Eamonn wrote:

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Book launch at the ICA in London on November 27th:

https://www.ica.art/learning/book-launch-i-m-with-pulp-are-you

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 I'll go if other people are going. Then you can bare witness when he has me forcibly removed from the building because apparently he hates me that much. 

Quite amusing that it will take place there given that in his book Mark grumbles about the ICA taking all the revenue from his Little Stabs nights back in the day!

Whoever's going, please record if poss and don't ask dumb questions, ask good ones.

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I heard recently that theres also a video of the Conservative Club concert from May 1986. I dont think I have a memory of this, but there was a guy who used to turn up at concerts with a VHS camera and would set up at the back. So its not impossible, but I dont know if it includes Pulp or even Siegfrieds Magick Box. Im waiting to find out. Its a recent revelation. 

Wish Jarvis wasn't so precious about what they play. Can understand it with the bleak Hardcore stuff, but come on man, pull your finger out! Give us some intimate shows!

Not officially, no, but you can find it here: feelingcalledlive.co.uk/2019/06/26/1992-05-30-bbc-mark-goodier-session-1992-6music-broadcast/

Hope we'll hear more about the 6 CDs (!!) of career-spanning material that Mark curated at some point. And maybe the anniversary release of Different Class will surface one day, with the remixed Glastonbury. Plenty to hope for!

Kelvin wrote:

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Seems to me from this that new album likely, but itll be done as a turbo Jarv Is production. Which given how previous Pulp productions have gone may be a good thing if we actually want those songs recorded. 

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I wonder if they should work with someone like Martin Glover.  He gets bands over for 3 weeks residential in his studio in Andalusia.  And basically they record 1 song a day.  They start at breakfast with the demo, and don't go to bed till it's completely in the can.  Bands then finish the 3 weeks with a 12 song album and about 3 spares (b-sides) for a deluxe version.  He's delivered some really top form albums with that process too.  

Steve Albini was like that with Nirvana too - just said it would be better delivered in 2 weeks than if they took 2 years doing it.  Mark commented in the interview that they are already starting to overthinking Background Noise to its detriment.  

I dont think he said the extra-work to Background Noise was necessarily to its detriment. It sounds like it's missing a bridge section (per 2023 live version) so hopefully they've written one.

Also, while it's great that he's so opinionated which makes the book all the better, I don't trust his taste in Pulp songs at all. Hates half of the good stuff from Hardcore and has a bee in his bonnet about It's A Dirty World!

HoltbyCity wrote:

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MLady being confirmed as the same song as Medieval Owl is interesting.

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 And odd, considering M'Lady was demo'd first with vocals/lyrics. Jarvis must have gone off them and the song was recorded again, only as an instrumental?

weej wrote:

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I heard recently that theres also a video of the Conservative Club concert from May 1986. I dont think I have a memory of this, but there was a guy who used to turn up at concerts with a VHS camera and would set up at the back. So its not impossible, but I dont know if it includes Pulp or even Siegfrieds Magick Box. Im waiting to find out. Its a recent revelation. 

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 I can confirm that the video from this date contains The Bland's set only. No Pulp, no Siegfrieds Magick Box. Momentary shot of Jarvis walking past the camera.

So, in terms of new and unreleased material, we now know the following:

There are other new songs that they haven't yet played live. Some are derived from unfinished Pulp and Jarv Is Songs.

"White Owl", "Medieval Owl" and "M'Lady" are the same song.

"Last Song in the World" is described as a great, fully formed song along with all the other Wessex demos.

"Emmanuel" is in the same vein as "The Professional" and was never fully finished.

Mark was happy to release some of this material but Jarvis wasn't interested.

I'd say that the odds of a new album have increased!

I seem to be looking to buy more books about Pulp than LPs in last 20 years...

...I would like to have a look at the book before purchasing, but looks interesting enough.

That written, I haven't even got the Nick Banks' book yet and only had a quick glance at the Hardcore book I got a year ago. Good Pop, Bad Pop lurks in my Kindle account and Mother, Brother, Lover gathers dust on my bedside cabinet. I think the only Pulp book I did read was Truth & Beauty. A long time ago. 15 years! How the hell is it that old? I had planned to get through my stack of unread books post-retirement, but they remain unread. Still too busy!