Pulp paid tribute to their late bassist Steve Mackey last night (Friday July 28), by inviting his son and Warmduscher guitarist Marley on stage at their Hammersmith Eventim Apollo show.
Check out footage, photos and the show’s setlist below.The Sheffield indie icons announced the two Apollo gigs back in May as relatively last minute and intimate additions to their ongoing reunion tour, which saw them headline London’s Finsbury Park and Latitude Festival earlier this month – as well as two homecoming gigs in Sheffield, joined by former live guitarist Richard Hawley at the latter.As they have been at all concerts on the run, the band dedicated the 1996 ‘Different Class’ single ‘Something Changed’ to their late bassist Mackey – who died back in March.Introducing the song and highlighting a film played in his memory earlier on the evening, frontman Jarvis Cocker brought out a small booklet that was handed out at Mackey’s memorial service that he said had “been in my guitar case ever since” and noted that the reunion tour had become somewhat of a “tribute” to their late bandmate.He also pointed out that Mackey’s wife and son were in attendance, with the latter – Warmduscher guitarist Marley Mackey – joining the band on stage later in the evening to close the first encore with ‘Common People’.Elsewhere, Cocker commented on how he’d been to many shows at the Apollo – including Kate Bush and Iggy & The Stooges – but had always longed to perform here.Other highlights of the set came from early outings of classic singles ‘Disco 2000’ and ‘Mis-Shapes’, the frontman donning pink gloves thrown at him from the crowd for fan favourite ‘Pink Glove’, their reunion single ‘After You’, the crowd singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to drummer Nick.
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