Pulp to reunite for 2023 tour, announce 10 concert dates across the UK

Pulp will be heading back out on the road in 2023 (Picture: Michael Putland/Getty)

Pulp are set to reunite for a string of 10 shows across the UK in 2023, the band have confirmed today.

The alternative rock group, who shot to fame during the height of the Britpop era, had been cryptically teasing a return for some time.

Now, frontman Jarvis Cocker and co. have announced that they will be reuniting for their first concerts in over a decade.

It’s been confirmed the Disco 2000 hitmakers will headline Glasgow’s TRNSMT festival on July 7, 2023, before heading southwards to Latitude Festival in Suffolk on July 21.

The concert dates include two hometown gigs in Sheffield on July 14 and 15,
plus a huge outdoor gig at Finsbury Park in North London on July 1.

Pulp originally reunited in 2011, when Jarvis was joined by Russell Senior, Candida Doyle, Nick Banks, Steve Mackey and Mark Webber.

The band, fronted by Jarvis Cocker, will play 10 dates in the UK in 2023 (Picture: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)

During that reunion, they played a surprise set at Glastonbury followed by a headline slot at the Reading and Leeds festival that year.

Their last performances were in 2012, which included a homecoming gig in Sheffield and a pair of shows on the SS Coachella.

In 2020, Jarvis appeared to say there was no chance of another reunion, telling: ‘We got back together in 2011 and we did a lot of shows and for me, that really brought that chapter to a satisfying end.’

‘We rehearsed for quite a long time and I think we’ve managed to play
the songs convincingly and authentically,’ he said of those performances.

‘By that I just mean that we managed to locate what the songs were about. They still rang true.’

He continued: ‘I thought it was pretty much a perfect tour, really; and that was a
good end to that. But then I just had to try and think about what I would do after that.’

Pulp shot to fame with their single Common People back in 1995 (Picture: Ron Byrne)

Pulp were formed in the late 1970s by frontman Cocker and multi-instrumentalist Peter Dalton, who left the group in 1982.

They eventually recorded and released their first album, It, in 1983. It wouldn’t be until 1994’s His n Hers that the band would see success in the UK.

In 1995, the band released their single Common People, which shot to number two in the UK charts and was accompanied by number one album Different Class.

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From then on, the band developed a huge following that remained strong long after the band stopped releasing music in 2002.

Tickets go on sale at 9am GMT on November 4.

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