Material World: Pulp
Photograph: Ed Sirrs
New Musical Express, 10 October 1992
Transcription: Acrylic Afternoons
Where are you and what are the vibes like?
We are in Norwich and the vibes are like shimmering shards of incandescent plywood.
What was the last thing you ate?
Nick Banks: Chicken In A Bun
Candida Doyle: Branston Pickle
Steve Mackey: Cucumber (whole)
Russell Senior: Earwax
Jarvis Cocker: A Skoal bandit
What was the last video you rented?
Girl On A Motorcycle and we still owe six pounds because we took it back late, so because of that we've had nothing since.
What was the last good book you read?
Dead Babies - Martin Amis
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Woman In White - Wilkie Collins
Bonfire Of The Vanities - Tom Wolfe
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Fave political figures?
Arthur Scargill, Harriet Harman, Michael Foot.
What TV shows do you try not to miss?
Open University - Particle Physics Module One.
What sports are you good at?
Water, pocket billiards, table tennis, cards, arm wrestling, gambling.
Which public figure do you most despise?
Sebastian Coe (he gives Sheffield a bad name - he stood for Parliament because he couldn't run for toffee).
Fave TV shows of yesteryear
The Spirit Of Dark And Dirty Water
Double Deckers
Hope And Keen's Crazy Bus
Banana Splits
Cheggers Plays Pop
Any public information films
Most embarrassing records in your collection
Ours, because our mothers insist on playing them when relatives and insurance salesmen come round.
Name three great songwriting partnerships
Chinnichapp, Bacharach & David, Peters & Lee.
Fave punk rock records
Candida: 'Another Girl Another Planet' - The Only Ones
Jarvis: '1 2 X U' - Wire
Russell: 'Pretty Vacant' - The Sex Pistols
Steve: 'Bingo Master's Breakout' - The Fall
Nick: 'Roadrunner' - Jonathan Richman
Fave historical figure
Vlad The Impaler and the Whore Of Babylon.
Worst lyric you've ever heard
"Kick yourself in the head/Pretty soon you will be dead..."
('Get A Life' - Julian Lennon)
Who's overrated?
Wim Wenders, Jacques Poos (Foreign Minister of Luxembourg), Bob Dylan, Graeme Hick, John Barnes.
Who's underrated?
Fellini, potatoes, Donovan, Momus.
Who's sexy?
Jarvis: Jan Francis
Steve: Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Candida: Jack Nicholson
Russell: Ingrid Pitt
Nick: Sue Carpenter
Punchline to fave joke
"Elvis Parsley"
Where would you like to retire to?
Jarvis: Whitby
Russell: Scarborough
Candida: Shetland
Steve: Galway
Nick: Cardigan Bay
Name a record that can make you cry
Nick: 'Honey' - Bobby Goldsboro
Candida: 'Romeo And Juliet' - Dire Straits
Steve: 'Blue Afternoon' - Tim Buckley
Jarvis: 'Always Coming Back To You' - Scott Walker
Russell: 'She's A Lady' - Pulp
When were you last drunk?
When we dressed up as a bottle.
What was the last dream you can remember?
Candida: Eating live cockroach sweets
Russell: That Rotherham was a major international conference centre
Jarvis: Sticking up toads at the top of my gran's cellar steps
Steve: Being dressed in women's clothes at a disco
Three records guaranteed to make you dance
'French Kiss' - Lil' Louis
'Groove Is In The Heart' - Deee-Lite
'Disco Inferno' - Trammps
What was the first record you heard?
Nick: 'Mr Tambourine Man' - The Byrds
Candida: 'Love Is Just Like A Merry-Go-Round' - Sandie Shaw
Steve: 'Itchycoo Park' - The Small Faces
Russell: 'The Ring' - Wagner
Jarvis: 'The Strange World Of Guerney Slade' - Max Harris
Fave fabrics
Dacron, Trevira, Courtelle, Lycra, Dralon, Velour, Towelling, Darron, Suedette, Moleskin, Velvet, Sharron.
Motto
"That which does not destroy us makes us stronger"
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UK politics. Not available MP for next parliament, they're not standing for election. Source ITV 24 May 2024.
How I found out my own MP is going to not campaign. Some voices who speak up with relative sense will not be there in the next parliament.
Conservative
– Adam Afriyie, Windsor (MP since 2005; majority 20,079)
– Nickie Aiken, Cities of London & Westminster (MP since 2019; majority 3,953)
– Lucy Allan, Telford (MP since 2015; majority 10,941)
– Stuart Andrew, Pudsey (MP since 2010; majority 3,517)
– Richard Bacon, South Norfolk (MP since 2001; majority 21,275)
– John Baron, Basildon & Billericay (MP since 2001; majority 20,412)
– Sir Paul Beresford, Mole Valley (MP since 1997; majority 12,041)
– Sir Graham Brady, Altrincham & Sale West (MP since 1997; majority 6,139)
– Steve Brine, Winchester (MP since 2010; majority 985)
– Lisa Cameron, East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow (elected as SNP MP in 2015; majority 13,322; defected to Conservatives in 2023)
– Andy Carter, Warrington South (MP since 2019; majority 2,010)
– Sir Bill Cash, Stone (previously MP for Stafford 1984-97, then Stone since 1997; majority 19,945)
– Jo Churchill, Bury St Edmunds (MP since 2015; majority 24,988)
– Greg Clark, Tunbridge Wells (MP since 2005; majority 14,645)
– Chris Clarkson, Heywood & Middleton (MP since 2019; majority 663)
Dame Tracey Crouch, Chatham & Aylesford (MP since 2010; majority 18,540)
– Dehenna Davison, Bishop Auckland (MP since 2019; majority 7,962)
– Jonathan Djanogly, Huntingdon (MP since 2001; majority 19,383)
– Sir James Duddridge, Rochford & Southend East (MP since 2005; majority 12,286)
– Philip Dunne, Ludlow (MP since 2005; majority 23,648)
– Sir Michael Ellis, Northampton North (MP since 2010; majority 5,507)
– George Eustice, Camborne & Redruth (MP since 2010; majority 8,700)
– Sir David Evennett, Bexleyheath & Crayford (MP since 2005; majority 13,103)
Mike Freer, Finchley & Golders Green (MP since 2010; majority 6,562)
– Nick Gibb, Bognor Regis & Littlehampton (MP since 1997; majority 22,503)
– Jo Gideon, Stoke-on-Trent Central (MP since 2019; majority 670)
– Michael Gove, Surrey Health (MP since 2005; majority 18,349)
– Sir Robert Goodwill, Scarborough & Whitby (MP since 2005; majority 10,270)
– Chris Grayling, Epsom & Ewell (MP since 2001; majority 17,873)
– James Grundy, Leigh (MP since 2019; majority 1,965)
– Robert Halfon, Harlow (MP since 2010; majority 14,063)
– Stephen Hammond, Wimbledon (MP since 2005; majority 628)
majority 1,805)
– Sir Sajid Javid, Bromsgrove (MP since 2010; majority 23,106)
– David Jones, Clwyd West (MP since 2005; majority 6,747)
– Sir Greg Knight, East Yorkshire (previously MP for Derby North 1983-97, then East Yorkshire since 2001; majority 22,787)
– Kwasi Kwarteng, Spelthorne (MP since 2010; majority 18,393)
– Dame Eleanor Laing, Epping Forest (MP since 1997; majority 22,173)
– Pauline Latham, Mid Derbyshire (MP since 2010; majority 15,385)
– Sir Brandon Lewis, Great Yarmouth (MP since 2010; majority 17,663)
– Tim Loughton, East Worthing & Shoreham (MP since 1997; majority 7,474)
– Craig Mackinlay, South Thanet (MP since 2015; majority 10,587)
– Theresa May, Maidenhead (MP since 1997; majority 18,846)
Stephen McPartland, Stevenage (MP since 2010; majority 8,562)
– Huw Merriman, Bexhill & Battle (MP since 2015; majority 26,059)
– Kieran Mullan, Crewe & Nantwich (MP since 2019; majority 8,508)
– Sir Bob Neill, Bromley & Chislehurst (MP since 2006; majority 10,891)
– Matthew Offord, Hendon (MP since 2010; majority 4,230)
– Mark Pawsey, Rugby (MP since 2010; majority 13,447)
– Sir Mike Penning, Hemel Hempstead (MP since 2005; majority 14,563)
– Andrew Percy, Brigg & Goole (MP since 2010; majority 21,941)
– Will Quince, Colchester (MP since 2015; majority 9,423)
– Dominic Raab, Esher & Walton (MP since 2010; majority 2,743)
– Sir John Redwood, Wokingham (MP since 1987; majority 7,383)
– Nicola Richards, West Bromwich East (MP since 2019; majority 1,593)
– Douglas Ross, Moray (MP since 2017; majority 513)
– Paul Scully, Sutton & Cheam (MP since 2015; majority 8,351)
– Sir Alok Sharma, Reading West (MP since 2010; majority 4,117)
– Chloe Smith, Norwich North (MP since 2009; majority 4,738)
– Henry Smith, Crawley (MP since 2010; majority 8,360)
– Royston Smith, Southampton Itchen (MP since 2015; majority 4,498)
– Bob Stewart, Beckenham (MP since 2010; majority 14,258)
- Sir Gary Streeter, Devon South West (previously MP for Plymouth Sutton 1992-97, then Devon South West since 1997; majority 21,430)
– Edward Timpson, Eddisbury (previously MP for Crewe & Nantwich 2008-2017, then Eddisbury since 2019; majority 18,443)
– Sir Charles Walker, Broxbourne (MP since 2005; majority 19,807)
– Robin Walker, Worcester (MP since 2010; majority 6,758)
– Ben Wallace, Wyre & Preston North (previously MP for Lancaster & Wyre 2005-10, then Wyre & Preston North since 2010; majority 16,781)
– Jamie Wallis, Bridgend (MP since 2019; majority 1,157)
– Craig Whittaker, Calder Valley (MP since 2010; majority 5,774)
– Nadhim Zahawi, Stratford-on-Avon (MP since 2010; majority 19,972)
Labour
– Dame Margaret Beckett, Derby South (previously MP for Lincoln 1974-79, then Derby South since 1983; majority 6,019)
– Paul Blomfield, Sheffield Central (MP since 2010; majority 27,273)
– Sir Ben Bradshaw, Exeter (MP since 1997; majority 10,403)
- Karen Buck, Westminster North (previously MP for Regent’s Park & Kensington North 1997-2010, then Westminster North since 2010; majority 10,759)
– Jon Cruddas, Dagenham & Rainham (previously MP for Dagenham 2001-10, then Dagenham & Rainham since 2010; majority 293)
– Alex Cunningham, Stockton North (MP since 2010; majority 1,027)
– Wayne David, Caerphilly (MP since 2001; majority 6,833)
– Natalie Elphicke, Dover (elected as Conservative MP in 2019; majority 12,278; defected to Labour in 2024)
- Colleen Fletcher, Coventry North East (MP since 2015; majority 7,692)
- Yvonne Fovargue, Makerfield (MP since 2010; majority 4,740)
– Margaret Greenwood, Wirral West (MP since 2015; majority 3,003)
– Harriet Harman, Camberwell & Peckham (previously MP for Peckham 1982-97, then Camberwell & Peckham since 1997; majority 33,780)
– Dame Margaret Hodge, Barking (MP since 1994; majority 15,427)
- Sir George Howarth, Knowsley (previously MP for Knowsley North 1986-97, then Knowsley North & Sefton East 1997-2010, then Knowsley since 2010; majority 39,942)
– Kevan Jones, North Durham (MP since 2001; majority 4,742)
– Holly Lynch, Halifax (MP since 2015; majority 2,569)
– Ian Mearns, Gateshead (MP since 2010; majority 7,200)
– Dan Poulter, Central Suffolk & North Ipswich (elected as Conservative MP in 2010; majority 23,391; defected to Labour in 2024)
– Christina Rees, Neath (MP since 2015; majority 5,637)
- Barry Sheerman, Huddersfield (previously MP for Huddersfield East 1979-83, then Huddersfield since 1983; majority 9,437)
– Alan Whitehead, Southampton Test (MP since 1997; majority 6,213)
– Dame Rosie Winterton, Doncaster Central (MP since 1997; majority 2,278)
SNP
– Mhairi Black, Paisley & Renfrewshire South (MP since 2015; majority 10,679)
– Ian Blackford, Ross, Skye & Lochaber (MP since 2015; majority 9,443)
– Douglas Chapman, Dunfermline & West Fife (MP since 2015; majority 10,699)
– Angela Crawley, Lanark & Hamilton East (MP since 2015; majority 5,187)
– Patrick Grady, Glasgow North (MP since 2015; majority 5,601)
– Peter Grant, Glenrothes (MP since 2015; majority 11,757)
– Stewart Hosie, Dundee East (MP since 2005; majority 13,375)
– John McNally, Falkirk (MP since 2015; majority 14,948)
– Philippa Whitford, Central Ayrshire (MP since 2015; majority 5,304)
Sinn Fein
– Mickey Brady, Newry & Armagh (MP since 2015; majority 9,287)
– Michelle Gildernew, Fermanagh & South Tyrone (MP for seat from 2001-2015 and since 2017; majority 57)
– Francie Molloy, Mid Ulster (MP since 2013; majority 9,537)
Green
– Caroline Lucas, Brighton Pavilion (MP since 2010; majority 19,940)
Plaid Cymru - one
– Hywel Williams, Arfon (previously MP for Caernarfon 2001-10, then Arfon since 2010; majority 2,781)
Independent - seven
– Crispin Blunt, Reigate (MP since 1997; formerly Conservative; majority 18,310)
– Nick Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne East (MP since 1983; formerly Labour; majority 15,463)
– Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, Lagan Valley (MP since 1997; formerly DUP; 2019 majority 6,499)
- Julian Knight, Solihull (MP since 2015; formerly Conservative; majority 21,273)
– Conor McGinn, St Helens North (MP since 2015; formerly Labour; majority 12,209)
– Mark Menzies, Fylde (MP since 2010; formerly Conservative; majority 16,611)
– William Wragg, Hazel Grove (MP since 2015; formerly Conservative; majority 4,423
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Russell: A very strange thing happened to me at Scarborough this year. Have you seen our album? There's a photograph of me dancing with some donkeys. Well, I was walking along the Scarborough beach thinking I was getting away from it all when, by pure coincidence, I happened to come across this scene. Me and the donkeys. I came across them shooting it. Because they did it with cutouts - I don't know if you've noticed that.
Pulp-on-Sea
Words: Mark Edwards, Photographer: Nigel Shafran
Taken from Arena, February 1996
In the first of Arena's snapshots of modern Britain, we go on tour with the common people.
There's a police horse pissing in the street outside The Ocean Wave restaurant. The un-mounted police who are standing around it have to step back hurriedly to avoid being splashed. The crowd of fans queuing to get into the Spa Theatre, Bridlington, cheer.
Last week they would have been queuing for The Good Old Days, starring Bobby Crush. Next week it will be Ice Fantasies. But tonight it's Pulp.
Bridlington council have already tried to ban the concert; now the fear that the band who sing Sorted For E's and Wizz will corrupt their youth has brought the Bridlington constabulary out in force. A mobile police command centre is parked out back. Mounted police roam the streets.
At the door, everyone is searched. About 20 Pulp fans are arrested. Meanwhile, backstage, two-thirds of pulp - singer Jarvis Cocker, guitarist/violinist Russell Senior, bassist Steve Mackey and drummer Nick Banks - are discussing their love of British seaside resorts.
"The irony of it", says Mackey. "Here we are saying how nice it is around here, and the council wants to stop us and the police are round here trying to bust us."
"They're in plain clothes," notes Senior, deadpan. "There's lots of rastas with little 'taches."
Steve: This side of the coast is where you went if your parents were a bit short on money - Skegness, Cleethorpes, Scarborough, Bridlington. Then if you had a bit more money, you went to Blackpool.
Jarvis: I only ever went to Blackpool once when I was a kid, and that was just because a scrap-metal dealer was going out with my mother and wanted to impress her that he had loads of money, so he took us to stay in a holiday flat for a week.
Jarvis: It was quite weird when I realised that I'd been to a roller disco here seven, eight years ago. In this place here. It was my girlfriend's birthday. I like staying off-season.
Steve: There's a bit of a pathos to the town, isn't there?
Jarvis: I remember walking along the front, and there were all like, these big plastic ducks from some fairground ride, only they were all kind of huddled underneath the pier to stop them getting too much crap on. It just looked weird. The hotel we stayed in, we had the whole floor to ourselves so we could run around the corridors and mess about.
Steve: All the things like clowns' faces look grotesque off-season when it's all grey and raining.
Russell: It's like a Scooby Doo episode - the haunted fun fair that's all shut down. Your out-of-season resort has got that to it.
Jarvis: Or there's bingo and there's only two or three people playing. It's a bit reminiscent of some of our early gigs, actually. They had that kind of out-of-season air to them.
Russell: ...end of the pier, falling into the sea...
Nick: My best holiday was Butlin's at Skegness. My grandma was taken ill. My granddad said: "Well, we can't waste a week's holiday." So my grandma was shovelled off into hospital and I took her place. I was about 11. I was running round Butlin's on my own.
Russell: A bit like Jack Nicholson, were you?
Nick: No, there were other people there. It was just my granddad, though. Not my parents.
Steve: You didn't see these two little twin girls down the corridor, did you?
Russell: The other thing about Butlin's was the swimming pool. It had this glass side, and in the restaurant downstairs you could see the people in the pool. It was like a big aquarium. You could see birds and that.
Russell: A very strange thing happened to me at Scarborough this year. Have you seen our album? There's a photograph of me dancing with some donkeys. Well, I was walking along the Scarborough beach thinking I was getting away from it all when, by pure coincidence, I happened to come across this scene. Me and the donkeys. I came across them shooting it. Because they did it with cutouts - I don't know if you've noticed that.
Jarvis: I remember my sister going on this roundabout in Skegness. She spent all her pocket money on going on it three times in a row straight after having dinner, then she got off and threw her sausage and chips up... and then I knocked out this scrap man, who was courting me mother. I didn't mean to. We were playing Crazy Golf and I don't think I'd played it before. Because I'd seen it on telly that you swing when you play golf... and he was stood behind me. I cracked him right on the top of the nose and knocked him out. I was trying to drive it down the fairway.
Jarvis: They are good places. The good thing about them is that, unlike other bits of the coast, the Yorkshire coast is quite undervalued. Quite a lot of it is unspoilt.
Russell: Actually, it's totally crap.
Source & transcription: Acrylic Afternoons
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