HELP(2), Struggle Baby UK’s new star-studded profit compilation, arrives in just some weeks, however we have heard a couple of samples of it already: the Final Dinner Social gathering’s “Let’s Do It Once more!,” Arctic Monkeys’ massive return “Opening Night time,” the Damon Albarn/Grian Chatten/Kae Tempest collab “Flags,” and a snippet Cameron Winter’s “Warning.” Now, Pulp have shared their new tune referred to as “Begging For Change.”
Although Pulp did not contribute to the unique HELP compilation in 1995, they do have a Struggle Baby connection: HELP was nominated for a Mercury Prize the identical 12 months that Pulp’s breakout Completely different Class did. Completely different Class took the glory, however Jarvis Cocker devoted his speech to Struggle Baby and donated the prize cash to the group. “Thirty years in the past we gave our Mercury Prize (and the prize cash) to Struggle Baby,” he says in at this time’s press launch. “This 12 months we now have given extra. How rather more? You’ll have to attend and see…” Take heed to “Begging For Change” beneath.
By the way, 30 years in the past at this time was additionally the day that Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker briefly crashed Michael Jackson’s efficiency onstage on the 1996 BRIT Awards. Police introduced in Cocker for questioning on suspicion of getting assaulting three of the kids in Jackson’s efficiency, earlier than rapidly figuring out that Cocker would not face prosecution. He was onto one thing!
HELP(2) is out 3/6 by way of Struggle Baby Information. Pre-order it right here.
