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Time Out
2 days ago
- 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.
Irish Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Pulp at 3Arena review: Jarvis Cocker, storyteller in corduroy, builds to a glorious climax
Pulp 3Arena ★★★★☆ Ten songs into Pulp 's set, the feather boas flutter on screen, Jarvis Cocker adopts his most louche pose yet atop a brown leather armchair, and the cinematic creepiness of This Is Hardcore starts to build. This six-minute epic, laced with pornographic despair, seemed gratuitous when it was released, in 1998, but here it becomes the Pulp classic that most benefits from this being an indoor gig. There's no open sky to dissipate the effect as the lighting, a friendly 1970s orange for the preceding songs, turns a sordid crimson. We're no longer in the disco. This is Pulp in their red era, Pulp at their most menacing, and their frontman delivers its final act with the kind of theatrical conviction for which he is still, perhaps, underrated. This night at 3Arena is only the second date on the You Deserve More tour, which coincides with the release of More , their first album for 24 years. READ MORE The set, elevated by the presence of a string section, begins with the album's opening track, Spike Island, an effortless shimmy back to peak Pulp in which Cocker slips in his personal manifesto that he was 'born to perform', then tempers that grandiosity by defining performance as 'shouting and pointing'. Tonight he is a storyteller in corduroy, here to anchor a generous show separated by a civilised 15-minute interval so that the audience's ageing bladders can obtain some relief and Cocker can do the most Jarvisesque of costume changes. Pulp: Jarvis Cocker and the band on stage at 3Arena in Dublin. Photograph: Chris Maddaloni The length means that the inclusion of seven songs from More doesn't come at too much cost, with Underwear and I Spy, two imperial-era songs from Different Class, Pulp's 1995 album, the only regrettable casualties compared with the band's greatest-hits foray into St Anne's Park in 2023. It is 32 years since Pulp first played Dublin – which Cocker details before sliding into Do You Remember the First Time? – and 29 years since they headlined a bill featuring Cast and Super Furry Animals at an earlier iteration of 3Arena. None of us has got any younger since then. Cocker plays into this, incorporating a couple of lie-downs while speak-singing and asking the audience for help with a high bit in the chorus of Help the Aged. 'Everybody's got to grow up,' he sings on the band's new song Grown Ups, though in Pulp fashion this is swiftly followed by whispered doubt. 'Everybody? Are you sure?' In the intervening decades, none of the poignancy of songs such as Something Changed and Disco 2000 have lessened – if anything, as the crowd sings 'let's all meet up in the year 2000″, it has become more acute. Pulp: Jarvis Cocker on stage at 3Arena in Dublin. Photograph: Chris Maddaloni Mis-Shapes, 'dedicated to pretty much everybody in this room', retains its reliable highlight status, but the truly celebratory portion of the show arrives courtesy of the poppy 1993 song Babies, the most likable story of teenage voyeurism ever written, and then we're on track for an outsize eruption. Common People, both danceable triumph and pointed dissection of the British class system, hits different. The song, the last before a 'soft' encore, remains Pulp's crowning glory. As at St Anne's Park, its furious climax on Tuesday night is delayed by band introductions and is all the more satisfying for that. It's an achievement worth reliving. Let's all meet up in, say, the year 2029? Why not? We deserve more.
Irish Examiner
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Pulp review: Jarvis Cocker and co show their different class at 3Arena, Dublin
Pulp, 3Arena, Dublin, Tuesday, June 10, ★★★★☆ Twenty-four years on from what was presumed to be their final album, Pulp have returned with More, getting some of the best reviews of their career to boot. In Dublin's 3Arena on Tuesday night, on the second show of their relatively short You Deserve More tour, they open with the diaristic Spike Island in which Cocker, summarising the band disbanding in 2002 before reuniting first in 2011 and again in 2023, explains: 'The universe shrugged, shrugged then moved on.' Soon though, he proclaims: 'I was born to perform, it's a calling, I exist to do this - shouting and pointing.' He does a lot of that over the two-and-a-half-hour show (including 15-minute intermission). He stalks up and down the illuminated-block staircase, having appeared at the top alongside cardboard cutouts recognisable from the Different Class artwork - also 30 years old this year - and repeatedly jumps from boxes at the front of the stage. Cocker is now in his early 60s and is dressed like a tenured professor who's just sped across town from university. While he might have some sore knees from the hopping around, he still revels in bouncing around and throwing moves that might once have been copied at an indie disco. He's surrounded by core members Candida Doyle, Nick Banks, and Mark Webber, and a cast of about 15 others including a string section. The new songs are bathed in orchestral sounds - Slow Jam, Farmers Market, Tina - but Pulp have always incorporated them. Look at the spiky Mis-shapes and Sorted for E's & Wizz off Different Class, both of which are aired on Tuesday. Pulp at 3Arena, Dublin. As well as all the new tracks, we get some hidden gems from the extensive back catalogue: A relatively interactive poll during the interval saw 59 Lyndhust Grove lose out to Dishes, with its arch lyric: 'I am not Jesus, though I have the same initials.' There was also the 1992 single O.U. (Gone Gone)that came out the year before Pulp played their first Dublin show, in the Rock Garden, Cocker informs the crowd, adding that's when he first encountered Irish humour, too; they had had half their gear robbed the night previously, to which the promoter in Dublin told him: 'Sorry to hear about the gear and I'm sure the rest of it will get robbed tonight.' Pulp last played here two years ago on what was essentially a greatest hits tour - some of which get a reprise tonight. The exultant Disco 2000 arrives early, Do You Remember the First Time? all guitar riff and kicks, Babies is full of youthful vigour, while penultimate track Common People is joy personified. It's curious that the show isn't sold out, especially considering the clamour for tickets for their Britpop brethren Oasis later in the summer. Maybe people had their fill two years ago. But Pulp have the songs, history, and crowd connection to rival the Gallagher brothers - and most other bands. Meanwhile, Lisa O'Neill opened proceedings, the Irish folk musician clad all in white and fronting a five-piece band. Performing a handful of new tracks, she sounds bigger than ever before; though her voice can be marmite for listeners, there is no arguments over the booming vocals during the likes of All the Tired Horses, a Bob Dylan cover. Walking around the stage at one point ringing bells from Pakistan and a charity show in Cabra, she also tells the crowd: 'I sing these songs in solidarity with the people of Palestine… and I will not be censored.' O'Neill also sounded as excited as anybody in the crowd at the prospect of seeing Pulp. She won't have been disappointed.
Scotsman
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Pulp, Glasgow review: 'indie pop anthems galore'
Pulp squeezed all their best bits into a juicy show for their Glasgow fans, writes Fiona Shepherd Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... On paper, Pulp sound like the band least likely to – ragtag outfit fronted by geography teacher type singing about Sheffield suburbia. In practise, they are more likely to pull the curtain back than twitch behind it, producing relatable indie pop anthems galore. And in person, they have Jarvis Cocker, a crumpled but charismatic frontman with a witty ability to put everyone at ease, even 13,000 people standing in an arena. Cocker is strong on universal minutiae, whether capturing teenage forays in 1985 (Grown Ups) or love at first sight in the supermarket car park (Farmers Market). But the great joy of Pulp's You Deserve More tour on its opening night in Glasgow was how naturally they scaled up their production, with old and new members and string section arranged like a big band and their signature kitschy aesthetic translated as a kaleidoscopic backdrop, like the world's biggest Seventies living room curtain. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Pulp in Glasgow PIC: Calum Buchan Somehow, all the nostalgia felt fresh, even liberating. Lasers and klaxons accompanied Sorted For Es & Wizz, their pin-sharp evocation of Nineties rave culture, and who else could prompt a mass singalong about woodchip walls on Disco 2000. F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E was a brilliant pounding odyssey, with Cocker looking like a demented professor. Unable to hit a high note in Help the Aged, he pressed the audience into service instead, turning the wistful original into a raucous prayer, then retired to an armchair for brooding epic This Is Hardcore. Sign up to our Arts & Culture newsletter for free at During the intermission, the audience voted – by scientific cheer-o-meter – to hear early non-album track Seconds and there was also room in the second half for another deep cut, O.U. (Gone, Gone) before the closing salvo of Britpop bangers, from Babies to Common People. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How to get Pulp tickets for 2025 UK tour
Ready for another dose of Britpop nostalgia? Pulp have just announced a summer arena tour of the UK, including two dates at London's O2 Arena. The Sheffield group, fronted by Jarvis Cocker, will be hitting the road in June, shortly before fellow 90s giants Oasis kick off their own reunion tour. Pulp have not performed in Britain since their much-hyped comeback in 2023, so there is likely to be a frantic, Oasis-style scramble for tickets. Here's everything you need to know about this summer's tour. Buy Pulp tickets Pulp's new tour, titled 'You Deserve More', will kick off Glasgow's OVO Arena on 7 June. The Britpop icons, best known for hits Common People and Disco 2000, will then head to London for two nights at the O2 Arena. They will also entertain fans at Birmingham's Utilita Arena and Manchester's Co-op Live. Tickets for the 2025 dates will go on sale via Ticketmaster at 9:30am on Friday, 21 February, following a presale on Tuesday, 18 February. They will be priced between £53.60 and £99. See their full list of UK arena shows below: 7 June – Glasgow, OVO Hydro 13 June – London, The O2 14 June – London, The O2 19 June – Birmingham, Utilita Arena 21 June – Manchester, Co-op Live It is currently unclear whether Pulp's tour will coincide with a new album. The group debuted various new songs during their 2023 tour, and they were reported to have recorded fresh material in london last summer. Their most recent LP, We Love Life, was released in 2001. In a new statement, frontman Cocker said: "You deserve more – and we have more. In fact, we have more – but that's a whole other story… you'll have to wait a little more time to hear that one. In the meantime: see you this summer!" Pulp's UK tour will end a week before Glastonbury Festival, which has sparked speculation that the band could headline the event. The band last played at Worthy Farm as part of a secret set in 2011, and headlined in both 1995 and 1998. However, their only confirmed UK festival date so far is a homecoming show at Sheffield's Tramlines Festival on 25 July. They will also play at Spanish festival Bilbao BBK Live, which will take place between 10 and 12 July. Pulp's You Deserve More tour will visit the UK in June 2025
