"A concert is an event where songs come back to life. That’s why this album is called Live!" says frontman Jarvis Cocker. “It’s both a statement of fact (it’s a recording of a live band) & a challenge (come on! Everyone come alive!).”
Live! was recorded during the band’s two shows at London's O2 Arena on 13 and 14 June 2025 – the week that the band returned to the top of the album charts with their eighth studio album, More. The 18-song set features songs from that chart-topping comeback (‘Spike Island’, ‘Slow Jam’, ‘Famers Market’, ‘Grown Up’, ‘Got To Have Love’ and ‘A Sunset’) alongside indie anthems such as ‘Common People’, ‘Disco 2000’, ‘Do You Remember The First Time?’ and ‘Babies’ and relative obscurity, 1992 single ‘O.U (Gone, Gone)’.
Live! will be available as a 2LP set (limited-edition blue pressing and a standard black vinyl) and as a double CD set. Tracklistings are the same across both formats.
Live! also serves as a soundtrack to the concert film, Pulp: What Do You Do For an Encore?, which will be on streaming service MUBI in Autumn. No plans have yet been announced for a physical or cinema release of the film, which is directed by Garth Jennings, who first worked with the band on the video for 1997 single ‘Help The Aged’ and has since directed films including Son Of Rambow, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and Sing. The songs included in the film have yet to be confirmed, though over the two nights at the O2, Pulp played a host of fan favourites not included on Live!, such as ‘Acrylic Afternoons’, ’59 Lyndhurst Grove’ and ‘Party Hard’ for the first time since 2012.
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