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Spin CDs lists the following release, due out on 12 November 2012, priced £7.99: Party Clowns (CD) by Pulp Recorded in 1991 at the tipping point of their fame throughout the 1990s, Pulp perform a glorious set at Londons Town &Country Club in Kentish Town. As one of their first ever live performances on UK television, the band performed on a billtitled Class of 91. Along with other emerging talent, in association with the NME, Central Television took the brave decision to record theband at the very point at which they were about to explode onto the mainstream music scene.The NME wrote Pulp are the party clowns and wisely flaunt the metaphysical red noses with deadpannedglee. Singer Jarvis is to all intents and purposes Frank Spencer auditioning for Saturday Night Fever, andtherein lies the essence of Pulp - sartorial catastrophes dressed in funk-splattered overcoats. When they'renot getting groovy, the fivesome are manufacturing an absurd brand of pop which is more sly than a foxwith a crossbow. Furniture meets Chic and decides hey, maybe we can live together after all.This amazing gig is an insight to the eclectic roots of the bands musical style. The beginning of this recording even has aflavour of the eccentricity of lead singer Jarvis Cocker, arriving as he did just five minutes before going on stage, havingbeen stuck on a train returning from a stage night in Liverpool. His Rolf Harris-style Stylophone solo needs to be heard to be believed. 1. Space 2. The Bed is Full 3. Live On 4. Love is Blind 5. Separations 6. Babies 7. Legendary Girlfriend 8. Countdown ... NB the above press release was clearly cobbled together from the PulpWiki page for 20 July 1991, and presumably The Bed is Full ought to read Death II.

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Quite unbelievable that this would make an appearance but it's also advertised on HMV and Rough Trade websites. In fact, RT even have a cover for it!

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=355995

 

The record label that is releasing it is Floating World but no details on their website that I can see.



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I'm new to this, and must apologise about the appalling spacing on my first post above. It didn't look like that when I pressed Post Reply! I have updated PulpWiki's News page about the release, and on there I know how to post images - can't you do that here?

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What an odd thing to appear all of a sudden.
Did the band / Island / Fire need to give their permission to get it released?

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Let's not ask too many questions too loud, in case it gets pulled!

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The first thing I thought of when I read this thread was that planned ITV/ElmStreet Media/Weinerworld DVD release of the Stage One gig. It was mooted 18 months ago (see here: http://baritalia.activeboard.com/t41829918/separations-era-pulp-to-be-released-on-dvd/) but naff all seems to have happened since unfortunately.



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weej wrote:

What an odd thing to appear all of a sudden.
Did the band / Island / Fire need to give their permission to get it released?

 Some of these TV/Radio broadcasts exist in a strange netherworld of legality. Witness, for example, the recent glut of early Bob Dylan performances from radio/bedrooms/hotels/someones garden shed that have been released. The same record company have recently released a Happy Mondays gig on CD as well. The CD is alright and all but wouldn't a DVD of the FILMED performance be much better?



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Yeah, why release the CD when the film is bloody great?

Were the band maybe not under contract to Fire at this time, making this release feasible? Or did they sign a contract with the TV company to allow their music to be exploited blah blah...?

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this is really exciting!!

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This is absolutely brilliant!  Just when I thought there were no more surprises possible from Pulp another comes out of the hat.



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This is presumably from Elm Street Media (http://elmstreetmedia.com/itvconcerts.html) who surfaced a couple of years ago, informing us all that they'd bought the ITV concert archive, including the Class of '91/Stage One programme. I had a chat with one of the people behind the company at the time, and it transpired that he had also been the producer of the original show. The plan at the time was that they were going to release a CD+DVD set, with the full concert in audio, and the 22 minutes of video that were broadcast (they had a DAT of the whole thing, but the video master didn't have the three songs that weren't shown on TV).

I asked him about the New Sessions programme and he hadn't heard of it, and was going to look into whether they had access to that with a view to possibly including it as part of the release. There was also some vague possibility that a TV company in Japan that they sold the programme to might have video of the complete Class of '91 concert. Don't know what came of any of that though.



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Just tried emailing my contact at Elm Street but it seems the address I had for him no longer works... hmm.

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Maybe Freddy Krueger is a Pulp fan, got tired of waiting for the release and, er, disposed of him.

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oh great there goes more of my paycheck to pulp...

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I received my copy of this today. A nice surprise, I thought the release date had been put back to December 3rd.

I'm pleased to report that the tracklisting correctly lists 'Death II' and not 'The Bed Is Full' like on the promotional information.

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How does it sound?

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Initial thoughts:

Basically, I think it sounds great. The sound quality is excellent, although maybe a bit too clean - very little crowd noise, echo, reverb etc.

Jarvis and the rest of the band sound on good form, despite Jarvis commenting he'd only arrived 20 minutes before, because he'd been to a stag party in Liverpool the previous night.

Space has an ab-libbed spoken word introduction from Jarvis, like most other recordings from that time. There's also a very early rendition of Babies: musically it doesn't sound much different, but the lyrics are unfinished. From an initial listen the lyric "I saw your cousin Dave" sticks in my head.

I initially thought the recording was largely unedited, but it occurs to me the comment made about the barrier in front of the stage is missing. On the TV recording it goes something like: "I'm a bit disappointed nobody's tried to storm this little barrier here... it's the first time we've had one of those... You could have a crèche down there... bring your kiddies along" etc. I'm not sure why they would have wanted to edit that bit out. Thankfully most of Jarvis' comments between songs haven't been removed.



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Much in the way of liner notes?

I still don't get why this has been released. It's been a long time since any unofficially sanctioned reissues of Pulp have come out and I think it's a first for a live album. Clearly some work has gone into it but hard not to think that with a bit more care and attention a really good document of Pulp's live prowess from different eras could be put together rather than this seemingly random edition.

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The label that's released the CD (Floating World Records) has carved itself a little niche releasing live shows like this. They recently released the Happy Mondays live CD 'Call The Cops' from a 1990 US show as well as quite a few other shows you probably wouldn't expect to be released!

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It comes in a card case. The liner notes are short and similar to the promotional information, quoting the NME review, so not really very interesting.

I ordered it direct from the Floating World website. Other sites I've checked still list a release date in December.

It does seem a bit random. I guess Elm Street Media decided against releasing the video and offered the audio for licensing and Floating World took the chance.



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...well, it's nice that this sort of material has re-entered circulation just before the big homecoming gig... Perhaps it makes a couple of rarities on the set-list that little more likely?

(*envy**envy*)

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So, all in all would you say it's worth getting or not? I'm tempted.

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I'll probably end up buying it when I have some money. Does anyone know whether the band will make any money out of this release?

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They should certainly get MCPS / publishing money.

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May pop into Rough Trade tomorrow and make it an early Christmas present.

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So, all in all would you say it's worth getting or not? I'm tempted.

I've listened to it a few times now and I certainly like it a lot. Although I'm a bit biased because I do really like Separations and live recordings from that time, so it's just the sort of thing that ought to appeal to me.

You won't find a better live recording from '91, so I'd say it is worth getting, particularly if you like Separations a lot.

 

 



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It's on Spotify now if you want to try before you buy.

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Thanks for mentioning that it's on Spotify. Ordered it from Floating World about two weeks ago but it still hasn't arrived. Good to hear it and to have a nice, sharp quality live recording of a '91 show.

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well in biology it means the final form on a tree of evolutionary predecessors.

or, not "final" exactly but "current" anyway.



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I've listened on Spotify too and it sounds great. Really enjoyable gig, and a nice time capsule of a transitional time. The end of Death II seems also to be the only extant example anywhere of Candida messing up!

Saddoes may also wish to note that this show has the earliest extant versions of Space, Live On and Babies, and the second-earliest versions of Death II, My Legendary Girlfriend and Countdown (and the first without a heinously out-of-tune guitar).

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What does extant mean again?

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The cheapest I've found this is at Sainsburys for £6.99 with free delivery. That's half of what it is at HMV and the like - https://www.sainsburysentertainment.co.uk/en/Music/CD/Pulp/Party-Clowns/product.html?product=E11142214



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Is this available as an mp3 download? No spotify in China, and can't be bothered to go through the hassle of getting it shipped here.

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It's on itunes if that helps.

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This disc is magic! clean,crisp & punchy. I wish there we're more recordings from this era of this quality.



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I want to be able to afford this but my wallet says I can't. Damn you christmas.

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Yeah, went into HMMV on Oxford Street and the one in Piccadilly earlier to see if they had it but it was £13. Fook that. Was also looking for the deluxe edition of Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish but they only had the expensive 21 box. Fairly disappointing trip.

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Was going to pick it up in Rough Trade tomorrow, got some money to spare luckily.

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Some gentleman uploaded Death 2 from that show onto youtube for those un-Spotify-ed.

I think it sounds incredible.



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Eamonn wrote:

Was also looking for the deluxe edition of Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish but they only had the expensive 21 box. Fairly disappointing trip.

 Brilliant album that and only a tenner as well for the deluxe. I thought I wanted the 21 boxset until I bought that and I realised that it scratched my itch admirably.



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I used to live about 30 seconds walk from the Town & Country Club, I would have been 11 in 1991, funny to think of that going on up the road whilst I was completely oblivious. Was probably watching 'Neighbors' or something.



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Listening on Spotify now, it does sound fantastic!

Out of interest, is it cheaper in Rough Trade or HMV? I'm guessing the former...



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Think it was a tenner in Rough Trade East when I went in last week. Definitely cheaper than HMV though.

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Blur's 21 box is worth the money, just wait a few months and it'll be available for less.

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Party Clowns was released on vinyl a few weeks back. Encouraging perhaps, with regard to future live/legacy Pulp releases.



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I grabbed the vinyl the other week. $20 USD in New York. And I think it's one of my favourite live recordings of theirs. 



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I get a big kick out of the early version of Babies on this. judging by this thread, it would seem that the video footage of it doesn't (or never did) exist, but here's hoping it pops up one day....

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