Pulp have announced Live!, a new live album due August 28, alongside Pulp: What Do You Do For An Encore?, a Garth Jennings-directed film headed to MUBI this fall. The official Bandcamp page says Live! draws from the band's show at The O2 in London on June 13, 2025, while NME reports that the album will arrive via Rough Trade.
The film is a 90-minute MUBI production directed by Jennings, who previously worked with Pulp on videos including Help The Aged and A Little Soul. The Hollywood Reporter and NME both say Jarvis Cocker narrates the project, which pairs footage from the band's recent arena run with archival material and features 20 songs.
The album side keeps the premise direct. Bandcamp lists Live! as a preorder with two tracks available now and the complete album arriving on release day. Stereogum notes that Pulp have shared live versions of A Sunset and Disco 2000, with the tracklist also taking in Help The Aged, This Is Hardcore, Babies, Common People, and more.
Cocker frames the title as more than a plain label. The official Bandcamp copy quotes him: "A concert is an event where songs come back to life. 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!)."
It is a tidy encore to last year's More cycle without trying to turn the moment into another studio-album rollout. Pulp already proved the reunion had new songs in it. Live! and What Do You Do For An Encore? look more like a document of the band discovering how much voltage those songs still carry onstage.