The North American leg of the More tour continues, with Pulp performing a staggering twenty-one-song setlist in Washington D.C.
Songs from Different Class, We Love Life, and new album, More, were featured in the set, which saw the tour debut of two songs. Attendees may have been surprised to see Sunrise, a staple of Pulp’s shows over the past twenty years, had been dropped from the performance in Atlanta on September 4. It has since been reinstated to the setlist, with the tour debut of the song made at The Anthem in Washington D.C. last night (September 6). Another setlist addition was made for the encore, with His ‘n’ Hers classic, Joyriders, given its tour debut. It’s the first time the song has been played this year, with the last outing at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on September 19, 2024.
The rest of the set was filled with hits from the band’s discography and a selection of deep cuts which were featured sporadically throughout Pulp’s UK and Ireland tour. A full setlist for their show in Washington D.C. can be found below.
- Sorted for E’s & Wizz
- Disco 2000
- Spike Island
- F.E.E.L.I.N.G. C.A.L.L.E.D. L.O.V.E.
- My Sex
- Farmers Market
- This is Hardcore
- Sunrise
- Something Changed
- O.U. (Gone, Gone)
- Acrylic Afternoons
- Do You Remember the First Time?
- Mis-Shapes
- Got to Have Love
- Babies
- Common People
- The Fear
- Joyriders
- Help the Aged
- Like a Friend
- A Sunset
Like a Friend, the band’s song written for Great Expectations, nearly made its tour debut at an early show in the UK. An audience participation poll during the intermission had fans vote on which song they wanted the band to hear. Like a Friend lost out to Razzmatazz during the band’s show at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham.
The Atlanta show comes as Pulp confirmed details of a Different Class 30th Anniversary set, for release in October. The anniversary reissue, set for release on October 24, sounds “a whole lot better” according to Cocker, with the album heard in “all its glory” on this upcoming release.
Cocker said: “This 45rpm double album version of Different Class will make it sound a whole lot better. We were obsessed with the fact that this was our ‘Pop’ album and, as everyone knows, all pop albums have 12 songs on them: 6 tracks per side.
“Only problem: this took the running time of the record to 53 minutes. We were told this would compromise the audio quality of the vinyl record – but we were more bothered about not compromising the quality of our Pop Dream. Now, 30 years later, we are finally ready for Different Class to be heard in all its glory.”
A statement from the band reads: “The audio has been remastered/mastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road, overseen by Jarvis Cocker and Mark Webber, and is presented in a sturdy slipcase with a comprehensive, 28-page booklet featuring extensive notes from new interviews with the band members, plus previously unseen images from photographers Rankin and Donald Milne (who took the photos for the original release) and the band’s own archives.
“The original ‘aperture’ sleeve design, which invited purchasers to ‘Choose your own front cover’, came with six double-sided inserts/art cards of alternative cover images depicting cardboard cutouts of the band members in a variety of situations. This has been fully recreated, and a 12” by 12” poster featuring miniatures of the cutouts themselves is also included.”
