Woah! Always a man to go with a theme/anniversary. Too modest to play it on his moon/space song-filled show on 6 Music the night before.
Did the stylophone come out? Any other unusual additions to the set?
Yes Jason seemed to have the stylophone out! Started with Jarvis in the middle of the crowd and rambling on in his usual way. Some lyrics the same as the record, many not (sorry, can't really remember any of them!). Rest of the set was something like Further Complications, Children of the Echo, Must I Evolve, House Music, Am I Missing Something, His'n'Hers, Cunts (shortened cos they were overrunning). And maybe one or two more that escape me.
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Any yelps of recognition to Space in the crowd apart from the Sturdys? He could also have done Someone Like The Moon...not sure if that was ever played live by Pulp.
I love how he's getting quite liberal with the Pulp material. Others shun material in such context despite there being a big audience demand - it's denial. He acknowledges that a sizable chunk of the crowd were Pulp fans. Bless them, but can you imagine Radiohead giving fan service? Or Thom Yorke playing Creep in a solo show in 10 years time? Ha!
Space was played live at the crucible as part of the The Big Melt a couple of years ago.
Whaaat?! Shut the front door!
Re Jarvis and the Pulp obscurities (not to us but in relative terms) he's been playing - I think he probably feels they're fair game as it's a proud nod to his past but none of them are any of Pulp hits or well-known songs which might overshadow the rest of the set and undermine the material of the new band.
At Chat's Palace someone shouted out for Common People near the end, there were audible sighs from other people around and Jarvis said something like "It's not that kind of show".
Never gonna happen (a rare point on which Pulp could learn a thing or two from Suede), but maybe it'd be a fun project to piece together a "live Intro" from the recordings that exist. They've probably played all of it other than Inside Susan at some point, right?
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We're getting way off topic now but the album I'd most like to hear in its entirety is....Separations. with Russell obvs!
On this topic, at the Sheffield Octagon show in '94 they played almost the entirety of HnH and, on some occasions, I convince myself they played Someone Like the Moon but I just cannot be certain. That was just the best gig.