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Metro
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
'Secret Glastonbury performers' celebrate UK number 1 album weeks before festiva
A band who are tipped to perform a secret surprise set at Glastonbury 2025 have celebrated the run-up to the festival with a number one album. Pulp, the Sheffield band best known for their 90s hit Common People, recently returned to the music business with new album More after over a decade away. Initially formed in the late 1970s, Pulp gradually worked their way up the charts until they finally hit the big time in the mid-1990s as a main player in the Britpop explosion. They scored five consecutive top 10 hits between 1995 and 1997, battling with the likes of Oasis, Blur, and Radiohead for a spot on top of the Official Charts. Albums Different Class and This Is Hardcore both secured number ones for Jarvis Cocker, 61, and co. in1995 and 1998, and they've now landed their third with 2025 comeback More. They beat competition from a stellar list of new entries, including recent releases from pop singer Addison Rae (who got to number two) and London rapper Little Simz (who got to number three). Last week saw a resurgence for Sabrina Carpenter's Short n Sweet, following her return and an announcement of a new album – that stopped 70s stalwarts Sparks from picking up their first UK number one album. But Pulp have avoided the same fate, shifting thousands of copies in More's first week of release to keep up a staggering run in the UK charts in 2025: every single week has seen a different album hit number one. To support the album, Pulp are currently in the middle of a UK tour and have received regular radio play with their new singles, Spike Island and Got to Have Love. And if recent speculation is to be believed, Spike Island and Got to Have Love will be getting their Glastonbury debuts at Worthy Farm between June 25 and June 29. For weeks now, those attending the 2025 festival have speculated that a band currently known as 'Patchworks' are in fact the Sheffield rockers in disguise. According to an anonymous tip poster on social media known as SecretGlasto, Pulp will be taking to the Pyramid Stage in the primetime slot of 6.15pm on Saturday, June 28. The account shared a video of a patchwork quilt, which featured someone using a sewing machine, before cutting to numerous clips of Jarvis Cocker and Pulp. More Trending In the video, Pulp member Candida Doyle is speaking to BBC radio presenter Jo Whiley about how she used to do patchworking as a hobby while with the band. 'I used to do patchwork when I was on tour,' she revealed to Jo. 'And I made a really nice bit of patchwork, that's all I can think of right now.' Other names, like Haim, Harry Styles, Timothee Chalamet, Robbie Williams, and even Oasis have been mentioned as potential performers in the same slot (despite Noel and Liam Gallagher distinctly saying no). Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: From Glastonbury to Wilderness – what to wear this festival season MORE: Glastonbury performer forced to cancel all shows in 2025 over mental health MORE: 'Chilling' horror with 91% on Rotten Tomatoes soars up Amazon Prime chart
Time Out
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Pulp at London's O2 Arena: start time, tickets, potential setlist and what you need to know
Up until a few years ago, it seemed like legendary Britpop band Pulp had retired for good. But in 2023 the 'Common People' singers made an epic comeback with their international 'This Is What We Do For An Encore' tour. Jarvis Cocker and co clearly can't get enough of the touring life, and are about to embark on another nationwide stint of concerts, playing six shows across four major UK arenas this June. Pulp will swagger onto the stage in London this weekend as part of the 'You Deserve More' tour. Even more exciting – they've just released a brand new album More, and are likely to be playing lots of tunes from it (as well as all the classics). Heading to the show? Here's everything you need to know. When are Pulp playing at London's O2 Arena? Pulp are playing in London on Friday, June 13 and Saturday, June 14. What are the timings? Doors to the venue will open at 6.30pm for both weekend shows. The show is set to start at 8pm and wrap up at around 10.30pm. There will be an interval halfway through the concert which will feature 'extended performances', Jarvis Cocker said in an Instagram post. What's the setlist? There is no official setlist, so all will be revealed on the night. However, Pulp's last live show in Glasgow went like this: Spike Island Grown Ups Slow Jam Sorted for E's & Wizz Disco 2000 F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. Help the Aged Tina Farmers Market This Is Hardcore Sunrise Something Changed The Fear O.U. (Gone, Gone) Seconds Acrylic Afternoons Do You Remember the First Time? Mis-Shapes Got to Have Love Babies Common People A Sunset Who is supporting? Pulp won't have a support act at the O2 this weekend. Can you still get tickets for Pulp at London's O2? Yes! Tickets are still available for both nights online via AXS and Ticketmaster. They range from £59-£156.
Perth Now
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Jarvis Cocker doesn't want huge gap before next Pulp album
Jarvis Cocker hopes Pulp won't take another 24 years to make a new album. The 'Spike Island' group released More, their first LP since 2001's We Love Life, last week and though there are no plans set in stone for another record, the 61-year-old frontman suggested there won't be such a lengthy gap next time around. Asked if there will be another Pulp album in the future, Jarvis told NME: 'Maybe. 'We tried to not have a concept for this record or think, 'This is it, this is our last gas'. I used to think that a lot. I had this weird thing that when an album was mixed and finished where I'd think, 'Oh, I can die now and it would be OK'. 'That's a terrible way to think about your life, really. I didn't feel that with this record. On the sleeve inside it says, 'This is the best that we can do'. That's all you can do at any point of your life. 'Hopefully not in another 24 years, but maybe in a couple of years, there will be something else to say The Common People hitmaker admitted he was worried he'd "scare off" his bandmates by proposing a new album because their previous efforts had taken such a long time to put together. He said: 'At the back of my mind, I thought that it could be good to do a record, but I didn't want to scare everybody off by saying that because the last two Pulp albums took a very long time – mostly due to my prevarication. 'I didn't want everybody to get stressed out thinking that they were going to lose two years of their lives to make a record. I decided to be grown up and write the words first and things like that, which sped the whole process up a bit. 'It was kind of like going back to the early days of being in the band when we didn't have a record deal or anything like that. There was no reason to make this album in that there was nobody asking us to, but we just thought, 'We've got some songs here that are good, so why don't we record them?''
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pulp's ‘More' Is a Master-Class Comeback Record
It's been almost a quarter century since Pulp's last album. But the Sheffield, England band — who disbanded after releasing 2001's We Love Life, reunited to tour in 2011 and again in 2023 — are back with More. The band's eighth full-length builds on Pulp's legacy of indie-disco bangers like 1995's 'Common People' and mini-epics like the title track to 1998's bummer ride This Is Hardcore. It's technically a reunion album, but it's not asking the question 'do you remember the first time?' as much as it is wondering what happens next, to often-revitalizing effect. These 11 songs represent an evolution of Pulp in both sound and outlook — something that should be inevitable after two and a half decades, but that is too often lacking from later releases by big-ticket outfits. Leader Jarvis Cocker still embodies a raffish, witty cool that inspires varying degrees of aspirationalism and envy, although now his croon's edges are a bit weathered, his world-weariness a bit softer and more informed by what he's lived through than any hell he might be anticipating. Songs like the triumphant 'Got To Have Love' possess a slow-burning grandeur that is made to send festival crowds into a frenzy—a hallmark of Pulp tunes — even as their arrangements, which are often delightfully heavy on the strings, feel more homespun than the orchestral flourishes of the band's '90s work. More from Rolling Stone It's the Perfect Time For a Pulp Reunion Pulp Return With First Album in 24 Years, 'More' Let's All Meet Up in the Year 2024: Why Pulp's Reunion Tour Is Pure Brit-Pop Magic Cocker was inspired to get the band back in the studio in part by the deaths of his mother and the band's longtime bassist Steve Mackey; More is the first album since Pulp's 1987 release Freaks to not feature his playing. A sense of mortality has always hung over Pulp's work, but moments like the rueful close of the glam spectacle 'Background Noise,' or even Cocker gasping 'hurry, 'cos my sex is running out of time' on the skeletal, absurdist 'My Sex,' bring it to the fore. More adds additional highlights to Pulp's already robust catalog. 'Grown Ups' opens as a jaunty remembrance of Cockers' days as a young scenester who was just learning the ins and outs of the bus; as time passes, the rhythm keeps up, but the lyrics grow more agitated as Cocker realizes that 'growing up' is full of drudgery and food consumed simply because it's time to do so. 'I'm sorry for asking/ But are we having fun yet?' he exclaims near the song's end, the answer obvious. The luminous, stretched-out love song 'Farmers Market' — where Cocker whispers and eventually wails, 'Ain't it time we started living?' when realizing that he's met a kindred spirit, obliquely asserting that going all in is the best way to defy the reaper's scythe — is a stunner, the delicate arrangement making its golden-hour parking lot setting nearly burst into brilliant view. For years, Pulp has realized the futility of trying to recapture youth probably better than most rock acts out there — after all, Cocker did sigh 'One day you'll be older too/ You might need someone who can pull you through,' on the Hardcore track 'Help the Aged.' At the time, Cocker was in his mid-thirties, and having a laugh about the whole thing; on More, though, he and his bandmates are delivering on that promise, working out their own creative impulses while giving their generational cohort — and anyone who might follow it — a glimpse of how getting older can be a chance to grab brilliance once again. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Daily Mirror
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Glastonbury Festival's Patchwork secret act unveiled by expert tipster
SecretGlasto has confirmed the mysterious Pyramid Stage act, 'Patchwork', to be Pulp in a new social media video. If true, this performance would mark thirty years since their first Glastonbury headline set, and their seminal album 'Different Class'. Glastonbury Festival's mysterious Pyramid Stage act, 'Patchwork,' is Pulp, according to the expert social media account SecretGlasto, which has built up a reputation for confirming secret Worthy Farm acts for the past ten years. The dedicated X account for Secret Glasto had been building up to a reveal at 10 AM on Monday, June 9. This resulted in a video compilation set to the soundtrack of the Britpop hero's 1995 hit, 'Common People'. Posting the 35-second clip to X and Instagram, the video included the quote from keyboardist Candida Doyle, who spoke to BBC Radio 2 about her patchwork hobby, followed by lead singer Jarvis Cocker saying it's the "best music festival I've ever been to, easy, Glastonbury." Further into the clip, former BBC Radio 1 host Scott Mills asks Jarvis, "Would you step up?" before replying, "If it was a life-or-death situation." — Secretglasto (@secretglasto) June 9, 2025 Pulp first headlined Glastonbury in 1995 after stepping in to cover The Stone Roses and went on to headline again in 1998. This year marks thirty years since their breakthrough performance, as well as their album 'Different Class', which helped cement them as BritPop legends. Speaking to the BBC about the numerous TBC acts still to be revealed at Glastonbury, Ad, who helps to run the SecretGlasto social media accounts, explained: "Of the four main slots, I think we've got three of them, maybe four, nailed down. "I think it's definitely people who have got relationships with the festival who will be doing the big slots. An emotional return for one or two, I think. Some unfinished business." This led many fans to think Lewis Capaldi, who had to end his 2023 set early after suffering an emotional breakdown, or even Lana Del Rey, who had to delay the start of her set in 2024, could be likely candidates to fill the empty slots. Ad from SecretGlasto continued: "We've got loads of contacts at different stages and record labels and whatever else. And people trust us to be sensible with the information. And the bands themselves don't want empty secret sets do they? So we have had occasions where they have come to us." Interestingly, the six people behind the popular social media account with 87.5K followers on X don't work in the music industry at all. Another account manager, JB, told the BBC: "Now that we've been around for 10 years and have a decent bit of clout, we will contact some of the artists via their inboxes, and quite often, they're happy to confirm. "Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they block us. But generally we're able to piece all that together fairly quickly."
