Watch Pulp debut new song ‘You’ve Got To Have Love’ at Brooklyn concert
Pulp have debuted a new song titled ‘You’ve Got to Have Love’ at a concert in Brooklyn, New York last night (September 13) as part of their ongoing North American tour.
The song made its way into the setlist during the band’s second encore, which followed a rousing performance of ‘Common People’. ‘You’ve Got To Have Love’ is the third new song debuted on the band’s current US tour after ‘Spike Island’ and ‘My Sex’.
The song was originally written and recorded as a demo during sessions for 2001 album ‘We Love Life’, which has since been the band’s last studio album. “It’s quite an old song but we never finished it,” Jarvis Cocker told the crowd. “Hopefully we have now.”
During the show, the band dedicated ‘Something Changed’ to former bassist Steve Mackey, who passed away in March 2023.
Pulp’s Toronto setlist on September 10 was (via Setlist.fm):
‘I Spy’
‘Disco 2000’
‘O.U. (Gone, Gone)’
‘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:
‘You’ve Got To Have Love’
‘Razzmatazz’
‘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.”
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Daniel Peters
NME
