Pulp

Pulp
Low Flying Aircraft (no label, 1979)

Met Jarvis Cocker once. He wouldn't remember, but his band was supporting mine in some out-of-the-way college just as his band was on the way up and my band was on the way down, and we were both pretty much drowned out by the far more popular goings-on in the hall downstairs, where Sinitta ("Big Red GTO", "So Macho" etc) was pumping out the kind of spine-annoying dBs denied to us indie losers by the college's jobsworths.

But anyway, this isn't that Pulp. This Pulp was a London-based twosome who'd been hanging around the capital's art galleries for a couple of years before taking time out from jamming with bits of The Flying Lizards to make this balls-to-the-wall wail'n'screech masterpiece of their own. One of them - maybe singer Anne Bean, though my memory fails me here - did the odd bit of fire-eating the time I saw them. It was all a lot of jolly fun.

Lots of copies of the single had an extra hole burned through where the label should be (there was no label, just some tippex numbering), this being art and everything. Obviously you'll need both in your collection before you can rest easily. Almost all copies are signed, and come with an insert.

I did actually meet this Pulp once, but they wouldn't remember either.