Go Unlimited with Magzter GOLD
Get unlimited access to 10,000+ magazines, newspapers and Premium stories for just
Try GOLD - Free
Review Old and new given equally rapturous welcome
The Guardian
|June 09, 2025
An encore occurs because the audience wants more." Since their initial breakup in 2002, Pulp have re-formed twice, for sold-out tours and festival sets played to loyal, rapturous audiences.
thick velvet curtain cocoons the stage as a cool disembodied voice projects over the audience: "This is an encore. An encore occurs because the audience wants more." Since their initial breakup in 2002, Pulp have re-formed twice, for sold-out tours and festival sets played to loyal, rapturous audiences. Tonight, the stakes are higher: for the first time in 24 years, Pulp have a new album, More, released just one day before tonight's opening show.
The audience want more - but do they want More?
Any anxiety about new material is quashed when the set opener and comeback single,
This story is from the June 09, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
Subscribe to Magzter GOLD to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 10,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
MORE STORIES FROM The Guardian
The Guardian
Red carpet Royals put on a brave face for ceremony's key drama
Paddington in his duffel coat, and a prince and princess putting on a brave face and black tie in the white heat of royal disgrace.
2 mins
February 23, 2026
The Guardian
Intruder shot dead at Trump residence
The US Secret Service shot and killed an armed intruder who breached the perimeter of Mara-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida residence and private club in Palm Beach, yesterday morning.
2 mins
February 23, 2026
The Guardian
England face 'uncomfortable' review after humiliation
George Ford has vowed that England will conduct a \"properly honest\" and \"uncomfortable\" review of their Six Nations humiliation against Ireland on Saturday.
2 mins
February 23, 2026
The Guardian
A very British Baftas Win for I Swear caps off a feelgood night for UK film
This turned out to be a very British night for the Baftas more British than a smidgen usual. It started out with the Hollywood A-listers in the audience being handed hilarious British snacks, of whose existence they had no more idea than they had of life-forms on the moons of Saturn.
3 mins
February 23, 2026
The Guardian
'It's a ticking timebomb'
Food producers sound the alarm on rising energy costs
4 mins
February 23, 2026
The Guardian
'Delighted' Team GB hail best Winter Games after three golds
Team GB chiefs have hailed a “historic” Winter Olympics after Britain’s greatest performance in the 102 years of the Games left them 15th in the medal table - and warned their rivals the “Brits are coming again”.
3 mins
February 23, 2026
The Guardian
Ministers reveal £4bn package to support pupils with special needs
'Generational' change for English schools cautiously welcomed
4 mins
February 23, 2026
The Guardian
Arsenal win battle of derby narratives but tell us little we did not already know
It was a derby but it was also a clash of emerging narratives, which is always a confusing, if thrilling, moment for the great soap opera of the Premier League.
3 mins
February 23, 2026
The Guardian
Mother of Nottingham stabbing victim calls for 'the whole truth'
The mother of a student who died in the 2023 Nottingham attacks has said she will \"fight to the bitter end\" to get to the truth of how Valdo Calocane was free to kill, before the beginning of a public inquiry into the deaths.
2 mins
February 23, 2026
The Guardian
Russia intensifies Ukraine attacks as Hungary threatens to block sanctions
Russia fired scores of missiles and drones at targets across Ukraine yesterday, flattening a residential house in the capital two days before the fourth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion.
3 mins
February 23, 2026
Listen
Translate
Change font size