My Legendary Girlfriend single

In the meantime, however, in 1991, the ” My Legendary Girlfriend ” 12-inch became NME ‘ s single of the week. Stuart Maconie described it in his review as “a throbbing ferment of nightclub soul and teen opera”. Another 1991 single, ” Countdown ,” began to be mentioned in the mainstream press, and in October of that year, the band played its first overseas gig, a concert organised by French magazine Les Inrockuptibles . Frustrated by what they viewed as a still intractable situation with Fire, Pulp worked with their new manager Suzanne Catty to drum up interest from major-label A&Rs in London; an arrangement was reached for interested suitor Island Records to informally fund a few singles on Warp Records imprint Gift in order to bolster Pulp’s indie profile while testing the commercial waters with a larger production budget. “O.U. ” was thus released by Gift in June 1992 (the same month Separations would finally see release on Fire); when Island learned of the band’s heretofore unrevealed contractual obligation to Fire Records, however, further funding was withheld for fear of legal action, causing Cocker to seek a £5,000 loan from his family in order to keep Gift’s planned release of ” Babies ” on schedule for October. Amid the stress and ambiguity of this episode, the band severed ties with Catty and soon took on the services of Rough Trade’s management arm, who would successfully negotiate Pulp’s release from Fire to Island Records under condition of the smaller label receiving a portion of the band’s future major-label earnings.