Posts Tagged ‘pulp’

It wouldn’t have been so ironic if it hadn’t been a struggle.

Unerringly left field, Pulp – or to that point awkwardly charismatic front man Jarvis Cocker‘s succession of backing bands – had been left in splendid anonymity by the UK’s uncaring record buying public for over a decade.

Caught in the scrum of desperate majors signing anybody patently ‘British’ as the country’s sense of national self worth reasserted itself, they were almost a twelve year old overnight sensation by the time ‘His N Hers‘ clipped suburban acidity looked up the nations’ skirt in mid-1994.

Pulp played their first full UK show of the year over the weekend as part of the 2012 series of Teenage Cancer Trust concerts.

Pulp and Florence & The Machine will make appearances at the 12th annual run of Teenage Cancer Trust charity concerts, it has been confirmed.

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.