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Brixton in 1995. I hope they play Razzamatazz. It's their best song for me.

Hope it makes up for me working late when they last (ever) played Brixton which denied my wife her one pre-"hiatus" chance to see them. Probably won't, but I've seen 'em loads of times anyway, ha!

Excited about TVOTR, Hives will be good fun, Horrors out of interest. Probably endure Grace Jones to retain secure spot.

If I get there early enough I'll check out Roky Erickson.

What are Funeral Party like? Worth a look?

Wanting to see..... TVOTR, Metronomy and of course Pulp. I'm pretty sure I was at that Brixton '95 show too

but guessing I should stay put for a decent spot for Pulp? Not a bad line up with Horrors, Metronomy and TVOTR as well

Really looking forward to it. Pulp were ace at Primavera. Roky Erickson's probably the other thing I'm most intrigued by.

Really hope the sound on the main stage is better than it was for Arcade Fire on Thursday.

See YOU, there.

say hi if you see me/us.

via a rather roundabout way...fingers crossed.

Pulp at glasto was the best set I've seen all year.

travelling down from Staffordshire, a friend is driving down and we are returning his violinist who's been up from London for the weekend to play Godiva Festival in Cov with him. really looking forward to Pulp, it's been a long wait from when I fell in love with Jarvis and them as a 10 year old. Also looking forward to Horrors new material live, Roky Erickson and just the day in whole really.

I'll be either wearing a John Peel t shirt or a Spillers Records t shirt so if you spot someone like that (with dark hair and glasses) that will most likely be me so say hello!!

just looking for a ticket now

get there before TVOTR - can't wait for Grace Jones too (whoever said it would be an endurance test needs their head checked)

mostly looking forward to foals and pulp (obviously)

I only saw pulp
got there late
there were a lot of geeks there

Apart from the ridiculous queuing to get in.

The Hives, TVOTR, Cut Copy and Pulp were all excellent.

And they played Mis-shapes which made me really happy.

Roky Eriksson was pretty decent.

Grace Jones and the Hives both passed me by a bit.

The Horrors were unintentionally absolutely hilarious. I've genuinely got nothing against them but there's something about the screens cutting to crowd shots of people at the front showing absolutely zero interest in what's going on on-stage that's incredibly comic.

I missed everyone else due to much prefering the pub i was in to horrid paper cup beer.
I just hope i can get tickets for the Brixton show, i need more Pulp.

TVOTR were good but a bit lost on that big stage. Naked and the Famous were decent too.

Great to hear Mile End, wasn't expecting that at all. Thanks also to the bar staff who failed to grasp basic maths and as a result served me 4 beers and charged me for 2.

Pulp were on great form. Enjoyed Tv On the Radio, Metronomy and Blind Pilot. Grace Jones and the hula hoop was something else.

Sound was fine too

who were good, but i just don't dig their new stuff like their first two albums (preferredtheirearlierworklol). still enjoyable though

Grace Jones was fantastic, really entertaining

Pulp were...yeah...blimey. managed to get down the front in plenty of time and that sure helped, but i think they'd have been amazing wherever i'd stood

you be trolling f'real

if i want to take advantage of presale on wednesday what do I have to do?

though I thought it took a few songs for them to get going, and once the crowd had settled down a bit (the aggressive chavs/johnny come lates had to push in and get their places). Oh and an annoying midlde aged obese scottish woman who loudly declared 'i've come from glasgow and so im going for it' in her eagerness to get to the front even before Pulp had started. She probably eats about six deep fried mars bars a day.

But yes, Pulp were brilliant and put on a great show. Set list was better at glasto (like a friend, razzmatazz etc), and both glasto and Primavera had a better atmosphere imo. Still a really good day all round as roky erikson, horrors, tvotr and the hives all put on good sets. Grace Jones isn't my cup of tea, and took about 40 minutes to get going. Thought the festival was reasonably organised. Travelling home was a bastard though, and never will I wear converse again to a festival - my back was in agony by the end. Not a bad day out for a free ticket overall!

ps. pre-sale link was sent out in a Pulp mailing list email this morning, pre-sale goes live on wednesday.

pulp preformance was amazing.

Horrors were great, i enjoyed Naked and Famous and Grace Jones was surprisingly fun.

I will say those students singing oasis songs and shoving people to the left of the stage were utter twats.

a very enjoyable but loooong day. The queues to get in were silly, i've been to a fair few events of similar style and never had to wait that long to get in, missed out on seeing Yuck (i'll catch them on there tour later in the year) but got in and to the far tent to catch the last few songs of Roky Erickson which I was rather happy about. Sat and watched the horrors (sound seemed pretty bad for them) will hold out judgement on new material live until seeing them in a venue, Hives I enjoyed, they always put on a good show, the new songs sounded, err like the hives. TV On The Radio were fantastic, the sound suddenly seemed to get massively louder and clearer, and thought they were excellent. Grace Jones was great to watch, the hat changes, costumes, hula hooping, and her band were spot on, the bass player especially. Pulp were fantastic, the set was great, was stood watching t via the screen with a group of friends dancing and singing throughout, i'd waited since the age of 10/11 to see this band and it was totally worth it. The fun and games of the tube is one i'll never enjoy, or the attitudes of people either (sorry for accidently standing on your toes, but after saying sorry there's no need for a mouth full of verbal,slag) finally got back home to Tamworth in staffordshire about 2.15 this morning, woke about 12 (sent apologies to work that I wouldn't make the team meeting) and now my body is showing all it's aches and pains after a soak in the bath to wash the London out of me (I really can't get on with the place, I only go when there's a band playing who I desperately want to see Prince/The Sonics/The Stooges/Sonic Youth/Pulp)

Louis from Rialto is now the guitarist in Grace Jones's band.

Pulp were great too, though wished they played a few more off the later albums.

and the pick of the bunch for me. They played most of the stuff from Different Class, which I'm most familiar with so that pleased me.

I also really enjoyed Cut Copy although missed the first part of the set due to TVOTR. The acoustics in that tent weren't great towards the side so it took a while to get a good spot and hear it properly. TVOTR were okay, Wolf Like Me was the highlight, but unfortunately the set seemed very short and they were probably a bit lost on the main stage as somebody else said. I thought that was the problem with all the acts on the main stage really, Pulp aside. The Hives did try and engage the crowd a bit, to be fair, but weren't totally successful.

Yuck were okay, but probably nothing more, and I only got to Summer Camp just as they had finished. The biggest disappointment were The Horrors. I've never listened to them and they were the one band on the line-up I was hoping might grab me, but I just thought their set passed me by and all the songs seemed to merge into one. Perhaps I'm being harsh and I wasn't paying enough attention.

In hindsight I wish I'd spent a bit more time watching bands on the two smaller stages, because the atmosphere was better, but, nevertheless, it was a good day.

I got right to the front, in the middle at about 2pm and stayed there the entire day. At about 7pm quite a few girls started pushing through the crowd, then one girl (wearing a Jarvis mask) pretends that she's ill and that she needs to speak to the security just so she can push in and get a place at the barrier, taking the place of someone who had literally been there since half 12. She then starts repeatedly asking me (I'm right behind her) to let her friends stand in front of me, to which I obviously reply "no". And so during Pulp's set, as 'revenge' for not letting her friends through, she tries to get the security to throw me out THREE TIMES by completely lying to them that I'm "kicking and punching" her, which is obviously insane. The security don't do anything, but after the third time she says this I should at her "what the fuck do you think you're doing?!"- a radge security bloke sees me do this and then comes over and shouts at me, so I spend the rest of the gig absolutely terrified that if she says any other lies to them then they'll believe her and throw me out...

I know people are naturally complete dicks at these gigs BUT someone actually on a mission to get me literally thrown out of a gig is definitely a new low.

However Pulp were class! Roll on Brixton.

My mate thanked him for playing such as amazing set at wireless, he seemed quite chuffed. I was going to ask him for the pre-sale link but I doubt he knew off the top of his head.

My brain was whirring with a certain scent of sadness. As girls in frocks gurned at their pints and chaps in suit jackets jiggled every so often, it was as if it was the elipsis at the end of some people's youth. There was a hope to these songs, a nostalgia for the future that has now passed, and the pangs of melancholy slowly ate away at how truly great the songs were, and how great Jarvis is, was and will always be.

there was a slight sense of that moreso than at any number of the other reunion shows I've seen in recent years, what with a band & songs that seemed so much more inseparable from a specific time and culture than most.

The songs are still great, the band impeccable and a great time was had but it did seem to be a bit of a nostalgia trip - albeit a cracking good one.

Also *massive snobbery alert* you're always going to have a lot of casual fans at these shows, who once danced to Disco 2000 in a bar 15 years ago, but I found it a bit saddening being stuck on a train with a bunch of people repeatedly shouting NER-NER-NER-NER-COMMON-PEOPLE... for an hour

I thought it was amazing. Disclosure - I'm 38, so His N Hers came out when I was at university. Personally, I think what made Pulp great, and what so struck a chord with the nation at the time - apart from the great tunes and Jarvis - was the social and class commentary in the songs; not just in the obvious Different Class ones, but also in Pink Glove etc (their greatest song; so glad they played it). And none of the issues in those songs have gone away or become dated, which is why they still sound so fresh and relevant today.

Same can't be said for, say, Razzamatazz, which "only" ploughed the other abiding theme of sex and sexual politics, so it wasn't a great loss not to hear it, esp as it's firmly a "fan favourite" rather than a true hit, and as this was an unashamedly populist show (and London-centric, in terms of his patter and with Mile End) I didn't miss it.

I still think This Is Hardcore is one of the best, and have come round to We Love Life a lot in recent years so it was a shame not to hear more from them (esp in favour of something like Bar Italia) but it makes sense following what I've said above. There; even if I'm wrong at least my internal logic holds up.

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4143082-pulp-at-wireless-festival-the-dis-review