Posts Tagged ‘pulp’

Pulp will be handed the Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution to Music prize at this month’s NME Awards.

Pulp have added further US dates, and a Spanish gig, to their 2012 tour itinerary.

Pulp‘s successful 2011 reunion will continue into this year, after the band were today confirmed on the bill for the 2012 Coachella festival.

Well, it’s that time of year again when we here at the Live4ever Ezine begin to trail back through 12 months worth of musical delights in a vain attempt to group our favourites of 2011 into some sort of coherent list we like to call Live4ever’s Essential Listening.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be presenting our most cherished gigs, tracks and albums of the year, in the hope that our highlights from 52 weeks worth of sonic adventure will inspire you to investigate our essential picks of 2011, as well as sharing your own favourites with us.

Check back next week for Live4ever’s Essential Listening 2011 – The Tracks, and when you’ve been through our stand-out gigs of the year, don’t forget to leave a comment below to tell the world of your memorable gig-going experiences of 2011.

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has said he believes the conduct of the UK’s tabloid press, a subject of close scrutiny during recent months, played a part in the death of Amy Winehouse last summer.

London… the cultural and economic bastion of the western world from which some of the globe’s most coveted artists have emerged and from which some of the most famous songs have been inspired.

If the riveting sleeve notes of ‘London: Songs to Define the City’ are anything to go by, it is a place in which ‘memories are made and dreams are fulfilled’. Maybe, but can a textbook tourist-guide like compilation really be enough to convince us accordingly? It’s a long shot.

Pulp played the last gig of their summer reunion tour last night (September 4th) at Ireland’s Electric Picnic festival, and left no signs of the re-formation continuing into the future.

Pulp announced their return for a series of festival appearances, as well as a handful of their own headline shows, earlier this year, and have received strong reviews for their crowd-pleasing, hit-laden performances.

Walking on to a festival site for the first time on its last day is a strange experience; not too dissimilar to that Simpsons episode in which Homer emerges from a bomb shelter having unwittingly missed a nuclear explosion.

You wander through a barren wasteland, aware that something epic has happened in your absence, but now only presented with an eerie mid-morning calm. A thick layer of half dried mud underfoot tells the story of previous heavy downpours, and the lingering smell of smoke and barbecued meat in the air offers traces of missed 3am camp fires. As the morning progresses, the number of bleary-eyed revellers emerging into the arena area starts to grow, as does the conspicuous feeling of having enjoyed the luxury of a warm shower just a couple of hours ago.

It’s 11am on the Sunday of the 2011 Leeds Festival, and after visits from headliners Muse and My Chemical Romance on the previous two nights, Pulp are due for a little promotion this evening when they make a long awaited return to their Yorkshire roots.

The annual arrival of the Reading / Leeds Festival always signals the beginning of the end for another hectic season of UK summer festivals, and it usually helps each year to go out with a bang, and with a bill that packs in homecoming heroes, some of the US’ finest, and a wide selection of bright young things, this year looks like being no different.

So, after wading through the many stages and many, many artists ready to descend on the twin sites in just over a week’s time, the Live4ever Ezine has picked out ten acts we feel you should not be missing over the course of the weekend – might take some manic dashing to fit them all in though…

(Stages and dates represent the Leeds leg of the festivals)

As MTV celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, here the Live4ever Ezine picks ten of our essential British music videos of all time to mark this significant occasion. While some pre-date the MTV revolution, they all represent the best of a medium which was transformed when the station launched back in 1981.

From the innovation of Queen‘s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody‘, to the playful nature of ‘Whatever‘ and ‘Bad Cover Version‘, via the emphasis on human emotion featured on ‘Just‘ and ‘Bittersweet Symphony‘, these videos chart the rise of the music promo from its basic state to the leading role it now plays in any band’s life. Yep, this particular anniversary is a good opportunity for those bands who have spent long hours in a TV studio perfecting their lip-syncing technique to raise a glass to the ripest fruits of their labour.