I can't wait for all of this. I think I'd prefer to save the 6music session set as a suprise, so if anyone does happen to find out what they played, would you mind terribly putting it behind some kind of spolier?!
"PULP DAY", 29th of May 2025, is now upon us and we're being promised old songs never previously performed live! Damn, I was hoping for Repressive Forkout... seriously though, what do you reckon they'll play?
7am, mind you...I never had Jarvis down as a morning person...
"Pulp perform a live session recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre exclusively for 6 Music, featuring songs from their new album More and selected deep cuts from their back catalogue - including tracks never before performed live. Plus, band members Jarvis C0cker and Candida Doyle chat to Nick about how they made the new album, how they decide on a set list, and how it feels to be bringing their music to a new generation of fans."
If you look at the list of songs never played live, below, there are only two album tracks from Intro onwards that fit that bill - Someone Like The Moon and The Day After The Revolution. Last Day Of The Miners' Strike too.
I wonder if they considered a much-loved b-side like Ansaphone, Tomorrow Never Lies/Dies or Ladies Man (albeit that has been performed live by Jarvis with Air) or maybe something long-lost in the 80s?
I mean, if that were to happen, they could play a summer of predictable setlists and I'd be happy...but who's going to volunteer for the parts that sound like someone rolling down the stairs with a bucket of rusty spanners?
Id love to hear Ansaphone, but if its 90s onwards Pulp I can imagine it being something like Forever In My Dreams- kinda goes with the current love Vibe or maybe we would get something from the deluxe albums like Street Operator which would be nice can you imagine if we get My Erection though!!
If you look at the list of songs never played live, below, there are only two album tracks from Intro onwards that fit that bill - Someone Like The Moon and The Day After The Revolution. Last Day Of The Miners' Strike too.
I wonder if they considered a much-loved b-side like Ansaphone, Tomorrow Never Lies/Dies or Ladies Man (albeit that has been performed live by Jarvis with Air) or maybe something long-lost in the 80s?
Wow! I thought that "Someone Like the Moon" had been played a couple of times in 1994! I could have sworn that I had a recording of it somewhere but just done a search and I was wrong. You learn something new every day.
Maybe you mixed it up with David's Last Summer as that was only played live a couple of times on the HnH tour and never again (and is also at the tail-end of the album). Did Pulp once say in an interview that they would never play "The Day After The Revolution" live or am I imagining this?
Some great choices of songs there. I love Ansaphone and Forever in my Dreams. What about Life Must Be So Wonderful or Maureen? Sickly Grin is very catchy too.
Can the BBC stuff be listened to outside the UK?
I know I'll get to see Jools on Sunday night but not sure I can get the radio stuff here.
Well, to put a spanner in the works - what if the words " not played before " were a little white lie? That would give us access to the likes of We Can Dance Again, Death Comes To Town? Could we get to hear PTA?
Some great choices of songs there. I love Ansaphone and Forever in my Dreams. What about Life Must Be So Wonderful or Maureen? Sickly Grin is very catchy too. Can the BBC stuff be listened to outside the UK? I know I'll get to see Jools on Sunday night but not sure I can get the radio stuff here.
If you look at the list of songs never played live, below, there are only two album tracks from Intro onwards that fit that bill - Someone Like The Moon and The Day After The Revolution. Last Day Of The Miners' Strike too.
I wonder if they considered a much-loved b-side like Ansaphone, Tomorrow Never Lies/Dies or Ladies Man (albeit that has been performed live by Jarvis with Air) or maybe something long-lost in the 80s?
Wow, I called it! All of those except for the More songs HAVE been played live, although to new people listening in, they won't know any different. For me, Seconds was a huge surprise.
That was amazing. A bit of creative license with the "never played live" but I guess we're the only feckers likely to question that. Seconds was so good - although it still missed Russ's inimitable violin-playing.
Proper order that Acrylic Afternoons finally reemerges from the shadows.
Slow Jam has sped-up since the Jarv Is...version and is maybe missing some of the subtleties of the 2021 live recordings but I think I'm probably the only one that's listened to that on repeat! The choruses really soar now with those gorgeous synths.
Really impressed with Partial Eclipse on first listen. Not one album review has mentioned it so far. I was fearing that it would be a forgettable Slush-type ballad. But encouraging on first play and looking forward to hearing it on the album.
Good to hear them finish with a bit of welly. Boyz should always be a reliable set-closer.
That version of TIH made the hairs on my arms stand on end, it was so good. And to hear Seconds played live like that was astonishing, it's one of my very favourite songs. Thanks seductivebarry for the uploads, I have a friend in Greece who was desperate to hear
It feels like they're trolling us a bit with the obvious songs to play from Hardcore - we won't play the album opener (which sounds like a single) or any of the other singles apart from the title track (which doesn't sound like a single) but we will play album tracks that only big fans remember (Dishes, Glory Days) and B-Sides (Like A Friend and We Are The Boyz)
It feels like they're trolling us a bit with the obvious songs to play from Hardcore - we won't play the album opener (which sounds like a single) or any of the other singles apart from the title track (which doesn't sound like a single) but we will play album tracks that only big fans remember (Dishes, Glory Days) and B-Sides (Like A Friend and We Are The Boyz)
What a tease it'll be if fans don't get to hear any of these live!
Hoping and praying for some His 'n' Hers in Glasgow, would die for Seconds, Lipgloss, Acrylic... (or even something ELSE they haven't played yet!) As long as it's not just First Time/Babies.
Slow Jam and Got to Have Love are the standouts for me off the new album so far.
-- Edited by lipglossed on Thursday 29th of May 2025 01:36:11 PM
For style. The Cure did the same for theirs last year.
I know arty people are obsessed with black and white, but I was quite upset when I had a quick look at iPlayer - I skipped through to see if it was going to go away after a song or two, but it was the same all the way through
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Partial Eclipse was fine enough for me, and then the guitar kicked in as Jarvis began his spoken-word section. And the song just swoons. It's so jam packed with marvellous soft light up down everything. And the spoken-word lyric is just stunning. You have the combination of soothing, gliding instrumental, and then these lyrics about ageing and mortality, and it's just *vertiginous*. And then the song floats away and they bring it STRAIGHT INTO THIS IS HARDCORE. And all of that emotional baggage is just shifted right into that string entry.
F*** me.
Thanks sedbaz from this Aussie! That was great, was thrilled to hear Seconds live. I'm slightly ashamed to say I've never listened to We Are The Boyz before but that was great fun. I agree with Ste at the top of the page; loved that version of Hardcore. The way the strings sort of turn nightmarish leading into the drumbeat is a really cool variation of the End of the Line intro I don't think has been done before (pls correct me if i'm wrong).
The new songs were also enjoyable and I'm looking forward to More even more now.
That nightmarish twist has been done before, but never recorded in that kind of live quality I think. These MP3s are going straight to my phone, then my playlist, then my ears.
Thanks for sharing the links- the video file is no longer available (too many downloads?)
Has anyone found any other links to the video version? Thank you in advance!
Gotta hand it to Jarvis, sounds like he nailed all the high vocals and the ones that need a bit of welly and grit. Wisely took Seconds down an octave in parts.
For style. The Cure did the same for theirs last year.
I know arty people are obsessed with black and white, but I was quite upset when I had a quick look at iPlayer - I skipped through to see if it was going to go away after a song or two, but it was the same all the way through
The Radio 2 show will be in colour. I think they just try and distinguish the more broad R2 (colour and the 'hits' songs) versus the more devotee 6Music (b&w and the deep cuts)
Yeah, Jarvis' vocals are sounding great and the music is great both on this and on the record. Really ready for this tour must watch the vids now. How great was it to hear Seconds? Wasn't expecting that!
That was ****ing G.R.E.A.T, Spike Island is dope in live, Slow Jam... has been very well reworked (the first live version I heard was pointless now it works)
Partial Eclipse is G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S can't wait to hear the album version, it could become my new favorite song. The others songs, my G.O.D, luckily I was alone at work so I could sing with them.
Just had a listen to "Partial Eclipse". Sounds like something that could easily fit onto a Divine Comedy album (and be one of the better tracks). I also noticed that this version lasts just under 4 minutes but the album version is reported as being 4:38, perhaps it has a longer outro.
I've said it before recently but isn't it amazing having Pulp back in the public eye so prominently again after so long? Especially as so many of us would have never thought it would have happened.
I am truly loving all this coverage and promo and press, it's an extremely exciting time to be a Pulp fan and a great feeling.
It's all too much to take in but I will say I am absolutely LOVING Partial Eclipse - the outro instantly reminded me of It's Raining Today by Scott Walker. Knowing our Jarv that can't be coincidental.
There were a couple of amusing moments towards the end of the performance of Acrylic Afternoons.
First of all, Jarvis sanitises himself as all good ex-BBC employees should, with desires on a quilted eiderdown of pulling any knickers down replaced with just vaguely wanting "to get down".
Then, in the last chorus, he hilariously nods to the yummy-mummy culture spawned since HnH by including BARNABY in the list of delightful little children that need to be beckoned home for their dindins. I think he needs to lean-in on this further if they play AA again. Skewer the pretentious names given to kids these days (Solaris, Halo, Audi, X - that kinda thing).
At the same time you can hear a wacka-wacka guitar effect for the first time in Pulp since live gigs in '92 and you're wondering who's playing it and if they're taking the proverbial. Wonderful entertainment all-round !
-- Edited by Eamonn on Saturday 31st of May 2025 05:10:46 PM
There were a couple of amusing moments towards the end of the performance of Acrylic Afternoons.
First of all, Jarvis sanitises himself as all good ex-BBC employees should, with desires on a quilted eiderdown of pulling any knickers down replaced with just vaguely wanting "to get down".
Then, in the last chorus, he hilariously nods to the yummy-mummy culture spawned since HnH by including BARNABY in the list of delightful little children that need to be beckoned home for their dindins. I think he needs to lean-in on this further if they play AA again. Skewer the pretentious names given to kids these days (Solaris, Halo, Audi, X - that kinda thing).
At the same time you can hear a wacka-wacka guitar effect for the first time in Pulp since live gigs in '92 and you're wondering who's playing it and if they're taking the proverbial. Wonderful entertainment all-round !
-- Edited by Eamonn on Saturday 31st of May 2025 05:10:46 PM
He didn't sanitise the "jerking off" that's dipped out in the radio edit. And I've always been amused that "screw" was too risqué in 1994 in DYRTFT but OK by 1995, all got through the 2025 censor. I suppose there isn't a readily available alternative in "dance and drink and screw", so they could just claim it was too difficult. And yes, Barnaby immediately leapt out at me too.
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