Pulp’s Nick Banks responds after seeing bands authentic advert for drummer

Pulp drummer Nick Banks has responded after a music photographer on social media shared a replica of the unique commercial Pulp shared in a neighborhood Sheffield newspaper for a drummer.

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The commercial, which appeared within the Sheffield Star within the Nineteen Eighties was shared by a Kevin Wells as we speak (October 8) who requested Banks straight if it was this commercial that he replied to and subsequently led him to hitch the hit Britpop band.

The advert, which featured within the paper’s ‘wished’ part learn: “Pulp are on the lookout for a drummer. If you happen to discover one, please ship him to 31, Flockton Court docket, Rockingham Avenue off West Avenue, Sheffield. Ought to nobody be at dwelling, submit a contact handle via the letterbox. Thanks.”

Responding to the submit, Banks confirmed it was the unique commercial. Writing on  Twitter, he mentioned: “Wow that’s wonderful Kev”.

He went on: “If it wasn’t for the scorching [chillis] I’ve simply had I’d say it nearly introduced a tear to my eye. I don’t assume anybody however me answered the decision.”

Try the commercial right here:

Wow that’s wonderful Kev. If it wasn’t for the scorching 🌶️’s I’ve simply had I’d say it nearly introduced a tear to my eye……I don’t assume anybody however me answered the decision https://t.co/4QAgHXaS7U

— Nick Banks (@therealnickbank) October 8, 2022

Again in July, Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker confirmed that the band will return for reunion reveals subsequent yr. 

Cocker informed followers at a Guardian-hosted discuss and Q&A for his new memoir Good Pop, Dangerous Pop that the band will regroup for 2023.

It follows a 15-second clip shared by Cocker on Instagram final week through which the phrases “What precisely do you do for an encore?” appeared on display. The road is from the title observe of Pulp’s 1998 album ‘This Is Hardcore’, which hits its twenty fifth anniversary milestone subsequent yr.

The seminal Sheffield band introduced their final reunion in November 2010 that includes the Completely different Class line-up of Cocker, Russell Senior, Candida Doyle, Banks, Steve Mackey and Mark Webber. They went on to play numerous reveals together with a now-legendary shock set at Glastonbury 2011 and a headline slot at Studying & Leeds that yr.

Pulp haven’t carried out collectively since December 2012 once they performed a homecoming gig in Sheffield and two reveals aboard the SS Coachella Cruise.

The band haven’t launched new materials since 2012’s stand-alone single ‘After You’, which was produced by LCD Soundsystem‘s James Murphy.