PULP: Candida’s Camera
Behind every great man there is a great woman – so the saying goes. So conversely, behind every jumped up talentless twat there is an equally talentless gormless chick swaying badly behind a selection of keyboards s[…]

PULP: Answer to Jarvis’ Questions
“Is this the way the say the future’s meant to feel
Or just 20,000 people standing in a field?”
Its twenty thousand people stick-insect lad, and they are all after your blood. The future does […]

PULP: The Steve Wright Connection
Remember when Steve Wright did his hopelessly unfunny Radio One program in the late eighties? Around the jingles, the appaling music and the so-called “characters” (Mr Angry is not a character – its[…]

PULP: Unsung Heroes
Every great comedian needs a straight man, and the career of Pulp shows that dreadful unintentional comedians need them too. Jarvis rightly earns the champion’s portion of hate here, but let’s spare a thought for his l[…]

PULP: Disco 2000
Disco 2000, which tanked in the charts at New Year and thus gloriously failed to provide Jarv and the lads with the pension-fund payoff they’d so cynically hoped for, is famous for several reasons. First off it ripped off a pis[…]

PULP: Lest We Forget
…that when Pulp began their illustrious career they were not called Pulp. Oh no. They were called Arabacus Pulp. Arabacus Pulp. There’s no excuse for that, not age nor ugliness nor virginity: it sounds like a characte[…]

PULP: This Is Arsecore
When Cocker, Doyle et al shambled off to the studios in 1992 to record yet another batch of singles, do you think that any of them suggested that ? if these weren?t hits they might just call it a day? How close were we from bei[…]

POP STAR DATING TIPS – PART 1
Surprisingly you will find that I rather approve of your average joe dating a Pop Star. The reason is simple, the more time he or she spends doting over their new found love, the less time they will have to commit […]

Depeche Mode: Bite one
Chances are if you grew up in the 80s or 90s in Britain – you may have received a letter like this:
Chere Tanya!
Ca va?! Je suis ton amie de stylo, Marie France. J’habite a Rouen, j’ai quatorze ans, j&#8217[…]

JOE MEEK
Joe Meek, eh? – what a cult. Time’s a funny thing – take a record like “I Hear A New World”. It was done in 1960, you know. And believe me you will know, because anyone into Joe Meek will tell you so, again and […]