My Lighthouse - I bidded on two at the same time assuming I would lose one but in the end I won both. Everybody's Problem - I got the second dirt cheap.

Yes, I did. The things one will do in times of poverty :(. I've since re-bought it though, just without the signatures.

My one item would probably a photo I have with me and Russell that I sadly can't find at the moment (packed away in a frame somewhere).  Or the postcard from Jarvis in which he writes:  "...I have the utmost respect for you & that isn't a thing I say lightly I tell you."  Still makes me feel a little wobbly when I look at it, to be honest...

Or signed D.C. vinyl...

Yes I want to know about the postcard as well. And what's the piece of paper with stuff on about Abba and moustaches and dedicating Big Julie?

Got the vinyl signed in San Francisco back in 1996 (posted this pic from the record store signing a while back).


I was never really sure what the story was behind the postcard.  It just showed up one day in my mailbox.  Remember these were the days of aptly-termed snail mail.  It was either a response to our fanzine (I think the timing made that unlikely) or I might have written some weepy fanmail or something. 

Can i just mention that those 'Maureen/Simultaneous' lyric sheets i aquired around '92/'93. Sorry if i mislead you into thinking they we're from a much earlier time.

I was going to keep a haribo I caught when Jarvis threw them into the crowd once, but got tempted and ending up eating it a few minutes later. So it would have to be my copy of the His 'N' Hers promo book, signed by all the band, that I won in a Pulp People competition. The question I answered correctly was something to do with Bond theme tunes.

 

Well it's not actually mine...it's my brother's...but it would be his cassette copy of Different Class bought October 1995. The first Pulp product brought into the house. Not just my most treasured Pulp item but my most treasured music item. I had shoved in a video cassette into the VCR a few weeks previously and caught their performance of Mis-Shapes on TOTP which inspired my bruv to buy DC. I think they were on before an exclusive of Mariah Carey performing 'Fantasy' via satellite. I remember a blond haired male presenter saying something like: 'I wandered lonely as a cloud/I saw a woman all beautiful and hairy/I said I know you, you're that Mariah Carey!' I expect it's on YouTube now. I remember it well. A couple of Milka bars from the pound shop that day too. It's almost a year ago now since that glorious resurrection of the past but with a new twist ('new age fun with a vintage feel'...anyone?) at EP festival September 2011. And what... 16 years since I saw them back in 1996. Time goes by so fast. Sometimes the 1990s seems like a completely different world never mind a different class. I wonder was I ever really there or am I ever really here! My heart is back there for sure. Britpop feels like a different world or dimension. If I could time travel I'd be right back there but a bit older - as I was still single digits when I first got into Pulp I never got to experience the debauchery to its full extent.

It was a portal to a different world that album. Which is strange cos part of Pulp's power was reflecting what you were already experiencing. I guess they amplified it all. 

Do you mean the CD or LP?

You'd need to buy two if you wanted all twelve.

I found the images online and assigned each image to a different track of the album on iTunes. Some images it was obvious which picture went with which song, others weren't so obvious.

I was in Bar Italia again on Saturday. They really do a most excellent cup of tea.

I'm not sure the pictures do have much inline with the songs, do they? I Spy and Underwear obviously, but the others are tenuous if they do have connections at all...

Some do. Bar Italia, Disco 2000 (couple of school kids), I think Misshapes suits the coach scene well with the bratty kids pulling faces at him. It's just occurred to me: isn't there one of mark in a supearket carpark? That could be Common People.