Pulp: Tiny Desk Concert

Robin Hilton | November 13, 2025
I don’t think anyone expected to get a new album from Pulp in 2025, let alone a Tiny Desk. But the much-beloved group, fronted by the singular voice of Jarvis Cocker, returned this spring with More, its first full-length in nearly a quarter century. A couple of months later, the group celebrated with a visit to our D.C. offices for a career-spanning set.

Just before making the short walk from our makeshift green room (a converted office) to the Tiny Desk down the hall, the band members held hands and sang, “This will be the very best Tiny Desk.” It’s the kind of deadpan humor long found in the band’s music, but also in their performance, as Cocker crooned, cooed and danced his way through four tracks.

The oldest they played, “Acrylic Afternoons,” dates back to the 1994 album His ‘n’ Hers. But they also performed the jangly “Something Changed,” from 1995’s Different Class, along with one of Pulp’s career-defining and fan-favorite songs, “This Is Hardcore,” originally released in 1998. They rounded out the set with the bittersweet “A Sunset” from More.

SET LIST
“This Is Hardcore”
“Something Changed”
“A Sunset”
“Acrylic Afternoons”

MUSICIANS
Jarvis Cocker: vocals, guitar
Candida Doyle: keys
Mark Webber: guitar, piano
Nick Banks: cajón
Emma Smith: violin, background vocals
Richard Jones: viola, background vocals
Andrew McKinney: bass
Adam Betts: percussion, background vocals
Jason Buckle: guitar

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Robin Hilton
Director/Editor: Kara Frame
Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant
Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
Production Assistant: Dhanika Pineda
Photographer: Maansi Srivastava
Series Editor: Lars Gotrich
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Executive Director: Sonali Mehta
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton

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NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts is a popular video series featuring live, intimate music performances by diverse artists, from major stars to up-and-coming musicians, recorded in the small workspace of Bob Boilen’s NPR office in Washington, D.C.brought to you by SloppBoxx.Com.

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