Jarvis Cocker introducing JARV IS… to Bluedot Festival 2019 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of Pulp’s sixth studio album This Is Hardcore.
Jarvis Cocker has confirmed Pulp will return for a second reunion in 2023, according to reports.
Speaking at a Q&A yesterday, Cocker is widely reported as responding to question about a recent Instagram post by revealing:
“It was deliberately cryptic. It’s a line from This Is Hardcore. Next year Pulp are going to play some concerts.”
Live4ever was there when the band reunited in 2011, catching their co-headline show at that year’s Leeds Festival.
“Predictably it’s set closer ‘Common People’ which really steals the show as Cocker firstly recounts its well-known origins, leading us back to his student days whilst also recalling the panic as he aimed to finish the song’s lyrics in time for its first outing some years later,” our review reads.
“‘Common People’ scoffs at genre; unashamedly as much pop or disco as it is rock, one of the all time classic singles that will surely be sung at parties and in nightclubs forever. Tonight, it perfectly brings the curtain down on a superb gig, on a superb festival, but hopefully, not on another chapter of Pulp’s superb career.”
