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Rough Trade celebrates 50 years with vinyl subscription club and special shows

The legendary music brand is celebrating its anniversary with some tantalising releases for vinyl fans and some special in-store shows

Evening Standard

Jarvis Cocker and Mary Beard announced as Booker prize judges

The historian is set to lead a ‘stellar’ 2026 panel featuring the Pulp frontman and other acclaimed writers, as the search begins for next year’s standout work of fiction

The Guardian - UK

Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker and broadcaster Mary Beard among Booker Prize judges

The literary prize panel will also feature Patricia Lockwood, Raymond Antrobus and Rebecca Liu.

Evening Standard

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Pulp announce 'only major UK headline show' of the year for 2026

Pulp will be joined for Self Esteem for the Common People hitmakers' "only major UK headline concert" of 2026.

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“An incredible gesture, demonstrating once again that artists absolutely understand how vital grassroots music venues are to their careers and to their communities”: Sam Fender to donate his Mercury winnings to the Music Venue Trust

Singer songwriter had already raised £100,000 on his 2024 arena tour

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A Different Class of social commentary: Pulp’s era-defining album turns 30

In the summer of 1995, an exceptional heat wave swept the country. The Usual Suspects delighted cinema-goers, and the British press engineered the so-called “battle of Britpop”.

The Conversation

Free show brings Britpop legends to the common people

Legends of Britpop will play a free outdoor concert in Adelaide, as a controversial director returns to the city's international arts festival.

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Sam Fender wins Mercury prize: ‘Geordie Springsteen’ is voice of a UK ravaged by industrial decline

The Mercury prize almost always produces surprises – among them, Gomez not The Verve in 1998, and English Teacher not Charlie XCX in 2024 – but perhaps the biggest surprise is that the prize has survived for so many years. That it has been won this year by Sam Fender…

The Conversation

Sam Fender dedicates Mercury Prize 2025 to 'mentor' as singer-songwriter says: 'I'm still in shock'

Local lad Fender beat competition from Britpop band Pulp, post-punks Fontaines DC and Irish singer CMAT

Evening Standard

Sam Fender wins 2025 Mercury prize for his album People Watching

Geordie singer-songwriter’s album reached No 1 on the UK album chart, and led to a series of stadium-sized concerts this summer

The Guardian - UK

Mercury nominee CMAT: Irish music success comes from ‘generation of trauma’

The singer is nominated alongside fellow Irish act Fontaines DC at the event in Newcastle.

Evening Standard

FKA twigs, Sam Fender, Pulp and Wolf Alice lead performers for 2025 Mercury Prize

The shortlisted artists set to perform at the Mercury Prize have been unveiled.

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Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals to reform for tour next year

The Supacabra tour includes six dates in Britain and Ireland next May.

Evening Standard

Mercury Prize 2025 shortlist revealed: Key takeaways and who should win

Who's nominated? Who's broken records? Who should win this year's coveted Mercury Prize? Here's the lowdown on this year's Mercury Prize contenders.

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Evening Standard

Pulp, CMAT and Sam Fender among artists nominated for 2025 Mercury Prize

Britpop band Pulp previously won the prize in 1996 for Different Class.

The Guardian - UK

CMAT, Pulp and PinkPantheress among Mercury prize shortlist light on new names

Only two debut albums – among them the ‘token’ jazz release – feature among this year’s list of nominations for the coveted UK and Irish music prize

Louder

Six Britpop bands who will never reunite

For some groups, splits are a permanent thing...

Louder

"We are finally ready for Different Class to be heard in all its glory." Pulp announce 30th anniversary reissue of Britpop cornerstone Different Class, to include their never-before-released Glastonbury 1995 set

Pulp to release remastered reissue of a Britpop classic

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Louder

The A-Z of Britpop Anthems

Mid '90s nostalgia is at a peak, but there was much more to Britpop than scene figureheads Oasis, Blur and Pulp

The Guardian - UK

Do you remember the first time? Why Britpop nostalgia just won’t go away

Robbie Williams has named his new album after it, there’s a new play about the Oasis and Blur rivalry, an avalanche of books, fashion lines … and even a Britpop lager

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Chris Martin reveals Charli xcx is an inspiration as he considers what's next for Coldplay

Chris Martin has revealed he's been inspired by Charli xcx as he considers what's next for Coldplay.

Evening Standard

Famous Sheffield club has been gutted in act of ‘wanton destruction’, says owner

Electric Group is preparing to reopen a new music venue in the former Leadmill building after winning a bitter eviction battle.

The Independent UK

Bilbao BBK Live 2025: A shapeshifting, eclectic event of ambitious scale

4/5 European festival saw severe thunderstorms but also severe fun, as Kylie Minogue, Pulp, and Raye drew crowds of over 115,000 people

Louder

“She wanted to go and live in Hackney and be with the common people”: the pub encounter behind Pulp’s timeless classic Common People, the song that changed everything for Jarvis & co.

It’s 30 years since the Sheffield indie-rockers were riding high in the charts with their anthemic hit. Here’s the story of how it came together.

The Independent UK

Here’s why the Oasis reunion is the sign of a Britpop summer

ANALYSIS: With Pulp at Glastonbury and the Gallaghers reunited, it feels like there's something in the air again, writes Glenn Fosbraey

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