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.

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.

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.

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.