Benicassim Festival, Sunday  5th august 2001

Benecassim is situated on the eastern coast of Spain on the Costa Azahar, 120m south of Barcelona. Pulp played the last night of this popular Spanish festival, which runs from 3 - 5 August. 

A 4 CD set featuring all the groups playing this year is available (below) - see discography for details. A bootleg is also available from R & A Music.

Set list: Common People / Underwear / Bad Cover Version / Sorted For E's & Wizz / F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. / A Little Soul / Birds In Your Garden / Weeds / Party Hard / This Is Hardcore / Sunrise

Just been listening to a recording of this show and the version of Common People is especially strange..unless it's the recording equipment! Very quiet crowd, at least, it took them a while to get going, and I think this affected the mood of the group slightly... Here are some photos from MTV to give you the Nick and Candida eye view from the stage...

It's been less than a month since Steven Spielberg´s last movie's premiere in the USA. It's titled "A I" (Artificial Intelligence) and tries to answer all the eternal unsolved questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Can a machine have feelings? The replicant Jarvis Cocker has the answer.

When Jarvis Cocker jumped out at Benicassim's green scenery at 2:00 am, the borderlines between reality and fiction got defined. The band attacked with their musical hymn "Common People" (a criticised solution for those who don't know about spontaneity or creation "in situ" that only great bands as PULP can make from the first guitar chord) and the essential musical charm for Jarv to get a meteoric communication with the public appeared. And reality kept on prevailing , so much he took of his shoes and with bare hands and feet he sang all the songs the audience expected: FEELING CALLED LOVE, A LITTLE SOUL, PARTY HARD... with his peculiar way of walking on stage. Of course we could listen to some songs that will be the highlights from their next and expected album: BIRDS IN THE GARDEN or TREES... that, with a little luck we'll have in our hands in autumn...

Now you know it!! The machine is at it again. Where does it come from? From the musical universe, of course. Where is it heading to? Wherever it wants to, obviously. As for PULP, they're determined to stay on your own home's garage, in an intelligent way, and not artificial at all. (Victor Martín) 

(not quite sure what Victor is on about here, but I think he had a good time...-Ed.)

More pics

Steve, Richard and Jarvis DJ'd after the show at Benicassim -