A quick reminder...

While I'm here, I might aswell repost this, just in case anyone's actually reading this who might also be free on Thursday night.

Best twitter yet

SHIT MY DAD SAYS

It's self-explanatory. A man called Justin has a Twitter purely for things his 73-year-old Dad says. I only wish my own father came out with gems like this on a regular basis. This has replaced the fake Nick Cave as my favourite Twitter account.

Waking Up

To those who say that Britpop gave us nothing, I say that it gave us Elastica on mainstream TV. Complete with Damon Albarn pretend-playing the keyboards (you're still not as cool as Kurt though, Damon). Justine Frischmann is shit-hot.

The Number to Heaven

I just LOL'd at this



Phil

NEW POSTERRRRRR

I'm sharp this week - poster for the next night on the 27th:

WEEK THREE PLAYLIST

Maybe our most successful night yet. Turns out James the barman likes it when we DJ because we play better music than the random juke box. That's a relief. Also, someone asked me what a song was, which means he must have liked it, right? Or perhaps he wanted to make sure he never heard it again. That was during my 2003 garage rock section, but earlier in the evening Phil had soothed everyone into the evening with the slowest tempo song we have played so far - the Twin Peaks theme. It worked beautifully, so maybe more slowies to come in the future...

Twin Peaks Theme - Angelo Badalamenti
Baby - The Dynamics
Raven in a Cage - Zalman Yanovsky
Found 2 Photos - Dino Felipe
Cybele's Reverie - Stereolab
Help The Boy - Daughters of Eve
I Want Your Love - The Pussycats
Bubblegum - Sonic Youth
Bad Man - Oblivians
Negative Creep - Nirvana
Search and Destroy - The Stooges
Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
Spread Your Love - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Rockaway Beach - The Ramones
New Rose - The Damned
She Cracked - The Modern Lovers
Everything With You - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
If I Had A Soul - Comet Gain
Quick As Rainbows - Kitchens of Distinction
Kaleidoscope - Ride
Heavenly Waters - British Sea Power
Disorder - Joy Division
Lost In Music - The Fall
Party Hard - Pulp
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
Metal Guru - T-Rex
Whip It - Devo
Raspberry Beret - Prince
Hey Boy - The Blow
Atomic - Blondie
Rock Lobster - The B-52's
Forest - The Cure
Handsome Devil - The Smiths
Tell Me When The Light Turns Green - Dexys Midnight Runners
Party Fears Two - The Associates
Faint Praise - Luxembourg
So Young - Suede
Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Der Model - Kraftwerk
Ceremony - New Order
Departure - Crystal Stilts
Old Mother Reagan - The Violent Femmes
Princes and Princesses - Cay
Pick Me Up - Dinosaur jr
Feel Me Loud - Be Your Own Pet
Bad Kids - Black Lips
The Day I Was A Horse - The Vaselines
White Light, White Heat - The Velvet Underground
Leader of the Pack - The Shrangri-Las
There's Too Much Love - Belle and Sebastian
New Town - Life Without Buildings
Felt Tip - Love Is All
You Killed A Boy For Me - Henry's Dress
Cannonball - The Breeders
Steal My Hair - Whitefolkz
The Professional - Pulp
Ever Fallen In Love - The Buzzcocks
Rock'n'Roll Motherfucker - The D4
Outsmarted - The Hives
Hangin' On The Telephone - Blondie
Michael - Franz Ferdinand
Apply Some Pressue - Maximo Park
4men - Kitchens of Distinction
Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths
Remember Me - British Sea Power
Shine On - House Of Love
Wash Off - Deerhunter
Soma - The Strokes
Hair - Ganglians
What I Like Doing Best - Algebra Suicide
AXTXTXIXTXUXDXE - Lovvers
Tom Courtenay - Yo La Tengo
Cool Jumper - Wavves

CRAIG.

WEEK THREE COMING UP

Apologies for the late poster

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore

Mark Leckey's beautiful 1999 short film about clubbing, now available to watch online. It captures wonderfully the bizarre romance of nightclubs, their central place in modern British youth culture (aswell as the peculiarly British nature of them), and the anxiety and confusion that comes when the club is closed, and the scene moves on - both at the end of a night, and at the end of an era. Thanks to whoever made this available.

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (Mark Leckey) from Anon. on Vimeo.

Phil's Pulp of the Week - #1

Evenin' all. So since we've got this blog up, I thought it would be a good idea if we filled it with some musings/ramblings now and then. Make it more of an actual blog that people might read. So with that in mind I present to you the first in an irregular series of postings where I choose one song from Pulp's extensive, varied and altogether ace back catalogue and yak about it for a couple of paragraphs. With a format lifted entirely from another blog, this'll attempt to highlight some of the lesser known gems lurking in the band's past.

So we'll begin at the beginning, with 'Blue Girls' from the band's very first record, It.



Now despite what Jarvis might have said about Pulp's long pre-Island history (and there is some atrocious stuff in there), they did make some excellent music in the 80s. You can't keep true talent down. The first album might be a bit sappy and bad-twee in parts, but this one has a spare, melancholy beauty to it that they would have been almost unable to do in the glossy, high-budget 90s. It evokes chilly, damp school halls in winter in the way that Belle & Sebastian and the Smiths went on to make careers out of in their own ways (this came out in April '83, remember, predating Morrissey's band's first release by a month.) And it goes to show that so-called 'twee' music only really works when tempered with a bit of darkness, a bit of sadness.

His lyrics might be lacking a little bite, and his observations might seem a bit on the hazy side compared with the sharpness of his later years, but Jarv wasn't even out of his teens when this was made. It took years of watching and waiting, of frustration and experience, to bring that. What we've got here is a beautiful melody, an eye for detail and taste for metaphor, and some serious homemade charm. Those things never went away for him. Plus, that's his sister playing the flute. Keeping it in the family...