Britpop — the 1990s British music movement that featured bands whose songs had literate (and British-specific) lyrics and singers who flaunted their native accents and love of the Beatles, Kinks and Who — had only limited impact here (e.g. Oasis). America overlooked the best of the bands, Pulp, whose raucously seductive “Common People” was recently chosen Top Britpop Anthem by BBC Radio 6. The group broke up too soon, but their charismatic leader, Jarvis Cocker, reformed it for a triumphant tour in 2012. The Sheffield, England reunion show is the setting for the new documentary Pulp: A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets, which plays for one screening only.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday. $9.75; $7.50 student; $7 senior. Esquire Theatre, 320 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, esquiretheatre.com.
This article appears in Nov 12-18, 2014.
