I'm With Pulp, Are You? - Soft Cover

**paperback, 304 pages

Texts by Mark Webber
Foreword by Jarvis Cocker
Additional texts by Simon Reynolds and Luke Turner**

This new 2025 version of I'm With Pulp, Are You? updates the hardcover first edition to include additional historical images, plus new sections on the recent Encore tour and the making of Pulp's new album More.

When Mark Webber discovered Pulp as a teenage music fan in 1985, the band was on first-name terms with most of their limited audience. Over the next few years, Mark helped out with stage sets and light shows, eventually becoming the group’s first tour manager and running the fan club. Having been called upon to play guitar and keyboards at live shows, he began to contribute to songwriting and recordings before being asked to join the group in 1995. This incredible backstory—from being a fan to joining his favourite band—provides the unique perspective of I’m With Pulp, Are You?

Pulp was formed in 1978, while frontman Jarvis Cocker was still at school. Many years and personnel changes later, they achieved widespread recognition in the 1990s with hit singles like “Babies,” “Do You Remember the First Time?” and “Common People,” and the albums Different Class and This is Hardcore. The release of We Love Life in 2001 was followed by a decade-long hiatus that many expected would be the end of the band. After first making a surprise return to play live in 2011-12, Pulp reunited again in 2023 to begin an “encore” that continues today. Sold-out shows and festivals have been rapturously received, with a new album, More, to be released in Spring 2025.

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I’m With Pulp, Are You? A Visual History of Pulp is a celebration of the iconic British band that draws on more than 40 years of archival objects, ephemera, and images assembled by Pulp guitarist Mark Webber during four decades of involvement with the group.

The lavishly illustrated book includes photographs, flyers, record covers, set lists, stickers, posters, press clippings, merchandise, and masses of promotional material, newly commissioned essays by music writers Simon Reynolds and Luke Turner, and a foreword by Jarvis Cocker

This revised and expanded edition features recently discovered images and brings the Pulp story up to date, capturing the band's recent burst of activity alongside the original material.

The hardcover edition of the book can be found here.

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While supplies last, receive a free set of four limited edition one-inch badges and reproduction vinyl sticker with your order.

Edited by Mark Webber
Designed by Mark El-Khatib
Commissioned by J.C. Gabel