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Pulp announce full UK tour with massive Manchester date

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Danny Jones - 14th February 2025

Britpop legends Pulp are well and truly back, with the Yorkshire band confirming a whole new raft of domestic dates, including one absolutely massive gig here in Manchester.

The alternative, art rock and indie pop tastemakers of the 1990s originally booked in a run of summer shows last year after announcing an official reunion along with a first return to North America in more than a decade back in March, and now the Sheffield stars are making it a proper tour.

With Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Nick Banks and Mark Webber all set for a proper UK and Ireland comeback, we can’t wait to see them up on stage again.

And as far as Manchester venues, it quite literally doesn’t get bigger than this.

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While their long-waited homecoming appearance at Tramlines Festival at Hillsborough Park already nailed on as a sell-out, especially after having handpicked the 2025 lineup, we’re all in with a chance to see them back in the North.

Pulp enjoyed a short reunion back in 2011 and couldn’t resist playing a number of special performances in the summer of 2023 either; it looks as though the reception from the fans who’d been patiently waiting for them to grace us once again.

Informing the masses on socials, Cocker wrote, “You deserve more – and we have more. In fact, we have More – (but that’s a whole other story… you’ll have to wait a little more time to hear that one). In the meantime: see you this Summer!”

Make of that somewhat cryptic middle bit what you will but yes, sir: you will indeed be seeing us and we can’t wait to scream ‘Do You Remember the First Time?’ in perfect pitch, we promise.

Scheduling their return to Manchester as what is now not just the biggest indoor entertainment arena in the city but one of the largest and most state-of-the-art in Europe, Pulp will be heading to Glasgow and Dublin before a double bill in London and a stop off in Birmingham before their Co-op Live debut.

Jarvis Cocker on IG:

"we have more to tell you – but that's another story, you'll hace to wait a little more time to hear that one"

The song in the background is 'Spike Island' instrumental. pic.twitter.com/JLXK3Sbbko
— daily pulp (@pulptoday) February 14, 2025

General sale tickets to see Pulp in Manchester at the Co-op Live arena will be available from 9:30am next Friday, 21 February, but pre-sale for the gig will be available to those on the mailing list on Tuesday (18 Feb). Official Co-op members can also access it the following day (Wed, 19 Feb).

The sensational summer date is set for Saturday, 21 June – get ready to grab yours HERE.

Now is probably a good time as any to ask that fateful question: which is the best Pulp song of all time? I think you already know our answer.

Featured Images — Lauren Krohn (press shot supplied)