Pulp

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I've just watched Pulp live at Brixton Academy on Sky Arts and it's made me remember just how much I loved them.
Perfect 90s pop music - halls of residence and indie club nights. Feeling very warm, fuzzy, nostalgic (and old) now.

Please, 90s indie clubbers, reminisce here...where did you go, what did you wear, who did you see in a sweaty little venue where your feet stuck to the floor...oh to be 18 and full of angst again.

Oh, I was a full on Indie kid. Indie nights at Highbury Garage in particular, gigs in Camden. I even made a fanzine with my best mate that lasted two issues!

Saw lots of Sleeper (who we followed from their first single), My Life Story, Echobelly, Skunk Anansie, Supergrass.

Saw Pulp at my first festival, Reading 94 - Jarvis was the only artist I ever saw really command a main stage at a festival.

A few years back went to a fab gay indie night in Hackney doing a Pulp special and realising some of the kids singing along to the songs would hardly have been born when they came out!

I have found my people! Never saw Pulp live sadly but went to (possibly literally) hundreds of gigs in the 90s, including The Wonderstuff, Carter USM, Suede, Inspiral Carpets, Happy Mondays, REM, Radiohead, PWEI, Placebo, Ride, Curve, James, The Primitives, Supergrass, Ash and Shed Seven. Plus numerous others at a couple of Reading Festivals.
Brixton Academy gigs were always the best.

I used to go to indie nights at The Underworld in Camden, The Dome in Tufnell Park, The Venue in New Cross and the one at Kings College student union, the name of which I fail to remember!

Ahh I just watched that tonight too!
I miss everything about it, the music, the camaraderie, the adidas gazelles... it was such good times.
Saw Pulp at V96 where Jarvis brought a gorilla suit on stage and asked if anyone had seen the gorilla walking around the festival that day, people shouted out yeah and he then casually chucked in, yeah it was me!

Saw Blur at Brixton and they brought out Phil Daniels for Parklife - probably my No1 gig

I love Pulp. brings back memories of student days in Sheffield and meeting my now DH. I saw them at Chelmsford festival I think and maybe a festival in leeds. We moved to New Zealand in 1997 and saw them live in Auckland too !

@mum2jakie

Saw Pulp at the Leadmill in Sheffield, would have been around 97 I reckon.

Loved the Leadmill - chip butties in the little cafe were fantastic.

I listen to the Radio X indie night at weekends and pretend I'm back in the 90s. Loved the whole britpop scene and the excitement of it all.

Ahhh, I was front row at that gig! Sky Arts showed it a few months ago and was very weird to relive it and show DP my 16 year old self. I got Jarvis's sherbet dip at the end

Absolutely adored Pulp, I was at secondary school when the Brits happened and remember our drama teacher (who grew up with Jarvis) having to tell us we didn't need to make Free Jarvis badges cos he was already out.

My DD has become a bit of an indie kid but she doesn't like The Cure or Nirvana or Placebo or anything else from that era. It's all Melanie Martinez and Billie Eilish (although, I actually bought Billie's album on vinyl and she was not happy as I'm old and uncool). She just got her first pair of Doc Martens and walks round in black jeans and vintage tees. I won't tell her but I'm so proud. She went through a JoJo bow and cap era and I was concerned.
I've just got to keep playing the odd bit of Foo fighters and the likes until it gets in her brain 😂
It helps that her best mates mum is my age and we are both ex-indie goths.

@ZootSuit

Ahh I just watched that tonight too! I miss everything about it, the music, the camaraderie, the adidas gazelles... it was such good times. Saw Pulp at V96 where Jarvis brought a gorilla suit on stage and asked if anyone had seen the gorilla walking around the festival that day, people shouted out yeah and he then casually chucked in, yeah it was me!

Saw Blur at Brixton and they brought out Phil Daniels for Parklife - probably my No1 gig

I've still got a few pairs of Gazelles

I live Pulp. I only saw them once - Leeds festival in 2000. Categorically the best festival line up ever.

I’m a massive Britpop fan. Saw Oasis many times, Blur too. And all in between. Blur at Glasto in 2009 was such a sweet moment. I force my husband and mates to as many revival gigs as possible now - in the last few years we’ve seen Ash, Kula Shaker, Shed Seven, the Prodigy, Ocean Colour Scene. Loads.

I do like new music, but god you can’t beat the 90’s.

@SellFridges I really hope there are more shed seven gigs in my future, they are the band I’ve seen the most since the 90’s 😁

Loving this thread. Loved Pulp and Sleeper and so many of these bands.

I saw Pulp 3 times I think...the most memorable was at T in the park festival in 2006 when Shaun Ryder and Bez (Black Grape at the time) appeared on stage and did a backing dance to Year 2000.
I loved the way they always ended with 'Bar Italia'
I used to live in 'The Underworld' in Camden as a student.

My partner was in a britpop band so I went to A LOT of gigs in the 90s, but never saw Pulp 😥

I have seen Ash approximately eleventy billion times though.

Echobelly I was at Reading 94 too! That must have been the first time I saw them. I remember getting completely crushed watching Cypress Hill and camping next to a camper van that played Blur 24/7. We had a campfire at night - how bloody dangerous??

Mostly I was wearing tie dyed leggings and massive vintage grandad shirts, or I did have a very beautiful 70s A line red suede mini skirt.

Didnt get to gigs but was at college in Lancaster and The Sugar House in Lancaster was the place to be. Remember watching Deelite on the giant screen at the front waving my diamond white about.
Dd is 13 and a bit of an indie kid into emf and nirvana and the like.

@BearSoFair I was at the Royal Albert Hall gig too and caught a sweetie! It was a mini Cadbury dairy milk and I kept it for years

I saw Pulp 2 or 3 times but my favourite one has to be their gig at Doncaster Dome. Not the coolest venue but it was fun! I can’t remember exactly when it was but somewhere between 95 and 99 I think. God they were amazing. I was right at the front and he did a swirly pointy thing with his finger at me whilst singing ‘You didn’t notice me at all’. I nearly peed my pants 🤣

Check out this video and also have a nose around YouTube on Candida Doyle. They will combine some great nostalgia plus give an understanding to the background of her style of keyboard playing which turns out not to be her BritPop style but managing to play while covering up severe arthritis

Think my best one was the Levellers at The Cambridge Corn Exchange.

Early 1990s was a great time for bands.

I also remember going to Newbury to see the protests about the bypass!

I saw Pulp last night as well - this is a great version of Common People by William Shatner.

I've never seen Pulp live but I did see the Pixies many times, Brixton Academy and Kilburn National Ballroom being the ones I remember most clearly. Inspiral Carpets, the Sundays, Ash, Ride, Echobelly all at either Manchester Academy or the Leadmill in Sheffield. I saw Belle and Sebastian at Edinburgh Queens Hall, I'm sure that was late 90s. And some happy times at Glasgow Barrowlands, just trying to remember who I saw there! Happy days :)

I saw Pulp when they headlined at the Heineken festival in 95 ,they were brilliant ,I also ,saw pop will eat itself,meanswear,skunk anansie and loads more best of all it was a FREE festival!