Ticketmaster have finally pulled their thumbs out of their arses and issued the mobile tickets.

So is there a Bar Italia meetup planned somewhere?

SarahAWilson wrote:

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Ticketmaster have finally pulled their thumbs out of their arses and issued the mobile tickets.

So is there a Bar Italia meetup planned somewhere?

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Nearby The World's End in Finsbury Park is having a Pulp night. Too bad it closes at midnight. 

 

https://www.wegottickets.com/event/574615

Yeah - that is too bad! I'm coming thousands of miles - looking forward to meeting fellow fans. I still don't quite understand why they are not as popular here in the States. Or maybe I do...... and I just don't want to admit it. We did sort of elect Trump.

Whilst we are in Finsbury Park, Def Leopard will be on down the road in Wembley. Battle of the Sheffield legends.

-- Edited by Simply Fuss Free on Saturday 24th of June 2023 10:55:48 AM

Absolutely. It's also annoying that we don't know if ticket transfer will become available from the Ticketmaster app (I've asked but don't expect a helpful reply). Just a bit rubbish that you've got a shiny app but can't do the basics like turn up at different times to your mates or work out a basic schedule of bands and times.

european_son wrote:

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Apart from the very recent email from See Tickets shifting doors from 4pm to 3pm there's been *so* little info from the organisers/band so far...

We're five days away and we've got one confirmed support act (Wet Leg), one that's confirmed themselves (Baxter Dury), and doors now open at 3pm with a presumed 10.30pm curfew, and no whisper of what the stage times are.

If the organisers actually want people to rock up at 3pm to buy drinks (as they obviously do), then a bit more info would be somewhat helpful?

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 I wont be buying drinks as the facilities at Finsbury Park arent very good.  Long queues for the portaloos or splashing around in the mud in the urinals.  Will get there in time for Wet Leg (though hopefully not literally).  Suspect they will be on about 7pm.

Looks like the ticket transfer option is now activated

Thanks for the info. I'm coming so damn far - I will probably be jet-lagged and grumpy so less time waiting in line for a portaloo, the better. 7pm will be a good time. I'm on my own so I don't need to be jammed up front.

1hr 50 mins for Pulp, I think that's longer tha earlier gigs?

Brid was more like 1hr 45m - they came on just after 9 and finished ten or fifteen minutes before 11pm (presumably the curfew).

Dublin was at least 10 minutes at the beginning of all those screen-messages, curtain-pulling, and holding the opening note of I Spy before it finally kicked-off around 9.10pm and finished at about 10.40pm - so an hour and a half in all.

For Finsbury, presumably they'll continue with the long pre-amble/pissing-about with the atmos build-up so I'd imagine an hour an forty of choons (at least, hopefully).

Some previous London setlists to whet your fancy.

FINSBURY PARK (July 25th 1998) (filmed and released as The Park Is Mine)

Spoiler

The Fear
Do You Remember the First Time?
I'm a Man
Dishes
Seductive Barry
Sorted for E's and Wizz
TV Movie
A Little Soul
Party Hard
Help the Aged
Sylvia               
This Is Hardcore
Glory People     
Laughing Boy
Something Changed

BRIXTON ACADEMY (September 1st 2011) (with Russell Senior)

Spoiler

Do You Remember the First Time?
Monday Morning
Razzmatazz
The Trees
The Fear
Lipgloss
Something Changed
Disco 2000
Sorted for E's and Wizz
Sheffield: Sex City
Babies
Live Bed Show
This Is Hardcore
Sunrise
Bar Italia
Common People  
Party Hard
Countdown
Mis-Shapes        
Wickerman

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE (December 18th 1994)

Spoiler

Love Is Blind
Death Comes to Town
Razzmatazz
Joyriders
Underwear
59 Lyndhurst Grove
Acrylic Afternoons
We Can Dance Again
Common People
Lipgloss
Do You Remember the First Time?
I Want You
Babies                                  
O.U. (Gone, Gone)
Pink Glove

ROYAL ALBERT HALL (March 31st 2012) (in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust)

Spoiler

Do You Remember the First Time?
Mis-Shapes
Razzmatazz
Something Changed
Sorted for E's and Wizz
I Spy
The Birds in Your Garden
Bad Cover Version
Like a Friend
This Is Hardcore
Sunrise
Bar Italia
Common People            
My Lighthouse
Babies
Disco 2000

And, of course, a throwback to Pulp's last time at Finsbury:

A legendary performance, that one.

 

Setlist? Well, 1hr 50 - it could be their longest yet this year. I'm expecting a mix of reminiscences/theatrics/teasing to eat into that, though, so perhaps the setlist will come in shorter than Bridlington. Maybe some more Hardcore tracks... as others have said, they have a set light show now, it's all programmed, but still, it's not too hard to imagine one of the non-title singles will come out. "Help the Aged" or "A Little Soul", maybe not both. (Whichever one they pick, if they do, is sure to be emotionally charged.) As they're playing in London - and not too far away from the song's subject - "Mile End" might be a goer, too.

And, well, London is where Jarvis met Steve, and where they lived together (and at their last gig, they played the album that Steve was proudest of)...if they don't play "Something Changed" early on - or they do it without really mentioning Steve - then you'll know something's planned.

Eamonn was talking about this, and it is pretty compelling. Of course I wouldn't want to pre-empt it too much -and I certainly wouldn't want to suggest that they ought to, not at all. It must be so difficult for them that perhaps they simply can't manage it, and why should they? It's hard enough for us as fans, and I wasn't even around back in 1998 - I've never seen or met Steve - but I can't hide that when the news came, it was one of those deaths that does hit you a little bit more than most. It's felt a little bit like the elephant in the room. Of course, most casuals just know Jarvis... Anyway, it would be the most fitting gig of the tour to pay particular tribute to Steve, given his artistic influence within Pulp was probably at its peak about the time they last played Finsbury Park. God, when you listen to Hardcore (and songs from that era, like "Like a Friend" and "The Professional"), you can feel Steve's presence. It's not just the great basslines, because they'd been there since Separations - and before then too, Manners was no slouch - but here, they're just so stylistically Steve Mackey, just the start of "Seductive Barry" just is him, so economical with it and so bloody groovy with it, suffused with certain 'other' tensions too, same with "Party Hard", then his bass is so integral to less 'sexy' songs like "A Little Soul" and "Help the Aged", it's the bass not just as a danceable rhythm counterpart to Jarvis and companion to Nick but also the bass as pregnant with meaning, as looming and ominous or allusive and flirtatious, bass that's at turns come-hither and fuck-off-all-the-way-over-thither, the most full-blooded component of Hardcore's musical mix. Sorry, there's a lot here but the bass on this album is so fucking fantastic, and then you add Smackey's part in the Hardcore video and you're just like. Damn.

Anyway, maybe they'll mention him more, maybe they won't - it's impossible hard either way - they deserve not to have to face that again. But still, he's a looming presence over these gigs. And such a presence he always had.

I do think we are going to be in for one *big* night, though. Expect comparisons to Pulp gigs past. The music press need something after Glastonbury, and after some of the headliners got slightly mixed reviews, you have the one band that probably bears the single greatest moment in Glasto's history (sorry Thom) off to the capital. Not everyone has been reacquainted with how good Pulp are, yet... the strength of their performances thus far has even taken this forum's older heads by surprise. I'm optimistic.

-- Edited by lipglossed on Thursday 29th of June 2023 12:54:47 AM

Oh amazing, thanks Sarah! Well found.