Pulp will release their first live album, Live!, and concert film, Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?, this summer.
The Jarvis Cocker-fronted band has confirmed director Garth Jennings pieced together the concert film, set to be released by MUBI later this year. Separately, a live album will be released on August 28. The album will release the same day Pulp perform a sold-out show in Manchester’s Wythenshawe Park. The album will be available on double vinyl – both in a limited-edition blue pressing available from the band & label webstore and independent record shops, and on black vinyl – double CD and via digital streaming services.
Cocker said of the album and film: “A concert is an event where songs come back to life. That’s why this album is called Live!. It’s both a statement of fact (it’s a recording of a live band) & a challenge (come on! Everyone come alive!).” Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?, will be released by MUBI. The date for the concert film’s release, September 25, was announced on Cocker’s Instagram.
What Do You Do For An Encore? is, according to NME, a “vibrant tribute to a band of brilliant misfits, whose unique blend of irony, rebellion, and razor-sharp social commentary resonated with generations of listeners and helped define an era of British culture”.
A full tracklist for Live! can be found below.
- Intro
- Spike Island
- Slow Jam
- Sorted for E’s & Wizz
- Disco 2000
- Help the Aged
- Farmers Market
- This is Hardcore
- Sunrise
- Something Changed
- Grown Ups
- O.U. (Gone, Gone)
- Do You Remember the First Time?
- Mis-Shapes
- Got to Have Love
- Babies
- Common People
- A Sunset
The Live! album uses audio from Pulp’s two O2 shows in London, England. The two shows took place on the More tour in 2025 just days after the band topped the UK Album Charts. Their setlist for the second of two nights featured many of the same songs from the first, but rectified a minor change heard on the first night of their two-day showcase at the London venue.
There was also a tease of older material, which predates the oldest track played on the band’s return to the stage so far. While Razzmatazz featured on the group’s Encore tour in 2023 and 2024, the Jarvis Cocker-fronted band had ditched the fan favourite in favour of deep cuts. The group treated the audience to Seconds, Dishes, and Party Hard through a voting system in the intermission.
The choice from the London crowd on their second night featured a song from the same album as Razzmatazz, with audiences choosing between 59 Lyndhurst Grove and Separations track, Don’t You Want Me Anymore?, the latter of which having not been played by the band since 2012. It was played just once during a date at the One Love Festival in Istanbul, Turkey. Before 2012, the song had not been performed since 1992. As of today (June 16, 2026), it has still not made its live return.
Along with 59 Lyndurst Grove was a brief performance of Happy Birthday to You, which was delivered to bassist Andrew McKinney. A full setlist for Pulp’s second night at The O2 Arena can be found below.
- Spike Island
- Grown Ups
- Slow Jam
- Sorted for E’s & Wizz
- Disco 2000
- F.E.E.L.I.N.G. C.A.L.L.E.D. L.O.V.E.
- Happy Birthday to You
- Help the Aged
- Tina
- Farmers Market
- This is Hardcore
- Sunrise
- Intermission
- Something Changed
- The Fear
- O.U. (Gone, Gone)
- 59 Lyndhurst Grove (voted for by the crowd over Don’t You Want Me Anymore?)
- Acrylic Afternoons
- Do You Remember the First Time?
- Mis-Shapes
- Got to Have Love
- Babies
- Common People
- A Sunset
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