Jarvis Cocker confirms Pulp will reunite in 2023 after 10 years-Louise Griffin-Entertainment – Metro

Jarvis Cocker has confirmed Pulp are on their way back (Picture: Michael Putland/Getty Images)

Jarvis Cocker has delighted Pulp fans by revealing the band are set to reunite in 2023.

This is not a drill!

Frontman Jarvis revealed that the band are set to reunite for the first time in 10 years next year, after sparking rumours with a recent Instagram post.

He shared a 15-second clip that included ‘What exactly do you do for an encore,’ a line from their 1998 record This is Hardcore, which will turn 25 next year.

According to a series of tweets from an attendee at a Q+A hosted by The Guardian newspaper, Jarvis – who formed the band in 1984 – called the clip ‘deliberately cryptic’ before he revealed the band’s plans to ‘play some concerts’.

Jarvis told the crowd on Monday night: ‘It was deliberately cryptic. It’s a line from This is Hardcore… Next year, Pulp are going to play some concerts.’

Drummer Nick Banks then addressed fans with a message saying: ‘Hey folks, unsurprisingly it’s has all gone a bit mental on here.

The band, pictured in 1998, first formed in 1984 (Picture: Getty Images)

Jarvis delighted fans with the announcement (Picture: Getty Images for Disney)

‘Gig details will be revealed as and when. Stay calm, hug your #pulp records and dream of going mental sometime in 2023.’

The Sheffield band broke up in 2002 and announced their last reunion in 2010, with Jarvis, Nick, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey and Mark Webber returning.

They took on a 22-date tour and played Glastonbury 2011 as well as re-issuing their albums Freaks and Separations in 2012.

Meanwhile Jarvis has also recently been on a mission to find the real woman who inspired Pulp’s 1995 hit Common People.

Common People opens with a line talking about a woman who ‘came from Greece [and] had a thirst for knowledge,’ and studied sculpture at London’s St. Martin’s College.

Jarvis denied reports that the woman in question was Dana Stratou, who attended St Martin’s at the same time as him, telling BBC Radio 4’s This Cultural Life (via The Mirror): ‘It wasn’t her because she had blonde hair and the girl had dark hair.’

He explained: ‘We went to the pub and [the mystery woman] just came out with that she wanted to live in Hackney with common people.

‘In 2011 we played at St Martin’s and someone showed me a picture on their phone and said, “Is that the girl you wrote the song about?” I went, “Yeah, I think it is.”

‘Unfortunately, I didn’t ask them for the picture and I can’t remember who showed it to me so it’s still a mystery.’

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