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.
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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.