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Features · 3 Nov 2026Pulp’s ‘Live!’ takes you beyond the hits. Here’s where to go next‘Live!’ pairs Pulp’s staples with songs from the band’s earlier margins and their 2025 return. These are the albums to follow when the familiar choruses have done their job.

News · 27 Oct 2026RAYE’s album has jumped 77 places in the midweek chart after her Mercury Prize victoryRAYE’s Mercury-winning album has risen from Number 88 to Number 11 in the midweek Official Albums Chart, while several fellow nominees have also seen a post-ceremony boost.

News · 26 Oct 2026Pulp are celebrating their Sheffield Walk of Fame induction with a special pub pop-upPulp will celebrate their Sheffield Walk of Fame induction with an all-day pop-up at the Hallamshire Hotel on 30th October.

Features · 26 Oct 2026How ‘Hymn of the North’ helped Pulp make ‘More’A soundcheck experiment in Sheffield led Pulp towards their first album since 2001, recorded briskly with James Ford in Walthamstow.

Features · 18 Oct 2026Why Pulp’s ‘Spike Island’ is named after a Stone Roses gig, and how its video became an AI experimentPulp’s 2025 single took its title from the Stone Roses’ landmark 1990 Widnes show, via co-writer Jason Buckle’s memory of one persistent announcement.

Features · 10 Oct 2026What Jarvis Cocker has said ‘Tina’ is about, and who made Pulp’s ‘digital Fuzzy-Felt’ videoJarvis Cocker called Pulp’s ‘Tina’ a song of “obsession & fantasy”; its animated video was made with artist Julia Schimautz, DTAN Studio and Gaussian Studio.

Features · 2 Oct 2026How Pulp’s ‘Different Class’ 30th anniversary edition changed the original vinylPulp’s anniversary reissue spread the 53-minute original album across two 45rpm LPs, while placing the full Glastonbury 1995 set on separate discs.

News · 1 Oct 2026RAYE, Olivia Dean, JADE and more are set to perform at the 2026 Mercury Prize ceremonyPulp to perform 'HELP(2)' tribute as full Newcastle line-up confirmed.

Features · 30 Sep 2026How Foo Fighters’ ChurnUps Glastonbury 2023 secret was revealedA mysterious Pyramid Stage billing, a carefully chosen word and a festival-day flag helped identify Foo Fighters as Glastonbury 2023’s ChurnUps.

Features · 29 Sep 2026What My Chemical Romance’s anniversary editions actually addFrom a Rich Costey remix to BBC sessions and Hoboken recordings, here’s what distinguishes the expanded editions of ‘Three Cheers’, ‘Danger Days’ and ‘The Black Parade’.

Features · 24 Sep 2026Why Pulp’s 1995 Glastonbury set belongs alongside ‘Different Class’Pulp’s last-minute Pyramid Stage headline set captures the band at the precise point their pop ambition met a vast audience.

Features · 23 Sep 2026Had Pulp already broken through before ‘Common People’?Yes. Pulp had already reached the UK Top 10 with 1994’s ‘His ’n’ Hers’, but ‘Common People’ transformed that momentum into national pop success.

News · 23 Sep 2026Britpop memorabilia from Oasis, Blur, Pulp and The Verve is heading to auctionNoel Gallagher’s handwritten ‘Live Forever’ lyrics and Jarvis Cocker’s pink silk glove are among the lots.

Features · 22 Sep 2026Where My Chemical Romance’s ‘Common People’ and Gerard Way’s ‘Superstar’ fit in their historyTwo covers, from two different corners of the My Chemical Romance archive: Pulp in the ‘Danger Days’ era, and a Carpenters recording from the ‘The Black Parade’ sessions.

Features · 20 Sep 2026How Garth Jennings uses performance and archive footage to tell Pulp’s storyPulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? turns a 2025 arena show and four decades of material into a film about a band still finding reasons to perform.

News · 18 Sep 2026National Album Day has announced its 2026 exclusive releases and reissuesPulp, Suede, Elbow, Goldie, Paris Paloma and more feature in National Album Day’s biggest release slate yet.

Features · 16 Sep 2026How secret are Glastonbury’s secret sets?At Worthy Farm, a “secret set” can mean anything from a publicly timed acoustic performance to an alias that only technically keeps the surprise intact.

Features · 16 Sep 2026Sheffield gave us Alex Turner and Jarvis Cocker. Why does it produce lyricists who notice everything?Pulp and Arctic Monkeys turn class, desire and embarrassment into sharply observed songs, with Sheffield as a location rather than a shorthand.

How Pulp’s two reunion films tell different stories of return15 Sep 2026 How Haim, Wet Leg and Pulp made room for the new at Glastonbury 202514 Sep 2026

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