I managed to track-down the full interview that Jarvis did with Absolute Radio last week. They don't make it easy to find - i.e teasing us on their social media with a couple of video clips from Jarvis talking about AI and how long the album took to make.

Anyway, if you can be bothered, you need to download the app "Rayo" (I thought for a second that was the dating app for beautiful celebrities but then remembered that was Raya, as in the handsome Arsenal goalkeeper...I wonder if he's on there...), then find Absolute Radio and go to The Sunday Night Music Club with Danielle Perry and navigate to last Sunday's show. The chat with Jarvis starts just after 32 minutes.

Most interesting things that I don't think he had revealed elsewhere in the early promo for the record so far:

- Spike Island was recorded first and separate from the three week album sessions in Nov-Dec'24. Near the end of the summer James Ford had three days free shortly before Pulp went to America. This must be from when that news-story/picture appeared of Jarvis near the studio in Walthamstow.

- So they used this session as a test-run to see if they'd feel comfortable recording more material on their return. They recorded and mixed the song during that time. Jarvis plays the slide-guitar on Spike Island. They went to America feeling that they had proven they could work quickly on new material with Ford. Jarvis had 95% of the album lyrics written before returning to the studio.

- Jeanette (Lee), Jarvis (and Pulp's) manager, gave him the seal of approval for the song. Pulp were happy for it to be the lead-single and carried-on with the album.

There's some other stuff mentioned too that might be of interest including some of Jarvis' interesting lyric-writing methods.
Sorry, I don't know how to record a stream apart from using my phone's microphone. I'm sure someone else can do a better job.

Here's a link where you don't have to download their app but you do need to register with them to play..

https://hellorayo.co.uk/absolute-radio/shows/the-sunday-night-music-club/id-234697707/play/

thanx Eamonn listening now. Of course i'm not in england but i fooled them haha

The other thing in Mojo I wasn't sure whether to believe was that Background Noise was formerly a Jarv Is song. Quite surprised by that.

I assumed that was an error but suppose it's conceivably something they'd been mucking around with in the before times. It was the first new song after Hymn for the North right? So would be feasible that it was another older one he had under his belt before Pulp songwriting started in earnest.

What on earth is there left for them to announce?!

Eamonn wrote:

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Added to the bill for Ozzy Osbourne's last gig at Villa Park this summer? Pulp will fit in well with Black Sabbath and Guns'n'Roses.

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 Jarvis doing Sunrise in front of the Holte. it wouldnt get better than that

Did they mention that one of the June gigs is going to be filmed to Lauren ?

To Charlie XCX at Coachella, it's Pulp Summer.
Yes, it is

-- Edited by Bookmark on Sunday 20th of April 2025 08:59:42 AM

I too, thought that was a mistake about Background Noise being written with Jarv Is... It sounds more pop/Pulp. If true, I guess it took a lot of pressure off of Nick, Mark and Candida to feel that they had to help write an album. Because of the 11 songs on More, it seems:

1 is a Jarvis solo effort (Hymn)
1 is a collaboration between Hawley and Jarvis (A Sunset)
2 are unfinished Pulp songs from days of yore (Grown-Ups and Got To Have Love)
1 is a Jarv Is... song previously performed live (Slow Jam)
1 is apparently another Jarv Is... song (Background Noise)
1 was (instrumentally) written by/started by Jason Buckle

So that just leaves the four below as possible 2024 "Ok, let's see if we can write from scratch for songs for a new Pulp record" tracks :

- Tina
- Farmers Market
- My Sex
- Partial Eclipse

And who knows, once further new interviews emerge and more is revealed about the individual songs, these four might involve more collaborators or stem from a different time as well!

If the songs are crap, you can imagine reviewers jumping to the obvious/lazy conclusion that this is a "hodge-podge of songs, lumped together to make something commercial - i.e a Pulp comeback album" but luckily, we've heard live versions of eight songs and they all sound promising.

And if Nick, Mark and Candida were just getting into the groove of writing and contributing to songs again for the first time in decades, maybe their appetite has been whetted to do more (not "More") material...

Final thought - it being Easter weekend, Slow Jam had the working title of "Bad Friday", didn't it? Coupled with the lyrical references to Jesus and "Resurrection Man", this makes it officially Pulp's Easter song. Now they just need to re-record "Snow" properly, for the next record - seeing as they're used to borrowing from the back-catalogue - and we'll have a proper Pulp Christmas song too 

One of our young Pulpers (Hugo?) has asked Mark what his fave song from the album is. Can't find it now but he replied that it's "Slow Jam" - I can't wait to hear the studio version. Its interesting that's he's chosen a Jarv Is... number. Maybe it's been souped-up with Pulp involvement...