Pulp announce hiatus with rarity-packed End of the Road headline

The set was prefaced with a through-the-years electronic photo album featuring archive photos of the band, lyric notebooks, studio rooms, live performances, even A Different Class's Discogs listing. It established the tone for a set of reminiscing. The band played B sides such as “Forever in My Dreams” and “Deep Fried in Kelvin”, the latter making its live debut 33 years after release. “The Mark of the Devil” hadn’t been performed since 1992. (They also played four tracks from last year's More.) After opening with “I Spy”, Jarvis Cocker addressed the Woods stage: “Tonight it’s gonna be more of a case of You Spy. You’re gonna hear some songs we haven’t played in a very long time. We’re gonna try our best to remember them. And I’m also gonna give you a slideshow.” They then displayed the first-ever Pulp graphic, made in Cocker's bedroom, and pictures of what the band “used to look like” taken in his mum’s living room. “How did I repay my mother’s niceness?” he asked before the band played 1985 non-album single “Little Girl (With Blue Eyes)”, whose lyrics, he said, disqualified it for airplay. Almost every song was accompanied by a story from Cocker, evidently in a memory-lane mood. C...