i did think when I was posting that I'd seen something similar but it was sort of early and I'm a bit poorly so I just did it. 

"Trying to be creative" has been mentioned quite a bit but apart from his "new album" quip on the Service that's the first time I've seen/heard writing new music actually mentioned. So, exciting!

 

 

I find his line about finding out if he has "any creative energy left" really sad. God I hope he does.

 

i totally get the Pulp Person social angst :)

so do you see the crowd on the DVD then? I thought it would just be the film? That's exciting then. I'm right at the front next to Jarvis.

-- Edited by Jarvgirl on Tuesday 25th of March 2014 05:00:57 PM

"He said he was composing more music but ruled out a reunion of Pulp"

This is very bad news, not that excited about solo Jarvis.

I think it's EXCELLENT news! (Not the lack of Pulp but I'd love new solo Jarv!)

 

I mean, no more Pulp would be a tragedy, but just the fact that he's decided to do new anything is good.

-- Edited by Jarvgirl on Tuesday 25th of March 2014 08:05:27 PM

Anyway, he's going to say that there'll never be new Pulp when there's a film coming out saying that Sheff was their last ever uk concert.

Now you've given me hope...

We are dead quick off the mark, aren't we?!

Do you really have to ask that?

Do you think "he ruled out a reunion of Pulp ... We have done that, we wont do it again." ,more specifically applies to going round playing old songs, rather than any possibility of doing anything new. As much as anything though, I worry about Candida's arthritis,  this piece we've had posted before talks about there being a bit in the film about it. I remember it being clearest in a picture or video I saw of her signing some autographs in Chile recently, her wrist looked really awkward. 

http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/sxsw-film-review-pulp-1201127663/

Yeah, I guess it's the clearest indication yet that the film is the wrap on Pulp's swan-song. If they didn't carry on during 2013 and this year on the back of the reunion feel-good factor I really can't imagine them reconvening another few years down the line just to see if they can try and write and record new material which seems to be a tortuous prospect at the best of times for most of the members. Throw in Candida's hands being unable to take much strain and it's very much an unlikely prospect. Still gutting though, as I'm sure many of us were hopeful, optimistic even, that they might have been gradually beavering away at their own slow pace.

I know Jarvis probably gets sick of being asked about new material especially if it's Pulp as there's more expectation on that than anything else he happens to be working on, (and aside from Spring '95 when a bottle of brandy helped him finish Different Class, expectation seems to be something he likes to shy away from) but it's hard not to get exasperated at his hand-wringing and self-deprecation about potential new albums from him or Pulp.

After You aside, (and that was an old song spruced-up), I think I'm right in saying he hasn't released any new music of his own/Pulp's since Girls Like It Too on the Further Complications single, which is four and a half years ago. I would venture that this is his longest spell of inactivity since he was 19 (if we're talking strictly albums it's five years from We Love Life to Jarvis but Miner's Strike and Cunts shorten that gap if it's songs only - I guess the Harry Potter stuff could be put in there too)....anyway, the point is, collabs, radio-shows, reunions, literary endeavours and other projects aside, plenty of time has passed for him to just get on with it and put-out a record of some description.

As Panther says, he's surrounded by creativity on a constant basis, besides having it in spades himself so the self-doubting thing is cute and stuff but c'mon...yeah?

I agree. Well said, Eamonn, you speak for a lot of us. (If I were ever on a jury with you, you'd have my vote for foreman).

Two questions: why are Pulp allowing Status Quo to keep the Longest-Surviving-Band-Ever crown, when Pulp could've nicked it if they'd carried on?!   And in the time Eamonn says that Jarv could've put together an album, what has he actually been doing? Swanning down the River Don on a raft? Practising pinball? Stocking up on Nova magazines?

Maybe he's just been living a normal life and having a nice time, which you can't blame him for, really.

 

 

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 And in the time Eamonn says that Jarv could've put together an album, what has he actually been doing? Swanning down the River Don on a raft? Practising pinball? Stocking up on Nova magazines? 

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...a world tour, a documentary, a weekly radio show, a song for Fantastic Mr Fox, the score for The Big Melt, new Relaxed Muscle music for a dance performance and the Barbican, a book, guest editor of The Observer, DJing, producing...

What have you done in the last 4 years?

Yes, joking!! Thought it was obvious but I suppose it's harder to convey in the written word.

Nowhere near as excited about solo stuff.

I definitely would love new Pulp but solo Jarvis would be ace news for me.

New Relaxed Muscle LP FTW!

After some of those slightly bizarre live choices during the re-union (Back in L.A/Don't you want me anymore? etc..) i was kind of hoping the guys would perhaps re-record some of the back catalogue that they wer'nt happy with first time around? I guess they must have attempted a few dodgy old numbers in rehersals? But that said, Some new stuff would be a bonus under whatever name it appears..Don't want much do i?

Even Silence? ;)

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 WOW. Wish I'd been a fly on the wall or there was a film of that.  Would give anything to see them do Death Comes to Town...

I would have loved to hear them play something dark like Master of The Universe, Aborigine or Being Followed Home. That's the biggest tragedy about this news, there is no chance now of hearing Pulp play some of their best songs live. Jarvis says they've "been there, done that", but there was a lot more Pulp could have done without repeating themselves and getting boring.

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I would have loved to hear them play something dark like Master of The Universe, Aborigine or Being Followed Home. That's the biggest tragedy about this news, there is no chance now of hearing Pulp play some of their best songs live. Jarvis says they've "been there, done that", but there was a lot more Pulp could have done without repeating themselves and getting boring.

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 Absolutely. There was so much more material that could have seen the light of day and it would have been amazing to see the old stuff that they used to be embarrassed about but which now, I hope, they realise was brilliant all along.

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Pulp didn't get boring! They came back when everyone was dying to see them again and went when everyone was dying to see them again. I don't see anything boring about that.

I'm grateful they came back at all.

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 I wasn't saying they got boring, but that would have been a fear they would have had if they carried on for too long with no new material.

I think at Sheffield they played a good mix, personally I'd have loved them to play My Legendary Girlfriend.

Yes, 'tis such a pity if it really is the end.

If only, as a finale, there had a been a Pulp weekend-long concert, where they played every song they've ever written in date order from Shakespeare Rock through to After You that would have been amazing.

Apparently the Sheffield film screening is going to have some sort of  special surprise. Secret gig?

Any news on when it is (and how to get tickets)?

Candida helping launch a Yorkshire Tour De France event: http://www.hebdenbridgetimes.co.uk/news/local/it-s-in-a-different-class-says-pulp-star-1-6528284

Ha...yeah, was thinking how pixellated poor Candida looks.

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 I know they were discussing when to have it a couple of weeks ago, they've always said June but no idea if they've decided when yet. I don't know whether you can buy tickets or what although if you're invited you might get two invites each. *cough*

-- Edited by Jarvgirl on Wednesday 2nd of April 2014 04:19:37 PM

I think the moment for new Pulp material has probably past. I really want some new songs from Jarvis- the frustrating thing is, he could be a really excellent solo artist, but it never really feels like he's tried. The first album had some great songs, but it was really uneven and too long, and the whole 'recorded in two weeks' thing made it feel a bit... unconfident. The second album had about four EXCELLENT songs with brilliant lyrics especially, but the rest was throwaway, and the blues rock thing he was trying to do was just crap.

Jarvis needs to get over the fact that he's not Nick Cave and never will be, and just draw on all his artistic endeavours to create a truly interesting album. Ever since We Love Life, he seems to be really obsessed with being visceral and sounding 'authentic' in a blues or country sense, but his most interesting music was the much more conceptual stuff that he did with mid-period Pulp. He seemed to really re-embrace the concepts and aesthetic surrounding Pulp when they reunited, so I'm hoping that his future music will be a turning point, with writing which is a bit more thought-through than his previous solo efforts.

Also, wasn't there an article a couple of years ago in which the writer said they'd played kazoo on one of Jarvis' new songs? What was that, does anyone know?

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Any news on when it is (and how to get tickets)?

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So what is this about? Seems extremely random.

 https://twitter.com/filmuforia/status/451702316463575041

Which means -I assume - that you'll be able to buy tickets...

so hopefully no broken heart and sweatpants for VT. 

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So what is this about? Seems extremely random.

 https://twitter.com/filmuforia/status/451702316463575041

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 I think Filmuforia is like a film review type site. 

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 Made it sound like they were showing it tonight.

"the music of Jarvis Cocker and Nick Banks" - that's a bit of a weird way of describing Pulp