There’s a ’90s revival knocking around, leaving thirtysomethings to thrill about an imagined golden-period of music history… a period that comprised of bands like Echobelly, Menswear, Candy Flip and a whole host of other dreadful bands.
Basically, if you remember the ’90s without rose-tints, then you’ll know that it wasn’t that great at all. Go listen to Sleeper for proof of how rubbish the ’90s could be.
However, one of the better bands of that period are apparently getting back together and, if you can read a headline or look at a picture accompanying an article, you’ll know that the band in question is Pulp.
That’s right nostalgia fans, Jarvis Cocker will be teaming up with his Pulp bandmates (who no-one really remembers the names of, apart from the girl called Candida or whatever it was) to play some shows next summer.
Does that news make you happy? Good. We want to give you good news from time-to-time.
Pulp will play Primavera Sound 2011, which means that you’ll have to go to Spain to watch the band in action. That’s not great news, granted. Unless you’re lucky enough to already live in Barcelona, where the festival is held.
The Primavera show will be Pulp’s first gig since their 2002 split. There’s is better rumours though, as the band look set to be playing the Wireless festival in London on Sunday July 3rd (tickets on sale on Thursday for that).
Of course, there will be people who fully expect Pulp to headline the 2011 Glastonbury festival to tread the boards that had a huge hand in propelling the band to proper fame when they stepped in place of The Stone Roses who pulled out of their headlining slot way back when with John Squire’s broken collar bone.
It isn’t the first time that there’s been a ‘Pulp Are Getting Back Together’ rumour as Jarvis Cocker had to quash the murmurs a few years ago when asked if the band we going to get back together for this year’s Glastonbury.
However, this looks like a dead-cert, so feel free to get all excited and keep your fingers crossed that they’ll do a tour so all the middle-class kids can singalong to ‘Common People’ without getting the joke all over again. And here’s a song that many ’90s girls will wryly wink at as a reminder to the time they lost their virginity…
mithaearon says
The 90’s were hands down the best decade for music. Very creative all round from most genres of music. The last decade and so far this one are gank.
Yes Echobelly, Menswear, Candy Flip (They did make a top tune called Evolution before Danny Spencer joined and they made that dire Strawberry Fields cover) were shit but there was a lot of good bands and scenes going on.
Oh and Sleeper were awesome.
mark says
Sleeper were awesome! Either that or I had a massivew crush on Louise Wener that influences my recollection…
Mandy says
I was born in 1990, I would want to see Pulp reunited. The world needs a dose of “Common People”.
cleave says
The 90’s gave us all the insipid, conservative Britpop shit but it also gave us Wu-Tang Clan , Drexciya, Underground Resistance, Aphex Twin, Autechre and loads of other people doing fresh and inspiring stuff so it wasn’t all bad
sdm says
Yeh the driest music in the 90’s was britpop.
I was a teen through the decade, and it wasn’t until i had matured a bit that I began to realise britpop was a massive marketing exercise and the real forward looking music was being made on samplers, sequencers and synths.
So I agree with cleave above, the decade should be remembere for Diamond D, Kenny Ken, Rebel MC, ODB and Liam H.
Pulp were main room disco numbness back in those days too….