2009-02-03
post/75376878
quote 19:09:18
It’s a record so improbable that even to describe it sounds fantastical. Jarvis intones a series of Sheffield place names, with luridly sensual relish - from ‘Intake’ onwards. The next voice you hear is Candida Doyle, deadpan and Yorkshire, reading - of all things - from one of the sexual fantasies in a Nancy Friday book.
Owen Hatherley, on Sheffield: Sex City, Pulp’s masterpiece, in Pulp: Urbanism, Sexuality, Class.