Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has revealed that he hates the time period Britpop, a style with which his band has been related for over thirty years.
Cocker’s band launched Extra, their first new album in 24 years on Friday, June 6, and are presently on tour within the UK, which led to a author from NME.com suggesting to the singer that, with their mid-’90s friends Oasis, Suede and Supergrass all in motion this summer season additionally, there’s “a little bit of a Britpop renaissance” going down in 2025.
“I’ve all the time hated that phrase,” Cocker says in response. “I’d by no means willingly affiliate myself with it. It was an thrilling time earlier than they got here with that definition of indie bands beginning to make waves on the mainstream scene. It felt like a revolution might occur. If persons are feeling like that once more – that they will make their very own factor and it may be taken discover of – then that will be nice.
“If that sort of perspective is coming again, then I’d be very enthusiastic about it, simply not the ‘BP’ phrase – it’s a horrible phrase.”
With that mentioned, Cocker admits that he’d be completely happy to attend an Oasis present this summer season, “if I can get on the guestlist”.
“The primary time I noticed Oasis was in San Francisco,” Cocker reveals in a brand new interview with The Night Commonplace. “We have been supporting Blur, Oasis have been taking part in at some membership and we needed to go and see them due to all of the stuff that had been written about them. So we obtained a message to their supervisor and mentioned, ‘Can we come and see you? They usually mentioned, ‘Sure, however Jarvis has to come back on the tour bus and speak to us first …’ Noel got here and spoke to me for about 10 minutes after which we have been allowed to see them. They have been superb really … due to what had been written about them being loud and yobbish, I believed it was going to be dangerous, however once I noticed it I believed it was actually thrilling.”
Cocker’s personal band kicked off their UK and Eire area tour at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on June 7.
Their remaining reveals on the tour are:
Jun 10: Dublin 3Arena, Eire
Jun 13: London The O2
Jun 14: London The O2
Jun 19: Birmingham Utilita Area
Jun 21: Manchester Co-op Stay
“The truth that persons are concerned about it’s a good feeling,” Cocker tells The Night Commonplace, “as a result of you possibly can’t assure that, are you able to?”
