Pulp still rock and that's not fiction 

After almost 50 years of making music and performing together, Pulp know exactly what they’re doing. 

In fact, their headline show at All Together Now is an ‘encore’ according to them.

This idea is taken from the new film, 'Pulp: What Do You Do For an Encore?', which is coming out Autumn 2026. Just like any good encore, they give the audience exactly what they want.

The show kicks off with 'Disco 2000', a song that epitomises their signature tongue in cheek brit pop sound. 

Despite performing it for 30 years, Jarvis Cocker dances with such infectious enthusiasm, it's impossible not to be won over by the 63-year-old.

The first words he speaks to the crowd are 'Up Mayo', which is quickly followed by 'I Have No Idea What That Means'.

Cocker is at his best when he’s being silly. 

Dressed in a brown velvet suit, he throws sweets into the crowd and tells us that he’s going to “quite a good” farmer’s market the next day.

In ‘Farmer’s Market’, Pulp asks the rather profound question, “Are groceries really that important?” Cocker’s genius is his love for the profane. 

Supermarkets, car parks and “oh s**ts' feature in his work, the stuff of the everyday - its absurdity and beauty are celebrated and applauded in the set.

But as the moon rises behind him, Cocker attempts to zoom out and ask, “Who would like to change the world?” Not too many people, if you go by the half-hearted cheer he gets in response. 

Cocker tells us that a scream “might be able to change the world".

But with no reference to what he’d actually like to change, the song rings hollow.

In on the joke, the band good-naturedly play their mega hit 'Common People', and there is no sense that they are tired of pleasing the audience.

Their last song though, ‘A Sunset’, is a new one. It comes from their new album ‘Live!’ which will come out later this month. 

Cocker stands still for the first time during the set and plays his acoustic guitar, “I like to look at pretty things”, he sings, “I like to feast my eyes.”

Although he has indeed given the audience what they came for with all the hits of ‘Babies’, ‘Disco 2000’ and ‘Common People’, it is this last new song that people are discussing in the queue for the loos after. 

A sure sign that the band are anything but a one trick pony.