Haha! Personally, I wouldn't want Pulp to have to share with Blur!

How about The Everly Pregnant Brothers? ;)

Yeah, it's cool in one way, a bit sad in another. Suede and the Manics tour every year or two to largely the same fans and then are happy to do loads of festivals.

Since the 2010s, they've both toured new stuff, they've both done the classic albums from start to finish thing, and now a co-headline idea which they've already done in the US (to half-empty auditoriums by all accounts, sadly).

There is a crossover in fanbases and the bands get on and are happy to share top billing. I think it might be frustrating as a fan of both just to see the hits for an hour before they bugger off.


Pulp tour once a decade and don't need to piggy-back onto anyone as they can sell out big venues by themselves. I'm not sure they'd want to do something that would be labelled as Britpop, Jarvis has spent enough of his professional life answering questions about that word.

Kinda agree with the above. I know someone who is a big Manics fan and was saying to them yesterday about the gig in Dublin with Suede but their response was 'that's a come down' because I think the venue is quite small and its co headlining. Maybe not. Must check capacity. I like some of the Manics stuff, not so much Suede. I'm not sure if they're even gonna go to the gig. Wouldn't have put them together. I thought St Annes was rather ambitious for Pulp initially but so happy they did their own gig as opposed to a festival. Just from chatting to people who weren't big fans going to that, they were absolutely blown away by how good they were so I think if they were to do a gig in Dublin again it would sell out more quickly.

was bummed to miss this in the states, got screwed over by work. Figured they were co-headlining in order to corral a smaller base audience - surprised they're doing the same pairing over yonder

I'm looking forward to it, MSP and Suede bands are both as good as Pulp IMO and soundtracked the same era of many people's lives. They produce unique merch for the joint tours, and to see both bands back to back is quite special.

If Pulp were to do a joint tour? Well in the past they've been given co-headlining status with both The Strokes and Beck.