A few weeks ago, I commented that I would be interested in starting a blog to link to all the live/rare recordings. Well here it is, I have done all the 1980s and will link to everything else over the next few weeks.
If anyone wants to help, just PM me your email address and I will get you signed up.
Thanks, I am trying to post a year's worth of material each day. I will post on here when I have uploaded everything I have then if anyone can spot any gaps just let me know.
I did notice a distinct lack of Jarvis solo shows on my hard drive... if anyone wants to upload any then that would be greatly appreciated.
Crackin' list. As has been mentioned, I think a lot of us have most of these on old hard drives and computers not used anymore so this is a great resource. Do you need us to chip in with the storage space, Ian?
And was this something similar to what Stephen Bray wanted to house his Pulp collection?
Also, do you have the Hit The North Session and interview from '91? Always seems to be the hardest one to track down, I remember I had it on an mp3 player that I lost a few years ago.
-- Edited by Eamonn on Thursday 27th of June 2019 08:50:36 PM
The storage space isn't an issue, I have just set up a few Google/Dropbox/Mega accounts. My long term plan is to have at least 2 download links for each show to increase availability / decrease bandwidth.
I will speak to Stephen to see if he wants to send me anything he has with a view to getting it uploaded and indexed.
Hit the North...it's not on my current hard drive but I do have a couple of old laptops and hard drives in a cupboard as well as a load of old tapes. It's probably there somewhere, I will upload it if I find it.
Some new stuff uploaded (thanks to Stephen and Kev):
1983-06 Fish and Breadcake live at the Hallamshire Hotel, Sheffield 1985-09-01 Pulp live at Dolebusters Festival, Octagon Centre, Sheffield 1985-11-27 Pulp The Will to Power played on John Peel Show 1982-08-21 Heroes of the Beach on Radio Hallam 1982-09 Heroes of the Beach Rehearsal (without Jarvis or Peter) 1982-09 Heroes of the Beach on Radio Hallam (review) 1982-12-31 Heroes of the Beach live at the Leadmill, Sheffield 1982-02-28 Pulp live at the Hallamshire Hotel, Sheffield (partial - YouTube rip) 1986-07-02 Pulp live at the Library Theatre, Sheffield 1995-01-18 Pulp live at the Lighthouse 1995-11-26 Pulp Radio Le Top Live 1995-11-28 Pulp Live at Le Vapeur, Dijon, France (soundcheck) 1996-07-07 Pulp live at Lupos Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, USA 2002-04-18 Pulp live at 4Scott, The Scala, London 2011-06-11 Pulp live at the Isle of Wight Festival, Seaclose Park, Isle of Wight 2011-07-27 Pulp live at Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia 2012-04-19 Pulp live at Fox Theatre, Pomona, California, USA
I'm enjoying the Peel show, "The Will to Power" doesn't sound totally out of place
You're welcome! Did Ian upload the whole show then, or just the segment surrounding it? It does feel so bizarre hearing it in the context of the time. Interesting, too, that Peel did remain aware of Pulp for some years after their session for him.
I'm enjoying the Peel show, "The Will to Power" doesn't sound totally out of place
You're welcome! Did Ian upload the whole show then, or just the segment surrounding it? It does feel so bizarre hearing it in the context of the time. Interesting, too, that Peel did remain aware of Pulp for some years after their session for him.
I uploaded the full show but told viewers in the description where to skip to for "The Will to Power".
And you're right, he did remain aware of Pulp though I do remember hearing him say on the radio (possibly on the "This is Hardcore" documentary) that he forgot about them. Presumably he didn't play them for a few years then rediscovered them in the early 1990s.
Peel must have played hundreds of bands once or twice that he subsequently forgot about.
I think what might have piqued his interest ahead of their second session in 1993 was the comparison to Abba meets The Fall (his favourite band) or "The Fall in Las Vegas" in a live review of Pulp in one of the music papers (I think the writer was Graham Linehan of Father Ted fame).
Peel must have played hundreds of bands once or twice that he subsequently forgot about. I think what might have piqued his interest ahead of their second session in 1993 was the comparison to Abba meets The Fall (his favourite band) or "The Fall in Las Vegas" in a live review of Pulp in one of the music papers (I think the writer was Graham Linehan of Father Ted fame).
I thought his reintroduction to them came from seeing them support The Fall sometime in 1992.
Oh, was it? I thought that was when Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee saw Pulp and decided to take them on as their management (and Jeannette still manages Jarvis today, I believe).
Oh, was it? I thought that was when Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee saw Pulp and decided to take them on as their management (and Jeannette still manages Jarvis today, I believe).
30th March 1992 - according to Peel wiki - is when he saw them support The Fall. Not sure how this fits in with other stuff!
From the Peel Wiki - "JP gained a renewed interest in the band when he saw them supporting the Fall at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge. He was convinced as a result of this that the band had recorded a large number of sessions for his programme, but was shocked to find only one when he consulted Ken Garner's In Session Tonight"
From Pulpwiki - "Date: Monday, 30th March 1992 Venue: Corn Exchange, Cambridge Supporting: The Fall John Peel was present and later commented that this was the first time he'd been aware of Pulp since the '81 Peel Session. When talking to Jarvis and Nick at Peel Acres in September '95 he had this to say: "It was a really good gig and I came back thinking that's really good, and I thought we must have had loads of sessions from you over the years, so I went to look at Ken Garners book and at that stage there was just the one."
From the Fall gigography - "Monday, 30 March 1992 Corn Exchange, Cambridge Time Enough at Last / Idiot Joy Showland / Free Range / The Mixer / Blood Outta Stone / Mr. Pharmacist / Married, 2 Kids / Gentlemen's Agreement / Big New Prinz / Return / And Therein / Edinburgh Man / The Birmingham School of Business School / White Lightning / Deadbeat Descendant / High Tension Line"
I wonder what Mark E. Smith thought of Pulp. Suede also supported The Fall around that time. When Smith died, Suede's bassist Mat Osman shared this cracker of a story:
Back in the day Suede got asked to support The Fall on a couple of dates. To a man we were massive fans and VERY excited to be asked. Everyone told us he could be rough on support bands but he was great. Lots of time to soundcheck.
He was friendly, helpful, told us to come straight to him with any problem. The shows were great, his crowd were great, The Fall were great. On our way home in the van we were listening to Richard Skinner and he had an interview with Mark. We listened in intently.
Especially when Skinner asked, "Do you like any of the new bands who are calling you an influence?" Mark said "Like who?" Skinner asked "Well, like Suede."
Speaking of Suede, I was just bidding on a demo tape from 1990, was winning it for a couple of days at £10, it ended up finishing at £227!!!!! Crazy money!
Just to let you know that I have made Instagram and Twitter accounts for the site.
Instagram: feelingcalledlive
Twitter: feelingclldlive
Feel free to follow.
It has also been brought to my attention that some of the links to Mega appear to work but the folders are empty. This only seems to happen with some of the Mega links so I am in the process of updating them.
Phew, I thought you were updating to say it was all coming down! FCL goes global with social media...blimey, the kids will be doing TikToks to early live versions of Acrylic Afternoons any day now...
Don't worry, the site itself is absolutely fine. I have not had any emails from Mega to say that the content had been removed so can only assume that it is a glitch.
The Instagram account has been relatively successful so far - 74 followers in less than a week and some of them have sent messages saying that they weren't already aware of the site.
It SHOULD be working now. I'm looking to change provider in the next couple of weeks so it might be offline for a couple of days. I will post any updates here
Just a quick update, I will be changing provider as the old one wanted over £100 per year. I have found another one who charges less than £40 for 3 years and will be moving to them pretty soon. I'm not sure if I can just move the site straight across but the address will stay the same. It may, however, be offline for a few days.
I do have some unlabelled VHS tapes which I believe contain Pulp recordings but I don't have a VHS player. Also I severely doubt that they contain anything that isn't already available elsewhere
Does anyone have JMTV Rocks The Garden, the mad-cap Irish show that they appeared on to mime and pretend they were doing a fashion show in spring 1993? A clip of it is on the Hits DVD but the whole thing is wonderfully bizarre yet never seemed to surface on YouTube.
Alex Deck sent me a copy of it circa 2003 but it went missing in the post when I sent it to Will Wiki a couple of years later.
This, along with Pulp performing We Can Dance Again (recorded bit not aired) by the BBC at the Princes Trust Concert in December 1994 and Jarvis' performance of Cuckoo at Nick Cave's Meltdown in 1999 are all the Pulp TV holy grail recordings for me.
After a month of complaining to both web hosting companies, it looks like my site has finally been transferred. It should be offline for a few days then hopefully back by the end of the week. I have everything backed up just in case
I do have some unlabelled VHS tapes which I believe contain Pulp recordings but I don't have a VHS player. Also I severely doubt that they contain anything that isn't already available elsewhere
Speaking of which, talking to Moonkat/Nebula on the one of the Pulp FB fan pages about V96 (prompted by Nick's post on Twitter), I seem to remember, I sent someone on here some Pulp related VHS tapes which were going to resurface as "Fuss Free Productions", (the same people who did The Eden Project recordings and I think the concerts in Germany from 1996. I cant remember who I sent the tapes to, or even if I sent the tapes at all (in which case they perished in a house fire in 2015) but on one of the tapes was a fan shot recording of Pulp headlining the first V fest and the debut of "Help the Aged". A couple of songs, Underwear and the aforementioned, exist on Youtube, so someone's got a copy - not necessarily my copy-floating about somewhere.
EDIT- There must be a pro shot version of the entire concert because The Big Breakfast covered it for a news item, so unless it's been wiped, a hi-res video version of the entire V96 concert must exist in an archive somewhere.
-- Edited by SarahAWilson on Saturday 20th of August 2022 10:42:31 AM
I've got that audience shot VHS of V96 too. Man it's terrible!
Bit of news coverage doesn't necessarily mean the whole thing was professionally filmed. It was quite common for news crews to go to these things and just get a minute or two of footage for a bulletin. I've been trying for years to find the bit of local news footage from Heineken '95 that I remember seeing at the time - must've been either Look North or Calendar.
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Hey Ian, you might be on top of this already, but the links to icedrive.net seem to be broken. For example all the 'latest posts' on the welcome page, bar the first two which are hosted elsewhere.
I have been making some changes to the site to provide faster and more reliable links.
All Mega links will eventually have an alt link posted. I have found Mega very slow and they have an annoying habit of deleting things.
Terabox offers loads of storage and an app but requires users to sign up to download. All Terabox links have been replaced.
All Degoo links will be replaced. They seemed really good at first as they provided lots of storage and a nice Windows app. However, you now have to upgrade to premium to use the app or their website and users can only download one file at a time.
I have a Dropbox account which I deleted the email address for. Therefore, I cannot get past their two-factor authentication. These links still work but I will put alts up just in case.
Google Drive seems the best all round. You get 15GB of storage and can have multiple accounts. I don't think that there is an expiry either.
If anyone notices any dead/slow links on the site then please can you report them to me on this thread and I will get them sorted.
-- Edited by Ian on Tuesday 1st of August 2023 06:30:32 PM
Ian, is this costing you much? I only dip in and out of the archive but it's such a fantastic resource. If you're incurring regular monthly costs let us know.
Thank you for all the positive feedback. It is great to hear that you are enjoying the site
Eamonn wrote:
Ian, is this costing you much? I only dip in and out of the archive but it's such a fantastic resource. If you're incurring regular monthly costs let us know.
It doesn't cost too much. The web hosting is £35.50 for 3 years and they have guaranteed that as a renewal price (in just under 2 years). The domain name is £8.50 per year. So just over £20 per year in total. I can use the existing storage space to host more websites if I ever want/need to in future. I can also install apps on the existing site but not sure there's any requirement for that at the moment. All the storage is free.
If anyone's interested, here's the number of unique visitors that the site has received this year: Jan-23 276 Feb-23 243 Mar-23 358 Apr-23 858 May-23 930 Jun-23 1,328 Jul-23 1,588
I'm currently working through the site to see what is missing. This will take a few weeks but there's a few promo edits that jump out at me, I have most of them on CD but no easy access to a CD drive.
Do You Remember the First Time? (Radio edit)
Common People (Motiv 8 Radio Edit)
Disco 2000 (Alan Tarney Remix)
This is Hardcore (Radio edit aka French edit)
The Fear (Radio edit and Research Hook)
The Trees (Radio edit)
Sunrise (Radio edit)
Bad Cover Version (Radio edit - this is different to the slightly faster version from the single, it cuts a few seconds from the intro and outro)
Running the World (clean version (the mind boggles))
After You (Radio edit)
All I can say is that Ive got a CD drive but none of those promos. Is there a website anywhere that has promos uploaded to it anywhere? seems like a long shot but you never know. Once again, thank you so much Ian for running FEELINGCALLEDLIVE as its a site i very rarely not visit at least once a month.
I can provide all those - except for Running the World - so will upload them for you.
Incidentally, I think the Alan Tarney version is confusingly labelled on the Disco 2000 promos, I reckon the unique promo mix from the US CD and Canadian 12" is called the Chris Thomas Version. Alan Tarney was responsible for the 7" Mix, as explained on the recent Digital EP release... my conclusion is that Chris Thomas did the halfway mix before Alan Tarney was brought in to create the ultimate radio-friendly version. So I think the US promo CD has its credits mixed up, and I'm going with the naming on the 12".
I'm currently working through the site to see what is missing. This will take a few weeks but there's a few promo edits that jump out at me, I have most of them on CD but no easy access to a CD drive.
Do You Remember the First Time? (Radio edit) Common People (Motiv 8 Radio Edit) Disco 2000 (Alan Tarney Remix) This is Hardcore (Radio edit aka French edit) The Fear (Radio edit and Research Hook) The Trees (Radio edit) Sunrise (Radio edit) Bad Cover Version (Radio edit - this is different to the slightly faster version from the single, it cuts a few seconds from the intro and outro) Running the World (clean version (the mind boggles)) After You (Radio edit)
Can anyone help?
My old computer still has a CD drive. It just about still works(the computer). I could see if I could do something with your disc if you tell me what to do.
Ian, your site is fantastic. Thank you so much. I only clicked on it last night. I'm happily basking in nostalgia listening to Pulp at the Point in 1996, the first concert I ever went to and 3 songs in and they sound so full of energy. Loving it. Someone build a time machine, please -- I want to go home to the '90s! Your site is the closest thing for now. Thank you :)
Thanks for the great feedback. I'm glad that you are enjoying the site.
The remixes listed above (apart from "Running the World") are on their way up. Thanks to Kev who sent me these. Thanks to Scott and Sarah for the offers. I might contact the Acrylic Afternoons guy on Twitter to see if he will send me the clean version of "Running the World", it is listed on the site.
This is the first time that I have actually listened to the French Edit of "This is Hardcore". I have had the promo CD for years but have never listened before because I assumed that it would be the same as the Radio Edit. Instead, quite a lot of the song is removed, clocking in at just under 4 minutes. It sounds really odd. Think of the cut-up version of "Tunnel" if you will...
This has sparked from a recent Facebook post ive seen, but does anyone have a FLAC recording of the 2019 Remaster of His N Hers that was only released on the double LP. The mixes are notable different and seem to have been remixed and remastered rather than just the latter.
Im planning on recording my LP of it and doing it if not when i get back home but before i do, i was just wondering if its already been done?
Sunrise (Remake)
Do You Remember the First Time? and From Disco to Hardcore - radio documentaries that aired prior to "This is Hardcore" being released
People have asked for these but I can't seem to find them on my hard drive
Ian, are you able to extract the 1990 December Leadmill show from YouTube (audio only) onto your site (just in case it ever gets removed from Youtube)?
Notable for the apparent debut of Countdown and Pulp's first show after almost two years.
Still looking for these three, if anyone has any leads
BBC Radio 2 - Common People: The Story of Pulp
Transmitted: 31 May 2003
Details: Marianne Faithfull presents the story of the terrifically hip modern pop band best known for frontman Jarvis Cocker and the 1995 single Common People, which catapulted the group into public consciousness 12 years after the release of their debut LP.
BBC Radio Sheffield - R.O.T.T.
Transmitted: circa 1984
Details: Interview with Pulp and broadcast of tracks from the Sudan Gerri demo. (Pulp appeared on this programme several times.)
BBC London - Gary Crowley
Broadcast: 9 December
Details: Interview with Jarvis about his recently released first solo album, plus, reminiscences of Pulp's first ever gig in London and recollections of Jarvis' first home in the capital. The Boss got (probably) its first ever radio play.
Thank you! Never thought to just check the BBC Sounds app. Listening to it now and wincing at all the mistakes, but still full of useful bits. Going to get it ripped now.
Think the R.O.T.T. is unlikely to turn up, but surely someone has the Gary Crowley.
The idea here is that there are lots of Pulp fans on different platforms and it would be nice to share the latest news/information with them (for example, the post from earlier where someone pointed out that the "Hardcore" book has been reduced in price). I will put a link to this forum on all emails which will hopefully encourage more people to post here.
The idea here is that there are lots of Pulp fans on different platforms and it would be nice to share the latest news/information with them (for example, the post from earlier where someone pointed out that the "Hardcore" book has been reduced in price). I will put a link to this forum on all emails which will hopefully encourage more people to post here.
The idea here is that there are lots of Pulp fans on different platforms and it would be nice to share the latest news/information with them (for example, the post from earlier where someone pointed out that the "Hardcore" book has been reduced in price). I will put a link to this forum on all emails which will hopefully encourage more people to post here.
Tried to sign up, but 'confirm' email didn't come through. Is it working okay?
Yeah. Mine was in the spam box as well. Maybe you need to tweak the algorithm a little.
I have just authenticated my domain name so it is now showing as compliant with Google and Yahoo.
I am going to send the first newsletter out in the next hour so I would be grateful if people could let me know where it ended up. I have signed up with Gmail and Yahoo email addresses of my own so will be able to have a look for myself as well
Fantastic. That was just a quick newsletter for me to test the facilities. Hopefully the next one will look better and contain more links to Pulp stuff.
Brilliant, it wasn't easy to authenticate my domain name but I think I have cracked it. Therefore, emails should land in inboxes rather than spam folders.
Feel free to promote the list elsewhere. Hopefully the emails will drive more traffic here, my website and Pulp wiki.
Just a quick update. I have had a renewal notice through for the hosting. When I took this out 3 years ago, it came with a guarantee that it would renew at the same price. However, the price has more than doubled and the company are refusing to budge. I have found a free (ad-free) alternative. Therefore, the site may be down for a few days whilst it migrates across. If anyone wants a specific bootleg, just send a message on here.