Pulp has performed their final show of 2026, and perhaps for the foreseeable, at End of the Road Festival. The Jarvis Cocker-fronted band confirmed they would be going away for a well-deserved break at the end of this More tour, with the band having been back on the road since 2023. The Common People hitmakers have performed every year since 2023 and appear ready for some time off.
Cocker confirmed at the Wythenshawe Park show that the band would be going away for “a while” but hoped they would be back. The band performed a show filled with deep cuts and classic songs that became staples of previous reunion tours during their End of the Road show, including a performance of Different Class classic, I Spy. The song had been used as the opener for many of the pre-More shows and was soon replaced by Spike Island, then Sorted for E’s & Wizz.
According to fans who attended the show, Pulp did not perform Disco 2000, Sorted for E’s & Wizz, or Mis Shapes. The three Different Class songs had been staples of the live shows between 2023 and 2026.
A full setlist for Pulp’s final show of 2026 at the End of the Road festival can be found below.
- I Spy
- Little Girl (With Blue Eyes) (First performance since 2012)
- The Mark of the Devil (First performance since 1992)
- Background Noise
- Tina
- Forever in My Dreams (First performance since 2000)
- Deep Fried in Kelvin (Live debut)
- Death II (First performance since 1992)
- O.U. (Gone, Gone)
- Babies
- Razzmatazz
- Lipgloss
- Do You Remember the First Time?
- Spike Island
- Got to Have Love
- Underwear
- Common People
- This is Hardcore
- We Are the Boyz
- Something Changed
- Sunrise
Though the band appear to have performed their final show, guitarist Mark Webber once said he was surprised Pulp got back on the road for a second reunion. He told Cult Following before the band’s Bilbao BBK Live headline show: “I didn’t think we would get back together. The few times when I had seen Jarvis [Cocker] and it had come up in a conversation, he didn’t seem interested. I thought it wasn’t going to happen.
“But then he came around to the idea. I think everyone was into the idea. At first, the commitment was just for those fourteen or so UK shows in 2023. We thought that would be it. But then, obviously, once word gets out, people all over want you to go and play in different countries.
“We didn’t want to agree to doing any more until we played a few shows and got the vibe. But it was kind of amazing, the response. That encouraged us to do more, and then some new songs started to appear. And then it was, ‘Well, shall we make a record?’ We were more hesitant about committing to that.”
Cocker sounded keen to continue Pulp at the Wythenshawe Park show, but not before the band have a well-deserved rest after two worldwide tours. There is no publicly available information on whether the band will return, when that will be, or what the future has in store for Pulp.
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