23 h. ago Jarvis Cocker is Britpop’s ultimate comeback king in scintillating Pulp show

The band’s arena show at the O2 proves they are every bit as vital in 2025 as they were three decades ago

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6 d. ago Pulp review – Jarvis Cocker’s captivating comeback turns a rapt crowd rapturous

OVO Hydro, GlasgowOn a kitschy 1970s chatshow set, the Sheffield band play hits from across their career – and fans welcome their just-released album tracks like old friendsA thick velvet curtain cocoons the stage as a cool disembodied voice projects over the audience: “This is an encore. An encore occurs because the audience wants more.” Since their initial breakup in 2002, Pulp have re-formed twice, for sold-out tours and festival sets played to loyal, rapturous audiences. Tonight, the stakes are higher: for the first time in 24 years, Pulp have a new album, More, released just one day before tonight’s opening show. The audience want more – but do they want More?Any anxiety about new material is quashed when set opener and comeback single Spike Island is received like an old friend. Jarvis Cocker rises from the back of the stage flanked by cardboard cutouts of his bandmates – recognisable from the cover of 1995’s Different Class – before joining their real-life counterparts, guita...

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9 d. ago ADRIAN THRILLS reviews Miley Cyrus' Something Beautiful: Miley channels her inner Pink Flloyd for ambitious concept album

The latest Miley Cyrus album certainly comes with a lofty billing. She came in like a wrecking ball. Is she now giving us her free-form jazz odyssey? Not quite.

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9 d. ago ADRIAN THRILLS: Beyoncé turned damp Tottenham Hotspur into a giant nightclub (and didn't let the rain stop her!)... the night was a masterpiece!

Opening her six-night residency at a damp Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the Texan superstar was in her element.

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1 week ago On ‘More’, Pulp pick up precisely where their imperial phase left off

Band’s first album in 24 years accomplishes the transition between fan-settling familiarity and creative advancement

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1 week ago Pulp: More review – anthems and rage for the next life stage

(Rough Trade)Jarvis Cocker and the band’s first album in 24 years delivers a refreshing take on middle age, with all the the skewed observation and joyful melodic flourishes of oldTime has been particularly kind to Pulp. As Jarvis Cocker points out on Spike Island, the lead single from their first album in 24 years, their 2002 split went largely unlamented: they had already succeeded in considerably reducing the size of their audience with 1998’s claustrophobic album This Is Hardcore and 2001’s Scott Walker-produced We Love Life. An ostensibly valedictory greatest hits album spent a single week in the lower reaches of the Top 75. And the year after their demise, John Harris’s Britpop history The Last Party noted tartly that Pulp’s music had “rather dated”. “The universe shrugged, then moved on,” sings Cocker, which is a perhaps more poetic reiteration of what he said at the time: the greatest hits album was “a real silent fart” and “nobody was that arsed, evidently”.But subsequent y...

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2 w. ago ADRIAN THRILLS reviews Pulp: More (Rough Trade): Britpop for grown

Fronted by a witty English eccentric in Jarvis Cocker, the Sheffield group secured their first Top Ten album with 1994's His 'n' Hers.

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2 w. ago ADRIAN THRILLS reviews Pulp: More (Rough Trade): Britpop for grown

Fronted by a witty English eccentric in Jarvis Cocker, the Sheffield group secured their first Top Ten album with 1994's His 'n' Hers.

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