Jarvis v Jacko and why drummers are like goalkeepers. Let Pulp’s Nick Banks be your guide

Nick Banks - nephew of the great Gordon Banks – saw a note pinned by his favourite band to a wall in 1986, his Sliding Doors moment: ‘Pulp Want Drummer. Call Russell or Jarvis’. What happened next he records in his memoir ‘It Started There: From Punk To Pulp’. We talk to him about life in Sheffield in the ‘70s and ‘80 and why it took 15 long years for Pulp to crack it. Among the highlights … … why punk rock was like “Harry Potter’s Sorting Hat”. … what drummers bring to groups. … Pulp’s stage act in 1982 – “trombones, backing singers, orange paper fish”. … being denied a Number One by Robson & Jerome. … the band’s response to Jarvis Cocker’s brave new direction – “Barry White meets the Pet Shop Boys”. … what happened at the BRITS and who’s to blame. … real life in what promised to be “the gilded palace of stardom with limousines and dancing girls”. … the moment that caused “the raised eyebrows of disdain” in the Pulp story. … and his first sighting of “that mesmerising, bespectacled, lanky streak of piss”. Order Nick’s memoir here …https://www.amazon.co.uk/So-Started-There-Punk-Pulp/dp/1915841100Get your exclusive NordVPN deal here: https://nordvpn.com/yourearIt's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee!Tickets for Word In Your Ear live at 21Soho on October 30th here: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/ZOthfatjxiSubscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like "Rock On", "Whistle Test" and VH-1.Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience. Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit wiyelondon.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.