Here's some pictures:

http://nme.assets.ipccdn.co.uk/images/2015NMEAWARDS_DB_2718022015.jpg

The NME managed to get exclusive access backstage at the NME awards!

http://nme.assets.ipccdn.co.uk/images/10PulpNMEAwards2015DEANCHALKLEY.jpg

Not sure what they've done with Steve, but he tweeted about it, so he must be somewhere else presumably.

-- Edited by Fran on Thursday 19th of February 2015 05:14:48 PM

Oh wow, I didn't realise that the band were all there (Smackey perhaps not). But that is a lovely photo of the four of them. Well, Blur's reunion in 09 got Jarvis thinking of Pulp doing similar, maybe they can follow suit after today's news of a new Blur album ;)

[ acceptance speech, nicely done indeed: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-A7LWvpY-_E

Still got something relevant and eloquent to say amidst the meatheads of Kasabian, Foo Fighters et al.

He's definitely ageing best from the neck up.

Pulp in perfunctory non-committal interview: (Interesting to hear them talk about Suede too)

Judging from that acceptance speech it seems Jarvis is hell-bent on repudiating his role as class warrior. And so, another idea I'd always held about him gets shattered. Can't wait for next year's ceremony where he presents the Lifetime Achievement award to Phil Collins. In principle, I do agree with what he says, that great music is great music, no matter what the background of the people behind it. But Noel had a point, the proliferation of conveyor belt X-Factor style pop and stage school starlets and the lack of a working class voice in contemporary mainstream music is worrying. I reckon they should bring back the polytechnics and art schools. Not that that's ever likely to happen under a Conservative government. But does this mean we'll never hear Pulp play the likes of I Spy, Seconds or the Weeds saga ever again? Not to mention Common People? And just what is this 'something different' that we're supposed to move on to? The fact is, what with the growing divide between super-rich 1% and the rest of us and the deliberate demonisation of the working class as chavs and benefit scroungers, the class issue is as important today as it has ever been.

Still, the fact that they're still making public appearances as a group has got to be a good sign and there was a definite twinkle in Jarvis's eye during that interview. Something's afoot, I tell you... And am I mistaken, but was Jarvis even wearing a new tie for the occasion?