LET'S GO!! THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!! Hopefully a national tour will happen too but hey, if I need to go to Adelaide for my birthday to see a free Pulp show then so be it!

Hopefully also some Mark book signing / talks at some of our lovely book shops. Be happy to provide a list... lols. I'm at work and I cant concentrate ... big week this week as we're also seeing Oasis. And I have 2 x Pulp shirts packed to wear for their gigs. Also I love how the poster looks like Netflix. Time for Jarvis to stock up on Cherry Ripes!!!

 

-- Edited by cutcopy on Monday 27th of October 2025 02:23:31 AM

I will if no closer shows are announced. I've waited fifteen years to see 'em live so a trip to Adelaide sounds like a nice and pleasant way to do it! Somebody in this reddit thread has heard that there's a show happening at the Sydney Opera House forecourt which would be iconic. Imagine the band going all out to Common People with that skyline behind them!

YESSSSS I have been manifesting a Forecourt show for years!!! This will be so f***king iconic.

Such an amazing day!! Thank you Pip!

Dates announced:

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Sat 21 Feb 2026 - Auckland Spark Arena
Tue 24 Feb 2026 - Brisbane Riverstage
Fri 27 Feb 2026 - Adelaide Festival
Tue 3 Mar 2026 - Melbourne Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Fri 6 Mar 2026 - Sydney Opera House Forecourt
Sat 7 Mar 2026 - Sydney Opera House Forecourt

Tickets go on general sale this Friday (7 Nov), but if you're on Pulp's mailing list you can take part in a pre-sale on Wednesday (5 Nov) from 9am local time.

Make sure you are signed up via https://welovepulp.info before the end of Tuesday this week.

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He did also say that there werent any new songs currently being written, and if they were to carry on, then they will have to start writing during the tour. With the gap coming up, its certainly possible for new material to be written. I just cannot see getting signed to Rough Trade would be a one album deal.

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The release of these Australia dates could be quite telling of what is to come.

I say this because Mark revealed the following bits of information at his Manchester 'in conversation'. Do correct me if I misheard but I'm fairly he sure he said...
1. We should probably play Australia / New Zealand this year really
2. It would be also nice to play some countries we have never played in.
3. We probably have to draw everything to a close after that, we're not thinking about another album and can't keep touring the same stuff.
4. If we do, we should probably play a few final, final farewell gigs in the UK in 2026.

He said it as though they were all just him speculating and completely just guesswork.

But with the Australian/ NZ dates coming to fruition so soon after he speculated on them, I wonder if everything in this list is perhaps more certain than he was letting on.

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 Final gigs... then i'm cancelling all my plans. Saving money for now.

Even Candida said she wouldn't be opposed to an EP....let's see! Better to expect the worst and hope for the best.

Meanwhile, Perth want Pulp! They've been left-out and boy are they making their feelings known...

https://www.change.org/p/perth-wants-pulp?recruiter=1394126448&recruited_by_id=13935760-b8b5-11f0-ab24-8303d9b0b9ce&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_promote_or_share&utm_term=take_next_step&utm_medium=copylink&utm_content=cl_sharecopy_490866470_en-AU%3A0

Well, they can't play everywhere, can they? I don't think that the petition is going to make them change their minds 3 months before the tour kicks off.

In terms of future dates for 2026, I think that smaller UK venues would work well, similar to what they did in October 1995. The chances are "More" will be a year old before it starts so without any new material, they are unlikely to sell tickets on the same scale as they did this year and last.  

An absolute dream that they're playing a Brisbane show. We came back from the oasis juggernaught yesterday and I squinted as I looked at the poster and there it was a Brisbane show!! I'll doing all australian shows. Its just absolute magic! But im really hoping Mark gets some book shows in as well. And for friends in New Zealand - I am so excited for you. I know Perth has missed out and yes Perth gets a hard deal all the time. And how about those 2 shows on the Sydney Opera House forecourt. I think these ones will be emotional because the venue - well looking out onto Sydney Harbour and the Opera House is kinda special. Anyone from Bar Italia doing the flight to join us?

Oh no I am very tempted by Sydney.

I've just bought tickets for both Sydney dates. I must be off my head.

oh wait. Had the wrong code. Ok all sorted. Wowwwwww. It feels surreal. 2 Sydney shows booked. See you there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Edited by cutcopy on Tuesday 4th of November 2025 11:13:39 PM

YASS see you in Sydney!

twiddle my thumbs now until February...

Also this is kinda funny. On Wednesday when various presales went live Pulp tickets were trending just in front of australian retirement age... help the aged.

-- Edited by cutcopy on Friday 7th of November 2025 02:54:50 AM

You know its real when on the train this morning I'm looking in my ticket apps and there they are ... just waiting to be scanned. This thread will probably be me replying to myself. But I feel like its taken over my head. Everything is semi-booked apart from a few flights so I really should just not think about it until next year. I think with Covid and all the things that got cancelled there's still a sense of trepidation ...

Gosh, I'd be tempted to get the stanley knife out and swipe it, if I lived near that.

Never seem to see any billboard posters turning up for sale, maybe an occasional big poster from the tube or something. All those HUGE promo displays for More, some of them were incredible. Some of them must get saved somewhere.

c.org/Zx49S8skCj Bar Italian's help out the good people of Perth by signing petition to get Pulp back to the most isolated city in the world!!!

Its going to be awesome. I have the poster flyer on our fridge and I look at it and i think f**k this is happening. its been so long.

I hope there are pulp related parties after the Sydney gigs in the 24 hr bars. Do they still have 24 hr bars?

oh god no. We have lock out laws. Its probably a very different country to when you were last here! Covid sort of changed a lot. We are all smashed avo and $17 flat whites these days.

It's 'stralia. They got everything ! - Not quite. Suede dislike us. They are the one band that has eluded me. One tour in 1999. I know stuff went down but come on...

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Also going to be making some custom tshirts. Probably just a few. Working on them now. Pulp Come Alive in Australia - something silly like that. They'll be awesome though. thetshirtco.com.au/products/comfort-colours-boxy-tee-crop-custom-printed probably this type because I fit better in a boxy tshirt.

You know what else that has me super worried. Its cyclone season when they are playing Brisbane. It'll be almost to the day when New Order played and it was amazing that gig went ahead because trains were down and many people couldnt make it. I'd be so so so sad if that happened again... bloody tropical weather!!!

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 I'll buy one of these off you

Some designs so far. I like the boxy tshirts hence the box-shape. Woke up thinking about 7 and a bit weeks. 

-- Edited by cutcopy on Thursday 1st of January 2026 06:56:46 AM

Very nice but yeah, at least an NZ. Florian Habicht would be thrilled. And he'll probably be there.

Oh i think I am making the pivot from shirts to now a patch. My shirts were looking to much what is probably going to be the tour shirt. I know everyone needs to know this. I was like what is an Australian / NZ animal - we dont really share to many similar animals. We often gave them ones and they turned out to be pests in NZ like the humble possum. So I thought well whats something very Aussie and I thought well an Ibis because they are F**king everywhere doing their thing. They are native - not to NZ though but they have them because we gave them to them... It will say Shouting & pointing across New Zealand Australia 2026.

So there is a call for Pulp to cancel their Adelaide Festival appearance. About 100 authors who were to appear at Adelaide Writers have pulled out. You can read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-08/randa-abdel-fattah-adelaide-writers-week-axed-authors-withdraw/106210464

-- Edited by cutcopy on Sunday 11th of January 2026 08:57:21 AM

2 nights in a row - I am having Pulp dreams where I miss the concert. First night I had a designated 'hug spot' where I needed to stand but still couldnt make the concert then last night couldnt make it again.

Probably a tiny bit smaller for Pulp. Having said that NC played here in Brisbane 2 nights ago at the showgrounds. That's not a normal venue - more for festivals than individual artist gigs. But Pulp played there in 98 for Livid. Its like multi-purpose. For cows and sheep and for bands.

For Brisbane they are playing the Riverstage which is the usual place for your New Orders, Fontaines DC. But we saw David Byrne like a week ago at the Entertainment Centre - but id say for his screen rig he chose that venue.

Melbourne - well thats where ABBA played in the 70s and Thom York got yelled at.

Sydney - well steps of the Opera House. Cant get more rad than that. Hope the Opera House films it as they have been doing.

And Adelaide. Some type of park on the river which should be nice.

Its so close now. Its crazy. At a cafe last weekend they had a Pulp Brisbane poster and I took it!! Its such a beauty! My partner went back the following week and said all the posters they had up had all been removed so lucky.

And NZ. Well the only arena on the tour. Same place as David Byrne played and I saw some footage from that and it was a big arena and he pretty much packed it.

Yes, I meant the bad seed.

Hope you had a lovely day! Maybe I can buy you a birthday schooner

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Hope you had a lovely day! Maybe I can buy you a birthday schooner

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 Just being nosey, but what's a birthday schooner?

Adding happy birthday wishes to @cutcopy for tuther day (love your patch).

I know its been a win week. I hope to maybe give a patch to maybe Candida or Mark. Thatd be a dream.

Both Sydney shows have sold out.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360941343/night-museum-pulps-jarvis-****er-heads-dunedin

out and about with Jarvis and Jason. Kim not with him on this tour?

Still using atlas obscura 

-- Edited by cutcopy on Friday 20th of February 2026 10:04:01 AM

beer stubby Pulp merch is on offer at Auckland. And a beach towel. Nothing screams Pulp more!

Brisbane next... f**k they're probably flying in tomorrow. I'm really nervous and excited.

Also saw the worlds biggest Pulp poster when we were out today.

It is attached.

Not last year?

Looks like they're sticking to the bumper two-sets with a break for ageing bladders like the UK arena tour last summer. Only the best for the antipodeans.

On your marks, get set... Pulp!

Enjoy, it's your time

Also I put the hard yards in this morning. Been into the city - looking looking. Then I head back over the bridge and near State Library who do I find... Yes Jarvis. Just wandering around the cultural precinct. Had a small chat about stuff re: Adelaide, the water dragons, meeting him many years ago at the Leonard Cohen thing at the Opera House - he said that he had his son with him and he wasnt walking yet and classic me - I told him how the venue they're playing tomorrow kind of smells because its near the mangroves....Then I said look I do have some things in my bag because I'm a big fan and he signed my TIH CD booklet, Spike Island 7" and Help The Aged 7". Not sure why those things - I had some other stuff. I suppose it was what I could fit in my fjallraven bag. It was a magic moment. I saw him a bit after while i was eating my apple and people are just wandering past him. I'm thinking you're walking past an icon!!! He said they had played in NZ and I said yes the vibe on the internet is good re: NZ gig. He laughed at that. I also got a photo. Both with our hats on. I did also say I had Mark's book in my bag and he said he is around but didn't see him.

I had to sit down and I started giggling like a mad lady to myself. I had been so nervous and twitchy - and this has happened and I feel like its all gone. He made someone super happy today.

-- Edited by cutcopy on Monday 23rd of February 2026 04:47:50 AM

I can't believe you bumped into Jarvis. After all your prep and preamble! It was written in the stars.

I've been to Lone Pine!

Listening to their soundcheck and they were playing most of the set including Seconds, The Fear, Begging for Change with multiple run through. And then they played the ABBA cover from a few weeks back. I was in the loo listening to a crystal clear soundcheck. Astonishing.

I'll let you know shortly. A bit under 2 hrs. I am right up the front. This is what lining up for 6 hrs can get you.

Blow up disco balls on sale as well

As long as it was "biblical", Brisbane.

Suede are a tight 5-piece band, they all know the songs backwards, three of them having been in the band for 35 years, the other two for approx 30. They tour a lot more than Pulp and are probably more open to setlist changes to keep things fresh for themselves as much as anything. 

Pulp is a more selective thing and a much larger collective, over half of whom have only come onboard since 2023. Also, as impressive as Swayed are, even now (saw them in Brighton at the weekend and the energy from Anderson in particular was incredibly impressive), Jarvis likes his between song-chat which eats into more time than the average act. And sub-3.5 min songs are a minority in their catalogue. A Pulp concert is more of a performance than a rock gig.

That said, Pulp did try out a heap of songs in rehearsals last year and The Day Before You Came & Seconds were sound-checked, in Brisbane apparently.