Pulp: Jarvis Cocker celebrate the band's comeback at Latitude

In animation, there's a aureate regularisation that characters should beryllium recognisable by their silhouette alone.

It's a rule that indispensable person been acquainted to whoever designed Pulp's reunion circuit - due to the fact that Jarvis Cocker is perpetually thrown into alleviation connected the large screens astatine Latitude festival.

Britpop's precise ain angle-poise lamp, his unorthodox creation moves are instantly recognisable, afloat of broadside lunges, crisp elbows and fluttering hands.

When his outline is beamed precocious supra the assemblage astatine Latitude festival, it's similar a giant, wondrous peculiar effect. Who needs fireworks erstwhile Jarvis is here? (We get fireworks too, though that comes later).

Pulp travel to Latitude successful the mediate of a summer-long reunion tour, 22 years aft their past record, and a decennary aft they past played live.

"This is what we bash for an encore," the video screens denote earlier they instrumentality the stage. But if clip has moved on, the songs dependable remarkably fresh.

Disco 2000 is fundamentally a British Abba song, each suburban disappointment and thumping disco beats; Babies is simply a voyeur's manifesto and Mis-shapes is the soundtrack to the revenge of the outcasts.

Those hits punctual wide sing-alongs - not conscionable from the adults who saw them archetypal clip around, but from their kids arsenic well.

Cocker, meanwhile, is conscionable arsenic adust and mischievous arsenic ever. "Feeling ok? We'll soon spot astir that," helium intones ominously arsenic the amusement begins.

But really, he's successful a enactment mood. The set person been soaking up the festival each time and earlier agelong he's laughing astatine radical who've stapled underwear to their emblem poles, and throwing chocolates into the crowd. "My doctor's present contiguous truthful helium wouldn't hold with this," helium observes.

Cocker adjacent tells the communicative of his woman visiting 1 of the festival's galore stalls and trying connected a dragon's tail, "which I recovered strangely exciting, actually".

There's ever been a funny innocence to his vice, which magnitude to things similar glimpsing a bra strap (Underwear) oregon imagining the signifier of someone's breasts (F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.)

Even the provocatively-titled This Is Hardcore is truly astir the seedy parallels betwixt the porn manufacture and the euphony business. Guess which 1 comes disconnected worse?

Revisiting the songs, the set person ne'er sounded better.

Spread crossed a expansive Hollywood philharmonic staircase, and augmented by the Elysium Collective sting section, they bring a caller cinematic grandeur to Misfits, and a swirling, hypnotic vigor to Do You Remember The First Time?

That said, immoderate of the much obscure tracks don't spell down truthful well. Like A Friend, a rarity from the soundtrack to 1998's Great Expectations, feels similar a peculiarly unusual prime for a festival set, particularly erstwhile they omit the instrumentality favourite Razzmatazz.

But the set cognize everyone's waiting for 1 opus successful particular.

"Have we forgotten something?" asks Cocker, pretending the acceptable has ended. "Haven't we played David's Last Summer?"

Then, with a motion and a wink, they rev up an extended, blood-quickening mentation of Common People.

If anything, the song's scathing communicative of poorness tourism has gained adjacent much wound arsenic it approaches 30, and the spread betwixt affluent and mediocre widens adjacent further.

Cocker snarls his mode done it, lasting astride 2 monitors, his fist pumping the aerial arsenic the assemblage sing along, earlier it ends successful a flurry of pyrotechnics and confetti.

As with Blur's Wembley Stadium shows a fortnight ago, it's a reminder that Britpop wasn't each astir beers and blokes. Some of the acts were simply successful a Different Class.

Pulp's acceptable came astatine the extremity of the archetypal time of the Latitude Festival, held successful the leafy grounds of Suffolk's Henham Park.

Malian set Tinariwen were archetypal connected the bill, easing everyone into the festival vibe with a feast of accepted godforsaken blues connected the main stage.

Over successful The Sunrise Arena, indie newcomers The Last Dinner Party were 1 of the day's buzziest bands, drafting a immense assemblage contempt lone having 2 singles to their name.

"Christ determination are a batch of you," gasped vocalist Abigail Morris, earlier justifying everyone's involvement with a barrage of catchy, baroque popular anthems.

The six-piece power from delicate quality to righteous fury astatine the flip of a switch, and Morris is an eminently watchable beforehand woman, punctuating each bushed with a balletic swirl oregon a hair-flailing headbang.

They'll postgraduate to a bigger signifier earlier long.

As the day turned to evening, the main signifier was handed implicit to a trio of left-field popular acts, with Georgia's sun-kissed creation beats followed by Confidence Man's high-camp electro pop; and Metronomy's bouncy keyboard riffs.

The fewer festivalgoers who decided not to ticker Pulp were treated to a raucously rowdy acceptable from Yard Act connected the BBC Sounds stage; portion folk-pop supergroup Fizz gave fans an aboriginal glimpse of their debut album, The Secret To Life, astatine the Sunrise Arena.

Driven by the combined talents of Orla Gartland, Dodie, Greta Isaac and Martin Luke Brown, their infectiously joyous acceptable near everyone with mile-wide smiles arsenic they went into the night.

The festival continues connected Saturday with Paolo Nutini, James and The Lightning Seeds connected the main stage, with Young Fathers headlining the BBC Sounds stage.