11. Cat PowerMoon Pix
It’s a dark record and the last time I tried to listen to it, it did freak me out a bit. I haven’t been very well this year, I’ve had this weird kind of dizzy-type condition. I felt like it was taking me to that place, so I had to stop listening, but it’s such a great record. Towards the end of the This Is Hardcore period was not the easiest time in Pulp’s life. I would just listen to this record constantly on my headphones on tour. It was like the one thing that kept me sane. She came over to play and I drove up to Nottingham to see a concert, and then I somehow got myself invited to DJ a concert in Highbury Corner. She came over because I guess she liked the records I was playing or something. We just sat on the floor at the DJ booth at The Garage, looking at record covers and talking about them.
This is going to sound weird but they were going to Europe. Through someone that I vaguely knew, I just asked, ‘Would they mind if I came with them?’ She had a three-piece band at the time, and so in December 1998 I went over to Rotterdam to a concert there, I drove with them to Amsterdam and then drove with them to Ghent. Then I came back, and they carried on their tour. It was like running away with the circus. I’d only been in Pulp for a couple of years and I was already disillusioned. Discovering Cat Power just made me remember what was actually important about music.
