They did play it for a John Peel live show at Birmingham Academy on Halloween night 2001 the week WLL came out but it was cut from the BBC broadcast. Pulpwiki says it's on a bootleg of the night albeit in poor webcast quality.
Like Bob Lind I don't think it was played all that often (although there is at least a decent quality recording of Bob Lind from Paris in Nov 2001).
It would be interesting for Weej's idea of compiling an alternate "live" version of HnH to be done across all the albums.
I still have the cassette I recorded from the broadcast that night & having not listened to it for many years always just assumed they had returned to the show later in the programme & that's where I'd heard Roadkill. I wonder if I had been in fact listening to the webcast if there was one after the radio cut away?
I think the idea has been muted before but would it be beyond the board to compile the definitive live versions of every pulp album? The best live versions of each track in turn.
I've just sent my copy to the Yahoo account. It comes from an R&A Music bootleg CD. According to the information on the back it comes from a webcast, which from the sound quality seems correct. As far as I know, Roadkill wasn't included in the FM broadcast, but I'd be happy to be proved wrong!
Jarvis: "Next time you see a squashed hedgehog think of this song."
Slightly undercooked performance. Understandable given it was its live debut (and perhaps only outing?).
I was listening to We Love Life in full for the first time in ages recently and forgot how good, and very sad Roadkill actually is. Made me feel a bit guilty for skipping it whenever it comes on a random playlist - it's obviously very downbeat so it needs to catch you in a certain mood to appreciate it and that three-note guitar bit that goes through the whole song gives it a bit of an amateur-ish air (Jarvis was obviously keen on that part, recycling it as a piano phrase for the Loss Adjuster excerpts on his first solo album) but I think the song works well in the context of the album as the penultimate track leading nicely into Sunrise.