Details
- Date: 8 August 1988
- Event: The Day That Never Happened
- Venue: The Leadmill
- Location: Sheffield, England
Notes
This was Pulp's last live performance before Jarvis moved to London in order to begin his film course at St Martin's College. The band's future was very certain at this point and they wanted to make this farewell concert something special. Unfortunately things didn't turn out as they hoped.
Mark Webber had this to say about it in Disco-very (January 1995):
Concerts in the early Pulp-4 period were really something - the stage became a moonscape built with tin-foil and myself and friends projected slides and super-8 movies over the band. Russell called it "a multi media cosmic tangerine experience" ... and it was! The stage decoration gradually got more and more elaborate and culminated in a kind of concept concert at the Leadmill called "The Day That Never Happened". This featured the usual films, slides and tin-foil, along with a few trees (sprayed white), dry ice (home made and very poor - it barely spilled over the saucer it was in), smells (Russell had made some charcoal incense, but of course the Leadmill is a big place so it didn't carry too well), video projection (but the projector broke and we made do with a television on stage), and the most sensitive moment was to be a snow fall during a slow ballad ... that ended up a total farce with people running around the stage carrying big hair-dryer things. So it didn't go smoothly and that was the end of stage decoration for a while because it was such a hassle getting it all together that the music ended up in the back seat.
Recordings
The concert was filmed and some of the resulting footage was used for the Death Goes to the Disco video. Unfortunately none of this footage has been released save for some belief clips at the start of the Home Movies section of the 2002 Hits DVD.