Pulp Detail Live Album and Concert Film Drawn from London O2 Performances

Pulp are translating their two sold-out June 2025 shows at London’s O2 Arena into a live album and a concert film. The album, simply titled Live!, lands on 28 August. The film — Pulp: What Do You Do For an Encore? — will follow with a worldwide cinema release in the autumn, directed by Garth Jennings.

Jennings and the band first crossed paths on the 1997 video for “Help the Aged.” Here, he captures the O2 sets, which formed part of the UK tour supporting More, Pulp’s first full-length record in 24 years. The tracklist confirms the obvious: this was a night structured around endurance and catalogue depth. Cuts from More sit alongside older material — from “Spike Island” to “Common People” — on a double LP that foregrounds the band as a working live unit rather than a nostalgia act.

Jarvis Cocker’s framing is characteristically direct. “A concert is an event where songs come back to life,” he said. “That’s why this album is called Live! It’s both a statement of fact (it’s a recording of a live band) & a challenge (come on! Everyone come alive!).” The resulting recordings, like the performances they document, show a band that has found room to age without dulling its edges.