Went to see JARVIS!

Entry posted by Rachie · February 20, 2007

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AND WHAT A BRILLIANT NIGHT IT WAS!

I spent the whole of my teen years following Pulp up and down the country, getting to see them live 10 times and meeting the band lots of times (meeting Jarvis 3 times) While at these gigs jarvis on stage has grabbed my hand, gave me a cigerate, a beer, ive poured water over his head etc - very up close personal stuff over the years. I last saw Pulp live in 2002 when i was 18. They split up shortly after and i thought that'd be it now. My years of waiting 7 hrs at the venue before the doors open, trying to blag my way into sound check, sleeping rough in London for one night cos i couldnt afford a hotel just to be at a pulp-fanclub members only gig - where well and truely over. lol. But last night i felt like i was 15 all over again! I got to the venue very early.... tho i couldnt convince the boyfriend to stay around 'that' long. But i made sure i was one of the first few in. Got right to the front (just like old times!) on the barrier. This might not sound that much to you lot, but im 7 and a half months pregnant! (pulp gigs have never EVER been rough i knew id be safe) I had to sit on the floor for the support band as i didnt want my back to kick in.... or even needing the loo when Jarvis came on.

Through the whole of Jarvis' set i didnt feel pregnant one bit! lmao, and as im in the third trimester that does not happen very often!.

To be honest, ive got the new Jarvis album but hadnt listened to it that often and it just wasnt growing on me. That and 'life' seemed to be in the way of me enjoying pulp/jarvis again. I drummed it into my head (the cd that it) over the weekend but still felt abit pissed that i didnt know all the words (backwards and sideways) like ive always seemed to have done when ever i saw pulp. Ive come away actually thinking that this was a good thing, i enjoyed this gig throughly and actually listend to every whisper and screech that jarvis made. And watched in awe. There was deffinalty somthing different about Jarvis last night, he seemed so energetic, emotianl and firey. Somthing that was certinaly lacking in the last couple of years i saw pulp live. I, back then, put it down to his age, last night prooved i was wrong.

To top the whole night, when Jarvis went off stage (before he comes on to do an encore) and came back with his regular cigerate and bottle of beer- he came over to me and gave me half of his beer. Just like he did when i was about 16. Absolutly amazing. Did he remember me hounding him back in the day? or did he just feel sorry for the 5ft pregnant one at the front? we'll never know.