OKay I may be drunk just a liitle bit but you ahve to agree with me..

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Pulp are the MOST underrated band ever!

I love them so much!

Whose with me?

I see this is an old thread but just had to join in the love for Pulp. I was the odd kid at my school who didn't give a toss about Take That or Boyzone but just sat around obsessing over "Something Changed" :)

Jarvis was definitely shaggable back in the day, and he really did have the most incredible hand gestures didn't he? That "Do you Remember...?" video has just reminded me.

Oooooh , elephant, I'm with you, totally. I was utterly in love with Jarv back in the day: the lyrics, the voice, the hand gestures, the dancing...there was something very wrong about him that gave him sex appeal :)

Fired up by my purchase of Pulp tickets for next yea, I have spent a large proportion of this evening watching old Pulp live performances (e.g. Glasto '95) and being fascinated by Jarv's hand gestures.

Yeah but I still like skinny sarcastic men to this day. And he is just a great mover, he probably could have been a dancer or something (in the same way that e.g. Freddie Mercury just moved with grace).

The voice...

"Well I've kissed your mother twice, and I'm working on your dad"

I used to really really fancy this much older boy, and he was the only other person I knew who was into them.

So...Wireless - what's that then?

btw Oli - have you just come on and done a search for Pulp, and posted on every thread ever in your excitement? :o

Weeeelll, Wireless is a 3 day festival in Hyde Park next summer, beginning of July. Pulp are headlining on the Sunday (July 3rd) on the Main stage. There will be loads of other bands performing; but I'm only interested in Pulp, really. Tix are about £55 for the one day (Sunday) but they work out cheaper if you do 2/3 days of the festival.

Personally, I will be going along on the Sunday and tolerating all the other bands until the might Jarv appears.

Yes, I'm so with you. Pulp provided the soundtrack to my teenage/college years. So many weird and wonderful memories wrapped up in those songs :)

and...yes, in my excitement about my Pulp tickets, I searched mumsnet to see if any other posters were talking about the festival. But they weren't so...just me :)

Can I recommend watching (on Youtube) a performance of 'I Spy' that they did on Jools Holland some years ago? Spellbinding.

yes you can recommend that :)

I can't afford that for one day without knowing that everyone else performing will be marvellous too (and not encouraged by recent lineups because I'm a boring person who hates dance music). Having said that I am spending £30 to see Arcade Fire in December...

Yeah...I'm not much of a dance music fan either but reckon I'll get into it on the day; after a few ales, obviously. Nice to share a love of Pulp online at such an ungodly hour...night!

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yeah thank you! it is nice to share my painful obsessive adolescent crush interest in the music of Pulp.

:o

My one regret is the Glastonbury I missed when they played. And, it looks like they will play this year as well, when I couldnt get a ticket!!

Im not getting tickets for Wireless on principle though because I think they will do a Blur and tour as well.

One of my favourites is off the last album "Poor Imititation" Ive had wine, I better go and dig it out.

I absolutely love them and did buy Wireless tickets. Even if they do tour I won't regret it. Am looking forward to next July already .

Im still holding out that I will get Glasto tickets the weekend before. They are bound to headline it.

Do you believe that there's someone up above? And does he have a timetable directing acts of love?

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Thanks for the explanation WildPansy - was wondering :o

Glad I'm not alone in my meltingness.

Sure they will tour - they will, won't they?

I'm actually a bit sad that they have reformed. I saw them at T-in-the Park years ago, in the "e's and whizz" era, and that's how I like to remember them. It was music for a specific time- you should never go back! (but by all means listen to and wallow in nostalgia)

It looks like he's wearing eyeliner in the "when we woke up this morning we had no way of knowing" bit.

I loves blokes in eyeliner I does.

Ah but joolyjoo - I know what you mean, hate all the other bands all grey and haggard reforming. But I was too young to see Pulp when they were last playing, this would be my only chance!

I like to think they wouldn't reform if they couldn't do a good job of it.

"But I was too young to see Pulp when they were last playing, this would be my only chance!"

Ouch- rub it in

I'm sure they'll do a fairly good job of it, but it won't be so relevant somehow. (But then, I am one of those old buggers who says "ooh- I prefer their old stuff" )

I know it won't be as good. And I know that Jarvis is no longer a snake-hipped youngster but a bit of a beardy old trout. But I lurved them.

Yeah didn't want to say about being too young as last time I mentioned something like that I got a virtual smack round the head. But couldn't think of another way to explain it. "Oh yes I had to be in at 7pm in the mid-nineties because...I was 11 on probation"

"Jarvis is no longer a snake-hipped youngster but a bit of a beardy old trout." LIES [denial emoticon]

I was in my prime the first time round now, Im not so

I must admit, he hasnt aged as well as Damon but, then he never was a looker. A perve but, not a looker. I would still give him a whirl though.

I love his wit. I will go but not to the big parkie thing. I dont like it as a venue. Im hoping they will do something smaller.

No, it wont be the same. I wonder if he will roll around the floor again?

I dont like it when bands reform and do this generally but I can understand why they do it. There is a reccession on.