Pulp will headline Mad Cool Festival after their Australian More tour.
The Jarvis Cocker-fronted group has confirmed they will be headlining the Madrid-based festival, which celebrates its ten-year anniversary in 2026. A post to Pulp‘s official Instagram confirmed the band will perform at the festival on July 11. Their post reads: “Hola Madrid! Which one are you… Mad? Cool? … or both? Let’s all meet up at Mad Cool Festival in Madrid on 11 July 2026.” Pre-sale for Mad Cool members begins on November 17, while general tickets are on sale from November 20. The announcement follows on from Pulp confirming their Australian tour, set for February and March next year. The band will perform two shows at the Sydney Opera House as well as a performance in Adelaide.
The announcement of 2026 shows follows on from the band’s US tour earlier this year, which saw Pulp perform at the Hollywood Bowl in a joint headline set with LCD Soundsystem.
Pulp performed just twelve songs at the Hollywood Bowl, a smaller set than their other performances to make way for LCD Soundsystem later in the evening. Cocker and Candida Doyle would perform a cover of Heaven 17’s We Don’t Need this Fascist Groove Thang with LCD Soundsystem later in the show. A full Pulp setlist 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.
- Farmers Market
- This is Hardcore
- Sunrise
- Do You Remember the First Time?
- Mis-Shapes
- Got to Have Love
- Babies
- Common People
A thirtieth anniversary release of Different Class has also released, with the band’s seminal work re-released alongside their Glastonbury 1995 performance in full.
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.”
New material could be coming soon too, with Cocker not ruling out new music from the band. A cover of Johnny Cash’s The Man Comes Around from the band was also used in the ITV drama, The Hack. The song is yet to receive an official release but can be heard briefly towards the end of the series’ sixth episode.
