Most of this article is about an initiative called "Biophobia" that Jarvis is involved in. Plus mention of his last collaboration with Hawley, that song they performed at The Leadmill a while back.
I mean, speaking as someone who's forlornly hoping to reach 60, I'm glad Jarvis is making music about the climate. Don't know about you folks but I'd definitely trust legions of peer-reviewed, public-domain science over the doctrine of this Conservative government, oil merchants and the global far-right. (And it's not like we aren't already seeing the effects - are the floods and wildfires of the last two years already dead to the memory?)
It's clearly a cause that means a lot to Jarv (and might honestly be why Weeds found its way back onto the setlists last year). All power to him though, especially working with Brian Eno! That bit about him panicking and going "er um uh I'll make a *Powerpoint presentation*" - absolutely classic Jarvis, had me in stitches.
Anyway, yes. New Pulp. Got to be, now. I mean, a three-year-long reunion tour?? That's unheard of! This is incredibly exciting news. I'm hoping we might get a special fan-oriented show like Edinburgh 2000 and Brixton 2011 - a lot to ask for, of course, but you never know...
These are truly Glory Days we're living through, y'know!
I'm so sure they'll be a new album later this year or maybe early next year. It's hard to trust what any member of Pulp says though as Nick has told me twice, to my face, that there's no plans for new material.... but then they debuted Background Noise in Mexico a month later. It's unusual for Jarvis to commit in an interview like that to more dates which definitely makes me think there are plans already set in stone for the future of Pulp.
Hmm...interesting. I'd take no-UK this year if they release new material and then tour it next year with a 30th anniversary of 1995 Glastonbury bow-out.
I'm a bit slow on the uptake, it only hit me the other day that next year is 30 years since DC and that Glastonbury performance. I see you mentioned it already, Eamonn. What are the chances that will play a part in events for next year? Cannot believe so many years have passed. Build me a time machine!
Festival in Puglia, Italy added. £25 for a ticket to see Pulp and Jesus & Mary Chain !
After lurking more or less constantly for maybe 15 or so years, finally I can speak out. Just to express joy. This is fantastic. It's in a little seafront rotunda, too, so it should be quite an intimate gig. And a coach from where I live in Naples is 7.
Pulp? In Southern Italy? For prices that seem like 20 years ago? It doesn't even seem real. The Divine Comedy are playing a tiny village in Lazio in July, too.
-- Edited by JohnPaul_II on Tuesday 9th of April 2024 03:16:47 PM