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Dermot O'Leary was at barrier apparently.

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Starting to think we dodged a bullet.

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why so shy on Partial eclipse? why the mystery? or they let us one last surprise...

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Tempted to complain about the BBC apparently giving almost all the tickets to VIPs, politicians and luvvies, paid for from our licence fees of course.

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Bookmark wrote:

why so shy on Partial eclipse? why the mystery? or they let us one last surprise...

 It's only been one mini-gig since the album was announced! Plenty of concerts in the summer for it to "come alive". Ditto Slow Jam. Or maybe it's too much of a faff to play live.



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The comedian Josh Widdecombe was upstairs on the balcony. From his video, you can see quite a few heads of more folically-challenged folk moving around. Looks like it was for the ones with connections rather than the young'uns.


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Partial Eclipse? Am I missing something or being thick.

What I will say, from some of the footage I've seen - if you have listened to alot of bootlegs especially around the 1992/3 period, I'd say the band sounded like that .....ya know, not massive sounding but instruments being loud like the drums, violin etc. proper excited me that did.

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Partial Eclipse is track nine on the new album. Now the only "complete unknown" from the album seeing as everything else has been played live in some form.

I agree on the sound but this is the sad reality - Pulp outgrew small venues in 1994 so it is a treat to see them play in intimate surroundings and hear each instrument a bit more organically. But you're only likely to get into these rare events if you have connections or a few quid (i.e private performances like the one they did at Central Saint Martins before it moved). Just imagine - the millionaire Pulp obsessives who have got the band to play their banquet rooms in front of less than fifty people. If you called your Dad, he could stop it all...

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Maybe Russell had a point, eh?

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Well, quite. His last Pulp gig before leaving was that corporate shin-dig sponsored by a fizzy lager at a beautiful Catalan amphi-theatre full of D-list mid-90s slebs and bored execs. Live On!

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Yes! Shades of Barcelona 96, for sure...

 

Would be lovely if there was a fan oriented intimate gig like that, but sadly not... 



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Yep, was hoping there might be. There's no fan-club anymore, I don't know how big/cult artists who do this type of thing, organise it to ensure that the hardcore get first dibs.

I guess it's linked to following their social-media or being part of the mailing list but anyone can do that in two seconds for free so it's immediately diluted with casuals.

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Eamonn wrote:

Setlist has been reported! Debuts for Tina and Grown-Ups" Dishes is back!

www.setlist.fm/setlist/pulp/2025/bbc-radio-theatre-london-england-13590199.html

1. Spike Island
2. Something Changed
3. Tina / Grown Ups
4. Dishes
5. Sorted for E's & Wizz
6. Disco 2000
7. Got to Have Love
8. Do You Remember the First Time?
9. Farmers Market
10. Sunrise
11. Common People
12. A Sunset


Looks so weird/brilliant to have so much new material enmeshed with classics. I wonder why Tina and Grown-Ups are lumped together? Something Changed early always seems off to me. A Sunset looks like it's gonna be a solid full stop on the shows/album.

Also, this ends Babies unbroken run of being performed at every Pulp show going back to....anyone know?

Sorry, does the above need to be in spoilers? I can't get it to work.



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That's only the Radio 2 show isn't it.  Any setlist yet from the 6Music one too?  That was supposed to be the more 'for the fans' one.  

 



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I wonder if they played Tina and Grownups or if the / indicated it was a choice between the two.

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Hadn't thought of that, I assumed it was a segue but you're probably right!

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Do you think Mark has been reading the forum?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJZcXSViyTz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==



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Re the 6Music set, Mark and Pulp's social media have promised a couple of forgotten/surprising obscurities. I mean, their version of obscure is probably different to ours so if it's Acrylic Afternoons and Sylvia, I will leap for joy.

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Thank you Mark if you are reading this, naturally the blame for the ticketing annoyance is with the BBC rather than the band.

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My job is putting on things like this for a similar organisation and tickets that are available in that kind of ballot process are only ever 25%ish of the total capacity. And then you probably have about a 1/5 chance in the ballot depending how many people enter. Unfortuantely it's all for invited guests, sponsors, stakeholders, people like that. Not particularly surprised this happened here too. At least Mark acknowledged it.



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Eamonn wrote:

I agree on the sound but this is the sad reality - Pulp outgrew small venues in 1994 so it is a treat to see them play in intimate surroundings and hear each instrument a bit more organically. But you're only likely to get into these rare events if you have connections or a few quid (i.e private performances like the one they did at Central Saint Martins before it moved). Just imagine - the millionaire Pulp obsessives who have got the band to play their banquet rooms in front of less than fifty people. If you called your Dad, he could stop it all...

 Was looking at tour lists on pulpwiki, and was surprised at the rapid acceleration: played Newcastle Uni in Oct 1995 - smallish venue, in Feb 1996 Newcastle Arena - huge concrete & metal shed. My friend went to that one, I was too chicken, regretted ever since (even though it's an awful venue).



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Actually, yeah, they were still playing some small venues on the Different Class tour which seems mad given they had had two number two singles in the previous few months. I guess the tour was booked well in advance. Was there a call to upgrade any of those October '95 dates to bigger venues?



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I don't know. They also played Middlesbrough Town Hall on that October Diff Class tour - another small venue. Those shows must have been awesome, and the demand must have been massive. Both gigs near me (then and now). I wasn't driving then, and as a very timid teenager, would have been too frightened to go. Wish I could see Pulp again, tried for Brid, but these venues they play now just don't appeal.

Reminds me, saw Grandaddy at Newcastle Uni, supported by Snow Patrol - tour was booked, then Run came out, and was huge. Packed for support, drifted off for Grandaddy (fools).



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As I've grown older, I have come to realise how hard it must have veen in that Different Class era. The tour in autumn 1995 had obvioysly been booked into a certain size venue long before they realised what kind of success they had on their hands. They never really stopped to breathe at all in the 90s.

 

PS i was at that Newcastle arena one (my first concert ever!) & also that Grandaddy Uni gig with Snow Patrol. I remember them both like it were yesterday.

One of my favourite albums is the David Bowie BBC Radio Theatre one from 2000. I was just thinking yesterday how, at that time Bowie was a good 7 or 8 years younger than Pulp are presently... whuch kunda blew my mind! 

It is a bit of a shame that more "proper" fans couldnt get in. I make a slightly sarcastic comment of Josh Widdicombe's Instagram post, which i ever so slightly regret now. Of course he's going to go when offered because he is actually a fan.



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simmonel wrote:

I wonder if they played Tina and Grownups or if the / indicated it was a choice between the two.

When I first saw the setlist, I thought it was a choice between the two. As there is approximately 2m30s difference between the length of each, maybe it was something to do with timing. 

That said, most of the other Pulp setlists featured choices towards the end rather than at the start. We'll see, it will be a bonus if they played both. 



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Yeah, I thought that too - their setlist often shows the either or option in the encore only.

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