Pulp guitarist Mark Webber has announced an “in conversation” UK book tour for I’m With Pulp – Are You?
Published last September, I’m With Pulp, Are You? sees Webber gather his extensive collection of ephemera and objects, accumulated over 40 years with the band, and present it to fans to create a one-of-a-kind insight into the group.
It serves as a visual history of Pulp, as told through photos, flyers, record covers, setlists, badges, posters, press clippings, merchandise and more, and comes with a foreword from frontman Jarvis Cocker, who describes Webber as a “hoarder” as well as the band’s “first fan” and their “first tour manager” before he joined as a member in 1995.
Now, Webber has announced a book tour, set to commence when the band’s current North American tour wraps up at the end of this month.
The tour will also see him celebrate the 30th anniversary of their classic 1995 album ‘Different Class’. It kicks off on October 5 in Lincoln, before heading to St Albans, Hebden Bridge, Manchester, Pontefract, Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield, Swansea and Portsmouth. Tickets are now on sale and available here.
When the Pulp tour is over … I’ll be travelling around the UK to talk about my book “I’m With Pulp, Are You?”, the 30th anniversary of “Different Class”, and all things @welovepulp. Info and tickets at https://t.co/6PNl14jk8M pic.twitter.com/YKFJS9mAef
— I’m with Pulp (@imwithpulp) September 19, 2025
NME spoke to Webber following the book’s release, and he reflected on Cocker’s comments that he was the band’s “first fan”, saying: “I don’t think I can claim to the first fan, but definitely one of the few in that period of the mid-to-late ‘80s.”
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“There were not many people interested,” he added. “It was around 1991 that the group started to become a bit better organised and function a bit more seriously. Because I had shown some kind of entrepreneurial skills in organising concerts and making fanzines when I was a teenager when I was also carrying equipment around for them, either Russell or the band asked me if I would be the tour manager.
“What teenage fan would refuse that opportunity to hang around with your favourite band and carry their equipment up and down rickety wooden staircases all through the night?”
In June, Pulp released their eighth album ’More’, their first full-length record in 24 years. In a four-star review, NME concluded: “Drenched in synths and strings and aided by producer James Ford’s knack for making the music feel alive and omnipresent, ‘More’ is everything you’d want a Pulp album to be, made richer from some lived experience.
“Just as Blur did with ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ and Suede have managed on their immaculate run of post-reunion albums, Pulp have retained their original spirit and flair into a statement of middle age without feeling any less vital. As Cocker pines on the cinematic closer ‘A Sunset’, all things end, so just make the most of the time you have. It’s strangely beautiful, now they’re all fully grown.”
They went on to play a ‘You Deserve More’ UK arena tour this summer, as well as a triumphant and badly-kept “secret” set at Glastonbury 2025.
NME was at the Glastonbury set, awarding it five stars and noting: “With songs for the mis-shapes, a whole lotta ‘L-O-V-E’ and even a Red Arrows fly-past for the glorious crowd-engulfing ‘Common People’, these legends capture the spirit of these hallowed grounds with a little peace, love and joyous wonky-pop hedonism. One for the books? Sure, but as Cocker puts it: ‘History and stuff like that doesn’t matter because it’s all about now and what we can do right now’.”
Elsewhere, they recently announced a reissue of their classic 1995 album ‘Different Class’, including the first ever release of their Glastonbury 1995 performance.
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