Yes I finally got myself into gear with this. Wanted to read T&Cs. It looks like a very very nice item to have so I really hope it gets to the printers!

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It needs a massive push, realistically from a Jarvis insta post, to meet the publishing target considering there's less than a couple of weeks left of the campaign.

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 The counter seems to have reset to 31 days, but yes, with very slow progress so far that's still a stretch. I'm still thinking about it: if there was only the £40 option, I'd probably have gone for it immediately. But I always have that old 'Argos catalogue' mindset, of going for the most expensive thing there, and it's a LOT of extra money for a little print, a photo, and some badges.

Going to top up my bank account to see what tickets I can get on Thurs / Fri, so this'll have to wait.

Endorsements on social meeds from Jarvis and Pulp have helped the target, its now reached 70% but the fundraiser is due to expire at the end of the month. Will probably fall short of the target but having come so far, I guess it will be pushed into December.

I think the proposed publishing date has already been pushed back but hopefully it does get made. Would be a shame with over £30k now committed from Pulpheads.

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£45k target reached with a couple of hours remaining! Fair play!

Hope someone at Universal is taking note re deluxe/boxset viability etc.

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 Yea- it looks pretty nice, I pledged for a copy, just getting the £40 standard edition- I was worried that it wouldn't get enough backing- surely someone will be watching, they would definitely be taking notice of the tour ticket sales

A short (although 2 pages with the picture) promotional feature for this book in the new edition of Uncut (dated Apri'23, out from mid-Feb).

Text might be blurry to read so here it is:

Jarvis Cocker once lamented that the enduring legacy of Britpop was the "untucked shirt". As laddism seemed to take over, Pulp leant into that creeping sense of bloat and decline to craft their 1998 dark masterpiece This Is Hardcore. "There was a feeling not just to replicate Different Class and take things to the next level" says photographer Paul Burgess, recruited to document the decadence. "The budget got bigger so the ambition was raised tp the next level", says Paul Burgess, recruited by Cocker to document the decadence. The "...Hardcore" video took a week to shoot at Pinewood and cost a great deal of money to make. Kubrick was on the set next door filming Eyes Wide Shut at the time. There was a huge dedication by everyone to make something as artistic as possible". 

Burgess's behind-the-scenes photos of Pulp from the period are collected in a high-spec new tome called simply Hardcore. As well as the grandeur of the videos and cover shoots, with their references to the films of Douglas Sirk and Alfred Hitchcock, Burgess captured a band finding a way to process huge and unexpected success. "Jarvis had a lot to cope with in 1997-98, dealing with his fame and all that it brings" he reflects. "This is reflected on the This Is Hardcore album. [But] my personal memory of being on the set of the "...Hardcore" video shoot at Pinewood was of humour - Jarvis is very funny." 

Burgess took the photo on this page at the end of the video shoot for the album's fourth single Party Hard, which was inspired by kitsch German tv variety shows of the 1970's and the art of Allen Jones. "Everyone is relaxed and happy the shoot went well. The dancers were exhausted after several hours of cartwheels and Jarvis had just done a little thank you speech for them all."

Serendipitously, the release of the book coincides with Pulp's latest reunion jaunt around the parks, arenas and festivals of the UK this summer. Will Burgess be going? "Hell, yes!"    

Sam Richards 

 

 

 

 

 

Specifically wasn't it something like a tubby chap in a Ben Sherman shirt getting sucked-off?

Given recent news as well, it'll be nice to see photos of all the band when they were younger and being so artistic. Hoping for some nice photos of Steve, there were some lovely shots of him during the TiH video. Also Nick being a casanova at the bar.

Also hoping for some behind-the-scenes photos of the bit where Jarvis is all tied up, for sheer awkwardness and comedic effect. Bonus points if someone had to storyboard that.

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Specifically wasn't it something like a tubby chap in a Ben Sherman shirt getting sucked-off?

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I don't know why I'm thinking of this, but isn't there an urban legend that the album cover for TiH is cropped, and in the wider shot, Steve is... um... also present? Someone tweeted that, a while ago, but I'm taking it with a pinch of salt.

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Given recent news as well, it'll be nice to see photos of all the band when they were younger and being so artistic. Hoping for some nice photos of Steve, there were some lovely shots of him during the TiH video. Also Nick being a casanova at the bar.

Also hoping for some behind-the-scenes photos of the bit where Jarvis is all tied up, for sheer awkwardness and comedic effect. Bonus points if someone had to storyboard that.

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I don't know why I'm thinking of this, but isn't there an urban legend that the album cover for TiH is cropped, and in the wider shot, Steve is... um... also present? Someone tweeted that, a while ago, but I'm taking it with a pinch of salt.

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 I distinctly remember seeing that as well. I think it might have been in an article about Horst Diekgardes who did the photography or Peter Saville. I think I saw it crop up on Tricia's twitter feed a while back but understandably, I don't want to ask her right now

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 Wow. To me, that's now the Holy Grail of Pulp.

Seems like that could be from the same shoot.

That's the bunny! Where did you find it?

Good gravy.

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That's the bunny! Where did you find it?

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 From Tricia's tumblr here https://spacefaring-kissboi.tumblr.com/post/148428436989/because-iwatch-thebees-and-i-were-discussing-it

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 I knew I'd seen it on something Tricia had posted, but like I said I really didn't want to bother the poor girl. 

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That** picture of Steve is from the Peter Saville Estate exhibition catalogue. Im going to scan and upload to Pulp Wiki in the next week or so. There is quite a few TIH outtakes

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 Thank you, that would be amazing!

Does this mean it has been picked-up by a publisher?

Yes and yes. Well Volume who are publishing the one we have all signed up to fund are a Thames & Hudson 'imprint'. So I suppose perhaps the thinking is that this book has a wider interest than just Pulp fans - more general distribution with the new cover / title? I think its good! Hope lots of libraries get it!

How have those of you who bought this enjoyed it? Looks fatter than I had expected. Think Ill take a punt since I missed it the first time around

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How have those of you who bought this enjoyed it? Looks fatter than I had expected. Think Ill take a punt since I missed it the first time around

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 Not due till Autumn, a little while to go yet.

Oh amazing, I've been waiting all year for last year's christmas present

Has anyone received their copy yet?

I actually don't love that cover. Which is weird because I love almost all the images I've seen from the era. Feels like a freshman film class textbook. 

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I actually don't love that cover. Which is weird because I love almost all the images I've seen from the era. Feels like a freshman film class textbook. 

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i feel the same way. the pledge backed one look so much more chic tbh. this design is just not working. i ordered the pledge one some time ago though so i cant wait to get it! glad to know the orders are trickling out, although i imagine my copy won't be crossing the atlantic anytime soon 

No, you're right, it doesn't seem to have been publicised. I picked up a flyer with the details on the stand in the pic above. Paul encouraged folk to come if they could so I imagine he will advertise it on his Insta. I've messaged him on there just now to ask him.

I was one of the "early birds" that ordered it on day one but haven't had anything. Hopefully nothing amiss.

Where?! I wannit!

I'm going to wait for the retail version, skint little student I am but I hope you enjoy your lovely shiny copies and all the assorted prezzies. It looks the bees' knees!

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Retail version came today, signed and with a lithograph. Looks ace.

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Did you order via rough trade? think this is what I'm getting - supposedly somewhere over the atlantic now...!

i'm in the states so a bit shocked it came so early! no extra special presents merch or anything of the sort; i believe it was the same price as the one that's what's being sold on rough trade ? ive been seeing an edition with a cool dust jacket that mine lacks sadly!

my first impressions (ive not yet read through all the text) is that it's quite lovely and worth it, and there is a very illuminating candida interview that i'd post up here but idk if that's allowed? the interview sheds some insight into her headspace during the TIH era

my complaints would be some of the graphic design is too extreme and kind of filling up pages and i had some dirty printing on a few pages of my copy > : | (but ok ok ok it's not a taschen or a rizzoli) also some of the film scans bother me but that's just me being nitpicky.

I hope either my Rough Trade version or Volume version comes this week!!! Also if anyone is interested this also gets a release this week https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/a-to-z-of-the-designers-republic-hardcover

I pledged and I still havent received my copy yet- is anyone else in the same boat as me or has everyone who pledged got their copy?

Yep, mine hasn't come either. Then again I'm low down on the alphabet.

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I pledged and I still havent received my copy yet- is anyone else in the same boat as me or has everyone who pledged got their copy?

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 Nowt yet.

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DHL it looks like have dropped mine off at the Corner Shop for me to collect tonight!!! Im so excited!! Mine has arrived here in Brisbane so hopefully others in far parts of the world will be getting theres soon. Oh this is the Volume one it seems as well.

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 enjoy!! Hope we can all discuss openly in the coming weeks :)

Trying not to be salty but it is a little disappointing that the trade version is now on sale and those of us that backed the project with our money well over a year ago now are still waiting. Was there no mention of this at the event?

Yeah, i moved house last week and was worried too. I got in touch with Volume to update the address. They sent me a Fedex tracking link this evening, looks like it will be delivered on Monday.

I have mine!!! picked it up last night. Its fantastic!!! I read the lengthy interview with Candida this morning. Theres so much in it. But something of interest - in the 'Pulp-related books section' it lists all the Pulp books like Marks and Owens and Russells and Nicks etc and then Mark Webber - I'm with Pulp, Are you? - listed published in 2023.

I'm impressed by the amount of writing in there, imagined it would be mostly a photo book, but it's almost 50/50.
Certainly it's far superior to the last Pulp photo book, if anyone remembers that!

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Yeah, i moved house last week and was worried too. I got in touch with Volume to update the address. They sent me a Fedex tracking link this evening, looks like it will be delivered on Monday.

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 Literally the exact same thing happened with me- its coming Monday via fedex- thank god for that, i can relax now

I remember that- published by UFO, a record/mail order shop in Croydon, I think. It was like the Illustrated Story- a basic biography with lots of interview quotes padded out with numerous photos. It had a slip case with interchangeable covers. 1996 was a heady time for the Pulp cash-ins.

I have my copy in front of me now. Not sure how well-printed it is, certainly looks rubbish next to 'Hardcore', but the interchangeable covers are nice.

It did have some good photos in it which I haven't seen elsewhere- that one where they're outside in the dark and the one where they're in a club toilet. Can't remember much about the text- better effort than many at the time though!

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It did have some good photos in it which I haven't seen elsewhere- that one where they're outside in the dark and the one where they're in a club toilet. Can't remember much about the text- better effort than many at the time though!

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 Any scans of these floating around - or even just pics from someone's phone camera, if any of you have this book? Always keen to see photos that are new to me, very exciting once you get past a certain point. Lol..

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My copy of Hardcore arrived today! I think the delay was due to being at the end of the alphabet.

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 Nah, they're not that organised. I'm an 'M' and they only attempted delivery yesterday - to my old address, despite me flagging an updated change with them a few weeks ago. Giles Acrylic (B for Bosworth) was still awaiting his when the launch took place last Thursday.

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It did have some good photos in it which I haven't seen elsewhere- that one where they're outside in the dark and the one where they're in a club toilet. Can't remember much about the text- better effort than many at the time though!

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 Any scans of these floating around - or even just pics from someone's phone camera, if any of you have this book? Always keen to see photos that are new to me, very exciting once you get past a certain point. Lol..

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Dug mine out. Attached some pics of the glossies that I thought were less "common"

Haha, thanks for posting those. You're looking at the exact reason I felt sufficiently emboldened to start writing a book of my own. Although the pictures in these are better.

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Haha, thanks for posting those. You're looking at the exact reason I felt sufficiently emboldened to start writing a book of my own. Although the pictures in these are better.

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 A valiant quest! Bless you!

You are much too hard on yourself though, after all you introduced the world to the photo of young Jarvis with the long blonde tresses. Unbeatable pic.

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It did have some good photos in it which I haven't seen elsewhere- that one where they're outside in the dark and the one where they're in a club toilet. Can't remember much about the text- better effort than many at the time though!

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 Any scans of these floating around - or even just pics from someone's phone camera, if any of you have this book? Always keen to see photos that are new to me, very exciting once you get past a certain point. Lol..

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Dug mine out. Attached some pics of the glossies that I thought were less "common"

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 Very late thankyou for this!! Yes I think I've seen all these before but good to rule it out. I'd probably have ended up buying it and adding to my now jenga-like pile of Pulp magazines and prints to scan in. <3