Palazzio Pisani Moretta, Venice Biennale, 10 June

This concert was a private party to open an exhibition for Jarvis' artist friend Gary Hume and provided a suitable setting for Pulp to try out some of the then - new songs, some of which ended up on We Love Life, and which were repeated at the Quiet Revolution concert in Edinburgh two months later.

Set list: Intro / The Birds in Your Garden / Return To Air / The Quiet Revolution  / Cuckoo / Sunrise / Sorted for E's & Wizz / TV Movie / The Fear / This Is Hardcore / Dishes. Special guest Dido from Tiger played Jarvis' omnichord.

The performance was captured by photographer Andrew Wilson and even mentioned in Art Monthly (#228): "There was no prize for best party, but it there had been it would have gone to Gary Hume. Held in the splendour of the Palazzo Pisani-Morretta, underneath Tiepolo ceilings and burning candle chandeliers, the assembled merry makers danced the night away to popular beat combo Pulp, all of whom were wearing polo neck sweaters and played behind a Venetian blind..."

NB: Return To Air was later recorded on the 2001 John Peel session as Duckdiving.