{"id":14033,"date":"2026-04-14T13:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/14033\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:14:44","slug":"pulp-and-scritti-politti-to-headline-london-southbank-centre-gigs-celebrating-50-years-of-rough-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/14033\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulp and Scritti Politti to headline London Southbank Centre gigs celebrating 50 years of Rough Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pulp<\/a> and Scritti Politti<\/a> have each confirmed new headline shows at London\u2019s Southbank Centre, celebrating 50 years of Rough Trade.<\/p>\n

The iconic record store and label is set to celebrate its Golden Jubilee this year \u2013 having opened its first store in West London in 1976. At the start of the year, they announced some huge 50th anniversary plans to mark the occasion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These included Life Without Buildings<\/a>\u2018 first show in nearly 25 years, taking place at KOKO on November 20, and a set from experimental icon Jim O\u2019Rourke and Eiko Ishibashi at Union Chapel on April 13.<\/p>\n

Now, more shows have been added to the list, including a headline set from Pulp taking place at the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday July 18. The show will see them performing their latest album \u2018More<\/a>\u2019 in full, as well as breaking out hits from their back catalogue.<\/p>\n

That same day will see Scritti Politti make a return to the stage, playing two shows in Queen Elizabeth Hall. One set will be a matinee at 3pm, and the other will be an evening performance at 8pm.<\/p>\n

The following evening (Sunday July 19), Caroline will take to the stage at Queen Elizabeth Hall with special guests My New Band Believe, and on that same afternoon Jarvis Cocker<\/a> will introduce Ken Loach\u2019s classic 1969 film Kes in the Royal Festival Hall.<\/p>\n

\"RoughRough Trade 50 poster. CREDIT: Rough Trade<\/p>\n

Two new events have been confirmed from Rough Trade Books too. These include an evening of one-off performances and readings with their writers, artists and collaborators on Friday July 17 in Queen Elizabeth Hall, and a new staging of Hannah Patterson\u2019s debut novel Ungone in the Purcell Rooms on Saturday July 18.<\/p>\n

For all events barring Pulp, the pre-sale starts on Wednesday (April 15) at 2pm BST, before tickets go on general sale at 2pm on Thursday (April 16) at 2pm.<\/p>\n

For the Pulp gig, there will be a pre-sale from 10am on Friday (April 17), before the general on-sale at 2pm on Monday (April 20). Find tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In light of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Rough Trade, Morrissey recently shared a statement<\/a>, correcting former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr on the history of the band and Rough Trade.<\/a><\/p>\n

He claimed that the guitarist gave an interview to The Guardian to \u201ccommemorate the 50th anniversary of Rough Trade Records\u201d and said in that discussion that it was \u201cMarr and Andy Rourke [who] had traveled to Rough Trade Records many icebergs ago to offer the Smiths\u2019 first recording [\u2018Hand in Glove\u2019] in consideration of a contract.\u201d<\/p>\n

This, Morrissey wrote, was \u201cdeliberately untrue\u201d, and clarified that it was actually \u201cMorrissey and Marr who made that journey to Rough Trade\u201d. He also suggested that the misinformation was an attempt to make him look like \u201ca footnote in the Smiths history\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"JarvisJarvis Cocker performs with Pulp at Glastonbury 2025. Credit: Andy Ford for NME<\/p>\n

As for Pulp, NME praised their latest record in a four-star review<\/a>, writing: \u201c\u2018More\u2019 is everything you\u2019d want a Pulp album to be, made richer from some lived experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust as Blur<\/a> did with \u2018The Ballad Of Darren<\/a>\u2019 and Suede<\/a> have managed on their immaculate run of post-reunion albums<\/a>, Pulp have retained their original spirit and flair into a statement of middle age without feeling any less vital.\u201d<\/p>\n

Around that time, we spoke to frontman Jarvis Cocker<\/a> around the release of the album, and the Sheffield star opened up to us about the loss of beloved bassist Steve Mackey<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a big blow to lose him,\u201d Cocker said. \u201cOn an obvious level, him passing away makes you consider your own mortality and what you want to do with your life. That was a bit of a spur to create things because we were still in a position where we could do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band will be embarking on a series of UK and European shows this year, with their only major UK headline concert to take place in Manchester<\/a> in August. The band will also top the bill at End Of The Road 2026<\/a> and headline Mad Cool Festival<\/a> in Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pulp and Scritti Politti have each confirmed new headline shows at London\u2019s Southbank Centre, celebrating 50 years of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[6474,6475,4986,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-14033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britpop","9":"tag-indie","10":"tag-live-music-news","11":"tag-london"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116403245143298928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}