Pulp: 100 Club, London
Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 13 December 1986
STROLLING ON with all the visual impact of a bar mitzvah band from the Depression, Pulp are getting over a dormant interlude based around singer Jarvis Cocker's decision to freefall out of a window and spend the early part of the year in a wheelchair.
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