Jarvis Cocker introducing JARV IS… to Bluedot Festival 2019 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
“Come along and start 2024 in the very best way possible,” Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker has said.
Pulp will end their comeback year and ring in the new one by headlining Edinburgh’s 2023 Hogmanay event.
The band will be at West Princes Street Garden on the occasion of the event’s 30th anniversary after a reunion tour this summer which included a gig at Finsbury Park in London:
“Elsewhere, following the End Of The Line Remix of the song, This Is Hardcore sees Jarvis slouching in a brown leather chair beneath a chandelier before descending the lit-up staircase seedily to accompany their magnum opus while he later reminds us of guitar skills, playing the riff of arms-aloft anthem Babies,” our review reads.
A word too for the rest of the main band. Mark Webber unleashes his inner-guitar god on the ecstatic Sunrise, Candida Doyle remains the foundation on which the band is built on keys, while Nick Banks pounds his drums perhaps harder than before.
“Yet Cocker remains the conductor; his leaps may cover less distance than before, but his familiar flailing and strutting arms are as captivating as ever. Joshing with the crowd, he asks, ‘Have we forgotten something?’, before a rip-roaring Common People. And what exactly did they do for an encore? A rare treat in the form of Razzmatazz, since you asked.”
