Watch Pulp debut simmering new song ‘Farmer’s Market’
Pulp have debuted yet another new song on their ongoing US tour titled ‘Farmer’s Market’. Preview the track via fan footage below.
In 2024, Pulp are currently embarking on their first US tour in 12 years – and, along the way, they have been giving audiences a peek into new material. So far, it has included ‘Spike Island’, ‘My Sex’, and ‘You’ve Got to Have Love’.
During the band’s first of two Hollywood Palladium shows in Los Angeles this week (September 18), frontman Jarvis Cocker introduced the song – which sees him put on his best Scott Walker for a simmering slow jam replete with violins – as “partly written about a place in LA, actually — some farmer’s market, I can’t remember where it is.”
He also dedicated ‘Farmer’s Market’ to his wife Kim Sion, who shared a picture of him commemorating his birthday a day later at the same venue.
Pulp played a new song tonight about the Farmers Market! And here’s a video of Jarvis Cocker’s shadow dancing on the ceiling. pic.twitter.com/xrM1D6OkZD
— Jessica S. (@killerforhire) September 19, 2024
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Pulp’s Los Angeles setlist on September 18 was (via Setlist.fm):
‘I Spy’
‘Disco 2000’
‘Mis-Shapes’
‘Something Changed’
‘Pink Glove’
‘Weeds’
‘Weeds II (The Origin of the Species)’
‘F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.’
‘Sorted for E’s & Wizz’
‘This Is Hardcore’
‘Do You Remember the First Time?’
‘Babies’
‘Sunrise’
Encore:
‘Like a Friend’
‘Underwear’
‘Common People’
Encore 2:
‘Farmer’s Market’
‘Monday Morning’
‘Glory Days’
Intrigue about new material from Pulp has been swirling in recent months. For instance, the frontman was recently spotted in Walthamstow by a fan, and reportedly told them that the band were heading “back in the studio”.
That took place just days after Pulp performed at Flow Festival 2024 and used their set to debut a new song titled ‘A Sunset’, which was co-written by Richard Hawley.
Before then, the vocalist spoke to NME and suggested the song could be officially released at some point, as well as confirmed Pulp’s touring plans for 2025. The band will perform their first dates of the year in January at Japan’s Rockin’ On Sonic festival alongside Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream, The Lemon Twigs and Wednesday, among others.
Hopes for new material stem back into 2023 as well, when the members debuted a track called ‘Background Noise’ at a show in Mexico last November. It came after they performed an unreleased track titled ‘Hymn Of The North’ in Sheffield.
Speaking to NME last October, however, Pulp drummer Nick Banks put a dampener on hopes of new material, downplaying the rumours by saying that their reunion gigs were “more about getting the party back”.
Pulp’s last full-length release was 2001’s ‘We Love Life‘. In a three-star review of the LP, NME described the record as “a grandiose, symphonic affair buoyed by succinct orchestration and white-light choral interludes”. It added: “At times, the music really sparkles as it soars above Cocker’s bleakly-intoned spoken-word meditations.”