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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lauren Cochrane

‘Misshapes, mistakes, misfits’: Pulp’s signature secondhand style has stood test of time

Pulp
‘Pulp’s look is an alternative one that celebrates the secondhand’. Pulp in 1996. Photograph: Pat Pope/REX

Thirty years ago this month Pulp played the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury and took their reputation to another level. If part of this was due to a storming set taking in their new hit Common People, debuts for their future hits Mis-Shapes and Disco 2000, and the star power of singer Jarvis Cocker, it was also down to their look.

There was Steve Mackay, bass guitarist, in a fitted shirt and kipper tie, Russell Senior on violin in a blue safari shirt, keyboardist Candida Doyle in sequins and – of course – Cocker, in his now signature secondhand 70s tailoring.

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