ARCHIVED NEWS: 2001  

Pulp were on the Jo Whiley Show on Dec 10.

Different Class is at number 23 in Q's list of the 50 best albums of the last 15 years. "The most artful record of the era..."

Pulp are playing Barcelona and Dublin (tel 0870 243 4455 for tickets although I am informed it has sold out already) in December - see tour dates (below) for more information. 

PULP PLAY PARIS Pulp replaced The Strokes on November 9th at the 1500 capacity La Cigale, headlining a White Stripes / Simian / Clem Snide bill as part of the festival les Inrockuptibles.  Tickets are available from FNAC or by phone 0 820 821 200 (9am - 1pm, 2pm - 6pm) and cost roughly £15 each. The evening kicks off at 6.30pm. Click here to read reviews

My spies tell me that P U L P letters, adorned with leaves, have started hitting the streets of London (in particular Kentish Town and Hammersmith) ... 

Pulp will be on Top of The Pops  this Friday. They recorded both The Trees and Sunrise for the show, but I'm not sure right now if both will be shown... (15/10) (Later: looks like it was just The Trees...(22/10))

WEBCHAT Jarvis did a webchat with Radio 1 online after co-presenting the evening session on the 10th October.  The chat kicked off at 10pm and lasted an hour.  Transcript available as well as video

NME are giving away a CD featuring "Party Hard" live at Paleo 24 July, with a small piece written by Candida, in the current issue. (04/10)

Album launch Party pics!

ALBUM PRESS: Jarvis is interviewed in i-D this month (back page) (14/09); Esquire (p63); and the whole group are in The Face, October issue. Click here for  NME news stories and interview with Jarvis, where he is very cagey  about the new album (unlike the fan  club interview, where he tells all) Also featuring rave reviews are UNCUT, FHM, MAXIM, GQ, MARIE CLAIRE (?) and GAY TIMES

PRESS: This week's NME has a whole page about the album - the article doesn't really tell regular visitors to this site anything new but it's all very positive stuff (despite the mistakes) and there's great photo of Jarvis' van. Check the story on the site too. The Face reviews the Sunrise promo in the current issue thus: "Takes a while to get going, and shit, has Jarv still got The Fear? But slowly, surely, with some Wagnerian choralling in the background, Pulp wig out with the party hard baroque'n'roll they've long since claimed as their own....." (02/08)

Worldpop featured a video interview with Jarvis Cocker yesterday, 20 September. The interview took place at cd:uk after their performance of Trees;  the interview is in video format, but will also be transcribed for those who do not have access to real player. Excerpts of the interview will be shown on worldpop news on cd:uk this coming weekend.  Click here for a worldpop review of the album. (21/10)

Jarvis is interviewed in The Independent 16 October

And here is news on that album -  it's now finished and ready to go. It's due for release on Setanta on 15/10/01, is called "Late Night Final" and is "a bloody corker!!" (direct quote from Richard's management!). "It expands on some of the themes from the first record but explores a lot of new territory too and everyone is very excited about it". The musicians on the bulk of the album are made up of Richard's live band and are augmented by the string section from The Justin Lewis Orchestra on some tracks and Saskia Cocker, yes that's Jarvis' sister,  on backing vocals on the album's closing song. Several songs were performed solely by Richard himself, as was the case on the mini LP.

 As reported on the NME site, Jarvis is making a short documentary film about Richard which will hopefully be broadcast on BBC this summer, although that is yet to be confirmed. (04/09). Link: Richard's website  

NEW ALBUM PRODUCED BY SCOTT WALKER

We are at long last able to confirm that Scott Walker has produced the new album, which is now well on the way to completion. The [provisional] track listing is: Bad Cover Version; Trees; I Love Life; "Bob Lind"; Birds In Your Garden; Wicker Man; Minnie Timperley; Weeds; Origin Of The Species; Road Kill, and Sunrise. Some of these have backing vocals by the fabulous Swingle Singers as well as 40 piece choir.  

Also involved with the album has been engineer Pete Walsh, who has worked with Scott since his 1984 Climate of the Hunter lp. Although Jarvis has not yet released a statement about Scott's involvement, we spoke to him in an exclusive interview with the group about the recording of the album in the current issue of Pulp People, the fan club newsletter. (13/03)

Click on Scott for more information.  There is also a Scott site called Walkerphiles that you might want to visit.

It's so exciting! Two brilliant live shows, followed by a cover story. The world's media grind into action with the interview Pulp did a week or so ago in this week's NME, illustrated by some ace new photos from Perou.  The interview, by Ted Kessler, portrays the group brilliantly - even though they don't actually say a lot about the new material - certainly less than in the interview in the fan club magazine - but you get a good impression of the new all natural Pulp.  Sadly Mark wasn't able to make it due to other commitments but you get to read about Candida's Shaggy fetish, Nick's obsession with weeds, Jarvis' sporting activities, and Steve's fear of dancing. You can read the whole thing on nme.com The NME also give Homelands a great write up: "Pulp are magnificent...the prospect of being richly entertained by an intelligent, witty and glamorous collective... becomes hugely exciting" Yeay! (30/05)

Pulp have pretty much finished all the recording for their seventh album, and will be doing some final mixing and overdubbing in the studio next week; there's still plenty of time before the album's predicted autumn release date. Still to decide is the final track listing for the record as well as the artwork, and of course they will be thinking about what to release as a single. (16/03) Jarvis and Steve have been working with DJ Parrott on a remix of Sunrise, not sure what's going to happen to it though. (5/02) Pulp are also working on a song initially written two years ago for Marianne Faithfull, but which might appear on her next lp of [mostly] collaborations with other artists, including Beck, Dave Stewart, Evan Dando and Billy Corgan. The song is called 'Sliding Through Life On A Charm'.  (13/03)