“This is what we do for an encore,” read the wraparound screens as a stage-wide velvet curtain drew back, a full orchestra struck up and – beneath a digital full moon – Jarvis Cocker rose from a Busby Berkley-style stage set to the cinematic drama of I Spy, as if gatecrashing a Bond movie title sequence.
In a clash of cultural titans to rival Barbie versus Oppenheimer, one week before Blur play Wembley, Pulp returned to Finsbury Park for the first time in 25 years, and 45,000 people gathered to party like the year 2000 was still the stuff of jetpacks and OK Computer never happened.
