what about the pulp wiki? cant we make a section for the archive? or would it not be enough room for the 50+ gb

What formats are your files in?  FLAC? WAV? Or MP3s?

Been meaning to post this, I put together a quick prototype website over the weekend. Something like this could serve as a central index so if, as you correctly say above, accounts are blocked due to excessive traffic, it's just a case of changing some of the links on the site. We could also minimise this risk by uploading to a few different locations and providing alt links. 

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I'd hope that Stephen would be able to share his archive in a lossless format. That really would be doing a great service to the community.

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 I can see your point but two things to consider. That increases the amount of storage space required by roughly three times and increases the time it takes to upload. Also (and I've been on the receiving end of this) if you're hoping the uploads are going to basically be something for the fans on here then lossless has a habit of ending up on dimeadozen or traders den etc torrent sites where it gets downloaded by anyone and everyone, reupped to the likes of guitars101 and blogs where people use file hosts which generate cashback for them so the hard work of one individual intended for fans could end up lining the pockets of someone who wouldn't know pulp if they knocked on the dooor with a big sign saying "we are pulp". All things to consider.

https://feelingcalledlive.co.uk/  it's really good this. I've been using mega or dropbox to have a wee listen in the car.

I'm not sure to be honest. It's only a website that contains details of live shows and rarities...

That website is absolutely stunning. I've messaged you, chap. I'm definitely up for getting my various tapes out into the world through it.

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Eamonn wrote:

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It's back (in full effect)!

Will we need to go DarkWeb on this at some stage to keep the powers that be at bay?

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Have the band collectively or individually expressed any opinions on bootlegs? The best thing to do to keep the site safe is to make sure there are no copies of official releases on there. That more or less means the record company are out of the equation. Ian feel free to pm me if you want a chat I've been doing stuff like this a very long time. 

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I don't think they ever have. There are a couple of songs on there that were officially released (such as "Everybody's Problem" and "Silence") but have never been reissued in any quantity so I still class them as rare. There are also some songs on there that were only released on compilations and some of Jarvis' collaborations were released. I'd say these make up less than 1% of the content. 

The site is only advertised as a source of information on live shows, not a collection of downloads and that's how it appears in searches so hopefully that will keep any objectors at bay. 

Finally, if anyone is interested, Pulp's 1987 appearance at the Barracuda club is the most popular page on there followed by the Razzmatazz Barcelona in 2002. There have been 6,433 visitors since the site launched (though I'm guessing the majority of these are bots).

Just thinking that there may be some Pulp live recordings on YouTube not covered by the archive. One that I know of is the 1993 Phoenix Festival, notable as it features Lipgloss and Have You Seen Her Lately which were both recorded in the studio that month.

[video=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5eeEaDK1sgU]

Also, the Jarvis and Hawley collaboration Happy New Year from the pre-WLL era is on the BBC Sounds website having been played by Jarvis on one of his later radio shows (the only instance of the ever-modest Mr Cocker playing one of his own songs on the airwaves?); might be good to preserve that in case it disaapears:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p04m3pqg

So instead I'll say thank you very much to Stephen for even sharing this with everybody, it's very generous.

From what I've seen of various communities in the past when it comes to a collection like this, it's usually a closed shop of a select few sitting on rare material and refusing to share it despite happily bragging about it. I'll concede some collectors have paid good money for it but the ones who come across it free and close the doors behind them are the ones I've come across sadly. 

The kudos of being the one with that rare item can outweigh whether or not the fan base as a whole will enjoy it so it's really great that you've decided to just get this out there! Thanks to Ian too for what must be a pretty big task .