I'M WITH PULP, ARE YOU?— An Evening with MARK WEBBER of PULP + DEAN WAREHAM

The Philosophical Research Society, 7th House Screenings, and Hat & Beard Press are (extremely) excited to welcome Mark Webber — avant garde film curator, author, and guitarist of one of the most brilliant British pop bands of all time – PULP! In celebration of his new book I’M WITH PULP, ARE YOU?, a personal history of the witty, Sheffield-bred titans of misfit pop, Webber will join us for an in depth conversation led by a fellow, seminal indie rock icon — musician and author Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean & Britta)! Following their conversation, Webber will sign copies of his book before we regroup for a screening of 7th House's SORTED FOR CLIPS & VIDZZ, a bespoke video mix of Pulp on film (interviews, live performances, music videos, and more!) cherrypicked and edited by 7th House for this very special evening!

When Mark Webber discovered Pulp as a teenage music fan in 1985, the band was on first-name terms with most of their limited audience. Over the next few years, Mark began to help out with stage sets and light shows, eventually becoming the group’s first tour manager and running the fan club. After being called upon to play guitar and keyboards at live shows, he began to contribute to songwriting and recordings before being asked to join the band in 1995. This incredible backstory—from being a fan to joining his favorite band—provides the unique perspective of I’m With Pulp, Are You?

The book gathers material from Mark’s extensive collection of ephemera and objects accumulated over the last five decades of his involvement with the band. The lavishly illustrated pages combine images with Webber’s reminiscences to chronicle a history of the band told from the inside. It includes photographs, flyers, record covers, set lists, stickers, posters, press clippings, merchandise, and masses of promotional material. I'm With Pulp, Are You? also features a foreword by Jarvis Cocker, and newly commissioned essays by music writers Simon Reynolds and Luke Turner.

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PULP

British band Pulp were formed in 1978, while frontman Jarvis Cocker was still at school. After many years and personnel changes, they finally began to achieve widespread recognition in the 1990s with hit singles like “Babies”, “Do You Remember the First Time?” and “Common People.” The albums Different Class and This is Hardcore assured their place as one of the most loved and respected bands of the period. Having gone on hiatus in 2002, Pulp made a surprise return, playing concerts worldwide in 2011 and 2012. Now they’re on road again, having recently completed universally acclaimed tours of the UK and Latin America. The “encore” continued with European summer festival shows and a sold-out US tour in fall 2024. They return to Los Angeles to take the stage, on a double bill with LCD Soundsystem, at The Hollywood Bowl on September 25th and 26th.

MARK WEBBER

Mark Webber is an independent curator of artists’ film and video who has been responsible for screenings and events at institutions including Tate Modern, National Film Theatre, ICA, Barbican Centre and Raven Row (London), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Kunsthalle Basel, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne), the Brisbane, Rotterdam and Oberhausen film festivals and many other international museums, art centres and festivals.

In 2014, he co-founded The Visible Press to publish books on artists’ film and writings by filmmakers. Their titles include “Film as Film: The Collected Writings of Gregory J. Markopoulos” (2014, edited by Mark Webber with a foreword by P. Adams Sitney), “Peter Gidal. Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966–2016” (2016, edited by Mark Webber and Peter Gidal), “Slow Writing: Thom Andersen on Cinema” (2017, edited by Mark Webber), “Lis Rhodes. Telling Invents Told” (2019, edited by María Palacios Cruz), and “The Afterimage Reader” (2022, edited by Mark Webber). Future publications include books with Ken Jacobs and Peter Kubelka.

Major curatorial projects to date include Shoot Shoot Shoot: The London Film-Makers’ Co-operative & British Avant-Garde Film 1966-76 (international touring programmes, DVD release, Tate Britain exhibition and book), Reverence: The Films of Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow) (international touring programmes and book), Expanded Cinema: Film as Event, Spectacle and Performance (live performance series) and retrospectives or events with filmmakers including Peter Kubelka, Ken Jacobs, Robert Beavers, Valie Export, Tony Conrad, Chris Welsby, Babette Mangolte, Andy Warhol and Gregory J. Markopoulos.

His writing on avant-garde cinema and experimental music has been commissioned and published by Frieze, Tate Etc., The Wire, Tank, The Guardian newspaper and elsewhere. His areas of special interest include avant-garde film of the 1960s and 1970s, Andy Warhol and the field of expanded cinema.

For many of the years whilst he was most active in film, he kept quite about the fact that he was also a member of the popular music group Pulp. He went from being a teenage fan to becoming the band’s tour manager and running the fan club Pulp People. In 1991 he began to play additional keyboards and guitar at live concerts, and four years later he was asked to join the band. He appears on the Pulp albums “Different Class”, “This is Hardcore” and “We Love Life”, and has participated in the reunion tours of 2011/12 and 2023/24. You can read about his work with the band in the recent book “I’m With Pulp, Are You” (Hat and Beard Press, 2024).

DEAN WAREHAM

Dean Wareham is a musician and author, a founding member of the bands Galaxie 500 and Luna. His memoir, Black Postcards, was published by Penguin books and is a chronicle of his years in indie rock. His most recent album, That’s the Price of Loving Me, was released in 2025 by Carpark Records. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and collaborator, Britta Phillips.

HAT & BEARD PRESS

Hat & Beard is an independent, Los Angeles-based publisher and print production house.

With their book imprint, Hat & Beard Press, we create original, illustrated nonfiction books of pop-cultural and historical significance that draw on existing cult audiences.

As a production house, via Hat & Beard Projects, they produce artist monographs in conjunction with art galleries, museums, nonprofits, and artists themselves.

They also champion the redesign and reissue of classic visual culture titles worth a second look.

Hat & Beard Films, meanwhile, works as the motion picture production arm of the company. Having produced two films, they are currently in production on two others.

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