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.
9. City School
City School, on Stradbroke Road, Sheffield, is where Pulp played their first ever gig during a Wednesday lunch break in March 1980, following encouragement from maths teacher Mr Jarvis. The gig even featured some rather underwhelming pyrotechnics, with their chemistry teacher and two assistant pupils lighting a magnesium ribbon backstage. Jarvis and his bandmates took to the stage wearing floral costumes created by his sister Saskia. He remembers the occasion as a 'complete and utter humiliation' and he was so embarrassed he persuaded Mr Jarvis to delete the recording the teacher had made of the performance. Photo: Picture Sheffield
10. Limit nightclub
The Limit nightclub on West Street, Sheffield, pictured here in September 1981, is where Pulp's Jarvis Cocker says he learnt how to dance. He said when he was going there the basement club was the only one in the city which played alternative music and 'where you don't get beaten up if you look a bit different'. Photo: Picture Sheffield
11. Childhood home
130 Mansfield Road, Intake, Sheffield, was the home in which Jarvis Cocker spent the first 18 years of his life. The Pulp frontman has described how he spent many an evening in his bedroom there, writing and recording songs he played using his guitar and a small amplifier - a process his mother would call his 'plinky-plonking'. Photo: Dean Atkins
12. Hallamshire Hotel
The Hallamshire Hotel on West Street, in Sheffield city centre, was a cradle of the city's 'alternative' scene in the 1980s and somewhere Jarvis Cocker spent a lot of time. He writes that 'weirdos' stuck to drinking there and dancing at The Limit nightclub as if you "strayed into other parts of town you got beaten up. Absolutely guaranteed." Photo: Dean Atkins