Watch Pulp’s orchestral cover of ABBA’s ‘The Day Before You Came’
Pulp have performed an orchestral cover of ABBA ‘s ‘The Day Before You Came’ as part of a live radio session. Watch below. The Sheffield band played a special set in BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room last night (Monday February 2) at London’s Maida Vale Studios, alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra. READ MORE: Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker: “This is like going back to when you start a band” Jarvis Cocker and co. treated listeners to new arrangements of ‘Something Changed’ from 1995’s ‘Different Class’ and ‘Hymn Of The North’ from their latest studio album, ‘More’ (2025). To round off the brief performance, Pulp aired a cover version of ABBA’s classic 1982 single ‘The Day Before You Came’. “This is gonna be quite dangerous for me, because this song that we’re covering is a song that can make me cry,” explained Cocker. “Sometimes you get a song [that] you can’t really analyse why it’s making you cry, but it does. “So I hope I don’t do that in the middle of it. If I do, I apologise to ever...