleive that you can't. 

To me, this cruise is a terrible idea because it's so obviously going to fail and when it does it is going to be an embarrassment for Pulp. The bands on offer don't really have enough in common to get to anybody excited enough to shell out $1000+. Who would go on this? Like, if it were "The Britpop Cruise", and had Pulp, Suede, Spearmint, and Sleeper or something like that, I could see this being successful and cool.

But this is just weird and clearly not thought out well. Even the dates are strange: a few days before Christmas. Who is free?

I just gave you a previously unheard 1980s Pulp interview. I'm allowed to do a poll if I fucking well like, YEAH?

polls are great!

I'm not familiar with the regular cruise market, but aren't (NH) winter cruises big business, get away from the freezing misery home, not to mention the insanity of the run up to Christmas, just run away to the sun?? I think Jarvis has made a bit of winter sun a regular thing over the last few years since he's had whatever respiratory problems he has (smoking related by the sound of it), just this time someone's paying him to go, result.

Even in the scenario that it doesn't sell and ends up being cancelled or scaled down, is that not what business people do all the time, test markets, some things take off, some don't, all in a days work? I don't know anything much about business either.

I was going to agree with Arno that I don't get the commotion, but actually, it is entirely to be expected.

Bort wrote:

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"24 karat...facials."

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hm...cruise ship singers/pulp... pulp/cruise ship singers...