I know the performance has been a bit controversial in some quarters but my partner and I hadca great time and really enjoyed.

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I know the performance has been a bit controversial in some quarters but my partner and I hadca great time and really enjoyed.

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 Why was it controversial?

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 I suppose I don't really mean controversial in a serious way. When I saw Mark gave his talk he reiterated his opinion that Tramlines was not a good performance but a lot of people in the audience disagreed quite vocally. I read a lot of FB posts the day after that were less than glowing about it as well. 

They rehearsed Deep Fried?? 

They rehearsed Dirty World?? What else, Catcliffe??

I missed this boat talk, apparently. Doesn't Mark hate Dirty World? I seem to recall a comment about there "not being a song there".

As an aside, I'm convinced the band lurks this board.

-- Edited by Frisko2000 on Tuesday 16th of December 2025 01:57:25 PM

I think Mark said he wasn't there, the day it was rehearsed!

But I disagree with both him and Andy. Owen Hatherley, in his book, Uncommon, put it best:

"As portraits of women go, the stoically suffering Sylvia ("Her beauty was her only crime" etc.) pales in comparison with the monstrous, charismatic protagonist of 'It's A Dirty World'; the most finely, precisely drawn female character in a ****er lyric since 1994. Inexplicably, this outrageously successful song, already given the full, claustrophobic 'grand guignol' Chris Thomas treatment, was held off This Is Hardcore at the last minute. It's a fabulous record and so much more likely than the album's apologies and fudges".

Do Pulp have enough songs for an entire set about Sheffield? Let's see:

I Scrubbed the Crabs that Killed Sheffield
My Legendary Girlfriend (related to "Sheffield: Sex City")
Sheffield: Sex City
Babies
Inside Susan
His 'n' Hers (presumably the Brincliffe Oaks is a pub in Sheffield)
Deep Fried in Kelvin
David's Last Summer
Disco 2000
Catcliffe Shakedown
Wickerman
Last Day of the Miners Strike
Grown Ups
Hymn of the North

Hmmm, not quite. Some of these are only very loosely connected to Sheffield. They could pad it out a bit with some other songs such as "Blue Glow" and "Goodnight" that may be set in Sheffield.

I thought Lyndhurst Grove was in London. The sleeve says "...following Susan from her Rotherham puberty through wild teen years in Sheffield to her eventual marriage and settling down somewhere on the outskirts of London".