Having wowed fans in their spectacular homecoming gigs at Utilita Arena Sheffield in July 2023, the Britpop legends have taken their music around the globe.
The band, whose hits include Common People and Disco 2000, even unveiled a new song called Background Music during a gig in Mexico, with frontman Jarvis Cocker dedicating it to his girlfriend who was in the audience.
They have concerts lined up in Scandinavia, the US and Canada.
Pulp’s route to the top was famously a long one, with the band having been formed by Jarvis Cocker in 1978 and waiting 17 years to achieve true stardom with the release of Common People in 1995.
Jarvis charts the beginning of his ascent from gawky Sheffield schoolboy to national treasure in entertaining fashion in his book Good Pop Bad Pop, which is well worth a read.
Below are some of the Sheffield locations which played a big role in helping shape him and ultimately the band he formed, originally called Arabicus Pulp – a name he had spotted in the Financial Times when he was a pupil at The City School.
The sites featured include the childhood home in Intake where he would practice upstairs, the makeshift studio where he and his fellow band members made their first proper recording, and the nightclub where Jarvis learned how to dance.
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Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker as a schoolboy, and some of the sites in Sheffield which played an instrumental role during his early years Photo: Other
2. Division Street
An alternative blue plaque in the window of a florists on Sheffield's Division Street bears testament to the time in November 1985 when a 22-year-old Jarvis Cocker fell around 20 feet after trying to impress a girl by climbing out of a window. He ended up in hospital with a fractured pelvis. He describes the fall as a pivotal moment in his life when he realised that rather than looking elsewhere for songwriting inspiration the 'something' he had been searching for to write about is happening all around him. Photo: Robert Cumber
3. Sheffield Children's Hospital
When Jarvis Cocker was six he caught meningitis and recalls being given a lumbar puncture - describing the pain as 'unbelievable'. He was placed in an isolation ward at Sheffield's Children Hospital and received lots of 'great' presents, though the majority devastatingly had to be incinerated in case they were infected. Photo: Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers
4. Impulse record store
It was on a wall near the Impulse record shop, on Cambridge Street in Sheffield city centre, that Jarvis Cocker recalls seeing a poster for a concert at the Hallamshire Hotel where Pulp were supporting a band called the Defective Turtles. That poster inspired him and his fellow band members to make their own posters - something he said was 'yet another way of us being part of the scene'. Photo: Picture Sheffield/Sheffield Newspapers