This is quite interesting. According to the website Pulp are only playing one show each cruise and both shows are last thing on the first day. Maybe they're only staying for that first day then nipping off for a holiday? Anyway, with no competition from another act whoever is hoping to see them better get there really early. Oh, and both sets are listed as being one and a half hours long. Expect lots of DC songs I suspect.
Pretty damn disappointing since it was announced they would be doing FOUR shows on the high seas back in July and now it's just one each cruise. And the promoter told the New York Times that sets would be longer than normal since there are no curfews, but 90 minutes is the absolute norm for a headlining set. I guess since sales flopped, it was decided to cut losses and only pay the big acts to all play one set each cruise unopposed? And only one band is playing the theater on the third night of the Jamaica cruise; what a waste. A bit anticlimactic to have the biggest act play the first night, too. Peaking extra early, yes?
There's nobody playing after them in the theater so surely they can play for longer. The last ever Pulp show should have some rarities! Surely Jarvis and Steve will do a dj set on the lawn or night club, at least? It was stated on facebook that djs not on the lineup would be playing those locations.
-- Edited by Bort on Saturday 15th of December 2012 02:40:49 AM
The LA Weekly said sales were sluggish and all sales were closed a few days ago because the passenger manifest has to be sorted by some specific point for cruises, apparently.
After reading all the 'whoa bro' type posts on the facebook page this seems like nothing more than 'hell on the high seas'. If anyone gets any sleep on this crusie I will be amazed. Good luck Bort!
-- Edited by saw119 on Saturday 15th of December 2012 02:36:52 PM
This cruise was always destined for the rocky shores of Fail. I feel bad for Pulp fans who opted for the cruise instead of just grabbing a flight to England for the Sheffield show.
I don't really see them playing a long set. The set already ends well past their bedtimes and they are likely to be jet lagged. But who knows, maybe they'll surprise. At least you can hope for a few nautical themed rarities mixed into the set. "My Lighthouse" is almost certainly going to get played. Maybe you'll get to hear "Boats and Trains", or "Whiskey in a Jar", or ska-tone "Paula".
On the bright side, you'll get to see Pulp's most intimate show since the early 90s. There will be what... 900 people? That's kinda cool.
What I don't understand about the set times is why all the shows take place in the middle of the night. Do people really like to watch live music at 2 in the morning? I guess I'm just old.
That's an amazing picture of Candida! Two paragraphs on the concert in this blog, mainly about what Jarvis said and the atmosphere: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2012/12/ss_coachella_cruise_concert_review_day_one.php?page=2
"Even though some of the crowd started to clear out, by the end, people were jumping onstage to dance with the singer."
-- Edited by Violin Thing on Tuesday 18th of December 2012 02:35:05 PM
I'd forgotten about "His 'n' Hers" being played. I'd clearly wiped it from my memory as it's the thing they played on tour that I didn't get to hear that I wanted to the most*
*Please extract decent grammar from this sentence.
"This was the group's first time on a cruise, joking, "We're all in the same boat together," calling it "a voyage of discovery." "
- Jarvis sounded pretty bemused on Sunday about the whole idea of going on a cruise, saying he'd not been on one before, no idea what to expect, hoping to survive. For the clutching at straws brigade, he also said this was Pulp's last shows of the year. Let's hope they enjoy it like they seem to have enjoyed the rest of the reunion shows - Candida is certainly entering into the spirit.
I was quite amused by this observation in the previous article - is this what cruise holidays are all about? Just like following the hordes to Greece, from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads * ...
* insert own favourite references here.
"When Cocker sang the hook of "Common People," with its bleak invitation to dance, drink and have sex "because there's nothing else to do," here it felt more like a rallying cry than a line of desperation. "
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"This was the group's first time on a cruise, joking, "We're all in the same boat together," calling it "a voyage of discovery." "
- Jarvis sounded pretty bemused on Sunday about the whole idea of going on a cruise, saying he'd not been on one before, no idea what to expect, hoping to survive. For the clutching at straws brigade, he also said this was Pulp's last shows of the year. Let's hope they enjoy it like they seem to have enjoyed the rest of the reunion shows - Candida is certainly entering into the spirit.
I was quite amused by this observation in the previous article - is this what cruise holidays are all about? Just like following the hordes to Greece, from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads * ...
* insert own favourite references here.
"When Cocker sang the hook of "Common People," with its bleak invitation to dance, drink and have sex "because there's nothing else to do," here it felt more like a rallying cry than a line of desperation. "
Yay!
I'm a fully signed up member of the clutching at straws brigade
If you think about it, they never said bye or owt at Sheffield unlike at Magna when it was all, "we're going away for a while"
On another note, http://www.spin.com/articles/ss-coachella-cruise-pulp-throws-grapes-black-lips-champion-shrimp?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter
They definitely played 'Underwear', TIH and Common People...but they're all A-Team anyway, funny to think of you getting out of a life to find Pulp amassed waiting to go on though.
-- Edited by Violin Thing on Wednesday 19th of December 2012 12:43:04 AM
I agree with you completely Eamonn, just clutching at straws really. How they choose their setlist is a mystery to me and it make me pull my hair out just thinking about it to be honest. Just had a quick look and we had 10 songs from DC, 4 from TIH and only 1 genuine HnH song in the setlist and according to the current Pulpwiki poll HnH is the most popular album amongst voters.
-- Edited by saw119 on Wednesday 19th of December 2012 03:47:12 PM
Dyrtft
Pink glove
Joyriders
Underwear
Something changed
Sorted
Feeling
his n hers
Babies
Like a friend
Party hard
This is hardcore
sunrise
Bar italia
Common people
If they do release the Sheffield show on DVD I suppose it has to appeal to a general market as well who might only own DC. Think to yourself, which songs could they have dropped from Sheffield to include HnH, Pink Glove and Joyriders (though I dislike that so I'm glad they didn't play it). You soon realise it becomes hard to imagine what they could have dropped in favour the HnH material.
Agreed on the argument for the large presence of Different Class. But I imagine any HnH song would have been recognised more than the time-machine trio, Born To Cry, and most likely S:SC and Like A Friend (although I'm glad they played all those). And Lipgloss and to a lesser extent Joyriders/Acrylic/Pink Glove (due to them not being singles) would have been received as well if not better than Party Hard and A Little Soul, I reckon. They did a commendable job in varying the set but I definitely would have had Lipgloss and Bad Cover Version for one less DC and TIH song.
Yeah...it was a fantastic night and we certainly got our money's worth but were it not for the curfew they would have been happy - and physically able, judging by Jarvis at least still being full of beans at the end, to have continued for another half an hour or so. A little annoying especially when reading just now about The Prodigy playing Brixton last night with a 3am curfew.
I'm still a bit baffled by some of the choices for Sheffield as well, but feel bad for complaining! I really wanted more His N Hers and I'm gutted I still haven't heard OU live, though I suppose there was a fair bit of that album at Glasto.
I'm still a bit baffled by some of the choices for Sheffield as well, but feel bad for complaining! I really wanted more His N Hers and I'm gutted I still haven't heard OU live, though I suppose there was a fair bit of that album at Glasto.
Ha, ha, well put I know exactly what you mean. It does seem rather churlish to complain about a 24 song setlist but well, here we are!
I wondered if they delayed coming on as so many poeple were still flooding in at 8:15, presumably big queues outside?? The laser thingy seemed to go round again on a loop repeating itself by then. I was worried at 11 that some jobsworth might just turn the sound off like some of those Hyde Park things earlier in the year, luckily they weren't quite so petty.
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That's true, although Liam coming on to tell Jarvis of the pending curfew before ten to eleven was a sign that the end was nigh. They went 10 minutes over, just wondering if they had already broken the curfew is ten minutes the same as half an hour? I dunno.
I was so relieved when they carried on over the curfew. I was anxious for Something Changed as we had it at our wedding and the birth of my daughter, and we also love White Christmas, so we couldn't ask for a better ending!
If they did come on at 8.30 at Sheffield then that was bang on as I'm sure the final times given said the countdown to Pulp began at 8.15 with the band on 15 mins later. When we arrived at 7.30 there were no queues to get in at all from our entrance, and I couldn't believe how empty the arena seemed, was all the queuing at the other doors?
No you're eyes were not deceiving you. At one point I thought the arena was actually going to be two thirds empty. There was a block of seats bottom stage left that was almost entirely empty just a few minutes before showtime!
Setlist from Jamaica was mostly identical, except with pencil skirt, razzmatazz, mis-shapes and no pink glove, Monday morning. Will post full set list later. It was a wild one. Stage invading ensued during the encore (mis-shapes).
Jarvis also did one of his PowerPoint presentations and gave away unwanted outfits, like his suit from the jimmy fallon set.
Saw steve at the buffet at least five times, mark walking by the indoor pool, and met Jean in the buffet line.