Pulp perform Different Class song for first time since 2012 and sneak in another classic track

Pulp’s recent performance in Germany on the More tour has featured a Different Class classic for the first time since 2012.

Not only did the track appear in the setlist last night (June 29) in Cologne, but another song from the album was performed for the first time this year. Both Pencil Skirt and Monday Morning featured in the 23-song show from Pulp last night. The Jarvis Cocker-fronted group offered attendees the chance to hear either Pencil Skirt or the deep cut track, Don’t You Want Me Anymore?. Fans opted for the former and received Pencil Skirt in the second half of the show. It is not only the first time since 2012 that the song has been performed but now means Pulp has performed all 12 songs from their seminal 1995 release on the More tour.

The band had opened their 2023 shows with I Spy, and almost every show since then has featured classic songs like Disco 2000, Common People, Something Changed, and Mis-Shapes. Other tracks like Bar Italia and Monday Morning had been performed relatively infrequently since the 2023 reunion, but Pencil Skirt had not featured in any shows until the Palladium performance in Cologne.

A full setlist for Pulp’s Cologne performance at the Palladium can be found below.

• Sorted for E’s & Wizz
• Disco 2000
• Spike Island
• Razmatazz
• Slow Jam
• F.E.E.L.I.N.G. C.A.L.L.E.D.. L.O.V.E.
• Pink Glove
• Underwear
• Farmers Market
• This is Hardcore
• Sunrise
• Something Changed
• The Fear
• Pencil Skirt
• Begging for Change
• Monday Morning
• Acrylic Afternoons
• Do You Remember the First Time?
• Mis-Shapes
• Got to Have Love
• Babies
• Common People
• A Sunset

Their recent show in Berlin, Germany, had the band perform Love is Blind for only the 21st time. The Separations song was featured as one of two setlist offerings to the crowd. Fans were able to pick between Love is Blind and Help the Aged during the intermission. While attendees opted for Help the Aged, Pulp performed Love is Blind as the final song of the night. A Sunset has been the usual setlist closer but the band rallied back on stage for a staggering performance of their Separations deep cut. Only Don’t You Want Me Anymore has made it close to the setlist of the reunion tour, as an intermission option to fans at The O2 Arena in London, England. It was not performed.

A full setlist for Pulp’s show at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany, can be found below.

• Sorted for E’s & Wizz
• Disco 2000
• Spike Island
• Razzmatazz
• Slow Jam
• F.E.E.L.I.N.G. C.A.L.L.E.D. L.O.V.E.
• Pink Glove
• Underwear
• Farmers Market
• This is Hardcore
• Sunrise
• Something Changed
• The Fear
• Help the Aged
• Begging for Change
• O.U. (Gone, Gone)
• Acrylic Afternoons
• Do You Remember the First Time?
• Mis-Shapes
• Got to Have Love
• Babies
• Common People
• A Sunset
• Love is Blind

Pulp also teased Styloroc (Nights of Suburbia) in the buld towards common people. The Intro: The Gift Recordings track is yet to feature in the live set. The band’s last performance of Love is Blind came in 1994 at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane in London, England. Most of the songs in the setlist above were absent and the likes of Help the Aged and This is Hardcore had not been written.

The setlist for Pulp’s last Love is Blind outing can be found below.

• Love is Blind
• Death Comes to Town
• Razzmatazz
• Joyriders
• Underwear
• 59 Lyndhurst Grove
• Acrylic Afternoons
• We Can Dance Again
• Common People
• Lipgloss
• Do You Remember the First Time?
• I Want You
• Babies
• O.U. (Gone, Gone)
• Pink Glove

Pulp are set to perform another show in Germany, with a Palladium show in Cologne scheduled for June 29. The band will then perform four shows in France, one show in Spain, and a special performance of More at the Southbank Centre in July. Pulp will then perform a show in County Waterford, another in Wythenshawe, Manchester, and a final performance of the year at the End of the Road festival.